Ascension Convent
Ruins · Russia
- Abandoned
- 1929
- Founded
- 1386
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 55.752, 37.620
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: It was destroyed in 1929 on the orders of Joseph Stalin.
History
Ascension Convent, known as the Starodevichy Convent or Old Maidens' Convent until 1817, was a Russian Orthodox nunnery in the Moscow Kremlin which contained the burials of grand princesses, tsarinas, and other noble ladies from the Muscovite royal court. It was destroyed in 1929 on the orders of Joseph Stalin.