[7] The monastery also received donations by Russian Emperors (Ivan IV Vasilyevich) and Wallachian and Moldavian rulers.

In 1594, the Ottomans removed the relics of Saint Sava from the monastery and publicly burned them on Vračar hill in Belgrade, making him thus a posthumous martyr.

Its single nave widens from the west eastward, so that the eastern bay is omitted completely, which results in the three altar apses leaning directly on the domed east wall.

The portraiture deals with bishops (altar space), warrior saints and martyrs (nave), as well as monks (narthex).

Below the resurrection composition on the south wall of the west bay, King Vladislav is depicted as being led to Christ by the Mother of God.

In the second half of the sixteenth century, the church was repainted with a new layer of frescoes of which only fragments of the Last Supper under the dome and the Forty Martyrs in the north choir have survived.

These frescoes were damaged in a fire, but they happened to save (acting like a protective layer) the earlier and more valuable paintings from the 13th century.