Ascension David"s Desert. History and Modernity

Voznesenskaya David Desert is located on the banks of the Baddan River, on a high half-half, abundant white stone. It is 60 kilometers from Moscow and 23 kilometers from Serpukhov, not far from Laustan Station (now G. Chekhov).
On the founding of the desert in the monastic synod, written
In 1602, the next entry was made: "In the summer of 7023 at the state of the kingdom of the Russian sovereign and the Grand Prince Vasily Ioannovich Moscow and All Russia with the Holy Archbishop of Varlaam Metropolitan Moskovsky and All Russia Priide in this desert old man Rev. Father Our Igumen David with Two elders and two simple men on May 31. And Hatun was all the whales and the county of Prince Vasily Semenovich Starodubsky. And I will have come and instilled in the holy place of the CE and set the church in the name of the Bogoleship Ascension of the Lord God and the Savior of our Jesus Christ, in the limit putting the church of the Holy Master of the Virgin Mother of God and Savodeli Maryam Harm and Slavnago, and with the trapes of the Church in the name In the holy Father of our Nikola, the wonderworker and create a monastery, and make Kelii, and convening the brotherhood. And the reverend David Igumen in the summer of 7037 on the 19th day for the memory of the Holy Martyr of Estaphy and others like him "