President of the Russian National Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev caresses his daughter while visiting the Spaso-Vlahernsky nunnery outside Moscow.

Soviet era pop-singer Lev Leshchenko is hugged by an unidentified woman while visiting the Spaso-Vlahernsky nunnery outside Moscow.

President of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts Zurab Tsereteli (left) visits the Spaso-Vlahernsky nunnery outside Moscow.

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II visits the Spaso-Vlahernsky nunnery outside Moscow.

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II visits the Spaso-Vlahernsky nunnery outside Moscow.

President of the Russian Art Academy Zurab Tsereteli (left) visited the Spaso-Vlakhernskogo convent that is situated in the Dedenevo village in Dmitrovsky region.

Moscow and All-Russia Patriarch Alexii II (left) and the Merited Master of Sports and 3 times hockey olympic champion Vladiskav Tretyak (right) visited the Spaso-Vlakhernskogo convent that is situated in the Dedenevo village in Dmitrovsky region.

Moscow and All-Russia Patriarch Alexii II (centre) visited the Spaso-Vlakhernskogo convent that is situated in the Dedenevo village in Dmitrovsky region.

Moscow and All-Russia Patriarch Alexii II (left), president of the Russian Plympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev (right) with his wife, head of the Dedenevo administration Svetlana Tyagacheva (centre) visited the Spaso-Vlakhernskogo convent that is situated in the Dedenevo village in Dmitrovsky region.

President of the Russian National Olympic Committee Leonid Tyagachev (left) and his wife Svetlana Tyagacheva (right) held up their grand-children on a visit to the Spaso-Vlakhernsky nunnery.