• Vidogoshchsky, Zhizdrinsky, Sharovkin, and Zheleznoborovsky monasteries were attached to the Donskoy Monastery[2] between 1683 and 1685.
  • In the Donskoy Monastery (in its Small Cathedral) it will turn out to see the only operating world-making furnace in the possession of the Russian Orthodox Church.
  • It is not known exactly when the Donskoy Monastery was founded. Most historians are inclined to believe that it was founded in 1591.
  • The Donskoy Monastery in Moscow is a medieval fortress built in 1591.On the premises is a well preserved Cathedral,Monastery and Cemetery.
  • Donskoy Monastery was also the scene of the secret baptism of Joseph Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, by the priest Nicholas Golubtsov.
  • Ss Zechariah and Elisabeth's Gate-Church, Donskoy Monastery (July 2013). ... Our Lady of the Don Large Cathedral, Donskoy Monastery (July 2013).
  • The shrine of the Donskoy monastery, happily found after a fire in the Small Cathedral in 1992, now rests in a gilded reliquary in the Big Cathedral.
  • Donskoy Monastery is famous as a burial place of the Moscow aristocracy. It is famous for the splendour of decoration of gravestones.