Holy Cross Jerusalem Stauropegial convent
Opened on June 29, 1887 in the village of Lukino, Podolsk region. On September 20 of the same year, the consecration of the expanded temple in the name of the Exaltation of the Honest and Life-giving Cross The Lord's. After the reconstruction, the temple began to accommodate not 50, but 500 people; the ancient iconostasis was restored in it, and luxurious vestments were arranged for the holy altar and altar. In the first decades of the 20th century, 2 more churches were built on the territory of the monastery: the Jerusalem Icon Mother of God and the Ascension Cathedral, as well as a large orchard, an apiary and a pharmacy herb garden. A shelter for girls, a parochial school, a hospital and a pharmacy were opened at the monastery.

The architecture of the complex at the end of the 19th and 20th centuries combines eclectic and false Russian style motifs. The monastery occupies the site of the former Golovin estate, from which a rebuilt house church remains. The monastery territory is divided into three functional parts: the front courtyard, the courtyard with services, and the park with the former manor church.

Center architectural ensemble- Ascension Cathedral, its powerful chapters are clearly visible from long distances. Red brick, with white stone details, it was built according to the design of S.V. Krygin from 1890 -1893. The four-pillar, five-domed cathedral on a high semi-basement, without apses, is monumental and festive. Its external decoration consists of inter-tier arcatures and brick patterns covering the drums, the top of the blades and semi-circular zakomaras.

Immediately after the revolution, persecution began against the monastery, and in 1921 it was closed, the maple park was destroyed, and the orchard was cut down. In churches and monastery buildings in different times a tobacco factory, a sanatorium, etc. were located.

In 1937, the priest of the monastery, Kosma Korotkikh, was shot at the Butovo training ground. Soon the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, the last church where services continued after the closure of the monastery, was closed. Miraculously managed to save miraculous icon Mother of God of Jerusalem, secretly taken from the monastery to the nearest village of Myachkovo.

In 1992, the Holy Cross Monastery of Jerusalem was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is directly under the patriarchal care, therefore it is called stauropegial. In July 2001, nun Ekaterina (Chainikova) was appointed abbess of the monastery.

On the territory of the monastery there are preserved:
* Cathedral
* Residential building
* Church of the Exaltation
* Guest outbuilding
* Red body
* "Vasilievsky" building
* Cellar
* Travel gates
* Fortress walls and fence towers
* New house of the abbess
* Building with refectory

On October 25, 2001, the great consecration of the temple in honor of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God took place. The main shrine of the monastery - the miraculous icon - took its place worthy place.
On October 25, 2002, the consecration of the Holy Cross Church took place, which was performed by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' in the concelebration of bishops and clergy. Mother Catherine was elevated to the rank of abbess. And trustees V.L. Nusenkis and L.D. Olishchuk received high church awards from His Holiness for their great contribution to the restoration and decoration of the monastery.

The monastery was located in Moscow, in the White City, on Vozdvizhenka Street. Abolished in 1814.

The original name was the Monastery of the Exaltation of the Honest Life-Giving Cross of the Lord, which is on the Island. It is believed that in the 14th century, on the site of the future monastery, there was a small forest among the fields, and this is where the old Moscow name came from.

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Construction

The Resurrection Chronicle reports that in 1540 the miraculous icons of the Mother of God and the Exaltation were brought to Moscow from Rzhev. They were met by the future Tsar Ivan the Terrible and Metropolitan Joasaph, and a wooden temple was erected in memory of this event.

The Exaltation of the Cross Monastery was first mentioned in the chronicle in 1547 in connection with a terrible fire that broke out precisely from the Exaltation Church of the monastery.

As they say in the chronicle and life of St. Basil, he came to the Monastery of the Exaltation Holy Cross, on the Island, and began to cry heavily here. On that day, Moscow did not understand what the Blessed One was crying about, but in the morning the reason for his tears was revealed: on June 21, a wooden church in the Vozdvizhensky Monastery caught fire, and the fire, intensified by the wind, began to quickly spread throughout the city. The fire predicted by the Blessed One was terrible: all of Zaneglimenye, Veliky Posad, Old and New city, “not only the village buildings, but the stone itself has disintegrated, and the iron has spilled, and many stone churches and chambers have all burned out.”

In 1550, after a fire, they erected new church.

Nikolai Naidenov, CC BY-SA 3.0

By 1701, the church had fallen into disrepair and Abbot Macarius submitted a petition to build a new one.

In 1810, a new archimandrite Gennady (Shumov) was appointed to the Moscow Holy Cross Monastery, but he soon died before the invasion of French troops into Russia. This share fell on the shoulders of his successor, Archimandrite Parthenius.

In 1812, before the enemy invasion, Archimandrite Parfeniy of the Holy Cross Monastery took the sacristy to Vologda, and the staff covered the monastery gates with earth. The enemy beat off the gates and doors of churches with logs, fatally beat the treasurer and monks, trying to find out where the property was hidden. After opening the floors, they found what was hidden. In the lower church there were horses, nails were driven into the iconostasis for hanging harnesses, there were beds in the altar; the throne, the altar and several icons were burned instead of firewood. The monastery was lined with wagons filled with provisions.

In 1812, according to some sources, the monastery suffered almost no damage, but according to others, it suffered so much that because of this it was abolished. What is certain is that it was plundered by the invaders.

After the abolition of the monastery in 1814 after the invasion of Napoleon, the cathedral church of the monastery became an ordinary Moscow parish church.

In 1820, on the territory former monastery houses were built for the families of the clergy of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.

In 1848 - 1849, the architect P. P. Burenin built a 6-tier bell tower.

In 1899, a burial from 1538 was found on the territory of the former monastery.

