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Wikipedia: The Zaikonospassky monastery (Заиконоспасский монастырь in Russian) was a monastery in Kitai-gorod, Moscow, just one block away from the Kremlin. It was founded in 1600 by Boris Godunov. At first called "Saviour the Old", the cloister gradually acquired its present quaint name which alludes to its location and means "the Saviour behind the icon shops".
![[Saviour Cathedral in 1883.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Zaikonospassky_monastery_in_Kitai_gorod_2C_Moscow_s.jpg "Saviour Cathedral in 1883.")
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