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      Rogozhskaya Sloboda and Andronikov Monastery

      ⏱ 1 h 20 min🚶 3.9 km🍽 0📍 3 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      The tall white bell tower of the Old Believers, the white walls of Andronikov Monastery with one of Moscow's oldest cathedrals, and a merchants' church on Alekseyevskaya.

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        🏛 Rogozhskaya Sloboda: Intercession Cathedral and Bell Tower
        ул. Рогожский Посёлок, 29
        🚪 entrance from Rogozhsky Posyolok Street
        An Old Believer ensemble with the Neoclassical Intercession Cathedral and a tall white bell tower of the early 20th century.
        The spiritual centre of the Old Believers: the Intercession Cathedral with ancient icons, and the bell tower. Women need a headscarf and a skirt, and it isn't customary to take them off inside
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        Rogozhskaya Sloboda: Intercession Cathedral and Bell Tower
        © Savelyev alexandr · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rogozhskaya Sloboda: Intercession Cathedral and Bell Tower
        © Savelyev alexandr · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The sloboda arose in the late 16th century: coachmen who carried the tsar's mail to the Rogozhsky Yam, now Noginsk, settled here.
        • The Old Believer cemetery was established in 1771 for those who died of the plague; Old Believer merchants then ran their own hospitals.
        • The Intercession Cathedral of 1790–1792 is attributed to Matvey Kazakov; by area it exceeded the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin.
        • By decree of Catherine II the cathedral was "shortened": of five domes one was left, and the altar projections were dismantled.
        • The collection's most famous icon was "The Saviour with the Fierce Eye"; the cathedral holds icons from the Rakhmanov and Soldatyonkov collections.
        • The bell-tower church was built in 1912–1913 in memory of the unsealing of the Old Believers' altars.
        • Legend says the bell tower was allowed to be just a meter lower than Ivan the Great; it was never measured exactly, but it is over 80 meters.
        • The bell tower's facade is decorated with reliefs of birds of paradise and a pelican feeding its chicks with its blood.
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      3. 2
        🖼 Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        🎟 partly ticketed · the monastery grounds are free, the museum exhibition requires a ticket
        A 14th-century monastery above the Yauza behind white walls, where, according to tradition, Andrei Rublev lived and was buried.
        The 15th-century Saviour Cathedral — one of Moscow's oldest churches; the Rublev Museum is separate, another 1.5 hours
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        Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Andronikov Monastery and the Rublev Museum
        © Никонико962 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The monastery was founded in 1357 by Metropolitan Alexius and named after its first abbot, Andronik, a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh.
        • According to the saint's life, Alexius vowed to build a church when he was caught in a storm on the way to Constantinople.
        • The white-stone Cathedral of the Saviour of 1420–1427 is the oldest surviving church in Moscow.
        • Fragments of murals from about 1428 by Andrei Rublev, a monk of this monastery, survive in the cathedral.
        • In 1653 Archpriest Avvakum was held here under guard.
        • After the monastery was closed in 1918, one of the first Cheka concentration camps operated on its grounds until 1922.
        • The monastery's bell tower, the second tallest in Moscow after Ivan the Great, was demolished in 1929–1932.
        • The Rublev Museum was officially opened in 1960, for the 600th anniversary of the icon painter.
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        🏛 Church of St Martin the Confessor on Alekseevskaya
        ул. Александра Солженицына, 15/2
        A large Neoclassical church of the 1790s with a massive dome and bell tower, built with funds from the merchant Zhigarev.
        A late-18th-century merchants' church on the former Bolshaya Alekseyevskaya Street
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        Church of St Martin the Confessor on Alekseevskaya
        © SelenjerWiki · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Church of St Martin the Confessor on Alekseevskaya
        © Dr Jorgen · Public domain
        • Metropolitan Platon conceived the new church after the Austrian emperor Joseph II visited Moscow in 1780.
        • The design was by Rodion Kazakov, and the money was given by the tea merchant Vasily Zhigarev, later the city mayor.
        • Construction began in 1791, and the main altar was consecrated only in 1806.
        • According to tradition, in 1812 Marshal Murat posted a guard at the church against marauders.
        • The main dome is a rotunda 17 meters in diameter; the bell tower, about 60 meters high, stood separately until the 1820s.
        • The altar screen in the form of a triumphal gate is dedicated to the victory over Napoleon; in Soviet times it was kept in the Donskoy Monastery.
        • The church was closed in 1931; in the 1980s a research institute's computing center worked here.

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