🏛 Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery

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A monastery on a former headland by the Moskva River: the huge early-20th-century Iveron Cathedral, the St Nicholas church and a seminary.

The monastery is first mentioned in the cadastral books of 1573/74 — at that time it stood "empty", in ruins.
In the late 17th century Patriarch Adrian made the monastery a summer residence and in 1700 consecrated a new St Nicholas Cathedral.
From the 1660s the monastery owned the Iveron Chapel by the Resurrection Gate on Red Square — the main source of its income.
The Perervinsky Seminary opened here in 1775, and on 9 May of that year Catherine II visited the monastery.
In 1812 the French occupied the monastery for more than a month and ate and slept in the lower St Sergius church.
In the 1830s the architect Mikhail Bove rebuilt the cell buildings in a uniform Empire style.
The Iveron Cathedral by the architect Pyotr Vinogradov was consecrated on 7 September 1908.
In the late 1960s the cathedral was adapted as a factory workshop and divided into three floors with concrete slabs.