Novodevichy Convent (with a visit to the Novodevichy cemetery) walking Novodevichy Convent - one of the most famous monasteries in Moscow. Today the monastery and convent acting, and a monument to the history and architectural monument, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, and a branch of the State Historical Museum, and just one of the most fertile places in Moscow.

Novodevichy Convent was founded in the XVI century to the Virgin box (otherwise Named Samsonov meadow). In 1523g. was issued from the treasury of the Grand 230 kilograms of silver to the device of the new monastery, which is still to build for 9 years before vowed Moscow Prince Vasily III, if we can take Smolensk, reclaimed from the Moscow principality Lithuanians. Smolensk was actually taken, and a place for the monastery was chosen not easy - with this field icon of the Holy Mother of Smolensk

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TATIANA Танюша

was sent back from Moscow to Smolensk. Maiden name field received because, according to legend, during the Mongol invasion baskaks collected here Russian girls, who were sent to the Horde.

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Novodevichy Convent (with a visit to the Novodevichy cemetery) walking Novodevichy Convent - one of the most famous monasteries in Moscow. Today the monastery and convent acting, and a monument to the history and architectural monument, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, and a branch of the State Historical Museum, and just one of the most fertile places in Moscow.

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