The Solovetsky Monastery went down in the history of Russian culture with stone buildings of the 16th and 17th centuries - a unique complex of engineering and architectural structures, a famous collection of manuscripts, priceless icons, now stored in many museums of the Soviet Union. Its importance in the history of the Russian North from the middle of the XV to the beginning of the XVIII century is huge. The book includes articles on Soviet and church architecture as the monastery-fortress, and the entire Solovetsky archipelago, the Solovetsky library, iconography, images of the monastery in monuments of ancient Russian painting and in engravings, the role of Solovki in the history of Russian culture .. The book consists of two articles: Likhachev D. C. Solovki in the history of Russian culture . Savitskaya O. D. Architecture of Solovetsky Monastery . The publication is provided with a large number of illustrations. Scan Samples:Dop. Information: No output and page numbering.