we're on the the island of condo ostroff which was part of the i thought i'd read something on the bolshoi sort of x.p. the main island of this white sea archipelago there is a fortified monastery it was founded in four hundred twenty nine until the nineteenth century this was the only official state prison in russia and house many important religious and historical figures these magnificent built for the glory of god witnessed monstrous events over hundreds of years the gulag archipelago the network of camps that stretched across a vast territory. started life from this cluster of before islands set in what soldiering it's in right a matter of. three cents today without the big group from the university went off to another church for the white soup. to the chance of seeing the people there with their chest is being restored. and when did the chancel visit us a long time again some. yeah no one knows exactly. what. happened. if. you can. as you can see it's an absolutely wonderful church it's huge and and when i first came here it was in a terrible state and nobody seemed to be really inte