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Today in History, Nov. 28

By The Moscow Times
The Chudov Monastery at the end of the 19th Century. Karl Andreyevich Fischer

648 years ago today, on Nov. 28, 1365, construction of the Chudov Monastery, dedicated to the miracle of Archangel Michael at Chonae, was finished. The monastery was built in the Moscow Kremlin, but was dismantled in 1929.

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