ALEXANDER NEVSKY MONASTERY, Alexander Nevsky Monastery

Hi, my name’s Jill, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

The Alexander Nevsky Monastery complex comprises some of the oldest buildings in the city, as well as four cemeteries, two of which contain the graves of many of the major names in Russian culture, such as Tchaikovsky and Dostoevsky.

The monastery was founded in 1710 at the behest of Tsar Peter the Great, who named it after Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir, a Russian saint and national hero.

Following the construction of the original wooden church, the Church of the Annunciation, designed by the Italian architect Domenico Trezzini, was consecrated in 1724. It was then that Peter the Great had the relics of the saint, Alexander Nevsky, which had been kept in Vladimir since his death in 1263, transferred to the monastery....