The President toured the territory of the convent, visited the Trinity and Annunciation Cathedrals, and attended a brief prayer service at the reliquary with the relics of Saint Seraphim of Sarov.
Vladimir Putin presented the convent with an icon of Our Lady of Saint Theodore, dating back to the 17th-18th centuries, in a chased metal frame.
The President was accompanied by Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Volga Federal District Igor Komarov, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin, Metropolitan Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, and Abbess Sergia of the Holy Trinity Saint Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent.
