Monastery of the Sign
unknown (Russian)
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Alternative Title
Znamensky Monastery
Date
1684Description
View looking up, 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)
Type of Work
monasterySubject
architectural exteriors, Romanov, House of, Seventeenth century
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