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Shakhovsky or Shakhovskoy , Shakhovskaya , or Shakhovskoye is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia: Urban localitiesShakhovskaya, Moscow Oblast, a work settlement in Shakhovskoy District of Moscow OblastRural localitiesShakhovsky , a settlement in Mosalsky District of Kaluga Oblast Shakhovskoye, Kurkinsky District, Tula Oblast, a village in Ivanovskaya Volost of Kurkinsky District of Tula Oblast Shakhovskoye, Uzlovsky District, Tula Oblast, a selo in Krasnolesskaya Rural Administration of Uzlovsky District of Tula Oblast Shakhovskoye, Ulyanovsk Oblast, a selo in Shakhovsky Rural Okrug of Pavlovsky District of Ulyanovsk Oblast Shakhovskaya...
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  • 1. Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery Zvenigorod
    The Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery dedicated to the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. It is the preeminent landmark of Zvenigorod, a town 48 km west of Moscow. In 1398, Prince Yuri of Zvenigorod asked Savva, or Sabbas, one of the first disciples of Sergius of Radonezh, to come to his capital city and set up a monastic abode on the Storozhi Holm . St. Savva of Storozhi was interred in the white stone cathedral of the Virgin's Nativity in 1407. This diminutive, roughly hewn church still stands, although its present-day exquisite look is the result of a 1970s restoration campaign. The frescoes in the altar date back to the 1420s, but the rest of the interior was painted in 1656. A magnificent iconostasis in five tiers and the Stroganov School royal doors ...
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