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Andreevsky Monastery

Andreevsky Monastery

The Andreevsky men’s monastery at Plennitsy was endowed in 1648 by Boyar Feodor Rtishchev in honour of the victory of Russian troops in battle over Crimean Tatars at a ford outside Moscow in 1591.

The ford was later named the Crimean Ford. The monastery’s golden age came at the end of the XVII century when a ‘teaching fraternity’ made its home within the monastery’s walls, bringing together the most well-educated monks of the time ‘for the sake of book learning’. The ‘fraternity’ later laid the foundation for a Slavonic, Greek and Latin academy, effectively becoming the first institution of higher education in Russia. After the secularisation of land in 1764, the monastery was closed down and turned into an almshouse. The monastery was returned to the Russian orthodox church in 1991.

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