Antoniev Monastery, Orthodox monastery in Veliky Novgorod, Russia

The Antoniev Monastery sits on the Volkhov River bank and consists of a three-domed church surrounded by several stone buildings within a walled enclosure. The structures display typical features of medieval Novgorod architecture with its distinctive forms and construction methods.

Founded by St Anthony of Rome, the monastery's church was begun in 1117 and completed in 1119; Anthony was consecrated hegumen in 1131. Its lands in the Vodskaya and Shelonskaya pyatinas made it the fourth-largest landowner among Novgorod's monasteries. In 1570 Ivan IV's forces killed the hegumen and monks during the Massacre of Novgorod.

The monastery houses the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, whose apse still holds frescoes from the 12th century. These paintings offer visitors a direct view into the artistic techniques and religious subjects of the medieval period.

The monastery is part of the Novgorod United Museum-Preserve and allows visitors to explore medieval Russian religious architecture. The best time to visit is during daylight hours when the grounds are fully accessible and the buildings' facades are clearly visible.

The rock on which St Anthony is said to have sailed from Rome to Novgorod was found on the Volkhov bank in the mid-16th century by hegumen Veniamin and set into the cathedral wall. It now lies in the vestibule, to the right of the main door, beneath a fresco of Bishop Nikita of Novgorod.