St. George's island, or Isle of the Dead, is next to a small Montenegrin town of Perast Kotor Bay. He was not created artificially, but has a natural origin.

The town is famous because it was a nautical school, where he studied seamanship sons of the Russian nobility under the patronage of the Russian Emperor Peter the Great. The island grows a picturesque cypress grove.

The island's name comes from the Benedictine Abbey of St. George, which was located here. As discovered by historians, the construction of an Abbey Dating to the 9th century. From the old Church of St. George is almost nothing left - the island was constantly bombarded the invaders, and in the earthquake of 1667 destroyed the ceiling and the apse. The island is the burial place of the famous captains of Perast, so on tombstones of the Church cemetery contains unique heraldic emblems.

At one time the Church walls were decorated with paintings 1327-1457. The last leaf wrote Lovro Marinov, Dobrilovic, a famous painter from the city of Kotor. 14th-16th centuries, the rights of the Board of the Abbey. George were in Kotor, but Which then appointed the Abbot was killed by peratzada, the city gained independence, but was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. And then, in 1571, he was burned along with monastic abode pirate Cardoza. In 1603, the Church was restored, and within a few decades Perast reaches its highest degree of prosperity thanks to Venetian control. In the early 19th century the Abbey occupied by the French, the Austrians.

Isle of the Dead has its sad, but romantic legend, according to which soldiers of the French army, firing guns in the direction of Perast, accidentally fell into the house of his beloved, she died, and he wished to lie down in the coffin with her.

Today official visit to the Island of the Dead is prohibited, but many locals or tourists disregard the ban and come to the island to touch the old walls and wander through the famous cemetery.

The German romantic painter and Alfred Bolin inspired by the island of St. George, wrote the world famous painting "Isle of the dead". The canvas depicts a boat with a coffin, which is managed by the solitary figure of Charon in white clothes, and in front is a huge, dark island, on both sides of its looming sepulchres, which are carved into solid rock.