Ascension Convent
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Ascension Convent, known as the Starodevichy Convent or Old Maidens' Convent until 1817, was a Russian Orthodox nunnery in the Moscow Kremlin which contained the burials of grand princesses, tsarinas,
Katholikon of Ascension Convent (1580s), from an early 19th-century drawing.
St Catherine Church of Ascension Convent.
Spasskaya Tower
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The Spasskaya Tower, also translated as the Saviour Tower, is the main tower on the eastern wall of the Moscow Kremlin which overlooks Red Square.
Ascension Convent
…Muscovite royal court. It was destroyed in 1929 on the orders of Joseph Stalin. It is believed that Ascension Convent was founded in 1389 next to the Saviour Gates of the Kremlin by Dmitry Donskoy's widow, Eudoxia Dmitriyevna, who would take the veil there. The foundation stone for the cathedral was laid in 1407…
The Spasskaya Tower
Spasskaya tower at night, December 2015
Spasskaya Tower in 1880
Spasskaya Tower