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Holy-Uspensky Knyaginin Nunnery

Vladimir, Knyaginin Monastyr St, 37a

The Holy-Dormition Knyaginin Female Monastery is situated in Vladimir on Knyaginin Monastery Street, 37A. Founded in 1200. It contains burials of queens Vasya, Yevdokiya and Maria with respective side chapels named Christ's Nativity and Annunciation. In 1923 it was closed; its church was transferred to the museum-reserve in 1958. Today it operates as a female convent of Vladimir diocese celebrating its 825th anniversary in 2025.

Holy-Uspensky Knyaginin Nunnery — Vladimir