Cathedral Church

The construction of the temple began in 1701, but its completion was delayed due to the ban on stone construction in Moscow by order of Peter I. By 1711, the lower Church of the Assumption was consecrated, and the main one, Vozdvizhenskaya, was finished only in 1726. It was one of the last buildings of the “Moscow Baroque”, and within the central part of the city it was the only centric temple with a petal plan, which was also unusually developed. This decision became possible because the temple was placed in the middle of a relatively spacious monastery courtyard and the author was free to choose the composition. Perhaps the completion was planned differently, but the construction was completed almost a quarter of a century after its foundation, at a time when a different style was dominant.

There were 2 main altars in the temple and 4 in the side chapels:

• The main altar (consecrated on September 14, 1728) was located at the top with side chapels St. Sergius(1858) and the Great Martyr Paraskeva (1858). The murals of the upper temple dated to the end of the 18th century.

• Below was the throne of the Assumption Holy Mother of God(consecrated on September 10, 1711) with the chapels of Mary Magdalene (1785) and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1848). The chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was consecrated in memory of the Church of St. Nicholas in Sapozhka, abolished in 1838. Icons and utensils from the abolished church were transferred to the Church of the Exaltation. In the lower Assumption Church, the iconostasis was built in 1836, the coffered vaults were completed in 1785.

The great Russian satirist Saltykov-Shchedrin was married in the church, and State Chancellor M.I. Vorontsov was buried.

Shrines

Destruction

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Shrines

In the main iconostasis of the mid-18th century, a few images from the 1680 iconostasis of the Kremlin Church of the Twelve Apostles, transferred during its alteration in 1723, were preserved, as well as more ancient icons from the same place, such as “Our Lady in Prayer of the Apostle Philip and Metropolitan Philip” (1655).

Destruction

The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross was closed no earlier than 1929 and demolished in 1934.

Priest of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, Fr. Alexander Sidorov was arrested in 1931 and died in a concentration camp in Kemi.

A Metrostroy mine was built on the site of the church. During the construction of the mine in the 1930s, a layer of river sand an cubit thick was discovered, which was mentioned by the oprichnik Heinrich Staden in the story about the construction of the oprichnina courtyard.

Until the winter of 1979, the monastery gates that stood along Kalinin Avenue were still preserved. In the spring, during the hasty construction of the crossing, they were also demolished; and when digging the tunnel it was opened cultural layer with ancient coffins, old foundations, remains of things - all this was shoveled into a heap with an excavator without examination and taken to a landfill.

In 1935, Vozdvizhenka was first renamed into Comintern Street (after the building located on it, where the Comintern worked in the first years after the revolution), in 1946 - into Kalinin Street, in 1963 it became part of Kalininsky Prospekt.

Contents of the sign to the right of the entrance to the temple: “On October 25, 2002, the Temple was consecrated by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus'. The Church of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord was built in 1846 by landowner Alexandra Petrovna Golovina on the site wooden temple The All-Merciful Savior, dismantled in 1834. During the years of persecution of the church, the temple was closed, desecrated and desecrated. Returned to the church in 1992. The temple was restored by the Russian Foundation for Architectural Heritage named after St. Andrei Rublev and with donations from Russian people."

Monastery in honor of the Exaltation of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord Jerusalem Stavropegial Women's Monastery (Krestovozdvizhensky Jerusalem Monastery). Date of establishment: 1865 Founded as the Holy Cross Jerusalem Frolo-Lavra Convent. The beginning of the monastery was laid by a women's almshouse (which existed at the Floro-Lavra Church in the village of Staraya Yama since 1837; in 1856 it was renamed into a prayer almshouse), transformed into a women's community (1865) and transferred to the place where the monastery is now located . In 1870 (1887?) The community, which bore the name Frolo-Lavra, was elevated to the level of a monastery with a staff of abbess, treasurer, 28 nuns and a corresponding number of novices.

There were three churches in the monastery: in honor of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God, donated to the Floro-Lavra community by Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow in 1855; in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the Ascension Cathedral, consecrated in 1896. Closed in the early 1920s, the monastery was transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate in March 1992 for revival monastic service to the cause of mercy and charity. The nun Thomaida was appointed abbess of the monastery.

Holy Cross Monastery was opened on June 29, 1887 in the village of Lukino, Podolsk region. On September 20 of the same year, the consecration of the expanded church in the name of the Exaltation of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord took place. After the reconstruction, the temple began to accommodate not 50, but 500 people; the ancient iconostasis was restored in it, and luxurious vestments were arranged for the holy altar and altar. In the first decades of the 20th century, 2 more churches were built on the territory of the monastery: the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God and the Ascension Cathedral, as well as a large orchard, an apiary and a pharmacy garden with herbs. A shelter for girls, a parochial school, a hospital and a pharmacy were opened at the monastery.

Architecture of the complex at the end of the 19th-20th centuries. combines motifs of eclecticism and false Russian style. The monastery occupies the site of the former Golovin estate, from which a rebuilt house church remains. The monastery territory is divided into three functional parts: the front courtyard, the courtyard with services, and the park with the former manor church. The center of the architectural ensemble is the Ascension Cathedral, its powerful chapters are clearly visible from long distances. Red brick, with white stone details, it was built according to the design of S.V. Krygina from 1890-1893. The four-pillar, five-domed cathedral on a high semi-basement, without apses, is monumental and festive. Its external decoration consists of inter-tier arcatures and brick patterns covering the drums, the top of the blades and semi-circular zakomaras. Immediately after the revolution, persecution began against the monastery, and in 1921 it was closed, the maple park was destroyed, and the orchard was cut down. At various times, the churches and buildings of the monastery housed a tobacco factory, a sanatorium, etc. In 1937, the priest of the monastery, Kosma Korotkikh, was shot at the Butovo training ground. Soon the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, the last church where services continued after the closure of the monastery, was closed. Miraculously, they managed to save the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Jerusalem, which had been secretly taken from the monastery to the nearest village of Myachkovo.

