St. John's Convent (Ivanovsky Monastyr)

St. John's Convent (Ivanovsky Monastyr) Review

This convent, which was built in the 16th century and restored in the 19th century, was used as a prison in the Stalinist era and was in shambles for many years after that. The convent is open for services. Among the noblewomen who were forced to take the veil here were Empress Elizabeth's illegitimate daughter, Princess Augusta Tarakanova, and the countess Dariya Saltykova, who was imprisoned here after she murdered 138 of her serfs, most of them young women.