Ivanovsky Convent

Among the famous nuns were Dosiphea, alleged to be the same person as Princess Tarakanova, and the serial killer Darya Saltykova.

[1] In the 1730s, there were rumors that many nuns took part in khlysty rituals; the mother superior was found guilty and sentenced to die.

The nunnery was closed down and the grounds stood empty until the 1860s,[1] when Mikhail Bykovsky designed a new monastery compound.

The domed katholikon, loosely based on Brunelleschi's works, is connected by covered passageways to other buildings.

The buildings have served a variety of purposes; some are still occupied by the Moscow Oblast archives and a police high school.