In 1992, the Holy Cross Monastery in Jerusalem was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery is directly under the patriarchal care, therefore it is called stauropegial. In July 2001, nun Ekaterina (Chainikova) was appointed abbess of the monastery. On October 25, 2001, the great consecration of the temple in honor of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God took place. The main shrine of the monastery - the miraculous icon - took its rightful place. Temples: Cathedral in honor of the Ascension of the Lord, date of construction - 1896 Temple in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God "Jerusalem" (Jerusalem Temple), date of construction - 1873 Church in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross), date of construction - 1846 .

On October 25, 2002, the consecration of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross took place, which was performed by His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II in the co-service of bishops and clergy. Mother Catherine was elevated to the rank of abbess. And trustees V.L. Nusenkis and L.D. Olishchuk received high church awards from His Holiness for their great contribution to the restoration and decoration of the monastery.

Holy Cross Monastery of Jerusalem, 2nd class, dormitory, 17 versts from the city of Podolsk, near the village of Lukin, Founded in 1887 from the Floro-Lavra Monastery that existed since 1865 women's community. In 1896, a new cathedral church in the name of the Ascension of the Lord was consecrated. The monastery houses the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God - a gift and blessing to the monastery from Metropolitan Philaret. At the monastery there is a school, an orphanage, an icon-painting workshop, an almshouse and a hospital.

From the book by S.V. Bulgakov “Russian monasteries in 1913”

In one of the most picturesque places in the Domodedovo district is the Holy Cross Jerusalem Stavropegic Convent. The history of the monastery begins back in 1837, when in the village of Stary Yam, Podolsk district, at the church in the name of the holy martyrs Florus and Laurus, a small almshouse for women began to operate. How did the almshouse become a monastery? A certain holy fool named Ivan Stepanovich played a decisive role in this. At the age of 34, he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius to the holy relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh, after which he quit his job as a cab driver and took upon himself the feat of foolishness, completely devoting his life to serving God. At any time of the year, half-naked and barefoot, Ivan Stepanovich walked around the holy places and monasteries of Russia. Everyone revered him as blessed. One day he came to the widow of a rich Muscovite, Paraskeva Rodionovna Savatyugina, and asked for money to organize the reading of the Undying Psalter in an almshouse. She did not refuse, and soon, on the advice of Ivan Stepanovich, she herself became one of the sisters of the almshouse, deciding to also devote her life to serving God. The woman became the first donor to the future monastery. With her money, a two-story stone house for nuns was built, which was consecrated by Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow himself, who had a special affection for the holy fool Ivan Stepanovich. Filaret donated the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God to the almshouse, which became the main shrine of the future monastery. According to legend, having visited Old Yam some time later, the bishop exclaimed: “This is not an almshouse, but a monastery!”

The year was 1860. Less than five years had passed since the Floro-Lavra women's community was founded, the head of which was Paraskeva Rodionovna Savatyugina, and the spiritual leader of the sisters was Ivan Stepanovich. A few years later, the comfortable house where the sisters lived was moved from the village of Stary Yam to the village of Lukino, where not long before it had been built stone temple in the name of the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord. Soon the community began to be called Holy Cross. In 1871, another temple was founded here in honor of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God. It was attached to the refectory building and a miraculous icon was placed here. And three years later, when the temple was completed, the first tonsure was performed here - Paraskeva Rodionovna accepted monasticism with the name of Paul. Soon there were already about a hundred sisters in the monastery, and in 1887 the Holy Synod decided to transform the community into the Holy Cross Monastery of Jerusalem.

In 1890, under Abbess Evgenia, construction began on the grandiose cathedral church in honor of the Ascension of the Lord, which we can see today. The height of the cathedral reaches 38 meters. Even earlier, a very beautiful bell tower with 10 bells was built at the western gate, the largest of which weighed more than three hundred pounds. The bell tower, alas, was destroyed in the years Soviet power. At the same time, the Bolsheviks nationalized the entire monastery economy, placing street children here. The nuns were assigned to work at the local state farm. In the spring of 1924, the temple was converted into a village club. Divine services continued for several more years in the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, where the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God was transferred, but in 1937 this temple was closed, and the priest Kozma Korotkikh was shot at the Butovo training ground. For a long time, a sanatorium was located in the premises of the former monastery.

In 1992, the monastery was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church, and services were resumed in the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross. Ten years later, nun Ekaterina (Chainikova) became the abbess of the monastery. The temple of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God was restored, and the miraculous image returned to its historical place from the temple in the village of Verkhneye Myachkovo, where it remained all this time in the local active church. The craftsmen completely restored the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, painted it inside and decorated it with a majestic iconostasis. In 2006, the monastery opened a Moscow courtyard in the Church of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God behind the Intercession Gate.

Magazine " Orthodox Temples. Travel to Holy Places". Issue No. 247, 2017.

Next to the villages of Churilkovo, Shestovo, Kuprianikha, Kotlyakovo is the village of Lukino, located on the left bank of the river. Pakhra.

In the scribe book for 1627-1629. there is a record about the village of Lukino, which was located in the Terekhov camp of the Tukhachev volost: “Behind Ivan Ivanov’s son Esipov, what was formerly behind Ivan and Istoma Sanbulov, what was after his brother Boris Esipov, the village of Lukino, on the hill, near the Pakhra river , and in it there is a landowner’s courtyard, a peasant’s courtyard and a bobyl’s courtyard...” In 1687, the Esipovs sold their estate to F.G. Khrushchev, who belonged to the oldest noble family, many of whose representatives served as governors, stewards, solicitors, and city nobles. Fyodor Grigorievich was granted a Duma nobleman in 1682. Under Khrushchev's son Fyodor in 1717-1719. in the village of Lukino, with the blessing of His Grace Metropolitan Stefan of Ryazan and Murom, a wooden Spassky Church was built. To build the church, landowner F.F. Khrushchev allocated land with hay fields from his estate. After the death of Fedor Fedorovich s. Since 1734, Lukino belonged to his son Andrei, who served as an adviser to the Admiralty office. He was part of the circle of closest “confidants” of the Cabinet Minister A.P. Volynsky. In 1740, he was accused of trying to organize a conspiracy against Empress Anna Ioannovna, arrested along with other “confidants” and executed. After his death, the estate passed to his widow Anna Alexandrovna with her children Nikolai, Ivan, Marya and Elizaveta. Later c. Lukino belonged to captain N.I. Golovin - cousin of Gavrila Pavlovich Golovin, known as the founder of the Spaso-Vlaherna Monastery.

