Monastery of the Sign

unknown (Russian)

dc.coverage.spatial	Site: Moscow, Rossiya, Russia	en_US
dc.coverage.temporal	1684 (creation)	en_US
dc.creator	unknown (Russian)	en_US
dc.date	1684	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2013-01-22T17:43:08Z
dc.date.available	2013-01-22T17:43:08Z
dc.date.issued	1684	en_US
dc.identifier	186519	en_US
dc.identifier.other	archrefid: 1726	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/93744
dc.description	General view, Cathedral of the Sign; The monastic quarters (Varvarka, 8), which stand by the monastery's main entrance, date from the 1670s. The centre of the complex is the Palace of the Romanov Boyars (Varvarka, 10), built at the turn of the 16th Century by Mikhail's grandfather, Nikita Romanov Zakharyin-Yuryev. It now houses a museum showing the lifestyle of Moscow's medieval nobility. The monastery's name, which translates as the Monastery of the Sign, refers to a famous icon, The Sign of the Sacred Virgin, painted in Novgorod in the early 16th Century, which had become a sort of spiritual heirloom for the Romanov family. The monastery also became the home of the first printed bible in Moscow. The Cathedral of the Sign, a large brown-brick church topped with four green domes around a central circular one, was erected in 1684, although it bears a strong resemblance to the earlier cathedrals in the Kremlin. Source: Moscow Info [website]; http://www.moscow.info/ (accessed 6/23/2009)	en_US
dc.format.medium	brick; stucco; gilding	en_US
dc.rights	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.	en_US
dc.subject	architectural exteriors	en_US
dc.subject	Romanov, House of	en_US
dc.subject	Seventeenth century	en_US
dc.title	Monastery of the Sign	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Znamensky Monastery	en_US
dc.type	image	en_US
dc.rights.access	Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	1A2-R-M-MS-A1	en_US
vra.culturalContext	Russian	en_US
vra.technique	construction (assembling)	en_US
vra.worktype	monastery	en_US
dc.contributor.display	unknown (Russian)	en_US