A fascinating excursion tour to Russian Cappadocia.

The striking similarity of the Don underground monasteries with the ancient cave structures of Cappadocia suggests that Christians who fled the bloody persecutions settled in this land as early as the 1st century AD. Later, in the 8th and 10th centuries, monks and iconoclasts fled the persecutions of the Byzantine Empire to Syria, Palestine, and the Caucasus. Along the road, part of which ran along the Don, in the thickness of the chalk mountains, they created cave temples, spreading and strengthening the Christian faith in these parts.