In 1830, the wooden church of the village of Lukino was destroyed due to disrepair and all church utensils and icons were transferred to the church of the neighboring village. Kolycheva. N.I. Golovin, instead of the dismantled church in 1848, built a stone church on his estate in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. After the death of Nikolai Ivanovich, the estate with forests and all the land in the amount of about 300 acres passed to his widow Alexandra Petrovna. By this time A.P. Golovin was left alone, because... her husband and their only daughter died and were buried at the altar of the Church of the Exaltation. Being a pious woman, she transferred to the Catherine Hermitage free of charge, into her own possession, all her Lukinsky estate, leaving herself only the right to use the master's manor house until her death. This gift is for the benefit monastery was approved by the emperor. But subsequently, some misunderstandings occurred between the former owner of the estate and the new owners, in particular the abbot of the monastery, and she was forced in 1867 to turn to Metropolitan Philaret with a request “whether it is not possible to revoke the Lukinskoe estate from the desert and transfer it to the Floro-Lavra women’s church, which is in great need.” community", which was located in the village. Staro-Florovsky Yam. With the great participation of the Bishop, the wish of the owner of the Lukino estate was fulfilled, and according to the Decree of the Moscow Spiritual Consistory of August 28, 1869 No. 5016, the estate with all buildings, lands and other lands was removed from the Catherine Hermitage and transferred to the Floro-Lavra women's community, of which she was the abbess. Praskovya Rodionovna Savatyugina. Setting up in a new place required a lot of effort and effort, and there was also the material side. Therefore, at the request of the abbess, the diocesan authorities approved her nephew, the Moscow merchant Yegor Fedorovich Savatyugin, as trustee of the community. With his help, a two-story building of sisters was moved from the village of Stary Yam to the village of Lukino, horse and cattle yards with premises for workers, houses for the clergy and abbess, a small hotel building were built, and an extensive orchard was planted.

The old Vozdvizhensky Church, built by the owners of the estate of the village of Lukino, was too small for the sisters, so in 1871 they began to build a new one in honor of the Mother of God of Jerusalem, which was added to the main sister building. The church was open at all times. On September 30, 1873, His Grace Leonid consecrated the temple in honor of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God, and at the end of October of the same year the laying of the bell tower and stone fence took place. The life of the community began to improve and became more and more like a monastery. Gradually, interest in the community from those around increased, the desire to pray in the temple increased every year, so there was a need to build a new spacious church for pilgrims. However, first, in 1882, with the funds and help of a peasant from the neighboring village of Shestov, Sergei Tikhonovich Sorokin, and other benefactors, they began the construction of an extensive refectory for the Church of the Exaltation, but due to the death of S.T. Sorokin's construction was suspended for three years until a new donor was found - Moscow merchant Dmitry Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov, who completed the building that had begun.

If in the first half of the nineteenth century. The initiative in the development of charity belonged, first of all, to the nobility, but after the abolition of serfdom it became an important sphere of social behavior of the merchants and other persons associated with entrepreneurship. Moreover, starting from the second quarter of the 19th century, charity became their family tradition. Moscow occupied a special place in terms of the volume of voluntary donations from citizens for the needs of education, healthcare, public charity, etc. The history of the Holy Cross Monastery is proof of this. So, with the assistance of Moscow honorary citizen M.Ya. Meshcherina, neighbors on her estate with the community, set up a parochial school with a shelter for six orphan girls and a hospital for five beds with a small first aid kit. In 1888, through the diligence of the same M.Ya. Meshcherina opened an almshouse for infirm old women from among the sisters; in June, part of the fence on the eastern and southern sides was continued, two corner towers were built, a stone bathhouse and laundry building was built at the southern entrance gate, and by the fall a two-story wooden house for the shelter was roughly built.

The life of the community became more and more like a monastery, there were already more than 100 sisters in it, and therefore on October 18, 1886, Abbess Evgenia submitted a petition to transform the community into a monastery. With the support of the metropolitan and the determination of the Holy Synod in 1887, the Floro-Lavra women's community was renamed the Holy Cross Jerusalem monastery of the second class. The official opening and solemn consecration of the monastery took place on June 28, 1887. In connection with this, it was decided to build a large cathedral church on the site between the Jerusalem Church and the former manor house of the landowner A.P. Golovina.

In 1889, the diocesan architect S.V. Krygin prepared a project, and in the spring of 1890 the foundation stone of the temple took place. And, as always, philanthropists came to the rescue - first of all, Vasily Fedorovich Zholobov, a Moscow tradesman who offered 10 thousand rubles. at the start of construction, but did not stop there. He annually allocated a certain amount from his income, and from 1895 he took into his own hands the entire organization of work on the construction of the temple, while he himself purchased materials, hired workers and made payments to them. Mainly thanks to his efforts, by the summer of 1893 the temple was almost ready from the outside, and the following summer they began to decorate the interior. Among other donors for the construction of the temple were: the nun of the Holy Cross Monastery Afanasia (in the world - the maiden Gliceria Filippovna Valina), who, having entered it in 1888, brought her entire fortune, as well as Kronov, Meshcherina, Shaposhnikov, Zimin. In 1891, Ober, the prosecutor of the Holy Synod, sent 1000 rubles from the sums of Mrs. Medyntseva, and in 1893 Yu.I. provided generous assistance. Bazanova. The further internal improvement of the temple was greatly assisted by the above-mentioned nun Afanasia, who gave 10 thousand rubles. on the device of the iconostasis.

