Lukianov Hermitage - a monastery. Monastery of St. Lucian's Hermitage near the city
The Theotokos-Christmas Monastery of St. Lucian for men was founded by the Monk Lucian on the site of the miraculous appearance of the icon of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. The monastery gained fame due to the rigor of monastic life and outward splendor.
Mother of God-Christmas Lukian Hermitage associated with close ties. Both the founder of the Assumption Monastery and the successor of his work, the founder of the monastery, the Monk Cornelius, were abbots of the desert.
The legend of the foundation of the Lucian Hermitage
The history of the Lucian Hermitage dates back to 1594. In the village of Ignatievo, which is not far from the Alexander Sloboda, at the behest of Tsar Theodore Ioannovich and with the blessing His Holiness Patriarch Job erected a wooden church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. One day, the priest of this church, Father Gregory, entering it before the start of the service, did not find the temple icon of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in its usual place. Only a few days later, one of the local residents discovered her nearby, in the forest tract "Pskovitino Ramenye". “And abi appear to him that dearest treasure - the holy icon of the Mother of God. Olya wonders, standing about himself, in the air ... "
Both the priest and the parishioners were informed about the find. Everyone hurried to the indicated place. "They fell before the image of the Most Holy Theotokos with tears praying for many hours." The icon was reverently brought back to the temple. After a while, everything repeated: the icon inexplicably disappeared, then appeared in the same deserted place in the forest standing “in the air”. Again, the icon was returned to the temple, but soon disappeared again and appeared in the same place. Saint Job, Patriarch of Moscow, having learned about this, blessed the transfer of the wooden church from the village of Ignatievo to the site of the unusual appearance of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos. The priest, with the blessing, with the help of the parishioners, moved the church to the place of the miraculous appearance of the icon and settled with it.
History of the monastery
Sasha Mitrahovich 23.12.2017 14:06
The construction of a new five-domed stone cathedral on the very spot where the first wooden church of the Nativity of the Virgin stood began in last years XVII century. The construction of the cathedral was entrusted to the mason Shabunin "with comrades."
The cathedral is a good example. In this case, it is a late embodiment of this style, combined with a pillarless composition traditional for Russian temple architecture.
A high three-light quadrangle, placed on the basement, is completed with five small cylindrical drums with domes and is complemented by a three-part altar apse, three-lobed in plan. The chetverik is covered with a steep closed vault, and the apse is covered with a three-part conch.
All facades of the temple are divided by shoulder blades into three high strands, each of which is completed with a kokoshnik. The western facade, as well as large parts of the northern and southern facades, are surrounded by a spacious gallery. Having survived numerous "owners" of the monastery, it has survived to this day in a dilapidated state and is waiting for restoration. In the third level of light there are high windows, framed with architraves in the Naryshkin baroque style with thin columns and broken triangular pediments. In the windows of all tiers, forged iron gratings made of rectangular strips have been preserved. On the windows of the second and third windows, the gratings are wavy and made of rods that are round in cross section.
Noteworthy are large, original S-shaped anchor puffs, which were used during the restoration of the temple in 1851 along the entire perimeter to strengthen the building.
In the basement floor of the temple, before the closing of the monastery, there was a necropolis of representatives of the Sobakin noble family, Abbot Avraamy and other benefactors of the monastery who were buried here. The crypt was restored in 2016.
Bogoroditsky Cathedral of Lukian's Hermitage inside
In 1893, in the Lukian Monastery, they were preparing to solemnly celebrate the upcoming 300th anniversary of the apparition in a year. miraculous icon Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. By this significant date, the painting on the inner walls was completed in the cathedral.
Only the northern, western and southern walls of the quadrangle are painted. On each of them there are three compositions united by ornamental arches. On the northern wall are the compositions "Healing of the Blind", "Sermon of John the Baptist" and "Blessing of the Children".
In the piers of the lower row of windows there are images of Saints Cyril, Andrew and John.
On the southern wall are the compositions "The Resurrection of the Daughter of Jairus", "The Sermon on the Mount" and "The Healing of the Paralytic". Between the windows are Saints Ephraim and Euthymius.
The images of saints are dominated by blue, light green and pinkish saturated colors.
After the closing of the monastery, when the territory of the monastery was occupied by a home for the disabled, the central part of the cathedral was used for drying clothes, so the paintings, for the most part, have survived to this day. Today they delight the eyes of the monks and pilgrims of the monastery. But the brethren do not lose hope that in the near future the murals will be restored and shine again with their original beauty in the restored cathedral.
Sasha Mitrahovich 29.12.2018 08:13
The Temple of the Epiphany of the Lord is the most ancient in the Lucian Hermitage. Its construction began in 1680 on the initiative of St. Cornelius.
The chetverik and the refectory form a single, longitudinally elongated two-story volume, ending in the east with two faceted apses: a larger one on the south side and a smaller, aisle one on the north. Above the eastern part of the entire volume rises a quadrilateral common to the main and aisle temples, elongated in the transverse direction - it ends with two cupolas on round deaf drums.
From the west one can see a hipped bell tower with an octagonal tier of ringing on a square base and two tiers of rumors in the tent. Five bells of the 19th - early 20th century are installed on the bell tower.
A white-stone porch with a tetrahedral tent on four pillars has been erected in front of the bell tower, evoking associations with illustrations from Russian folk tales. It was added later, and its modest eclectic decoration with arches and hanging "weights" imitates the fashion of that time.
The premises of the Epiphany Church on two floors are spacious, while the chapel has a very small size and a small apse. The aisles of the temple and the apse are covered with box vaults, and the apse of the aisle is covered with a faceted conch. The rooms on the sides of the bell tower have flume vaults.
Church of the Epiphany in the Lucian Hermitage inside
The Church of the Epiphany with the chapel of Theodore Stratilates is the only functioning church in the monastery.
From a large stone porch with columns and a vault topped with a cross, a steep staircase leads to the entrance to the temple. The walls of the flight of stairs were painted in 2012.
Inside the temple, everything is simple, there is no pretentiousness, the walls are not painted. Small windows and high vaulted ceilings create subdued soft lighting even on the sunniest days.
In the central aisle of the Epiphany of the Lord, services are performed on holidays and Sundays.
In the altar of the chapel there is a large part of the relics in a brass reliquary. On the wall of the altar there is an icon of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (19th century list), which was kept until 1994 by the believers of the village of Isaevka.
The place for the brethren of the monastery is separated from the refectory part of the temple by a small elevation, on which there is a kliros, the place of the abbot, and a festive icon is installed. The three-tiered brass candle chandelier for 32 candles located here attracts attention.
In the refectory part of the chapel on the western side of the second pillar, there is a large icon of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, painted in 1998 based on information about the lost miraculous image. Around the icon, which is a centerpiece, the Lord's and the Theotokos feasts are written. At the southern wall of the refectory part of the temple, to the right of the entrance, in a carved wooden icon case, the main image of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the 19th century, which was discovered in the Assumption Monastery in the 1990s, is kept in the monastery. Nearby is a gilded reliquary on a brass pedestal with the relics of 50 saints.
To the left of the entrance, near the eastern wall of the refectory part of the temple, is an icon Mother of God"Abbess of the Holy Mount Athos" in a wooden carved kiot, nearby - the relics in a wooden carved shrine.
