Novospassky Monastery
Fortified Orthodox monastery and ancestral burial vault of the family that founded a tsarist dynasty.
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This guide to Novospassky Monastery in Moscow opens in nineteen ninety, when construction workers inside the Kremlin broke into a sealed, unrecorded vault. It traces the vault back to Sergei Alexandrovich, uncle to the last tsar and governor of Moscow, and to the February afternoon in nineteen oh five when a revolutionary threw a bomb into his carriage. His remains were first buried at the Kremlin's Chudov Monastery, before the Bolsheviks tore that monastery down in nineteen twenty-eight. Listen for the detail of his own coachman, who lingered three days before he too died of his wounds.
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