🖼 Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum

A 14th-century monastery above the Yauza behind white walls, where, according to tradition, Andrei Rublev lived and was buried.

The monastery was founded in 1357 by Metropolitan Alexius and named after its first abbot, Andronik, a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh.
According to the saint's life, Alexius vowed to build a church when he was caught in a storm on the way to Constantinople.
The white-stone Cathedral of the Saviour of 1420–1427 is the oldest surviving church in Moscow.
Fragments of murals from about 1428 by Andrei Rublev, a monk of this monastery, survive in the cathedral.
In 1653 Archpriest Avvakum was held here under guard.
After the monastery was closed in 1918, one of the first Cheka concentration camps operated on its grounds until 1922.
The monastery's bell tower, the second tallest in Moscow after Ivan the Great, was demolished in 1929–1932.
The Rublev Museum was officially opened in 1960, for the 600th anniversary of the icon painter.