The construction of the iconostasis was entrusted to Akhapkin, and the painting of icons and wall painting was entrusted to the icon painter Erzunov. Philanthropists also helped purchase church utensils. For example, the merchant wife Stulov brought as a gift gilded clothes, sacred vessels, and a tabernacle; Penkin and Zernov church utensils, banners, etc.; The hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery, Father Barsanuphius, donated new temple a full range of liturgical books. There were many other people who donated Gospels, crosses, vessels, candlesticks, etc. Finally, everything was ready, and on July 15, 1896, two altars were consecrated in it: the main one - the Ascension by Metropolitan Sergius and the northern Assumption - by the abbot of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archimandrite Paul; the southern limit - in the name of St. Philip of Moscow (according to legend, the village of Lukino was the birthplace of this saint) was consecrated on September 15 of the same year by Archimandrite Theophan of Dmitrov.

Located among the monastery buildings, opposite the holy gates that were located under the bell tower, the temple, first of all, attracted attention with its majesty. The plan of the temple is cruciform. Its top was crowned with five domes with gilded crosses. There were three entrances to the temple, over which covered porches were built. Inside, the temple vaults were supported by four pillars, two of which were hidden by the iconostasis, open to the gaze of worshipers from everywhere. All three altars were located in one row, and the iconostases were located on a raised platform in two steps. At the right pillar, hidden by the iconostasis, was placed the temple icon of the Ascension of the Lord, at the left - the same icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God. All the icons in the iconostasis, including the images on the royal doors, numbered more than a hundred, and they were made in the Fryazhsky (Italian) style, on a chased gold background, and decorated with enamel along the edges. The paintings on the vaults and walls of the church numbered about 150 biblical scenes and were executed in the same style as the icons of the iconostasis. They were distinguished, according to eyewitnesses, by “grace, lightness, beauty, and numerous gilding.”

In addition to the listed and described churches of the monastery, at that time there were many other buildings on its territory, the review of which should begin from the western gate, which was located near the bell tower.

The bell tower itself is not high - 37 arshins (arshin is an ancient Russian measure of length equal to 0.711 meters), built in 1874. It had a beautiful appearance and the holy gates in it were painted with sacred images “in grateful memory of the persons who contributed to the improvement of the monastery”147. The bell tower housed 10 bells. They emitted a euphonious, clear ringing that could be clearly heard far around. The largest of them weighed 308 poods (pud is a Russian measure of weight equal to 16.4 kg).

There were separate buildings to accommodate the sisters and various monastic services.

The white or “refectory” building, as already mentioned, was moved to Lukino from the village of Stary Yam during the transition of the community. Subsequently, the wooden top of the house was converted to stone, with a spiritual heating system installed in the eastern half of it and the adjacent temple. In the basement of the house there was a heating chamber, a cellar (a special storeroom in monasteries for storing food and other supplies) and cells for nuns. On the ground floor, the smaller half was occupied by the sisters' refectory adjacent to the Jerusalem Temple and small rooms of the sacristy (a special room at the church where vestments - the priest's vestments - and church utensils are stored) and a pantry. On the second floor - the entire length of the building - on both sides of a narrow corridor there were the sisters' cells. An almshouse was also located here.

In the so-called “red” building, one wall of which was the northern side of the monastery fence, and also two-story, there was at one time a prosphora room (or prosvirnaya, where prosvira is baked - in Orthodox worship a small round white loaf of bread baked from wheat leaven dough), a bread shop, a shoe shop, a hospital with five beds, a small pharmacy room and up to ten cells.

The white two-story building to the south of the cathedral church was intended for sisters, and it had thirty-two cells. It was built in 1893 at the expense of the benefactor Vasily Fedorovich Zholobov and named “Vasilievsky” in his honor.

At the entrance to the monastery, with right side, next to the bell tower there was a wooden two-story house for receiving officials when they visited the monastery, which was built in 1909.

The house of the abbess of the monastery was originally wooden, one-story. In May 1910, under Abbess Margarita, the foundation stone for a new two-story stone abbot's house was laid. On the ground floor, two large rooms housed a needlework room and a seamstress room (a workshop where linen was sewn), and the rest were intended for the sisters’ housing. The upper floor was occupied by the abbot's cells.

In the western part of the monastery, not far from the new house of the abbess, there was a wooden two-story monastery parochial school, where up to forty girls studied. On the second floor there was a shelter for six orphans who lived on full monastic support. The school building was built in 1889 under Abbess Evgenia.

In addition to the listed buildings, within the monastery fence there were seven more separate houses, built at the expense of the sisters who lived in them.

At the southern wall of the monastery fence, along the slope of the mountain, there was a monastery apiary. In the southwestern corner of the monastery at the beginning of the twentieth century. An extensive stone cellar was built to store household supplies, and above it - at the entrance gate - there was a stone bathhouse and laundry building.

Behind the monastery fence there were houses of the clergy (the clergy of a church) and outbuildings. Opposite the Church of the Exaltation and the eastern gate of the monastery is a room for the priest and deacon (junior minister). The second monastery priest, who was appointed in 1904, lived in a house next to the bell tower, located between two orchards. Opposite there was a pine grove planted by Abbess Eugenia, in which the mentioned V.F. Zholobov built a two-story hotel with 15 rooms for visitors. And in 1911, in the backyard, closer to the forest, a steam mill was built and equipped.

A pond was dug in the center of the monastery territory. Previously, on this site there was a large manor house with a mezzanine that belonged to the Golovins. On the night of February 18, 1893, this house burned down for an unknown reason, and in its place the indicated pond was dug, to which, on the most important holidays, religious walks were performed to bless the water.

