Pokrovsky Nunnery

The Pokrovsky Nunnery in Kyiv, Ukraine, known in full as the Nunnery of the Protection of the Mother of God, is a religious complex, including the Cathedral of St Nicholas, under the control of the Kyiv Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. "Pokrovsky" can be translated as Intercession.

The nunnery was founded in 1889 and developed in the last decade of the 19th century by the Grand Duchess Alexandra of Russia, the estranged wife and later widow of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich.