page_title: Vysokopetrovsky Monastery
section_title: Structures
hierarchical_section_title: Vysokopetrovsky Monastery / Structures
context_page_description: Vysokopetrovsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery in the Bely Gorod area of Moscow, commanding a hill whence Petrovka Street descends towards the Kremlin.
  The monastery is believed to have been founded around the 1320s by Saint Peter of Moscow, the first Russian metropolitan to have his see in Moscow. The cloister gave its name to adjacent Petrovka Street, one of the streets radiating from Red Square.
  In the late 17th century, the Naryshkin boyars, maternal relatives of Peter the Great, turned the monastery into their family burial place. They had it reconstructed in the Naryshkin Baroque style of architecture associated with their name. In the mid-18th century, several subsidiary structures were added, possibly based on designs by Dmitry Ukhtomsky or Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin.
  The katholikon, dedicated to St Peter of Moscow, was long regarded as a typical monument of the Naryshkin style and dated to 1692. In the 1970s, however, detailed studies of written sources and excavations of the site revealed that the katholikon actually had been built in 1514-1517 by Aloisio the New.
  In 1926 the monastery was closed.
context_section_description: Cathedral of St Peter (1517).
  Church of Our Lady of Bogolyubovo (with a refectory) (1687)
  Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh (with a refectory) (1694)
  Church of St. Pachomius the Great above the monastery gates (1755)
  Church of the Tolga icon of the mother of God (1750)
  Church of the Intercession above the monastery gates, with a belltower. (1694)
  Church (former chapel) of Our Lady of Kazan (inside the former gates under the belltower).
caption: The monastery belltower and monastic cells, commissioned by the Naryshkins, were erected in the 1690s.
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