Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God, Vladimir

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The Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God - the monastery of the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese, located in the city of Vladimir. Before the founding of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, it was the main center of monastic life in Northeast Russia. The Laurentian Chronicle was written in this monastery

History
In 1191 the Grand Prince of Vladimir Vsevolod Yuryevich, having chosen in a place on the east side of the city of Vladimir, laid the foundation stone of the monastery in the talus near the Ivanovo Gates. The Grand Prince himself and his entire court attended the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone. At the same time, the monastery had a dormitory and many villages and lands have been granted to the monastery by the Grand Prince. The management of the Nativity Monastery was carried out by the abbots (until 1230), while the hegumens Simon and Mitrofan, one after another, were bishops in Vladimir.

After 1230 the monastery was managed by the archimandrites. The Nativity Monastery began to be called a great archimandrite and until the time of Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich it was listed as the first among Russian monasteries. From the half of the 13th to the beginning of the 14th century, all-Russian metropolitans, who had transferred the primate church from Kiev to Vladimir, had stayed at the Monastery of the Nativity of the Mother of God, which was considered their cathedral.

XIII-XV century
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In 1214 Yuri Vsevolodovich elected Simon the Nativity Abbot as bishop of Suzdal. On March 14, 1227, in the place of Simon, on the election of the same prince, hegumen Mitrofan was consecrated to the Suzdal bishop by Metropolitan Kirill, who was then in Vladimir.

In 1230, after the election of the nephews of Yuri Vsevolodovich Rozhdestvensky, the first Archimandrite Kirill was consecrated to the bishop of Rostov.

In 1237, when Batu invaded Vladimir, the abbot of the monastery, Archimandrite Pakhomi, was killed by the Tatars, and with him the whole monastery's brethren were beaten, and the monastery itself was plundered and devastated.

November 23, 1263 Grand Prince of Vladimir Aleksandr Nevsky was buried] in the church of the Nativity Monastery, who died November 14 in Gorodets, on his way back from the Horde. When the Grand Prince's throne was transferred from Vladimir to Moscow, the Grand Princes out of respect for their ancestor Prince Aleksandr Nevsky made significant contributions to the Nativity Monastery. So, John Danilovich Kalita in 1328 in a spiritual testament wrote: "And what is there is bought a village on Kirzhach at Prokopya from the abbot, another Leontief, the third Sharapovsky, and then I give St. Alexander himself in the commemoration "; John Ioannovichin the spiritual year 1356 he wrote: "The village of Pavlovsk gave me St. Alexander in his own memory "; his son Dmitri Ioannovich in the first spiritual year of 1371 confirms: "and that my father, the great prince, gave the village of Pavlovsk to St. Alexander not to stir it up." In his spiritual letter of 1379 it is said: "And from my vessels of silver they will give a great silver dish with rings to the Holy Virgin in Volodymyr."

In 1388 the Christmas Archimandrite Pavel was consecrated by Metropolitan Pimen to the bishop of Kolomna in the place of Bishop Gerasim.

XVI-XVII century Question book-4.svg This section lacks references to sources of information. The information must be verifiable, otherwise it can be questioned and deleted. You can edit this article by adding links to authoritative sources. This mark is set July 13, 2017. In 1517, according to the conciliar election and permission of the Grand Duke, Archimandrite Gennady was placed in the bishop of Suzdal.

In 1566, Archimandrite Joachim participated in the cathedral in Moscow and was bail for Prince Mikhail Ivanovich Vorotynsky, as well as was at the cathedral of 1580, the non-acceptance of the patrimonial estates near the monasteries and the non-purchase of new ones with the peasants.

In 1584, Archimandrite Herman was at the cathedral about the abandonment of fiefdoms at the monasteries.

In 1598, Archimandrite Varlaam was in Moscow at the cathedral and signed a decree on the election of Boris Godunov to the reign.

The Gate Church of St. John the Baptist Modern musicologists consider archimandrite Isaiah (in the world Ivan Timofeevich Lukoshko) one of the greatest masters of banners, a representative of her "Usolskaya" school. In 1613, the archimandrite was at the election to the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich and signed the first letter after the bishops under the electoral charter. In 1605 Archimandrite Isaiah became the confessor of False Dmitry I of. He was on June 22, 1619, when he was appointed to the patriarchal throne of Metropolitan Philaret of Rostov. And on September 28, 1645, Archimandrite Ion attended the wedding ceremony for the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich.

In 1667 the Greek patriarchs - Paisius of Alexandria and Macarius of Antioch, who traveled to the Great Moscow Cathedral , while staying in Vladimir and respecting his antiquity and celebrity, upon his arrival in Moscow, with the permission of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich and on the advice of Patriarch Joasaph, granted the Archimandrite of the Nativity Monastery Filaret the right to wear the tablets on the mantle and use the staff of the bishops to serve in the ministry, which they also gave him the diploma; from this time, Archimandrite Filaret began to be called the Reverend. In the same year, Filaret was at the Moscow Cathedral to correct the book and various church rituals, and on November 30 of this year he was instructed to present the letter to Patriarch Nikon about his arrival from the Resurrection Monastery to Moscow, and on December 1 was with the deposition of Nikon among the sobors.

