Moscow, Russia
Donskoy Monastery
Donskoy Monastery is a major monastery in Moscow, founded in 1591 in commemoration of Moscow's deliverance from the threat of an invasion by the Crimean Khan Kazy-Girey. Commanding a highway to the Crimea, the monastery was intended to defend southern approaches to the Moscow Kremlin.
- City
- Moscow
- Country
- Russia
- Category
- Religious
- Suggested visit
- About 45 minutes
More places in Moscow
- Bolshoi Theatre
- Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
- Central Dynamo Stadium
- Moscow Leningradsky railway station
- Red Square
- Russian Institute of Theatre Arts
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