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- Donskoy Monastery (Russian: Донской монастырь) is a major monastery in Moscow, founded in 1591 in commemoration of Moscow's deliverance from the threat...
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Under the princess Sophia, in the end of the 17th century Donskoy Monastery became one of the major metropolitan monasteries.