In 1672, Archimandrite Vikenty corrected the life of St. Alexander Nevsky, compiled at the behest of the tsar and Grand Duke John Vasilievich, hieromonk Mikhail.

XVIII century Question book-4.svg This section lacks references to sources of information. The information must be verifiable, otherwise it can be questioned and deleted. You can edit this article by adding links to authoritative sources. This mark is set July 13, 2017.

The building of the bishop's house July 14, 1723, Archimandrite Sergius received the Imperial decree of Emperor Peter I about the transfer to St. Petersburg of the relics of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky, who had been open since 1381, in the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. The last archimandrites of the Nativity Monastery Pavel and Platon Petrunkevich were members of the Holy Synod.

As early as 1561, according to the will of Tsar John Vassilievich, and according to the charter of the All-Russian Metropolitan Makarios, the Troitsko-Semkieva Monastery was given priority, and Vladimir-Rozhdestvensky was given the second place, and according to the arrangement of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery since 1720 it was considered to be the third one, but this monastery in its antiquity and the advantages that were given to its abbots, has always been in the direct jurisdiction of all-Russian metropolitans, then patriarchs, and finally, depending on the holiest synod among the stauropegic.

At the beginning of the XVIII century, as seen from the census books of the city of Vladimir, compiled in 1715 by the landlord Prince Artemy Ukhtomsky, there were 64 people in the Nativity Monastery, including two archimandrites, six hieromonks and five hierodeacons. From the surviving census book of the same time, according to the census of the Chief Inspector Semyon Nikiforovich Korovin, the instructor of Andrei Fedorovich Borkov and the commandant Andrei Mikhailovich Veshnyakov, "Volodimers'ka posadsky and yamskom and any rank of townspeople" it is clear that the Christmas monastery of the servants had 96 yards on the monastic land in the village of Makarovka near the land, 13 mansions and 5 courtyards of servants attributed to the Christmas monastery of the Spassky Zlatovratsky monastery.

New Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin July 16, 1744 by decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna it was decided to establish from the synodal region the Vladimir dioceseand turn the stauropegic Christmas monastery into a bishop's house, for the newly appointed bishop Platon in Vladimir, since up to now the bishops had their own residence in Suzdal. Before the establishment in 1764 of the states, the monastery had 7,899 peasants and the most hierarchical house was kept by its incomes. In 1789, at the conjunction of the Vladimir diocese with Suzdal, Bishop Victor moved to stay in Suzdal, and the Vladimir Hierarchic House entered the civil department and accommodated Governor-General Zaborovsky. In 1797, Bishop Victor, reporting to the Holy Synod that the Vladimir Hierarchic House, after leaving the Governor-General, remained idle, represented his opinion about the transfer of the second-class Tsare-Konstantinov Monastery, but in 1798, before the journeyEmperor Paul I to Kazan, from the Holy Synod followed by a decree on the stay of the Eminence still in Vladimir, and Bishop Victor moved from Suzdal, taking Vladimir's Nativity Monastery in Vladimir. From this time the Vladimir bishops have a permanent monastery.

The Rozhdestvensky Monastery, where the episcopal chair was located, stands in the place of the most beautiful, high, near the cathedral on the banks of the Klyazma River; hall in it the most charming, a prospect. However, the buildings in that monastery are small and circumference is not large; The stone fence is small and the tower we did not notice. Surprised us that the monastery was of the first, and the building in it a little. - Plato (Levshin), 1792 [2]

XIX-XXI century

Memorial plaque on the monastery wall along Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street Question book-4.svg This section lacks references to sources of information. The information must be verifiable, otherwise it can be questioned and deleted. You can edit this article by adding links to authoritative sources. This mark is set July 13, 2017. On August 24, 1858, Emperor Alexander II inspected the ancient church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the monastery and ordered to restore it in its ancient form. To restore the temple, the emperor donated 40 thousand rubles, as many private individuals gave, 10 thousand rubles - the Holy Synod [1]. In 1869, the architect-restorer Nikolai Artleben together with D. Koritsky ordered to demolish the temple of pre-Mongolian time and, in the guise of restoration, built a new one in its place. [ source not specified 291 days ]

From July 1918 [3] to 1991 on the territory of the monastery were located departments of the Cheka ( OGPU, NKVD , KGB ), the investigative isolator. During Stalin's repressions, relics were buried in the monastery garden, as evidenced by a memorial plaque on the wall of the monastery along Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street.

In 1991, during the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the monastery, its revival began. The monastery cathedral was rebuilt.