Moscow Novodievitchi

Continue talking about Moscow, The Monastery of Novodievitchi was founded at the beginning of XVIth century.
From its foundation, the Monastery of Novodievitchi includes a cemetery where they traditionally buries the representatives of the religious and feudal aristocracy of Moscow, then starting from XIXth century, intellectuals and great merchants. In the necropolis, the tombs of Gogol, Tchekov, Maïakovski, Prokofiev, Eisenstein, Khrouchtchev are preserved.It is in this monastery that Boris Godounov was proclaimed Tsar, in 1598 and that Peter the Great made lock up his Eudoxia wife and his Sofia sister, in 1689. Napoleon took over the convent in 1812 (First time I knew the history of Napoleon Bonaparte from the Japan manga that I read titled "Eroica" from Riyoko Ikeda in my childhood time). All the buildings are in Muscovite baroque style with a profusion of white stone elements on red brick walls background.