Well, it wasn't actually a monastery. My mistake. At one end there is a church dating to the 17th century, and the low, white buildings circling the large quad made up the Tsar's residence. Peter the Great lived here when he was young. The church and residence are on a man-made island in the middle of Silver Pond in the Izmailovo district. I'm not sure how people made islands back then. That would be interesting to find out. But for the historically minded, Peter the Great supposedly found an English sailboat on the island and paddled around the pond on it, which inspired him to establish the Russian navy.
A friend of ours has his office in a reconstructed wing of the old residence and he invited us to a birthday picnic for his son.
The grilled meat, eggplants and tomatoes were wonderful. After we ate, Zig and I took a walk around the island and found an exhibition of glazed tiles from the 17th and 18th centuries.
So here are the pictures:
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