🏛 Alexander Nevsky Lavra

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A monastery with the Trinity Cathedral, 18th-century necropolises and the graves of Lomonosov, Tchaikovsky and Dostoevsky.

In July 1710 Peter I ordered a monastery built here: this was believed to be the place where Alexander Nevsky defeated the Swedes in 1240.
The official founding date is 25 March 1713, the day the first wooden Annunciation Church was consecrated.
By Peter's decree, Alexander Nevsky's relics were brought from Vladimir in 1724.
The monastery received the status of a lavra in 1797 by decree of Paul I.
The present Trinity Cathedral, in the early Neoclassical style, was built to a design by Ivan Starov and consecrated in 1790.
In 1922 Alexander Nevsky's silver shrine was confiscated and given to the Hermitage; the relics returned to the cathedral in 1989.
The Lazarus and Tikhvin cemeteries of the lavra are part of the Museum of Urban Sculpture, founded in 1932.