The Kirillo-Belozersky monastery was founded on the lands of the former Belozersky principality in the fourteenth century. It participated in the political events of the 15th -17th centuries. During the Polish-Lithuanian invasion the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery showed resistance to the enemy. The first troops of the interventionists appeared in Beloozero in 1612. In December enemy groups led by Bobovsky and the colonel Pesetsky besieged the monastery and attacked it. Riflemen being in the monastery, monastic peasants, servants and monks showed stubborn resistance. As a result many interventionists were killed and the basic enemy forces went away from the walls of the monastery.
The principal goal of the festival is to give the chance to the visitors and the participants of the festival to plunge in those far heroic times so that they were proud of the people living in this country and their history.
Another goal of the festival is patriotic education of the rising generation, propagation of the military-historical past, unification and development of the military-historical clubs. The festival will be organized for the military-historical associations and the organizations specializing on the reconstruction of the dress, arms and equipment of a Russian and European fighter of the 16th and the first half of the 17th centuries.
