Donskoy

MOSCOW - AUGUST 05: The body of Russian dissident writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn lies in the Donskoy Monastery on August 05, 2008 in Moscow, Russia.

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MOSCOW - AUGUST 05: The body of Russian dissident writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn lies in the Donskoy Monastery on August 05, 2008 in Moscow, Russia.

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MOSCOW - AUGUST 05: The body of Russian dissident writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn lies at the Donskoy Monastery on August 05, 2008 in Moscow, Russia.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (L) and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's son Yermolai (R) take part in the funeral of the famous Russian author, Soviet dissident and Nobel literature prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Donskoy Monastery in Moscow, Russia on August 6, 2008.

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Andrew Higgins Moscow's Donskoy Monastery, founded in the late 16th century to commemorate a victory over Muslim Tartar invaders, was closed by the communists and converted into a museum of atheism.

Church and State 2007

Andrew Higgins Patriarch Tikhon, shown left in a post-communist wall painting at Donskoy Monastery, took charge of the church in 1917, the year of Russia's communist revolution.

Church and State 2007

The plaintiff declared on a mutual agreement between himself and the defendant that he would sell, and the defendant would buy, certain Donskoy wool, to be shipped by the plaintiff at Odessa, and delivered in

The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

The first excursion our friends made the next morning was to the Donskoy

Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

To the south, on a plain near the banks of the river, rose high above other buildings the red towers and walls of the Donskoy Convent, several other convents, carefully painted of different colours, being scattered about.

Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

"Now we can proudly say we have sex in Russia; many people still want and need to be instructed about it," Donskoy said.

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