Moscow Sights

Zaikonospassky Monastery

#148 of 579 things to do in Moscow

#350 of 2693 things to do in Russia

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  • Address
    • Nikolskaya ul 7-9
  • Transport
    • 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 that once took place here. On the orders of Tsar Alexey, the Likhud brothers, scholars of Greek, opened the Slavonic Greek and Latin Academy on the monastery premises in 1687. (Mikhail Lomonosov was a student here.) The academy later became a divinity school and was transferred to the Trinity Monastery of St Sergius in 1814.

 

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