In the south-west side of the monastery, among the monastery gardens and arable land, there was a small chapel with a well. Here, according to legend, there was once a church with a revered icon of the holy martyr Anisia, which is why the well later became known by the same name. The water from this well was amazingly clean and tasty. In 1901, a small bathhouse was built below the chapel, into which excess water was supplied from the well. Despite the low temperature (+8 or + 10 °C), many visiting pilgrims swam in it.

Among the visiting pilgrims there were many philanthropists and especially representatives of the merchant class. Wealth for Russian entrepreneurs was not an end in itself, but, above all, a means to serve people. Building a temple or almshouse is the most traditional way of serving society. In Russia, almost every merchant family left a memory of itself in the form of spiritual, social and cultural buildings. So, in 1910, from the Moscow merchant Pyotr Timofeevich Stulov, on the basis of his spiritual will, the Moscow office of the State Bank received an application for the deposit of securities, mortgage sheets of the State Land Bank in denominations of 1000 rubles. to account No. 29653 for storage and management of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem convent. It was not uncommon for clergy to make similar contributions: in 1914, a deposit of 3,000 rubles was received into the same account. from the monastery priest Vladimir Nikitovich Fryazinov for the needs of the clergy.

The chronicle of monastic events was regularly covered in the Moscow Church Gazette. They described in detail all the most important facts, significant spiritual and historical events monastery. For example, the opening of the monastery in the summer of 1887 was described in great detail: “The community decorated itself for this day, and on the morning of the 27th it was already ready to receive guests. On the eve of the opening ceremony arrived: Mr. Manager of the Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod, D.S.S. V.K. Sabler, dean of the monasteries - Volokolamsk Fr. Archimandrite Sergius; rector of the Yaroslavl Tolga Monastery, Fr. Archimandrite Pavel, abbot of the Chudov Monastery, Fr. Archimandrite Mark and abbot of the Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery, Fr. Hieromonk Theophan the ringing began, signaling the approach of His Eminence the Metropolitan to the new monastery. On the morning of the 28th at 9 o'clock it began Divine Liturgy, which the bishop performed in the concelebration of the above-mentioned persons, in the morning of the arrival of the Ugreshsky monastery, Fr. Archimandrite Nil and a local priest. The small church of the new monastery and the adjacent meal were full of people who had gathered from the surrounding villages and many who had arrived from Moscow. Among them were the abbess of the Moscow monasteries: the abbess of the Alekseevsky, Nikitsky, Zachatievsky monasteries and the abbess of the Passion Monastery Evgenia, who took a lot of part in the internal and external arrangement of the new monastery, the director of public schools of the Moscow province. Mr. Krasnopevkov, community benefactors: Mrs. Meshcherina, Mr. Shaposhnikov and many others."

In solitude, in work and caring for everyday life Monastic life continued until October 1917. After the revolution, the well-developed and established economy of the monastery was nationalized.

From survey reports, which were regularly compiled by members of the Podolsk district executive committee, it is known that, for example, in 1921, on the territory of the Lukinsky Monastery there was an orphanage - “Lukinsky Children's Town” named after A. Kollontai. Then the state farm of district significance “Lukino” was located in the monastery. Ostrovskaya volost. Among the last tenants was pharmaceutical plant No. 12 named after. Semashko. During the Great Patriotic War(1941-1945) a hospital was located in the buildings and premises of the former monastery. After the war - a sanatorium, and then the All-Union Children's Rehabilitation Center, for which on the monastery territory in the 1980s. a new modern competition was built. Children from all over Russia come here for treatment and rehabilitation.

In 1992, the Head of the Administration of the Moscow Region adopted Resolution No. 108 “On the transfer of the architectural monument of the Holy Cross Monastery complex to the village. Lukino Leninsky district for the use of the Moscow Patriarchate." By this time, the territory and most of the buildings of the monastery were in a dilapidated state, the once existing orchards, a unique maple park and a birch grove were cut down over the decades, the monastery cemetery where the Golovins, who donated their estate to the monastery, were buried, many benefactors, a famous Moscow landscape artist N.V. Meshcherin and others built them with cottages.

The monastery was re-consecrated 70 years later by the Holy Hierarch Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II. And today the monastery is improving its spiritual and economic life. As before, regular services are held in churches, which are attended by residents of surrounding villages and Muscovites who come to the monastery.

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It is always not easy to talk about monasteries with their simple, quiet and humble history. There were no gatherings of troops for the Battle of Kulikovo, no bright miracles with the appearance of the Mother of God or other revered saints, but something else happened here - a simple human spiritual feat, the appearance to the world of a monastery that became revered thanks to modest and wonderful people who donated and gave their property for the appearance and prosperity in these places of the holy monastery, where at the beginning of the 20th century all this frank spiritual process began to take on a truly popular form.

You and I will make exactly the same intimate pilgrimage to this monastery... The monastery is female and strict, as I understand from preliminary reviews about it. Some who visited here noted a categorical rejection of photography on the territory of the monastery. Therefore, I initially prepared for problems with filming. However, surprisingly, everything worked out well; I did not encounter a single shout or stern remark made to me here. Still, in the Moscow region it is much easier with this than in Moscow itself.

I propose to approach this material differently, based on what you want. If you are interested in the history of the monastery, reminiscent of the peaceful ascetic life of a humble and pious person performing a quiet feat of prayer, you will be curious to combine information, visuals of these holy places and feel the local context. If you want to take a walk and just look around, visiting an interesting place, you can skip the historical text material, as many do, and simply try to join this peaceful and full of acceptance “prayed” place - in my photographs I tried to convey this invisible whisper the presence of the Holy Spirit and true light harmony here... Along the way, I will talk about my impressions and feelings...

