Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery (Николо-Перервинский монастырь in
Russian) is the southernmost historical
monastery
A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone ( hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer whic ...
of
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
. It is dedicated to
Saint Nicholas the Miracle-Worker. It is situated at south of the district of Pechatniki between the Moscow river and the Lublino railroad classification yard.
The abbey was first mentioned in the city records in 1623, although it is believed that it had existed for more than a century prior to that. Its name (from the Russian verb "to interrupt") is explained by the fact that the
Moskva River
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has repeatedly changed its flow at this place. The abbey began to expand in the mid-17th century and grew especially large at the turn of the century, when
Patriarch Adrian made the
cloister
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his summer residence and built the so-called Old
Katholikon (1696–1700). In 1775, they opened a
theological seminary
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on the premises of the monastery. Its main sources of
income
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were
Sukharev Tower,
Iverskaya Chapel and other
skete
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s, attached to it by the