In the suburban village of Semiotica near Kazan is an ancient monastery, founded in October 1615 at the river the salt Shaker, between seven lakes. Sedmiozersky deserts arose due to the monk Euthymios, who brought the icon of the Mother of God from Veliky Ustyug, later called the Smolenskaya Sedmiozersky and famous in 1654 as miraculous, saved from a plague Kazan. In memory of these events from Sedmiozersky desert in Kazan was installed annual procession, which lasted until the revolution.

Thanks to the veneration of the miraculous icon of the Smolensk Mother of God in the deserts began to receive generous donations, and in 1668 was built the main temple of the monastery - Smolensky Cathedral (nowadays there are only ruins of the basement). Earlier, in the 1640s, was built the first stone Church of the ascension. In the eighteenth century Sedmiozersky deserts were among the richest monasteries of the Kazan diocese, along with the Raifa monastery. At the turn of 19-20 centuries in Sedmiozersky the monastery had six churches and multi-storey gate tower with a clock. One of the temples was built over the Holy spring near the monastery.

In 1928, virtually the entire ensemble of Semiozerskoe monastery was destroyed, and some of the surviving buildings were used by local farm for household needs. During the return of the monastery of the Kazan diocese (1997) on consecrated ground was only part of the walls of the hospice, fraternal building (1893) and two-storey stone Church in the name of St. Euphemia and St. Tikhon of Zadonsk (1889).

In our days in the restored Church are the relics of St. Gabriel Semiozernoe and a list of revered icon of the Smolensk Sedmiozerny of the Mother of God (the original is kept in the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Kazan). Built a wooden chapel on the Holy key (one kilometer from the monastery).