Everything was initially extremely simple and unpretentious. In 1837, in the village of Stary Yam, Podolsk district, at the Church of the Holy Martyrs Florus and Laurus, an almshouse for females was established. It was no different from many similar houses of charity for the poor and indigent and was maintained “by the labors of those living in it and by willing donors,” existing in this form for about 20 years. Everything changed when, in 1855, the peasant Ivan Stepanovich, a native of the village of Syanovo, began to actively help the almshouse. This was an unusual person. At the age of 34, he left his job (as a Moscow cab driver) and took upon himself the difficult feat of foolishness...

The monastery is located very close to Moscow, on the road to Domodedovo airport. By car you can get from the Moscow Ring Road in fifteen minutes without any special worries.
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Holy Gates of the Holy Cross Monastery.
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The territory of the monastery is vast. We head along the old long park alley to the monastery. Here, instantly, the feeling changes - everything worldly subsides and you are overcome by some forgotten feeling of “relaxation”.
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This is a monastery hotel. It has been qualitatively restored and looks like a fairy-tale toy house surrounded by old park fir trees.
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Once upon a time there was a maple alley here, cut down during the construction of communism...)
Here is the Holy Cross Monastery itself...
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The monastery walls, watchtower and bell tower were demolished and are a “remake”, but you don’t notice it special attention..., and the heart skips a beat in anticipation of new impressions...
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Here we are on the territory of the monastery. It’s quiet, calm here, it’s as if you find yourself in another world, a world of beauty, humility and harmony... However, let’s continue our historical excursion.
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Once Ivan Stepanovich fell ill and went to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra to venerate the holy relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh and ask for healing. There he met the holy fool Philip, who, with the blessing of Metropolitan Philaret, lived in the famous Gethsemane monastery of the Lavra. The feat of foolishness and Philip’s entire lifestyle encouraged Ivan to withdraw from worldly vanity and completely devote himself to serving God. In one shirt, barefoot, he walked around Moscow in winter and summer, wore chains, and endured all kinds of hardships. He traveled a lot to holy places and monasteries in Russia. Imitating the holy ascetics, he spent his life in spiritual struggle.
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Ivan Stepanovich was known to Moscow Metropolitan Philaret, who had a special affection for him and talked for a long time with the holy fool. Moscow merchants also knew Ivan Stepanovich, but they especially loved him in the pious family of merchants, the Savatyugins. After the death of the head of the family, Nikolai Kirillovich Savatyugin, the blessed one came to his widow, Paraskeva Rodionovna, and asked her for money to read the Psalter for the deceased. He made similar requests to other people, and few refused the blessed one. Ivan Stepanovich decided to arrange a reading of the Undying Psalter in the almshouse, which became the foundation on which the monastery subsequently arose. Soon, on the advice of Ivan Stepanovich, Paraskeva Rodionovna Savatyugina (the first donor) joined the number of sisters of the almshouse, deciding to devote her life to serving God and neighbor. With the money she donated, a two-story stone house was built for the almshouse. On the day of the consecration of this house, Vladika Philaret sent the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God in Greek writing as a blessing to the almshouse, which became the main shrine of the monastery.
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Bishop Philaret did not cease to patronize the almshouse in subsequent years, helping it in every possible way. Having visited the village of Stary Yam in 1860 and examined the almshouse, he said this: “...This is not an almshouse, but a monastery!” And these words turned out to be prophetic.
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Five years later, in 1865, thanks to Filaret’s petition, the almshouse was renamed the Floro-Lavra women’s community. Paraskeva Rodionovna Savatyugina becomes its first boss, and the spiritual leader of the sisters is blessed Ivan Stepanovich. Ivan Stepanovich died on January 7, 1865, at the age of 50. This holy man was the first and main founder of the present Holy Cross Monastery. During the life of Ivan Stepanovich, the almshouse needed almost nothing, since Moscow merchants who knew him personally willingly donated money to it, but with the death of the blessed one, the community began to experience serious need...

In 1869, a lot happened in the life of the community. important event. Seven miles from the village of Stary Yam was the village of Lukino, which belonged to Alexandra Petrovna Golovina, a very pious woman. Having buried her husband and her only daughter, she decided to donate the village and estate with all the land (212 acres of land) to the Floro-Lavra women's community. Alexandra Petrovna made this secret request to Vladyka Philaret, who contributed in every possible way to the fulfillment of her desire, and a deed of gift was drawn up for the Lukino estate. The sisters of the community had to move to the Golovins’ estate. The previous well-appointed house was moved from the village of Stary Yam to the village of Lukino as housing for the sisters, and many landscaping works were carried out in the new location.
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The dean of the cenobitic monasteries, Archimandrite of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery Pimen (Myasnikov) was entrusted with transferring the community to Lukino. In 2004, he was canonized as the locally revered saint Pimen of Ugresh.
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On the territory of the estate there was a small stone church in the name of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Krestovozdvizhenskaya), built back in 1846. So from now on the community began to be called - Holy Cross. We are still Let's take a closer look at this church a little later...

Over time, this old Church of the Exaltation became too small for the community, so in 1871 they began to build a new one - in honor of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God, which was added to the refectory building - it is in the lower photo on the left.

