🏛 St Nicholas Ugreshsky Monastery

Дзержинский, пл. Святителя Николая, 1

A monastery founded by Dmitry Donskoy in 1380: the 93-metre bell tower, the “Ugresha candle”, the Transfiguration Cathedral for 7,000 people, a pond and the Palestine Wall.

According to legend, on seeing the icon of St Nicholas the Wonderworker here, Dmitry Donskoy said: “This whole ugresha (dear place) is my heart”, hence the name Ugresha.
In 1521 the monastery was burned to the ground during the Crimean Khan Mehmed I Giray's raid on Moscow.
On 11 July 1668, during Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich's “Ugresha pilgrimage”, three patriarchs were here at once: of Alexandria, Antioch and Moscow.
After the suppression of the Streltsy revolt, the monastery became one of the places of imprisonment for the rebel streltsy.
In 1874–1875 the philosopher Konstantin Leontiev was a novice at the monastery.
In the war the pond was covered with boards and logs with dummy buildings, and the domes were removed to mislead German pilots.
The first liturgy here since the 1920s was served on 19 December 1990, and in 1991 the monastery was returned to the Church.

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Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery and the quarry in Dzerzhinsky