Donskoy Monastery

This guide to the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow follows Patriarch Tikhon, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, buried here in 1925 after dying under house arrest. Soviet officials built Moscow's first crematorium in one of the monastery's churches two years later, and for decades believers assumed it had been used on his body. You'll hear about the fire an arsonist set in the small cathedral where he lay, late in Soviet history, and the repairs it forced on the monks. Best heard standing before that cathedral now.