Zaikonospassky Monastery

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  • Address
    Nikolskaya ul 7-9, city centre
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Ploshchad Revolyutsii

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This monastery was founded by Boris Godunov in 1600, although the church was built in 1660. The name means 'behind the icon stall', a reference to the busy icon trade which took place here. On the orders of Tsar Alexei, the Likhud brothers, scholars of Greek, opened the Slavonic Greek and Latin Academy on the monastery premises in 1866. (Mikhail Lomonosov was a student here.) The school later became a divinity school, and was transferred to the Trinity Monastery of St Sergius in 1814.