Housed in Moscow's Andronikov Monastery, the Andrei Rublev Museum of Early Russian Art was established in 1960 to mark the 600th anniversary of the artist's birth. The collection includes 15th-century icons from the school of Rublev, later icons and religious frescoes.
The life of the monk and icon painter Andrei Rublev is as dark and mysterious as the times in which he lived. It is thought that he was born around 1360, beginning as an apprentice in the Byzantine tradition of icon-painting before achieving fame for his own unique style of iconography.
Along with the museum, the monastery's working Spassky Cathedral, thought to be the oldest building in Moscow, is worth visiting as it bears traces of murals believed to have been painted by Rublev himself.