The northern aisle, consecrated in the name of the Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates, is used for daily services during the week. The iconostasis of the chapel is three-tiered, painted in dark green tones. Local icons - the Lord Almighty and the Mother of God "Smolensk" (the latter was preserved intact after almost half a century of desolation of the first wooden church at the beginning of the 17th century, along with the revealed icon of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos).
On the north side of the second pillar from the entrance is the icon of the Mother of God "Fadeless Color" of the 18th century. On the northern wall of the chapel, closer to the altar, there is a large icon of the Royal Passion-Bearers, painted in the early 2000s. This part of the temple is also used for the sacrament of baptism and the great blessing of water on the feast of the Epiphany.
Sasha Mitrahovich 29.12.2018 08:26
Pilgrimage- this is the path that believers have long made in order to visit the places of earthly exploits of the holy saints of God for the sake of meeting God and finding prayer books for themselves. Each saint, whose relics are worshiped by a believing Christian on a pilgrimage, becomes closer and dearer, and becomes cordial to him. Such a journey to worship shrines has always been recognized by the Church as an effective means to overcome spiritual weakness.
The word pilgrim comes from the Latin palm- “palm tree”, thanks to the custom of Christian wanderers, participants in the procession in the Holy Land on the feast of the Lord’s Entry into Jerusalem, to return from there with palm branches, similar to those with which the inhabitants of Jerusalem once met Christ.
In Russian there is a synonym for the word pilgrim - worshiper, man going to pray to God. The main thing in the pilgrimage is prayer, attending worship and worshiping shrines.
Our monastery is not just a monument of culture, architecture and history XVIII centuries, it is primarily the house of God, the abode of prayer, which has been going on here for several hundred years. We earnestly ask our pilgrims not to forget about this and pay attention to the monastic rules and regulations.
- When going on a pilgrimage trip, it is very good to read about , as well as about the saints revered in our monastery. These are the reverends and Alexandrovskie. Of course, a lot will be told on the tour, but it is better to prepare for the meeting in advance.
- For the devout Christian appearance It has great importance, because it is very closely related to the internal state. Pilgrim clothing should be neat and tidy. Shorts, breeches are inappropriate, it is not customary for women to be in trousers, short skirts, with their heads uncovered. Clothing should not be off-the-shoulder and low-cut. Orthodox person must have a cross on his chest. Our monastery differs significantly from well-maintained Moscow monasteries, so if it’s slushy outside, we recommend taking rubber shoes.
- The pilgrim may need camera or camcorder We don't have a photography ban. But it should be remembered that for any actions, including photography and video filming, it is necessary to ask the blessing of the ruling persons of the monastery.
- In a holy place forbidden smoking, swearing, spitting, running around, talking loudly, screaming, laughing out loud. It is forbidden to drink alcohol, tell indecent stories (jokes).
- Entrance to residential and utility rooms, as well as to the economic territory of the monastery prohibited unless there is a special blessing.
- If the pilgrimage takes place during the service, the temple must be turned off or put on silent mode Cell phones.
- If pilgrims arrive at the monastery with kids then you can't leave them unattended. Silence must be observed on the territory of the monastery, and monastic churches should be treated with reverence. Children can play and frolic only outside the territory of the monastery.
- We do not have the opportunity to feed large groups of pilgrims, there are no grocery stores nearby either, so we subsistence must be taken care of in advance.
- For questions about holding excursions should be agreed in advance by contacting us in any way indicated in the section "
Lukian's Hermitage
Pos. Lukyantsevo.The history of the Lukianovsky Monastery begins with the appearance of the miraculous icon of the Nativity of the Mother of God. In 1594 in the village. Ignatievo, not far from Alexandrovskaya Sloboda, was built wooden church Nativity of the Mother of God. One day, her priest Gregory, entering, discovered that the temple icon was missing. Searches have not yielded results. A few days later, one of the villagers found the icon in the nearby forest "standing about itself, in the air." The icon was returned, but everything happened again. Then the priest turned to Patriarch Job of Moscow with a request to bless the transfer of the temple from the village. Ignatievo to the place of the miraculous appearance of the icon. The blessing was given, and the temple was moved. In the Time of Troubles, it was abandoned.
The future Saint Lucian, in the world Hilarion, was born within the city of Galich. His parents Demetrius and Barbara, leading a strict and pious life, lamented their barrenness. They made a special vow to God - to go to a monastery and end their lives there in repentance, if He hears their prayer for a child who, having grown up, would be left in the world for the memory of their souls. God did not reject their prayers and gave them a son, who was named Hilarion in holy baptism. He learned literacy and especially the Holy Scripture from his father, who became a monk with the name Dionysius in the hermitage he built. From him, the blessed lad adopted life as a feat, as salvation, he learned prayer, fasting, night vigils, seeing in his father a bright example of a high life. Many were attracted by the image of the faith of the monk Dionisy, and after the death of the elder, in memory of him, his disciples built a church in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity.
Wanting to find himself an experienced mentor for monastic deeds, | Hilarion came to the monastery of Saints Athanasius and Cyril on the river. Mologa and [been obedient for three years, gaining the respect and love of the entire monastery, starting with the hegumen. But then the novice, to the bewilderment of everyone, secretly left the dormitory of the monks, not bearing praise in his address as a formidable danger to himself, and moved to the Intercession Monastery near the city of Uglich, founded by the Monk Paisios, but here, for the same reason, he also spent a short time. Striving for perfection, Hilarion looked for a hermitage for himself, in order to surrender himself to God more fully and diligently. Invisibly, the answer came to him - to go to the city of Pereslavl-Zalessky, to Sloboda Aleksandrovskaya.
It was in 1640. From the villagers of Sloboda, Hilarion, to his joy, learned about the desert, remote from worldly places. Surrounded by a large forest and swamps, there was a church in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin with an image of the Nativity of the Mother of God, miraculously remaining, despite the complete devastation and abandonment of this place. “I often went to this church,” the pious villager Mark from the village of Ilarion said to Hilarion. Avksentievo, which is four miles from Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda, - and prayed with tears before the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, so that she would grant a good inhabitant in that place, and we would be saved under his guidance. The news about the icon of the Mother of God touched Hilarion's soul, to which he had been especially fond of from a young age. From Mark, he heard a marvelous story about how the holy icon of the Mother of God miraculously moved three times through the air from the village of Ignatiev to the place She had chosen, near the swamp, which was burrowed by Bogoroditsky, also known under the name of Pskovitinovo Ramenye. Hieromonk Theodosius from the monastery of the Savior came here soon, guided by the Providence of God, from the Dologoda lands.
He formed Hilarion with the desire to share his labors and especially with a lively story about how he heard Her voice during prayer: “Theodosius, go to the Pereslavl Zalesky limits and cover My church there, Open and desolated.” Theodosius went to look for this church in the Chereslav lands, carefully asking about it. With difficulty he reached the desert, and there was no end to his joy when he saw the Church of the Mother of God with Her icon. In hieromonk Theodosius, Hilarion found for himself a presbyter sent from above, who would perform monastic tonsure on him, which happened in the 30th year of his life. Hilarion was tonsured Lucian, having received, as a novice, fatherly instructions from the hieromonk. They rebuilt the temple, and a few more people joined them.
