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Красивые старые фотографии !

hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novodjevi%C4%8Danski_manastir

Also from wiki above -
The name "New Virgin" was given to it to distinguish it from the women's cloister of the Ascension Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin which was known as the "Old Virgin Monastery" ...

This wiki article is better - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novodevichy_Convent

... In 1922, the Bolsheviks closed down the Novodevichy Convent (the cathedral was the last to be closed, in 1929) and turned it into the Museum of Women's Emancipation. By 1926, the monastery had been transformed into a history and art museum. In 1934, it became affiliated with the State Historical Museum. Most of its facilities were turned into apartments, which spared the convent from destruction. ...

Marvellous historical photo!

Grand Duke Vasily III in May 1524 founded the Great Monastery of the Most Pure Mother of God Hodegetria New Maiden Monastery with a cathedral church in the name of the Smolensk Icon.

The place for the monastery was chosen in the bend of the Moscow River, three versts (it is a little more than 3 kilometres) from the Moscow Kremlin on the Maiden Field....

After the October Revolution in 1917-1918 the Monastery was actually abolished.

In 1994 the monastic community was renewed.

The architectural ensemble of the monastery, formed in the XVI-XVII centuries, has not undergone significant changes since then. As an exceptionally well-preserved example of the Moscow Baroque, it is protected by UNESCO and declared a treasure of all mankind.

The monastery is jointly administered by the Russian Orthodox Church and the State Historical Museum. Since 2010, the Church Museum of the Moscow Diocese has been operating here.

From the DIB article on Rosamond Jacob: In 1931, as Irish delegate for the Friends of the Soviet Union, she travelled to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and reported favourably on conditions there, in lectures in Dublin.

"Sergey Semyonovich Zorin (1891–1937), was the party's First Secretary of the Leningrad City Committee roughly equating to that of mayor. He held the position between November 1919 and February 1921. As such, he hosted the 2nd World Congress of the Comintern." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Zorin

This photo is in the 'Album of Revolutionary Russia' www.marxists.org/history/ussr/art/photography/album/Rev-R... The caption says that Zorin was President of the Petrograd Revolutionary Tribunal.

Thanks Art Siegel and B-59 for finding the related image in the "Album of Revolutionary Russia." We will add more details when we update.

Solovetsky Islands are home to Solovetsky Monastery as well as the site of the first Soviet gulag. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solovetsky_Islands