title: Novo-Athos Simon-Kananite Monastery. To the Backstory
abstract: The article deals with the letters introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, relating to the prehistory of the New Athos Simono-Kananite Monastery in Abkhazia. The head of the Black Sea coastline, Baron Alexander Ivanovich Budberg, fulfilling the request of Innokenty, Archbishop of Kherson and Taurida, informed him in 1849 about the state of Christian shrines on the Black Sea coast. The letters testify to the desire of Archbishop Innokenty to revive not only in the Crimea, but a
journal: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences eBooks