They wanted to build a new church of the Nativity of the Mother of God on the site of the dilapidated Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, asked for blessings from the patriarch, prepared a forest, but the archimandrite of the Nativity Monastery in Vladimir Joseph, who was in charge of the Simeonovsky Monastery near Alexander Sloboda, came with unkind people, stole logs, dispersed the brethren, and Lucian was sent chained to Moscow, slandered in an unclean life. Lucian was assigned to menial work in the Chudov Monastery. The monk humbled himself, carried the most difficult work. Full of meekness and gentleness, he spiritually shone within the walls of the Kremlin monastery and surprised all its inhabitants, especially Abbot Kirill. Some time later, Monk Tikhon, a resident of the monastery of the All-Merciful Savior, also called the Kozieruchevsky Monastery, arrived in Moscow from the Arkhangelsk lands with a request to the Moscow Patriarch to bless a capable leader in this northern monastery. Patriarch Joseph could not refuse the messenger of the monastery of the All-Merciful Savior. He began to ask his closest servants where to find a good old man and builder for an orphan monastery? Archimandrite Kirill of Chudov said: “I have a valiant monk in the monastery, reasonable and experienced in everything, who may well become the rector.” The most holy patriarch was surprised at such a kind word about a monk sent for correction, and immediately sent for him. He questioned the monk in detail about his origin and monastic feat, saw the depth and strength of his mind, as well as the bright humility of his soul. The patriarch ordained the monk Lucian to the hierodeacon, and then to the hieromonk, and appointed him to the Archangel monastery. This happened in 1646. The main business of the new rector was the construction of the monastery, which he set about diligently and carefully, without leaving at the same time his virtuous life as a monk. Temples were built in the monastery. But through the monk Tikhon, the Monk Lucian was exiled.
He did not resist and, having thanked the Merciful Savior for everything, blessed the brethren and set off from the monastery to his former prayerful places, to his beloved hermitage, beyond Alexander Sloboda, to the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God. He was again expelled and returned for the third time with a new patriarchal letter of blessing. With him came the pious merchants Gerasim Shevelev, Timothy Rabenskoy, John Gavrilov, the son of Shiltsov, Theodore the Foreigner from the Chudov Monastery, Onesimus Borisov, the son of Gorlov, from the gardeners, - they made up the spiritual army, from which the former haters of the desert retreated. The third settlement in it began: they cut down two cells for everyone, then proceeded to the church buildings. The merchants were dependent on timber, they paid for the entire temple building, and they themselves, leaving Moscow, put on the monastic rank. The Monk Lucian, communicating with people very businesslike in life, could not keep silent about himself, who loved solitude, about his desert, chosen by the Queen of Heaven herself, who blessed this place with her icon. The pious people of Moscow were imbued with love and zeal for the holy place from what they heard at the Miracle Monastery.
The royal stoker Alexander Feodorov, son of Borkov, as well as Timothy Ioannov, son of Mikulaev, from Pereslavl, is also a prominent person in Moscow. After conferring with the Monk Lucian, they asked Sovereign Alexei Mikhailovich, as well as His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow, to issue a letter and blessing for the construction of the desert, and to confirm Hieromonk Lucian as a permanent servant in it. Everything was given into the hands of the monk for the complete dispensation of the wilderness. The merchants of Alexander Sloboda asked the Monk Lucian to create a monastery of nuns in Sloboda at the dilapidated Church of the Assumption, in which, moreover, they wanted to see him as a shepherd and trustee. At first he refused, considering himself a sinner and unworthy of such deeds, but then, at the many requests of the merchant people, who defeated him with their love for him, he humbly agreed. Together with them, he left for Moscow, where they appeared before the sovereign of Russia Alexei Mikhailovich himself and Patriarch Nikon with a request to build a monastery in the once famous royal Sloboda, for which the command was received - to build a maiden monastery, as well as the blessing of the patriarch for the restoration of the Assumption Church and its consecration. Returning, the monk built a monastery, enclosing it on all sides, and also cutting down the cells. The Church of the Dormition arranged in splendor for prayer and consecrated. This happened in 1654. The monastery became a cenobitic and consisted of 20 sisters, an abbess was appointed to them. The monk was their shepherd and father, tirelessly taking care of everything necessary for life and salvation. Abbot Lucian had two monasteries under his care. Everyone looked at him as a living image of monastic life, trying in every possible way to imitate him in the Feats of Faith. Nurturing two monasteries, the monk often visited Alexander Sloboda, pastorally instructing not only the sisters of the monastery, but also the people who came to it.
The Monk Lucian reposed in 1654, on the patronal feast of his monastery. He was small in stature, with gray hairs in a bushy blond beard. The monk foretold an imminent disaster - a pestilence that occurred three years after his death. Everything he said came true. Then the doubters remembered the prophecies of the saint and were imbued with great reverence for him.
The first successor of the monk was Hierodeacon Onuphrius, but he did not stay long in this rank - from 1654 to 1657. The most significant successor of the Monk Lucian was the Monk Cornelius, elected by the brotherhood and ordained a hieromonk by the most holy patriarch. Both cloisters became famous far beyond their borders for their high spiritual order and outward splendor.
From 1658, Cornelius was "made a builder and confessor of both his own and the maiden's (in Alexander Sloboda)". At the request of the abbess of the Assumption Monastery, Anisius, the blessing of the saint and a letter were received, in which the monk was ordered to live in the Assumption Monastery, and to travel to Lukianov Hermitage "from week to week." The mentoring of the hieromonks of Lukian's Hermitage in the Assumption Monastery continued until its closure, and Abbot Ignatius was his last confessor.
Under the Monk Cornelius, a second, warm temple was erected in the Lucian Hermitage - the Epiphany. A hipped bell tower was built.
In 1675, “there are 15 cells in the monastery, Elder Cornelius and his brethren live in them. Holy tent gates. The monastery is surrounded by a fence. Behind the monastery there is a stable and cattle yard.
The Epiphany wooden church was dismantled in 1680, and in its place began the construction of a stone church of the Epiphany with a chapel of the Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates, the guardian angel of Tsar Theodore Alekseevich, who repeatedly visited the monastery. The temple was consecrated already under the successor of the Monk Cornelius, Evagrius. In 1892, a hipped porch was built in front of the bell tower.
In the XVIII century. a stone chapel was built over the tomb of St. Lucian (its ruins, covered with an iron roof with a cupola and a cross, are located on the south side of the Church of the Epiphany). Lukianov deserts were patronized by the sovereigns Feodor Alekseevich, John and Peter Alekseevich, who granted her lands. Particularly distinguished by their care of the desert were the roundabouts of the royal court, Alexy and Timofey Likhachev, who deserved eternal commemoration from the brethren. Saint Cornelius died on August 24, 1681. After Saint Cornelius, the builder Evagrius managed the monastery from 1681 to 1689.
In 1689, while in the Assumption Monastery of Alexander Sloboda, His Holiness Patriarch Joachim "on the 20th day of September ... granted in Alexandrov Sloboda of the Pereslavsky district of the Zalessky Lukyanov desert to the builder the elder Andreyan with the brothers of alms 10 rubles." The builder Adrian managed the monastery from March 9, 1689 to 1690, and after him, Sergius, ruled from 1690 to 1693. In the monastery in 1694-1696. the rector's building was built (built on in the 1950s), at the beginning of the 19th century. - fraternal corps, treasury in 1690
In the last years of the XVII century. diligence of the tonsurer of Lukian’s hermitage, the rector of the hermitage (from 1694 to 1696), and during the period of construction, the cellar of the Chudov Monastery, Hieromonk Joasaph (Kolychevsky), the construction of a five-domed stone cathedral began on the site of the appearance of the miraculous image of the Most Holy Theotokos (and where the first wooden church of the Nativity stood Mother of God).
