Annunciation Monastery built on a vow
The Annunciation Monastery on the banks of the Oka River is the oldest in Nizhny Novgorod. It appeared in 1221 at the time of the founding of the city. It existed only 8 years and was burned at the time of the raid of Finno-Ugric tribes. After a hundred years it was revived, but then nature rebelled: wooden monastic buildings were destroyed by a snowfall.
The Annunciation Monastery was revived in the second half of the 14th century by the Moscow Metropolitan Alexis. The legend says that he spent a night near the ruins of the monastery on the way to the Golden Horde. The Metropolitan did not have enough chances to return alive from there. Looking at the ruined monastery he made vow to revive the monastery in case of a successful returning from the khanate capital. Alexis kept his word: the date of the revival of the monastery is 1370. A modern stone cathedral in the Annunciation Monastery was erected in the middle of the 17th century. Later they built the Church of the Assumption and Alexievskaya Church, which complemented the architectural ensemble of the monastery. In the Soviet period the monastery was closed. In the post-war period the Nizhny Novgorod Planetarium was located in the building of the Alexievskaya Church. In 1993 the monastery began to revive. Now one can take a walk through its territory.
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