Rozhdestvensky Convent, or the Convent of Nativity of Theotokos (Russian: Богородице-Рождественский монастырь, romanized: Bogoroditsye-Rozhdestvyenskiy monastyr'), is one of the oldest nunneries in Moscow, located inside the Boulevard Ring, on the left bank of the Neglinnaya River.
[1] The convent was founded in the Moscow Kremlin in 1386, probably by Maria of Rostov, mother of Prince Vladimir the Bold.
[1] Among the ladies of royal blood who took the veil in the convent were Olgierd's daughter Helen and Vasily III's wife Solomonia Saburova.
[1] The convent was moved to its present location in 1484; the small katholikon was erected in the last years of Ivan III's reign.
[1] Upon the closure of the convent, the most revered icons were relocated to the Church of St. Nicholas in Zvonari.