The steed stone is one of the brightest attractions of the Priozersk district. Is a huge boulder of granite gray color with streaks of quartz measuring approximately 9×6 meters, height of slightly more than 4 meters and weighing more than 750 000 pounds. Located on the island of Konevets (lake Ladoga), 7 kilometres from the coastal village of Vladimirovka.

In historical terms, the stone is one of the few surviving pagan sanctuaries. There is a theory that was once next to him was carried out pagan rituals. The shape of the boulder remotely similar to a horse head. Probably, hence the name.

There is a legend which tells that the Karelians used the island Konevets as summer pastures for their horses and each year on this rock were sacrificed one horse. This legend was born in the description of the life of Arseny Konevsky, compiled in the sixteenth century, approximately one century after the death of the ascetic. The author is Konevsky Abbot Barlaam.

The monk Arsenius, who arrived on the island in the end of XIV century, according to legend, met a fisherman Philip and learnt about the sacrifices. Arseniy found this place "Pushcha primeval forest, a demonic horror surrounded." The monk spent the whole night in prayer, and early in the morning took part in a procession around the boulder with the icon of the blessed virgin Mary and sprinkled him with Holy water. The legend says that the evil spirits, like soot, jumped out of the stone, turning into black ravens, flew away to the opposite shore of lake Ladoga, received since that time the name Bloody Bay (Sortan-Lahti). Together with the devils, according to legend, disappeared and snakes (Konevets island is the only island on lake Ladoga, where snakes are not found).

In honor of this event on top of the stone was set a little wooden chapel in the name Arseny Konevsky. Reliable information about when it was built the first chapel on the Horse-stone, not detected. Maybe it happened at the beginning of the Foundation of the monastery.

In the years of the Swedish desolation, the chapel was demolished and rebuilt under Abbot Hilarion only in 1815. Height of the chapel was about 3 meters, there was a small gallery. Inside the "simple" icons and the cross, made of wood.

Modern chapel with a pretty window frames, decorated with hand carvings, was built in the late nineteenth century, and more precisely, in 1895, and is today fully restored.

The chapel is accessed by a wooden staircase. The interior is devoid of decorations, characterized by simplicity and modesty: the ceiling and walls painted white paint colors. Only on the Eastern wall you can see 2 icons of modern letters: one in the name of St. Arsenius, the other – in honor of the Mother of God Konevsky. Before the icons installed lectern for the reader.

From the chapel along the path you can reach a wide road which, if diverted to the left will lead you back to the monastery. If you turn right, just after a few meters you will be on the picturesque shore of lake Ladoga. Further along the coast road goes to the Northern tip of the island Konevets. Directly from the boulder in the forest out another road leading to Snake mountain, and then lost in the thicket.