The cathedral continued to be erected under the builder Hieromonk Moses (he ruled the monastery from 1696 to 1705, from 1709 he retired). The temple was built at the expense of the Moscow merchant Onisim Feodorovich Shcherbakov and other zealots named in the annals of the monastery. The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was consecrated in 1712 under the rector Hieromonk Avraamy (appointed as rector in 1705, elevated to the rank of abbot in 1717, ruled the monastery until 1719).
The consecration was attended by the sisters of Tsar Peter Alekseevich, Princess Martha and Theodosia Alekseevna.
In the cathedral, after many years of ruin and desolation, large fragments of paintings from the middle of the 19th century have been preserved. In 1714, at the expense of Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Karpovich Sytin, the owner of the village next to the desert. Dubrov, the father of Elizaveta Kirillovna Shubina (nee Sytina), who was buried near the cold cathedral, a stone hospital church of Great Martyr Catherine was built. In 1713, the abbot of the monastery of Avraamia filed a petition to Tsar Peter Alekseevich, “that they didn’t build a church of God in the desert near the hospital, and because of antiquity many monks on sick leave cannot go to the cathedral church with other brethren, and now their depositor Lieutenant Colonel Kirilo has promised Karpov son Sytin to build again a stone church in the name of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine to that hospital. The church was rebuilt in 1834 at the expense of Alexander's 2nd guild of merchants, brothers Ivan, Grigory, Alexander Dmitrievich Ugolkov-Zubov. The church had hospital cells. The southern part of the stone fence with the holy gates (the gates were destroyed in Soviet times) and two towers were also built. Under the builder of Abraham, a synodik and an insert book were opened in the monastery. Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, Metropolitan Stefan (Yavorsky), Fr. Abraham in 1717 was elevated to the rank of abbot. He died in 1719 and was buried under the altar of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. Since 1719 the monastery was ruled by hegumen Joasaph (d. 1724). On August 12, 1724, the builder Ioasaph was appointed in his place; on January 22, 1727, he was transferred to the Pereslavl Danilov Monastery.
In 1728, the sacristan hieromonk Onuphry and all the brethren of the Lukyanova Pustyn addressed Emperor Peter II with a request to restore the abbess in the Lukyanova Pustyn. “Your pilgrims, of the Pereyaslavsky district of Zalesky, of the Lukoyanov desert, hieromonks and hierodeacons, and all the brethren, bow with their foreheads. By decree... of Sovereign Peter the Great... and with the blessing of the then ruling throne of the Patriarchate of All Russia, His Eminence Stefan Yavorsky, Metropolitan of Ryazan and Murom, in 1717, in the monastery of our Lukoyanova Hermitage, an abbess was established from the builders, and consecrated to Abrahamia by the first hegumen, and after his death ... abbots were appointed to our monastery: from Pereslavl, from the Nikitsky Monastery, Hieromonk Varlaam, and after him ... Hieromonk Joasaph was the abbot of that Lukoyan Hermitage, and after him, Joasaph, was from Pereslavl, Borisoglebsky Monastery the builder Joasaph, and was taken from us to Pereslavl to the Danilov Monastery as archimandrite, and when the former Novgorod Archbishop Theodosius was in the reign and a decree was announced from the Holy Governing Synod to belittle the power in monasteries and attribute small monasteries to large ones, then in our The abbess of the monastery has ceased, and now with us, your pilgrims, the builder has been made - another year for that - of our monastery, Hieromonk Joseph, and the man is ancient and weak, and comes to the church in need, and cannot endure his service. And now we ... seeing your most merciful mercy that in many monasteries the former ranks of the sovereign have been renewed and honored to be as before, for this reason we, pilgrims, and in our monastery of Lukoyanov Hermitage, both we are monks and contributors, from the general We wish to have consent as before as hegumen, whom, in accordance with, we ... have now chosen Hieromonk Macarius of the Chudov Monastery in the Kremlin, seeing and seeing him worthy of being abbess for this reign ... by decree of His Imperial Majesty, the Most Holy Governing Synod ordered: the aforementioned Chudov Monastery of Hieromonk Macarius to the aforementioned Lukoyanov Hermitage ... to make hegumen ... ". On October 5, 1728, Hieromonk Macarius was elevated to the abbot of Lukyanova Pustyn; on October 27, 1729, he was dismissed due to illness.
On October 29, 1729, the former builder of the Solbinsky monastery, Varlaam, was appointed head of Lukyanova Pustyn. He ruled the Lukyanova Pustyn until 1732. In 1732, hegumen Varlaam was released due to illness, attested by the brethren of the Lukyanova Pustyn, up to 20 people. His place of residence is the Nikolskaya Hermitage on the river. Solbe.
The construction of the walls (a stone fence with seven towers was built in 1712-1733) was completed under the rector Abbot Macarius (ruled the monastery from 1730 to 1733).
In 1733, with the elevation to the rank of abbot, hieromonk from the Spaso-Kukotsky monastery Jesse was appointed rector of the Lukian Hermitage, he was mentioned in the documents of the monastery until 1740
From 1754 to 1755 the abbot Bogolep ruled the monastery. In 1764, with the establishment of the states, the abbots of Lukian's Hermitage were no longer in the rank of hegumen, but in construction. Hieromonk Ioanniky, who was transferred from the Peshnoshsky Monastery, ruled the Lucian Desert from 1767 to 1772.
In 1771, at the request of the inhabitants of the city of Alexandrov, an annual procession with a miraculous icon on the sixth week after Pascha from Lukian's Hermitage to Alexandrov in memory of the deliverance of the city and its environs from the plague. On the way to Baksheev was a miraculous icon prayer singing with water blessing, then three more, the last in Alexandrov, in Sloboda Sadovnaya, where the icon was met by a procession of the clergy of the Alexander Monastery and the city's Transfiguration Church. After Ioannikius, the builders ruled: Filaret (from 1773 to 1777), and Macarius (from 1792 to 1798).
Since 1792, hegumen Macarius, in the world the priest Yakov Ozeretskovsky, was the rector of Lukian's Hermitage. (until 1792 - rector of the Archangel Monastery in the city of Yuryev-Polsky, buried in Lukian's Hermitage). He was the father of two well-known persons in Russian history: the naturalist and traveler, academician Nikolai Yakovlevich Ozeretsky (1750-1827) and the first chief priest of the army and navy Pavel Yakovlevich Ozeretskovsky (1758-1807).
On September 17, 1799, the Lukian builder Joasaph was transferred to the Vyaznikovsky Annunciation Monastery, and from there Hieromonk Theophilus was transferred to the Lukian Hermitage.
At the beginning of the XIX century. the monastery was ruled by hieramonks Andrew and Nikandr
In 1804, the builder Hieromonk Nikon, prefect of the Vladimir Theological Seminary, managed the monastery, from 1810 to 1811 - the builder Ignatius.
In 1815, Hieromonk Israel was the rector. From 1818 to 1825 the builder Cyprian managed.
Under Abbot Platon in 1850, the cathedral was overhauled, the porch surrounding it on three sides was decorated with tiles.
