The Zverin Monastery is a monastery in Veliky Novgorod. It was first mentioned in the chronicles under the year 1069.[1] A wooden Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God was built in the monastery in 1148, but was struck by lightning and burned that same year. Archbishop Vasilii Kalika built a stone Church of the Intercession in 1335. The present stone Church of St. Simeon the God-Receiver was built in the monastery in 1467 on the site of an earlier wooden one, which was built in 1399. The stone church was built to commemorate victims of the plague. The monastery is a seminary for the Novgorod eparchy.