Pokrovsky Convent
The Pokrovsky Convent founded in 1364 is known to be the place where during the 16th-17th centuries more than twenty aristocratic women were cloistered, including the spouses of Vasily the Third, Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great.
According to the legend of the Reverend Euthimius of Suzdal, the Pokrovsky nunnery was founded by the Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod Prince Andrey Konstantinovich in 1363–1364.
The highest rise of the convent relates to the name of Vasily the Third who donated a large amount of money to the convent in the early 16th century that was later used to build the now surviving Pokrovsky Cathedral and the Holy Gates, as well as the cells, which apparently have not survived, and the enclosing wall. One of the first convent prisoners was Solomonia Saburova, Vasily the Third's wife, who was accused of infertility and admitted to the veil in 1525 as Nun Sofia.