Now it was here, in the temple, both day and night, that the sisters read the Indestructible Psalter. It was also placed here main shrine community - the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God, a gift from Bishop Philaret. On October 13, 1873, the new temple was consecrated, and at the end of the month construction of the bell tower and stone fence began.
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The church is small, touching and evokes the warmest unconscious feelings...
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I went into the church and didn’t take pictures there, not because in this temple there were two nuns in black, whose gaze I felt without even looking up at them, but because the Temple, in a good way, immediately absorbed me completely. It was as if I was engulfed in gentle waves of warmth and love that poured out from everywhere in the temple, and these were not just words, but precisely those very sensitive and vivid real sensations. And so I immediately didn’t want to take pictures inside the temple, but I wanted to absorb as much as possible this unique, wonderful feeling of being in a holy place...
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The sun set behind the clouds... I walked around the Temple of Our Lady of Jerusalem to photograph it from all the necessary angles.
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There is a vast area behind the temple. In this two-story building, by the way, at one time there was a prosphora, a bread, a shoe store, a hospital with five beds, a small pharmacy room and about 10 cells.
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In 1873, the first tonsure was performed in the Jerusalem Temple - the abbess of the community, Paraskeva Rodionovna Savatyugina, became a monk with the name Pavla, and most of the sisters were blessed to wear monastic clothes. During the reign of nun Pavla from 1871 to 1886. A two-story cell building, a clergy house, a rectory, a small hotel, a bell tower, horse and cattle yards were built, construction of a stone fence began, and an orchard and vegetable garden were planted.

The life of the community became more and more like a monastery; there were already about 100 sisters in it. In February 1887, by definition Holy Synod the community was transformed into the Holy Cross Jerusalem monastery of the second class. The official opening and solemn consecration of the monastery took place on June 28 (July 11 new style) 1887.

Gradually, interest in the monastery from those around increased, the number of people wishing to pray in the temple increased every year, so there was a need to build a new spacious church for pilgrims.

Under Abbess Evgenia, a grandiose construction of a cathedral church in honor of the Ascension of the Lord began, based on the aspirations of the Moscow tradesman Vasily Fedorovich Zholobov, who financed the construction of the Ascension Cathedral and personally supervised it.
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By the summer of 1893, the outside of the temple was almost ready. The height of the cathedral from the ground to the cross was 38 meters. The following summer we began work on the interior decoration. A large sum was allocated for the construction of the iconostasis by nun Athanasia, a resident of the Holy Cross Monastery, who, upon joining the monastery, brought her entire fortune. Wall painting and icon painting were entrusted to the icon painter Erzunov. The icons for the iconostases were painted on a chased gold background and decorated with enamel along the edges. About 150 biblical scenes were depicted on the walls of the cathedral. Philanthropists also helped purchase church utensils. The construction of the cathedral was completed under another abbess - Abbess Nina (Evstafieva).
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On July 15, 1896, two altars were consecrated in the cathedral: the main one, Ascension, and the northern one, Assumption. The southern chapel in the name of Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (according to legend, the village of Lukino was the birthplace of this saint) was consecrated on September 15 of the same year. Vasily Zholobov built another nursing building under Abbess Nina, which has survived to this day and is called “Vasilievsky”.
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The cathedral is now closed.

In 1906, nun Margarita (Petrushenkova) became the abbess of the monastery. She was transferred from the Ascension Convent to the Kremlin, where she served as a cell attendant for Abbess Evgenia (Vinogradova). Under Abbess Margarita, the construction of the fence was completed. Now the entire complex of monastery buildings was a single ensemble.
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Near the Ascension Cathedral and the Temple of the Mother of God of Jerusalem, a worship cross was erected in memory of all the deceased nuns of the monastery...
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Obviously, at this time, there was some church holiday and everywhere there were flags like this with inscriptions about faith and God...
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Near the western gate of the monastery there was a bell tower built in 1874 (it was destroyed in Soviet times and restored). She was short then - 37 arshins, but surprisingly beautiful. The holy gates in it were skillfully painted “in grateful memory of the persons who contributed to the improvement of the monastery.” The bell tower housed 10 bells. They emitted a sonorous, clear ringing sound that could be clearly heard far around. The largest of them weighed 308 pounds.
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At the entrance to the monastery, on the right side, next to the bell tower, a wooden two-story house was built in 1909 to receive officials when they visited the monastery.
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The Ascension Cathedral, which was already described above, captured my entire imagination and did not let me go; I wanted to look and look, absorb and absorb its perfect feeling of a large-scale and rapid Ascension...
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This is the South Gate of the Ascension Cathedral.
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Staroigumensky building
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In the southwestern corner of the monastery, at the beginning of the 20th century, an extensive stone cellar was built to store household supplies, and above it, at the entrance gate, there was a stone bathhouse and a laundry room.
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There is a pond in the center of the monastery territory. Previously, a large manor house with a mezzanine that belonged to the Golovins stood on this site. On the night of February 18, 1893, this house burned down, and in its place they dug a pond, where people celebrated on holidays. religious processions for the blessing of water.
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Bishop's house. It looks more like a modern manor cottage and looks somehow alien.
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The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross is located in the farthest corner of the monastery territory - at the Eastern gate of the monastery... You may not even notice it when you are near the Ascension Cathedral, so be careful...
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The temple is unusual, sublime and immediately “fits the soul.”
Its lilac-violet facade colors impress with its unusual color scheme.
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The church under the Golovins could accommodate up to 50 people, but it was rebuilt at one time for the needs of the monastery and can now accommodate up to 500.

1. Nizhny Novgorod bishopric, in Nizhny Novgorod. Its history dates back to the 14th century. It combined three convents that previously existed in Nizhny: Zachatievsky, founded (in 1355 - 65) by the wife of Prince. Andrei Konstantinovich Anastasia Ivanovna, Voskresensky, founded unknown when and by whom, and Proiskhoddensky, which was first located near the Volga, but due to overcrowding in 1815 was moved to a new location. The cathedral church in honor of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was built in 1814 -23.
S.V. Bulgakov
2. Tula bishopric, in Belev. Founded 1625; abolished in 1764; restored in 1768. Here was the locally revered icon of the Mother of God “Three Hands”. The monastery owned two chapels located in the city: Nikolaevskaya, built in the 18th century, and Bogolyubskaya, built in 1839, where the ancient revered Bogolyubskaya Icon of the Mother of God was located and where on June 18 and July 12 a procession of the cross took place from the monastery.
S.V. Bulgakov

Source: Encyclopedia "Russian Civilization"

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