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The Spasksy Sobor (Savior's Cathedral) is the oldest stone building in Moscow. It was built in 1420-27. Some say that the fresco painter Andrei Rublyov was buried there. The monastery was founded by Metropolitan Alexei to fulfill his promise to do so if saved from a storm on the Black Sea during his visit to Constantinople.

 
   

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