The hotel, located outside the monastery fence, was built under Abbot Macarius (Mikhail Mylnikov, a native of the city of Murom, from the merchants, 1d. 1874), who was rector from 1860 to 1874. In his youth, he was a novice for 9 years in the Sarov desert, then moved to the monastery, where in 1838 he was tonsured and named Macarius, in 1843 he entered the Makhrishchi monastery, was in the Nyametsky monastery and honored the memory of St. . He was awarded a gold pectoral cross and the Order of St. Anne, 3rd class. At that time there were 30 brothers in the monastery, 3-4 hieromonks and 2-3 hierodeacons.
In 1893 in the monastery, under Abbot Jerome and with the participation of Mother Superior Uspensky convent Abbess Euphrasia, solemnly celebrated the 300th anniversary of the appearance of the miraculous icon.
AT late XIX in. the two original square corner towers on the southern wall have been replaced by new round ones.
In 1916 hegumen Cornelius was the rector. In 1920, the Monk Martyr Elijah (Vyatlin) entered the Lukian Hermitage, and was tonsured a monk here. He was born on February 24, 1867 in the village. Kariyskoye, Aleksandrovsky district, Vladimir province, in the family of a peasant Ivan Vyatlin, who raised his son in faith and piety. Having come of age, Ilya Ivanovich got married and in 1892 his son Pavel was born to his wife. Ilya Ivanovich worked at a weaving factory in the city of Aleksandrov as a weaver and served in the church. Having become a widower, he made a firm decision to enter a monastery. The questions of his own salvation, prayer and faith always stood in the first place for him, and it seemed to him unimportant that a revolution had taken place and persecutions had begun. In 1922 the monastic community was destroyed by the godless authorities; monk Elijah was ordained a hieromonk and began to serve in one of the churches in the city of Alexandrov. In the summer of 1937 the churches in Alexandrov were closed and the priesthood was arrested. Father Elijah was not then arrested, most likely because the NKVD considered him too old, he was then seventy years old. On June 27, 1937, he settled in the village. Yeremeevo, Istra district, Moscow region, and began to serve here in the Church of the Ascension of the Lord.
However, the wave of arrests did not pass even this village. On February 20, 1938, the local detective of the NKVD sent a report to the authorities about the need to arrest the priest "as a notorious enemy of the people." On February 25, a warrant was issued for the arrest of the priest, in justification for the arrest it was written that Fr. Elijah said: “The Soviet government has driven all the peasants to the collective farm and is torturing them, but the Soviet government has completely strangled us priests. The Bolsheviks don’t take us here, that’s where I used to serve as a priest, they took everyone there and put them in prison.” February 28, 1938 Fr. Elijah was arrested. The protocol of the interrogation says that Fr. Elijah said: Since I am a person who is convinced of the faith, I do not like the policy of the Soviet government, which agitates against religion, so I really told the parishioners that the Soviet government had completely strangled religion and we, priests, and peasants on collective farms are being tortured and are not allowed to believe into God..." On April 5, 1938, Hieromonk Elijah (Vyatlin) was shot at the Butovo training ground near Moscow, and thrown into one of the ditches in which tens of thousands of people who were shot at this firing range lie.
In the 1920s the monastery was closed, the monks were ordered to leave it, and the temples, as ancient monuments, were placed under the protection of the museum created on the territory of the Assumption Monastery in the city of Alexandrov. In 1922, the monks, warned by well-wishers about the impending arrest, left the desert, taking with them what they could take away. The remaining icons and relics were sent to the museum, some of them were destroyed and desecrated. The desert was devastated beyond recognition.
In 1924, a school was located in the Church of the Epiphany, in 1925 a club was set up in the Catherine's Church, the chapel of St. Lucian was destroyed in 1926. Later, a prison was built in the monastery. In the 1970s a hospital was located in the rectory building. The location of the miraculous icon of the Nativity of the Mother of God, taken to the museum of Alexandrov, is currently unknown. The buildings housed a home for the disabled.
On May 12, 1991, the Mother of God-Christmas Lukianov Hermitage was revived. On this day, the first religious procession with the icon of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos took place, bequeathed by the Monk Lucian. It was headed by His Grace Evlogy, Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal.
The solemn procession followed from the Trinity Cathedral of the Holy Assumption Convent to the desert with a large gathering of people. This marked the beginning of the renewal of the Lukian monastery - the first monastery to open in the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese after a 70-year period of persecution of the Church. Abbot Dosifey (Danilenko) became the rector. The parishioners of Alexander with great zeal and love help the monks in the restoration of their monastery, so famous in the past.
Story
It was founded by the Monk Lukian of Alexandrovsky on August 28 (September 10), 1650, at the site of the appearance in 1694 of the icon of the Mother of God of the Nativity of the Virgin, later called the Lukianovsky.
The first abbot of the monastery was St. Lukian of Alexandrovsky, Venerable Lucian was born in 1610 in the city of Galich. From the age of 8 he was brought up by his father in a monastery. He first came to the place of the future monastery in 1640 and was tonsured a monk here. Was expelled from here three times by the locals. In the Miracle Monastery in Moscow in 1646, he was ordained to the priesthood by Patriarch Joseph. With the help of Moscow merchants, he rebuilt the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin and cells for monks. In 1654 he founded the convent of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos in the city of Alexandrov at the request of the Alexandrov merchants. He reposed on September 8 (21), 1655, the memory of the repose is celebrated the next day.
The successor of the work of Rev. Lucian became St. Cornelius. Under him, the monastery became widely known for its high spiritual structure and outward splendor. Since 1657, he was the rector and died in extreme old age on August 24, 1681. Lukianov Hermitage was patronized by the sovereigns Theodore, John and Peter Alekseevich, and other persons of the royal family. Until the 2nd floor. 17th century all the buildings of the monastery remained wooden, and in 1680-84. by order of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich, a stone refectory church of the Epiphany was built with a chapel of Fyodor Stratilat, heavenly patron king. At the end of the century, the construction of stone cells began: in 1690, the Treasury Corps was built, in 1696, the Grain (Priest) cells and the Hospital Chamber, and in 1712, the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin, consecrated in the presence of the sisters of Tsar Fyodor, the princesses Martha and Theodosia. Between the cathedral and the refectory church in 1771 a small chapel was erected over the coffin of Lucian, the founder of the monastery. Catherine's Church was built at the Hospital Chamber in 1714. By 1733, a stone fence with seven towers was built around the monastery.
In 1771, the monastery icon of the Nativity of the Theotokos became famous for yet another miracle. After the procession with the image around the city of Alexandrov, the plague epidemic stopped. Since that time, the procession began to take place annually (the tradition continues to this day), and the icon became universally known as "Lukianovskaya".
In the beginning. 19th century a new Fraternal building was built, and a monastery hotel was erected to the south of the monastery. In 1894, the interior of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin was painted. The monastery had its own horse, brick and tile factories, as well as several mills. Hermitage owned three wooden chapels on the Moscow road and near Pereslavl. In Moscow, at the Sretensky Gate there was a courtyard of the monastery.
In 1922 the monastery was closed. All property was taken out, some of the icons and shrines were desecrated and destroyed. The location of the miraculous icon of the Nativity of the Mother of God remains unknown to this day. A nursing home was placed in the monastery, with departments for the mentally ill and the blind.
