Fireworks explode behind the Novodevichy monastery amid Defender of the Fatherland Day celebrations, in Moscow.

The construction of a branch of the History Museum next to the Novodevichy Monastery is part of celebrating its anniversary, which entails grand-scale work inside the monastery: restoration, research, ...

Russia between 1598 and 1605, an immensely turbulent time following the end of the Rurik dynasty and preceding the emergence of the Romanov dynasty. Boris Godunov has retreated to the Novodevichy ...

And while the production didn't exactly fly by, it flowed elegantly as a piece, from Boris's retreat to the Novodevichy Monastery at the start to the czar's death in Scene VII.

Alfred Schnittke, 63, one of Russia’s greatest post-war composers whose work ranged from film scores to opera, has died in Hamburg, Germany, the Moscow branch of the composers union said on M… ...

Here are some of the most striking images taken from around the world over the past week. A boy has fun on a snow tube near the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow, Russia, on Jan 2, 2021. [Photo ...

People enjoy their time near the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow, Russia, on Jan. 2, 2021. (Photo by Maxim Chernavsky/Xinhua) A girl slides down a slope near the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow ...