🏛 Bogolyubovo Monastery (Bogolyubsky Monastery)

Владимирская обл., пос. Боголюбово, ул. Ленина, 47

A monastery on the site of Prince Andrey Bogolyubsky's residence: fragments of 12th-century chambers and a staircase tower survive.

Around 1158 Andrey Bogolyubsky founded a country residence here, the white-stone “stone town” of Bogolyubovo.
The castle's remains are the only civil building of pre-Mongol Rus to survive even in part.
The supposed site of Prince Andrey's murder, under the stairs of the staircase tower, survives to this day.
The castle was considered lost until in 1954 Nikolay Voronin identified the staircase tower and the passage to the cathedral's choir gallery.
The ancient Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God collapsed in 1722; the present one was built in 1751–1758.
In the 18th century a tent-roofed bell tower was built on top of the staircase tower.
The monastery was closed on 3 June 1923.

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