Exterior view
by ALEVIZ NOVY, Photo
The Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery is a Russian Orthodox monastery in Moscow. It is believed to have been founded in the 1320s by Saint Peter of Moscow, the first Russian metropolitan to move his see in Moscow.
In the 16th-century development of monasteries in Moscow emphasis was placed on the creation of picturesque ensembles, as in the Simonov, Vysoko-Petrovsky and Don monasteries and the Novospassky (New Monastery of the Saviour) and Novodevichy (New Convent of the Virgin; founded 1524) complexes. Sited in the Bely Gorod and Zemlyanoy Gorod, as well as in the suburbs, they formed a virtual ring around parts of Moscow.
The main church (katholikon) of the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery was built by Aleviz Novy in 1514-17. It was one of the first rotundas in Russian architecture.
The photo shows the main church of the monastery.