Travelogues; . ^ stands out with appreciable relief—the vast squareenceinte of a convent on the left. It is the Novo DevitchyMonastyr, or New Convent of the Virgins. Founded in i 524,the convent has known many royal inmates — one, a Tsarinawho voluntarily cloistered herself within its walls ; one,the ambitious sister of Peter the Great, who was imprisonedthere, and from her windows saw the execution of the Strelitz. NOVO DEVITCHY CONVENT MOSCOW 145

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