In 1991 Lukianov Pustyn was the first in the diocese of Vladimir to revive from oblivion. In 1992, the holy relics of St. Lucian. Now they are in the Church of the Epiphany in a carved wooden shrine. The relics of St. Cornelius were found in 1995 and laid in the Trinity Church of the Assumption Convent in Alexandrov.
In 1999, with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II of Athos, the Greek icon painter Schemamonk Paisius painted the icon "Abbess of the Holy Mount Athos" for the monastery. By that time, the Church of the Epiphany had been completely renovated. In 2001, the restoration of the Nativity Cathedral was started. For a number of reasons, it was never completed, limiting itself to the restoration of the roof, domes and domes on the temple. In 2002, the southern wall was restored - one of the first stone buildings of 1718. In 2005, one of the seven towers was restored, and in 2011 another one was restored.
At the beginning of 2008, Archimandrite Dositheos (Danilenko), who had headed the Lukianov Hermitage for 17 years, was transferred to serve in the Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem. After staying there for less than a year, on March 13, 2009, while on vacation, he suddenly died of a heart attack. The rite of monastic burial was held on March 18 at St. Danilov Monastery. The archimandrite father was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow.
In 2008, abbot Tikhon (Shebeko) was appointed rector of Lukian's hermitage
On May 28-29, 2011, celebrations were held dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the revival of St. Lukian's Hermitage and the Holy Dormition Convent in Alexandrov. The monastery was awarded the St. blgv. book. Andrei Bogolyubsky I degree "for diligent service."
The monastery is an example of a late medieval monastery with a regular composition and an ensemble of buildings from the turn of the 17th-18th centuries. The territory, surrounded by walls, has a trapezoidal plan, approaching a square oriented to the cardinal points. From the place of the lost Holy Gates, located in the middle of the southern side of the fence, a linden alley leads to the north, leading to the monastery square. To the right of the alley is a large volume of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin, facing the square with its western facade, at the end of the alley is the refectory Church of the Epiphany. From the west, the square is limited by the Rector's building, a little to the north - the Church of Catherine with hospital cells. From the north stands the Fraternal Corps, extended from west to east, and to the east of it, along the same line, the ruins of the Treasury Corps. A small rectangular pond is located in the northeast corner of the territory, a larger rectangular pond lined with trees is in the southwestern part of the monastery. A fence with four square and two round towers has been preserved around the monastery. Three arched gates were made in the northern and southern sections. To the south of the monastery complex stands the hotel building. All surviving buildings are built of brick, most of them have plastered or whitewashed facades.
At present, the monastery has land for farming, vegetable gardens, mowing, a barnyard, and a small apiary. However, the continuation of the restoration of the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin requires large funds. There are no destroyed Holy Doors in the monastery, only the foundation remains from the chapel that once stood on the burial site of St. Lucian. Not restored hospital temple vmts. Catherine. The abbot's building, the monastery wall, its towers and much more are in need of major repairs.
About the rules of the monastery
Those who enter the monastery must know the purpose and meaning of their stay in the monastery - the correction of life according to God's commandments and the struggle with their passions. To do this, first of all, it is necessary to have an inner aspiration to God, as the Source of grace-filled life, always do everything with prayer to Him, strive to know the meaning and meaning of the commandments of God, diligently read the word of God. It is also necessary to remain in complete obedience to Fr. Abbot and elder brethren. The attitude towards food, housing and clothing should be moderate and modest. It is necessary to refrain from idleness, idle talk and, especially, from condemnation. Endure all the sorrows and temptations that occur patiently, without grumbling, with the hope of God's help, treating them as cases sent from God for self-knowledge and correction.
Duties of the occupant of the monastery.
- Unquestioningly follow the requirements of the monastic Charter.
- Do not leave the territory of the monastery without the blessing of the Abbot.
- Strictly and timely attend monastic services, according to the order adopted in the monastery: on weekdays, it is obligatory to attend Midnight Office, holidays- all festive services.
- To behave reverently and dignifiedly in the church during the service, both externally and internally: not to conduct idle conversations in the church, not to walk around the church during the service and not to leave before the end of the service without good reason, listen carefully to the service and pray yourself.
- Confess to the confessor of the monastery weekly and partake of the Holy Mysteries of Christ at least once a month. The confessor of the monastery is the Abbot. In his absence and with his blessing, confession may be received by any priest of the monastery. The time of the general confession is the evening service on Saturday and the morning service on Sunday.
- Strictly and timely attend the fraternal meal. In the refectory, behave decorously and reverently, as in the continuation of the service, carefully listening to the proposed reading. Missing or late meals are not allowed.
- Do not keep food in the cell and do not take food in the cell.
- Do not hold or consume alcoholic beverages.
- Timely go to obediences and perform them conscientiously, with full devotion, as before the face of God, treating your obedience as a matter that can serve for the salvation of the soul.
- Do not take anything from the monastery property and from what is donated to the monastery without the blessing of the Abbot.
- Limit your communication with outsiders to a minimum, do not accept any outsiders in the cell, do not use mobile phones without the blessing of the Viceroy.
Holidays and honored dates
Temples and Worships
Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
In the scribe books of 1675, the temple, built by the Monk Lucian in 1649, is described as follows: “In the sovereign’s palace parish of Staroslobodskaya, in the swamp, is the monastery of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, Lukian’s Hermitage, and on the monastery the church in the name of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, made of stone for five chapters , the heads are scaly, the crosses are upholstered with white iron, and in the church there is God's mercy ... ”There were a hundred images in the temple. to the right of royal doors there was an image of the Savior Almighty Not Made by Hands, then a temple miraculous image of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in life. To the left of the royal doors was the revered icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Passionate", according to legend, brought by the monks from Moscow.
In the last years of the 17th century, due to the zeal of the tonsurer of Lukian’s Hermitage, the rector of the monastery from 1694 to 1696, and during the period of construction, the cellar of the Chudov Monastery, Hieromonk Joasaph (Koldychevsky), the construction of a five-domed stone cathedral began on the very spot where the image of the Queen of Heaven appeared and where was the first wooden church of the Nativity of the Virgin. The construction of the cathedral continued under the builder Hieromonk Moses (he ruled the monastery from 1696 to 1705). The temple was built at the expense of the Moscow merchant Onisim Feodorovich Shcherbakov and other zealots named in the annals of the monastery.
The cathedral was consecrated in 1712 by decree of Tsar Peter Alekseevich and the blessing of Metropolitan Stefan, Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, to the abbot of Lukian’s Hermitage by the builder Avraamy. The consecration was attended by the sisters of Tsar Peter Alekseevich, Princess Martha and Theodosia Alekseevna.
The cathedral was five-domed, had a porch. The middle dome of the cathedral was covered with white iron, the other four were covered with green tiles. The crosses on the heads were gilded. The cathedral had a five-tier carved gilded iconostasis. To the right of the royal doors was ancient image The All-Merciful Savior in a silver-gilt riza, and behind him in a row is the miraculous image of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in the form of a centerpiece inserted into the icon with the hallmarks of the life of the Most Holy Theotokos. The royal painters of the school of the icon painter Simon Ushakov and the goldsmiths of the Armory of the Moscow Kremlin participated in the decoration of the cathedral.
