• 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.
  • Donskoy Monastery is one of the best surviving examples of a fortified monastery and as it is located a little away from the centre you will find a lot less tourists here...
  • The cemetery or the necropolis of Donskoy monastery was built the same time as the founding of a monastery and was mainly in the 18th and 19th centuries...
  • Donskoy Monastery is famous as a burial place of the Moscow aristocracy. It is famous for the splendour of decoration of gravestones.
  • The Donskoy Monastery in Moscow is a medieval fortress built in 1591.On the premises is a well preserved Cathedral,Monastery and Cemetery.
  • There are Old Cemetery and New Cemetery where were buried important russian people. Just loved been there, in Donskoy Monastery that long passed 2002 year.
  • 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.