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The '''Andronikov Monastery''' (Russian: Андро́ников монасты́рь, Спа́со-Андро́ников монасты́рь, or Андро́ников Нерукотво́рного Спа́са монасты́рь), located on the left (eastern) bank of the Yauza River, is one of several fortress-monasteries on the southeastern outskirts of Moscow, Russia. The monastery's most famous [[monk]] was the great fourteenth century [[icon]] painter, Andrei Rublev who was buried in the [[monastery]] [[crypt]].

Various restoration efforts were started at the monastery after World War II. In 1947, the cemetery of the monastery was designated a national monument. In 1949, in accordance with a proposal by the Academician Igor Graber, a museum of old Russian paintings was begun on the monastery ground. Restoration was ed by D. I. Arsenishvili, who virtually lived in the vestibule of the church while work was ongoing. In 1960, the Andrei Rublev Central Museum of Ancient Russian Culture and Art was opened, in honor of the 600th anniversary of his birth. While the museum does not contain any of Rublev’s works,it does a collection of fifteenth century works of the Rublev School.

While old records note that St. Andrei was buried in the cathedral, the location of the grave has been lost long ago. Thus, the myth of it being lost after the Bolshevik revolution is just that, a myth. At the end of the eighteenth century was the time a slab of his tomb was seen. Records noted that his grave may have been buried under the bell tower that was built at the start of the nineteenth century, the tower that was destroyed in the 1930s.<ref>[http://www.pravoslavie.ru/jurnal/culture/spaso-andronikov.htm Spaso-Andronikov Monastery (In Russian)]</ref>

==Sources==

*[http://www.moscow-taxi.com/churches/andronikov-monastery.html Andronikov Monastery]

*[http://www.sacred-destinations.com/russia/moscow-andronik-monastery.htm Andronikov Monastery]