The Andronikov Monastery stands on the left bank of the Yauza River in Moscow. Metropolitan Alexis founded it in 1357 in thanks for surviving a storm, and its first abbot was Saint Andronik, a disciple of Sergius of Radonezh. The painter Andrei Rublev spent his last years here and was buried here.
The four-pillared Saviour Cathedral was built from 1420 to 1427, and the refectory followed in 1504 to 1506. A Baroque church was commissioned in 1694 by Eudoxia Lopukhina. A Neoclassical bell tower was begun in 1795 but was destroyed between 1929 and 1932.
The monastery was closed after the 1917 revolution and restored in 1959 and 1960. The Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Ancient Culture and Art opened here in 1985, and the Saviour Cathedral was returned to the church in 1991.
Comments