Zvenigorod

As my Saturday class was cancelled I went on a little trip to Zvenigorod which is about an hour and a half from Moscow. Outside the town is the monastery of St. Savva Storozhevskii who was a disciple of St. Sergei of Radonezh. On the way to the monastery there is a spring and a little church with mosaics which Andrei Rubloff painted but unfortunately only a few indistinct outlines remain. This is also where his icon of the Saviour which is now in the Tretyakov Gallery was found.

The spring:





View of the monastery from sometime in the late 1800's:

St. Savva:



















Even in Russia they like to park old cars in their yards:







One of the houses at the local Sanitarium: