🏛 Novo-Alekseevsky Monastery

2-й Красносельский пер., 7

A monastery that "moved": in 1837 it was transferred here from Ostozhenka, when construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour began on its old site. In the courtyard are the Church of All Saints by Thon and the small 17th-century Tikhvin Church.

The Alekseevsky Monastery was founded in 1358 by Metropolitan Alexei in Chertolye, by present-day Ostozhenka.
In 1837 the convent was moved to Krasnoye Selo: its site was needed for the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
The Church of All Saints was built by Konstantin Thon — the architect of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour itself.
The Tikhvin Church is older than the monastery on this spot — it is the former church of the village of Krasnoye.
Krasnoye Selo stood by the large Krasny Pond; it was filled in at the start of the 20th century, and the Kazansky Station tracks are there now.