Situated among Moscow's Vorobyovy Hills is the Andreevsky Monastery.  Some believe that the monastery has existed since the 13th century, although it is generally thought to have been founded in 1648 around the pre-existing St Andrey Stratelates' Church from which the monastery gets its name.  The church was built in 1591 in gratitude of Moscow's salvation from Khan Ğazı II Geray of Crimea, but the current version dates from 1675.  Between 1689 and 1703 the Resurrection of Christ Church was built in the Naryshkin baroque style and this was joined by the Bell Tower incorporating St John the Theologian's Church in the mid-18th century.

In 1764 the monastery was dissolved as part of Empress Catherine the Great's secularisation policies and its churches became parish churches.  However in 1923 the Bolsheviks closed the churches and demolished some of the neighbouring buildings of the former monastery.  In 1991 the site was reopened as an podvorye (embassy church) of the Patriarch and then in 2013 as a monastery once more.