The economic activity of St. Alexander Nevsky Laura in the 20th century

This article is devoted to the economic activity of one of the most significant monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church - the St. Alexander Nevsky Laura in St. Petersburg. At the beginning of the 20th century, it had a capital of over two million rubles, over one hundred plots of land, and several dozen buildings as its real property, but all of these assets were nationalized following the Revolution of 1917 and gradually taken away from the brotherhood's administration. The monastery itself was closed in 1933 and reopened only in the mid-1990's. Since then, its economic activity has resumed and by now has again attained a considerable scale.