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      🏛 Marfo-Mariinsky Convent

      Б. Ордынка, 34

      A convent founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, with a church in the spirit of Pskov-Novgorod architecture.

      Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
      © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
      Marfo-Mariinsky Convent
      © Lodo27 from Moscow, Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
      • The convent was founded in 1909 by Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna after her husband, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, was killed by a terrorist's bomb in 1905.
      • The Intercession Cathedral was built in 1908–1912 to a design by Alexey Shchusev, with interior paintings by Mikhail Nesterov.
      • The convent was closed in 1926, and in Soviet times Grabar's restoration workshops worked in the cathedral.
      • Elizabeth Feodorovna was killed in 1918 near Alapayevsk; in 1992 the Russian Orthodox Church canonised her.
      • Vyacheslav Klykov's monument to Elizabeth Feodorovna has stood in the courtyard since 1990.
      • The convent's sisters still do charity work today, helping sick children, the elderly and the homeless.

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      • From the Tretyakov through Zamoskvorechye to Pyatnitskaya

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