Novospassky Monastery Traditional Geocache
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Novospassky Monastery is
one of the fortified monasteries surrounding Moscow from
south-east.
It was the first monastery to be founded in Moscow in the
early 14th century. The Saviour Church was its original katholikon.
Upon its removal to the left bank of the Moskva River in 1491, the
abbey was renamed the New Saviour, to distinguish it from the older
one in the Kremlin.
The monastery was patronized by Andrei Kobyla's descendants,
including the Sheremetyev and Romanov boyars, and served as their
burial vault. Among the last Romanovs buried in the monastery were
Xenia Shestova (the mother of the first Romanov Tsar), Princess
Tarakanoff (a pretender who claimed to have been the only daughter
of Empress Elisabeth) and Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of
Russia. In 1571 and 1591, the wooden citadel withstood repeated
attacks of Crimean Tatars.
Upon the Romanovs' ascension to the Moscovy throne, Michael of
Russia completely rebuilt their family shrine in the 1640s. Apart
from the huge 18th-century bell-tower (one of the tallest in
Moscow) and the Sheremetev sepulchre in the church of the Sign, all
other buildings date from that period. They include:
The large five-domed katholikon (1645-49)
with frescoes by the finest Muscovite painters of the 17th
century
The Pokrovsky (Intercession) church at the
refectory
The House of Loaf-Giving, a hospital,
monks' living quarters, and the palace of Patriarch
Filaret.
During the Soviet years, the monastery was converted into a
prison, then into a police drunk tank. In the 1970s it was assigned
to an art restoration institute, and finally returned to the
Russian Orthodox church in 1991.
Cache is nearby in the small park -
small size - please use fotohint for better and safe
found
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