Graves in the cemetery of the Novodevichy New Maidens Convent Moscow Russia Standing on the bank of the Moskva River the convent was founded in in commemoration of the conquest of Smolensk in The Bolsheviks closed the convent in and converted it into a museum but in after the fall of the Soviet Union nuns returned Found in the collection of the Russian State Film and Photo Archive Krasnogorsk
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