Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery (Николо-Перервинский монастырь in
Russian
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) is the southernmost historical
monastery
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of
Moscow
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. It is dedicated to
Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker. It is situated at south of the district of Pechatniki between the Moscow river and the Lublino railroad classification yard.
The abbey was first mentioned in the city records in 1623, although it is believed that it had existed for more than a century prior to that. Its name (from the Russian verb "to interrupt") is explained by the fact that the
Moskva River
The Moskva (russian: река Москва, Москва-река, ''Moskva-reka'') is a river running through western Russia. It rises about west of Moscow and flows roughly east through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts, passing through centra ...
has repeatedly changed its flow at this place. The abbey began to expand in the mid-17th century and grew especially large at the turn of the century, when
Patriarch Adrian
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According to historian Alexander Avdeyev, the future Patriarch Adrian was ...
made the
cloister
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his summer residence and built the so-called Old
Katholikon
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* The cathedral of a diocese.
* The major church building (temple) of a monastery corre ...
(1696–1700). In 1775, they opened a
theological seminary
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on the premises of the monastery. Its main sources of
income
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were
Sukharev Tower
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,
Iverskaya Chapel
Resurrection Gate ( rus, Воскресенские ворота ''Voskresenskie vorota'', also called Иверские ворота ''Iverskie vorota'', or Iberian Gate) is the only existing gate of the Kitai-gorod in Moscow. It connects the nort ...
and other
skete
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s, attached to it by the