sort of cut the monastery of the holy cross is the only armenian epistatic monastery outside armenia. built in thirteen fifty eight it served as a sanatorium during the soviet era. it was not until two thousand and two that it was reopened as a monastery and handed back to the armenian eb style a church. crimea became the home and the center of life of national minorities but they also experienced great suffering here in the form of persecution expulsion and death. one of them from the as a multi-ethnic region in the soviet union crimea experienced