🏛 Novospassky Monastery

A monastery on a hill above the Moskva River with mighty walls, towers and a tall bell tower.

Ivan III founded the monastery in 1490, moving here the brethren of the Kremlin's Saviour-on-the-Pine Monastery (Spas na Boru).
It was the Romanov family necropolis, and until the 18th century the monastery served as a burial place for the royal family.
From 1646 to 1649 the monastery's archimandrite was the future Patriarch Nikon.
Construction of the stone wall, about 650 m long and up to 7.5 m high, began in 1640.
In 1918 the monastery was closed and turned into a concentration camp, and in 1927–1930 its cemetery was destroyed.
In 1995 the remains of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, killed by Ivan Kalyayev in 1905, were brought here.

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