🏛 Donskoy Monastery

A 16th-century monastery with a red wall, a large cathedral and an old cemetery with the gravestones of famous people.

The monastery was founded in 1591 by Tsar Feodor Ioannovich on the site of Boris Godunov's army camp, to mark the repulse of a raid by the Crimean Khan Gazi II Giray.
The monastery took its name from the Don Icon of the Mother of God, attributed to Theophanes the Greek.
The Great Cathedral was built from 1684 to 1698.
From 1922 Patriarch Tikhon was held under arrest here; his relics were discovered in the Small Cathedral in 1992.
In 1934 the monastery was given to the Museum of Architecture, which brought here fragments of the demolished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and Sukharev Tower.
Pyotr Chaadayev, Vasily Klyuchevsky and Nikolai Zhukovsky are buried in the necropolis, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn was buried here in 2008.
In the 2000s the remains of Anton Denikin, Ivan Ilyin, Ivan Shmelev and Vladimir Kappel were moved here.