The event was held in the museum of the Convent. The cancellation ceremony was attended by Metropolitan Feognost of Kashira, the Chairman of the Synodal Department for Monasteries and Monasticism; Igor Shchegolev, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District; and Vladimir Medinsky, an Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.
The Zosima Hermitage Convent of the Russian Orthodox Church is located in the namesake village of the Novofyodorovskoye settlement in the Troitsk Administrative District of the city of Moscow. The monastery was founded in 1826 in the Vereya County of the Moscow Province by monk Zosima and his spiritual daughters. The sorority was arranged with the blessing of Filaret, the Metropolitan of Moscow, on a plot of land donated by landlady Maria Bakhmeteva. In 1856, the community was transformed to the monastery, which was closed in 1929, and in later years, it was given to a pioneer camp for children of the Moscow Metro personnel. The monastery was revived as a convent in August, 1999, first, as a metochion of the Moscow Novodevichy Monastery, and then, on March 7, 2000, the Sacred Synod took a decision to open the Trinity-Hodigitria Zosima Hermitage as a self-sustained monastery. On July 23, 2000, schema monk Zosima (Verkhovsky), the founder of the hermitage, was consecrated a Saint.
The postal stamp provides an image of the Zosima Hermitage general view during its heyday and the image of Reverend Zosima (Verkhovsky), the monastery founder. The print run of the stamp is 126 thousand items.
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