Savva Storozhevsky monastery is located one mile west of Zvenigorod. It was founded by the order of Yuri Dmitrievich in 1398. In the XVI-XVII centuries. He served as the royal monastery of pilgrimage. He enjoyed the special patronage of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. In the 50s of the XVII century the monastery was surrounded by stone walls with towers in it, apart from a few churches were built royal palace and privately body. Later Savva Storozhevsky monastery remained one of the richest and most famous monasteries in Moscow suburbs. But in 1919 it was closed, used a colony for minors, and from 1930 belonged to the military. Since 1947, part of the premises of the monastery holds a museum. Today the monastery is a functioning monastery. Its territory runs historical museum.

Center of the monastery is the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - domed temple, decorated with openwork carving belts. In its interior is preserved fragments of frescoes of the beginning of the XV century, the artists made the circle of Andrei Rublev, and painting the walls and ceiling of the XVII century. The pride of the church - iconostasis of the XVII century.

Next to the red and white of the Trinity Church, which now houses the museum, located Tsarina's Chamber - Palace Maria Miloslavskaya. Hipped front porch decorated with thick columns pitcher. The royal palace (the 1650s) is a huge 11-room chamber, in the rich architecture and decoration of furniture that can be traced Western motives.

The biggest structure is a four-storey building of the monastery refectory with a glacier, a well and a dining chamber. It is significant that in the XVII century the windows were inserted into the glass, not mica, as well as the premises was carried out heating. Rounding out the ensemble of the monastery chetyrehyarusnaya belfry with three tents and watch tower.