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The Novodevichy (‘new virgin’) Convent was built in 1524 to the southwest of the city centre, and its red and white walls and its church’s domes make it Moscow’s most beautiful sacred building. Its name derived from a market place where in the Middle Ages Russian girls had been sold to the Tatars’ harems.
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1812. The ragged remnant of Napoleon’s 600,000 strong army escaped from the pursuing Russian army over the border to the West. Tsar Alexander I. proclaimed that to honour the victorious Russian army, and give thanks to God, he would build a large church in Moscow.
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The former Soviet Union’s most important Orthodox church is located a little outside the city centre. This was where the Patriarch celebrated all important Christian festivals, until the Christ the Saviour Cathedral blown up by Stalin was rebuilt in the 1990s.
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The Danilov monastery is nowadays the official residence of Alexei II, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. The monastery was built at the end of the 13th century, and did not just serve the monks as place of retreat, but also as a defensive bastion on the southern boundary of Moscow.
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