🏛 Ivanovsky Convent on Ivanovskaya Gorka

A convent behind high walls on a hillside, with a 19th-century cathedral and a quiet courtyard.

The convent was founded in the 15th century in Zamoskvorechye, and in the 1530s it was moved here, to Kulishki, and made a convent for women.
In the 17th century the wives of Tsar Vasily Shuisky and of Tsarevich Ivan were held here.
In 1812 the convent was plundered and burned, after which it was abolished.
The current Neo-Renaissance ensemble was built to a design by Mikhail Bykovsky and consecrated in 1879.
In the 1920s there was a concentration camp here, the "Ivanovsky Correctional House", which held up to 400 prisoners at once.

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