Not only members of the royal family, but also royal servants, persons of noble families who were close to the royal court, took part in the improvement of the cathedral. At this time, numerous contributions were received from people of different classes: landowners, merchants, military officers of various ranks and other patrons and admirers of the monastery, including residents of the city of Alexandrov. In the synodics of Lukianova Pustyn, the boyars Miloslavsky (relatives of the first wife of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich), Lopukhins (relatives of the first wife of Peter Alekseevich) and many noble and unknown families are commemorated. Thus the prophecy of the Monk Lucian came true: "... and great people will visit you, princes and boyars, and pious kings."
The white cathedral church with golden crosses only once required a major overhaul, which was done under the rector Father Platon in 1850. The porch, which surrounded the cathedral from three sides, was decorated on the outside with bright tiles with floral ornaments. They were made at the monastery tile factory. The top of the cathedral was painted with frescoes of the twelve great feasts. Until the beginning of the 20th century, the cathedral was not painted from the inside. And only by 1894 its internal walls and, apparently, galleries were painted with scenes from the life of Jesus Christ in the Byzantine style and the figures of individual saints. The cathedral was decorated with a porch of white stone.
The majestic gilded six-tiered iconostasis of the cathedral housed ancient revered icons of the 16th-17th centuries: to the right of the royal doors, the Image of the Savior Not Made by Hands with two forthcoming Angels in a new silver robe, behind it in a row in an icon case under a carved canopy is a temple miraculous icon of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, inserted into a frame with twelve hallmarks of the life of the Virgin; to the left of the royal doors, the image of the Holy Mother of God, brought by the Monk Lucian from Moscow, and the ancient image of the Theotokos " Burning Bush". This image had stamps on which the appearances of the Mother of God were depicted.
In 1893, under Abbot Jerome (rectorship years 1887-95), the monastery solemnly celebrated the 300th anniversary of the appearance of the miraculous icon of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. Getting ready for the celebrations seriously. At this time, painting appears on the inner walls of the temple. Academic in the style of late classicism, the murals illustrated the life of Jesus Christ and depicted saints. The saints were placed below between the windows, the gospel scenes were placed above the windows, three on each wall. The writing is chiaroscuro, the proportions are somewhat refined, the drawing is correct, the colorful combinations are restrained.
On the north wall there were compositions: “Healing of the Blind Man”, “Sermon of John the Baptist in the Wilderness” and “Blessing of the Children”. In the bottom row between the windows were depicted Reverend Kirill, Andrew and John.
On the south wall were depicted the Resurrection of the daughter of Jairus, the Sermon on the Mount, and the Healing of the Paralytic. Between the windows are Saints Ephraim and Euthymius.
On the western wall there were three compositions "The Baptism of Russia", "The Mother of God on the Throne with Saints" and "The Baptism of Olga". Between the windows of the lower row were painted Saints Savvaty, Sergius and Jerome, Anthony and Theodosius, Daniel.
After the closure of the monastery in 1920, the central part of the cathedral was mainly used as a clothes dryer, therefore, by the grace and Providence of God, the murals have mostly survived to this day. So far, they delight the eyes of the brethren and the few pilgrims of our monastery, but in the future, we hope, they will again shine with their beauty for all those who pray in the restored church.
The facade repair of the temple was carried out in the early 2000s, but, unfortunately, the restoration of the temple after the devastation of the godless years was limited to this.
The temple is under restoration.
Temple in honor of the Epiphany of the Lord
1658 - 1684
Under the Monk Cornelius in the Lucian Hermitage in 1658, a second temple was erected - in honor of the Theophany of the Lord. This temple was warm, unlike the first cold one in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin. Church of the Epiphany stood for ten years, after which the Monk Cornelius asked the Patriarch's blessing to dismantle it and rebuild it. “... a warm wooden church of the Epiphany of the Lord was built ... Opposite the warm church there is a hipped bell tower, on it there are seven bells, an iron clock is brought to the same bells” (scribe book for 1675).
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In 1680, the wooden temple was dismantled due to dilapidation, and St. Cornelius asked the blessing of Patriarch Joachim to build a new stone church. The new temple was completed in 1684, already under his successor, the builder Evagrius, and consecrated on August 30 of the same year.
By establishing a chapel in it, the holy Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates, the heavenly patron of Tsar Theodore Alekseevich, the Monk Cornelius worthily honored with eternal prayerful memory the benefactor tsar, who throughout his six-year reign favored the Lukian Hermitage, both with his personal visits and contributions. The tsar liked to make pilgrimage trips to Zalesye and repeatedly visited the Lukianov Hermitage in those cases when his path passed in this direction. He revered the miraculous Lukian icon of the Nativity of the Theotokos, honored the memory of the founder of the desert, the Monk Lucian, and used the advice and instructions of the Monk Cornelius. And, as a result of his goodwill, he generously endowed the Lukianov desert with lands and lands. In the sacristy of the monastery before the revolution, his original letters of 1677, 1678, 1680 and 1681 were preserved. for the possession of granted lands, which became the main source of the monastery's welfare. The monastery kept the memory of each personal visit of the king. It was September 19, 1677, when he went from Moscow to Alexandrov Sloboda and after that visited Lukianov Hermitage, September 21, 1678, under the same circumstances, September 15, 1679 on the way to Pereslavl Zalessky, having spent two days in the desert.
This wonderful temple, which still exists in the monastery with minor renovations, is a vivid example of the skill of Russian architects of that time. Its two heads were covered with wooden scales, the cross with white iron, and the roof with a hew. Inside the temple, everything was simple, alien to pretentiousness, everything was conducive to prayer, the walls were not painted until the 20th century. The icons in the iconostasis of two aisles - the Epiphany of the Lord and the Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates - were large, not covered with riza. They were decorated with chased silver crowns gilded with stones, as well as pearl necklaces. In the four-tiered iconostasis of the main chapel, to the right of the royal doors, there was a temple icon of the Epiphany of the Lord, and to the left of them - the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God. It was one of the early copies of the icon brought from Athos to Moscow during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich. So the Goalkeeper of Mount Athos from the end of the 17th century guarded the Lukianov monastery.
In the refectory part of the temple, on the first pillar, hung the image of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, and around the image, which was a centerpiece, the Lord's and Mother of God feasts were written; they were under a gilded silver salary.
There were fifteen bells on the bell tower: one large, one everyday weighing 21 pounds 28 pounds, seven small and six more small.
Under the temple, "tents" were made to store monastic property and household supplies.
In a special room was the vestry of the monastery, which kept two ancient gospels of the Moscow press (one from 1677 and the other from 1685), richly decorated, two silver-gilded crosses with particles of relics - contributions from admirers of the Lukian monastery, church vessels - the contribution of the Grand Duchess Natalia Alekseevna. Four letters of Tsar Theodore Alekseevich and other monastic documents were kept here.
Temple iconostases were two-tiered. Unfortunately, they did not survive. It can be assumed that some icons were painted by famous painters, most likely they were icons of a local row. The synodics of Lukian's Hermitage contain the names of painters: Sovereign Simon Ushakov, Patriarchal Feodor Elizarov, painters of the Armory Chamber Karp Ivanov, Sovereign Feodor Evstifeev. It can almost be said with certainty that the temple icon, which was in the iconostasis of the aisle of Theodore Stratilates. painted by one of these painters.
In 1892, a hipped porch was built in front of the bell tower.
