The Chudov Monastery was a cathedral monastery for men, located in the eastern part of the Moscow Kremlin. Its name derives from the dedication of its main church—to the Miracle of the Archangel Michael in Chonae. According to tradition, the monastery was built on the site of the Golden Horde Khan’s courtyard. Thanks to the prayers of Saint Alexius, Taidula, the wife of Khan Janibek, was cured of blindness there. In gratitude, Taidula gifted Alexius the courtyard where the monastery was erected. In 1917, during the October Revolution, the monastery was shelled. In 1929, the cathedral dedicated to the Miracle of the Archangel Michael was demolished. Before the demolition, the Kremlin administration invited artist Pavel Korin to dismantle the valuable frescoes, but he did not manage to complete the work. The cathedral was destroyed along with its frescoes. Architect-restorer Pyotr Baranovsky managed to save only the reliquary of Saint Alexius. On the site of the Chudov and Ascension Monasteries, between 1932 and 1934, the Military School of the VTsIK was built. In the 1950s, the building was assigned to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and in 1958, part of it was remodeled into the Kremlin Theater with a capacity of 1,200 seats. In 2009, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the Moscow Kremlin to commemorate the destroyed Chudov Monastery. This commemorative marker is located on the wall of the Kremlin's 14th administrative building.