🏛 Spaso-Borodino Convent

Можайский округ, Бородинское поле, у с. Семёновское

A convent founded by General Tuchkov's widow on the spot where he fell; the house-museum of Abbess Maria tells the convent's story.

In 1817 Margarita Tuchkova bought three desyatinas of land at the middle fleches; Alexander I gave half of the sum.
The convent's first church, of the Saviour Not Made by Hands, was consecrated on 26 August 1820, on the eighth anniversary of the battle.
Tuchkova freed all the serfs on her Tula estate, and in 1840 became the convent's first abbess, Maria.
The Vladimir Cathedral was built in 1851–1859 to a design by the architect Mikhail Bykovsky.
On 25 August 1912 Nicholas II visited the convent with his family.
The convent was closed in 1929, and the village of Voroshilovo appeared on maps in its place.
Traces of a 1930s slogan, “Enough of preserving the legacy of the slave past”, are still visible on a wall.
Tuchkova's little house, burned down in 1942, was rebuilt in 1994.

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