In 1911 the temple was painted.
In the Soviet period, the chapters were lost, the windows of the second floor and the refectory were hewn, the decor of the facades was partially lost, the quadrangle was roofed with four slopes under slate, the top was completely lost, an additional entrance was attached to the altar. A wide arched opening connecting the main volume with the chapel was partially blocked. Before the transfer of the monastery to the Church, a dining room was located in the temple.
After the opening of the monastery, the Church of the Epiphany was the first to be restored. With the help of God, all historical architectural forms were restored.
The temple is located in the central part of the monastery ensemble. This is a type of a three-part pillarless temple with 2 lights. A high pillarless quadrangle unites the main volume of the temple itself and the northern chapel. The double-headed volume of the temple is quite rare for the architecture of the 17th century, as well as the two-pillar refectory elongated along the longitudinal axis. The temple and the refectory form a single, longitudinally elongated two-story volume, ending in the east with two faceted apses: a larger one from the south and a smaller, aisle one from the north. Above the eastern part of the total volume rises a quadrangle common to the main and aisle temples, elongated in the transverse direction and ending with two cupolas on round deaf drums. From the west rises a hipped bell tower with an octagonal tier of ringing on a square base and two tiers of rumours. In front of the bell tower there is a porch with a tetrahedral tent on four pillars.
A warm, winter refectory and warm temple premises were located on the first floor, and summer ones on the second. The refectory halls on both floors are covered with a system of box vaults on formwork resting on two pillars that are square in cross section. The premises of the Church of the Epiphany on both floors are larger, while the aisle of Theodore Stratilates has a very small size and a small apse. Both the temple, and its apse, and the chapel are covered with box vaults, while the apse of the chapel is covered with a faceted conch. The rooms on the sides of the bell tower have flume vaults.
Temple in honor of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine
Catherine's Church is located in the northwestern part of the monastery ensemble. It stands next to the ruined remains of a hospital ward built at the end of the 17th century. Built of bricks, a small temple initially received a restrained decoration in the spirit of late classicism. Rectangular in plan, the volume of the temple is elongated from the server to the south and is completed with a late hipped roof with an onion dome on the original round blind drum.
Preparations for the construction of the temple began in 1712. On March 1, 150 barrels of lime were prepared for the hospital church, "firewood was bought for firing bricks for the construction of the hospital church 500 fathoms."
On May 13, 1713, the builder Abraham filed a petition to Tsar Peter Alekseevich “that they don’t have a church of God in the desert near the hospital, and because of antiquity many monks on sick leave cannot go to the cathedral church with other brethren to the liturgy, and now their depositor Lieutenant Colonel Kirillo has promised Karpov's son Sytin in that hospital to rebuild a stone church in the name of the Great Martyr Catherine ”and asked for permission. Metropolitan Stefan, guardian of the patriarchate, gave a blessed charter for the construction of a hospital church.
The temple was built at the expense of the landowner of the village of Dubrovy, Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Karpovich Sytin. In 1714 the church building was built. Immediately behind the temple there was a fraternal cemetery, it was closely adjacent to the building of the monastery hospital for the convenience of attending services by the sick and infirm monks kept there. The temple was consecrated on November 10, 1714, at the request of the temple builder, in honor of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine.
The first description of the Catherine's Church refers to 1718: “At the hospital, a stone church in the name of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine. On the church, the dome is wooden, upholstered with wooden scales, an iron cross with a shine in one direction is gilded. There are six glazing windows in the church and in the altar.
In the inventory of the monastery for 1756, it is noted that the church is "empty". Apparently, by 1756 services were not held in the temple.
By 1772, the Church of the Great Martyr Catherine "is being renovated by the landowner Karp Kirillovich Sytin." Apparently, the son of Cyril Karpovich Sytin, at whose expense the temple was built.
In 1834, the building was rebuilt again "at the expense of the Alexandrovsky 2nd guild of merchants Ivan, Grigory and Alexander Dmitrievich Ugolkov-Zubov."
In 1891, a new ceiling, rolling and floor were made in the Catherine's Church. The temple and sacristy with it are lined outside and inside with cement mortar bricks, re-plastered and painted with oil paint. “Two crosses are gilded, the roof is all painted with copper, the entrance to it is reattached from the south side.” The interior of the temple is painted. The temple was re-consecrated on July 29, 1891.
The first iconostasis of the Catherine's Church was built in 1714 in "one belt with carved pillars and a canopy over the royal doors, and a special stamp."
In 1806, the iconostasis was gilded and updated with newly painted images.
By decree of the ecclesiastical consistory of February 16, 1833, it was allowed in the Catherine's Church "to re-arrange the iconostasis, which had brought it into disrepair and tarnished, to paint icons in it again for the dilapidation of the former." This work was carried out at the expense of Ivan and Grigory Dmitriev Zubov.
In 1891, in the Catherine's Church, “the iconostasis was re-corrected with new carvings, painted and gilded. Icons have been re-corrected. This new three-tiered iconostasis is described in the inventory of Lukian's Hermitage for 1895: “The iconostasis is carpenter's work with three tiers. The royal gates are slotted, on them are icons: the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, ... According right side royal doors of the icon of the Lord Almighty, ... On south door Archangel Gabriel, Great Martyr Catherine, ... On the left side of the royal gates of the icon of the Mother of God with the Eternal Child sitting on the throne ... On the northern door of the Archangel Michael, All Saints ..., St. Nicholas. In the second tier of the icon: above the royal doors the Last Supper. On the right side of the icon: the Life-Giving Trinity, the Theophany of the Lord, the Ascension of the Lord. By left side Christmas icons Holy Mother of God, Nativity of Christ, Entry into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos. In the third tier of the icon. In the middle is the position in the tomb of the Savior. On the right side, the Prayer for the Chalice, the Kiss of Judas, the Presentation of the Lord, the Transfiguration of the Lord. On the left side of the Descent from the Cross, the Entrance to Jerusalem, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross of the Lord, the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos. In this inventory, behind the altar there is indicated “a gilded metal seven-candlestick on the same chains with seven cups ... In the middle of the church, a bleached copper chandelier, gilded in places with 24 candlesticks on iron chains, was lowered down the booth.”
After the closing of the monastery in 1925, a club was equipped in the Catherine's Church. AT postwar period in the monastery there was a nursing home, where the elderly and the “quiet” were kept (“violently crazy” went to Vladimir). The Church of the Great Martyr Catherine with a hospital ward was adapted to the needs of this institution. In the altar part of the Catherine's Church there was a bakery, and in the other part - a bathhouse, which were heated with firewood.
In the bathhouse, a huge cauldron was put into the stove, where water was heated, and next to it stood a huge, man-sized vat for cold water. Water was supplied by a water carrier. The working day of the bath was as follows: one day - male, the other - female. The rest of the days were given over to the laundry, where state-owned invalid underwear was washed by hand.
The House for the Invalids was withdrawn at the end of 1984, and since then the monastery has been formally on the balance sheet of the Vladimir Regional Department of Culture. But in fact, the monastery was abandoned to the mercy of fate, the territory of the monastery was not guarded by anyone, and over the 7 years before the transfer of the monastery to the Church of the Desert, it suffered significant destruction. Buildings were dilapidated and dismantled for building materials. At this time, the hospital ward at the Catherine's Church was also lost, and the temple itself fell into disrepair.
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