• Andronikov Monastery has been ransacked on numerous occasions (1571, 1611, 1812). In 1748 and 1812, its archives were lost in fires.
  • History of Andronikov Monastery. In the 14th century, Metropolitan Alexei found himself on stormy seas on a journey back from Constantinople.
  • Yauza Spaso-Andronikov Monastery. After having existed for more than six and a half centuries, he saw many historical events and kept many secrets.
  • Became the place of imprisonment of the main ideologue of schismatics - Archpriest Avvakum Andronikov Monastery in Moscow (1653).
  • Since 1947, the Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art named after Andrei Rublev has been located in the Spaso-Andronikov Monastery on the...
  • Moscow. Savior-Andronikov Monastery, Cathedral of the Miraculous Image of the Savior, east view. Left background: Church of the Archangel Michael.
  • The Andronikov Monastery was founded in 1357 by Metrapolitan Alexei, and takes its name from its first hegumen (Orthodox abbot), St. Andronik.
  • The arrival of Soviet power was met by a dozen monks of the Andronikov Monastery, but only a year after the revolution, the monastery was closed.
  • One of them is Spaso-Andronikov monastery, one of the most ancient in Moscow. As you may know the monasteries played a role of the fortresses in the...