This beautiful cathedral is, I believe, the church where some of the action takes place in the film version of John Le Carre's "The Russia House." Sergiev Posad is another of the old Russian cities of the Golden Ring near Moscow, and one of the main pilgrimage sights for Orthodox Russians.
From an old Soviet-era guidebook, I just learned that St. Sergius is buried in another church of this monastery, in a silver sarcophagus that was donated by Ivan the Terrible. On another visit, a guide said that "Terrible" is a mistranslation of the word "grozny," which also means troubled or stressed. Interesting that Grozny is the name of the capital of Chechnya, which has certainly been troubled but has now, from what I have read, been mostly rebuilt.
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