The Russian Monastery of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon on the Holy Mountain of Athos, Otherwise Known as the Rossikon

The Russian Monastery of the Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon on the Holy Mountain of Athos, otherwise known as the Rossikon. One of the novices of this monastery was the peasant Filipp Malyavin, who served here as an icon painter.

The history of the monastery goes back to a Russian monastic settlement on Athos in the eleventh century, but by the first third of the eighteenth century the once flourishing house consisted of two Russian and two Bulgarian monks and a Bulgarian abbot, and the monastery was declared Greek. The Russian presence here revived in the 1830s; under the patronage of the Russian imperial family the monastery grew, ever more Russian inmates began to arrive, and Russian abbots appeared.

The most difficult period in the monastery's history began after the revolution, when it was unclear to whom it now belonged.