In the year 1724 mention is made of three churches at Kola, viz., Trinity Church, the Church of the Assumption of St. Mary, and SS. Peter and Paul’s Church. Eventually, the monastery was dissolved in the year 1764, and annexed to the cathedral church of Kola, and appointed the residence of the bishop of Kola. The Empress Catherine II. issued, on February 26 in that year, a brief, according to which the monastery and churches were deprived of their ancient privileges, as well as of their tenants and serfs. At the present time both the civil and ecclesiastical authorities of Russia have their attention directed to the re-erection of the monastery of Petschenga on its ancient site. In the year 1881 a commission was appointed in Archangel to consider what could be done to promote different kinds of industry in those northern districts, and remedy several defects. This commission decided that it was of great importance that the Petschenga monastery should be rebuilt, and in the year 1882 the Holy Synod permitted and sanctioned its re-erection. Serapion, Bishop of Archangel, has likewise taken great interest in the scheme. He has procured a copy of the picture of Trifon, and has, it is said, had it painted at his own expense. It is thought that the rebuilding of the monastery of Petschenga will, in time, have the same beneficial effect on those parts as Solowetski monastery has had on the region of the White Sea. A Special Committee has therefore been appointed by the ecclesiastical authorities. The Committee appeals to all who may be supposed to feel an interest in the undertaking, and invites charitable contributions, which should be sent to The Committee at Archangel For the Restoration of Petschenga Monastery. NOTES [1] The ‘oter’ is a Norwegian fishing implement, consisting of a board, or piece of wood, with a number of hooks attached to it. [2] He thus gave away that over which he had not undivided proprietary rights, viz.: the whole of the so-called debatable land over which both Norway and Russia claimed taxes, and which was parcelled out in 1826 for the first time. [3] [The inscription Νίψον ἀνομήμα μὴ μόναν ὄψιν occurs on the fonts at Sandbach Church (Cheshire), Rufford (Lancashire), and elsewhere in England.—Note by the Translator.] [4] A monastery on the Dvina, built by Princess Martha, in memory of her two sons who were drowned there, whose patron was St. Nicholas. It may be noted that Archangel was first founded in 1584. [5] According to several writers, the date of the destruction of the monastery is set down as 1590, but a letter from Vardö, relating to the destruction, is dated August, 1590, so that it must have occurred on Christmas Eve, 1589. [6] A ‘gamme’ is the name given to the mud huts in which the Lapps live.