Stock Photo Description: Novodevichy Convent (aka Bogoroditse-Smolensky Monastery or New Maiden's Monastery). Founded in 1524 by Grand Prince Vasili III (in commemoration of the conquest of Smolensky in 1514) and has had varios known ladies from Royal Families and Boyar Clans, forced to take the veil there as Irina Godunova (wife of Feodor I who was there with her brother Boris Godunov), or the sister and first wife of Tsar Peter the Great (Sophia Alekseyevna and Eudoxia Lopukhina, respectively), among others. The Monastery remains virtually intact since the 17th century and was added to the Unesco's World Heritage List in 2004. Moscow. Russia
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Stock Photograph of Novodevichy Convent. Moscow. Russia
