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The fourteenth-century Andronikov Monastery is situated on the steep east bank of the Yauza. Its most famous monk was the great icon painter Andrei Rublev who was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1989. In the centre of the monastery stands Moscow's oldest architectural monument, the Church of the Saviour (1420s) with wall paintings by Rublev himself (closed for restoration at the time of writing), and which now houses the Andrei Rublev Museum of Old Russian Art and Culture (Andronyevskaya pl. 10; Ploshchad Ilyicha metro; Mon, Tues & Thurs-Sun 11am-6pm; $4) containing icons and liturgical utensils. The most famous icons may be in the Tretyakov, but the atmosphere here is something else - you retire from the noise and bustle of the city and enter a peaceful, serene land. Even the fact that until the 1950s the church housed the archive of the Ministry of State Security could do nothing to destroy its romance. Rublev is buried in the grounds.
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