Bogolyubovo Monastery

Bogolyubsky Monastery of the Nativity of the Virgin (since the XIX century in honor of the appearance of the Bogolyubsky Icon of the Mother of God ) - a female Orthodox monastery in the village of Bogolyubovo, Suzdal district, Vladimir Region ( Vladimir and Suzdal Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church ).

The monastery occupies the territory of the palace-castle of Andrei Bogolyubsky - the only civil building of pre-Mongol Rus, which has survived to our time even partially.

Contents [ hide ] 1	Bogolyubsky Castle 2	The history of the monastery 3 The	revival of monastic life 4	Architectural ensemble of the monastery 5	Shelter for minors 6	Notes 7	References 8	External links Bogolyubsky Castle [ edit | edit source ] Main article: Bogolyubsky Castle The Vladimir-Suzdal prince Andrei Yuryevich Bogolyubsky (the second son of the Rostov-Suzdal prince Yuri Vladimirovich Dolgoruky ) founded a country residence in 1158 around the city ​​- the "hailstone" Bogolyubovo [1], in which he also erected a church in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin. Later sources explained the choice of the place of the will of the Mother of God, either through the Vladimir icon , or at her appearance to Prince Andrew (see Bogolyubskaya icon of the Mother of God ).

Icon "The Appearance of Our Lady of St. Andrei Bogolyubsky, the 19th century. In the background - panorama of Bogolyubsky Monastery

The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin and the remnants of the castle of Andrew Bogolyubsky (below the tent of the bell tower)

Sergey Zagraevsky. Reconstruction of the castle of Andrew Bogolyubsky [2] The ensemble of the princely residence included, in addition to the temples, a two-story stone palace and a stone cognac ; the castle is enclosed by stone walls (see one of the reconstructions ). "We do not know the other such a significant complex of white-stone buildings in pre-Mongol Rus," states Sergey Zagraevsky [3]. The castle was considered lost until the 1950s, until Nikolai Voronin in 1954 found a staircase and a passage to the choir connecting the tower with the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin. In the 18th century, a steeple bell tower was built over the staircase tower. The white-stone church of the Nativity of the Theotokos collapsed in 1722, but in 1751-1758 it was built again [4].

The history of the monastery [ edit | edit source ] Prince Andrew was killed in his castle. The alleged place of the murder of Prince Andrew, which is under the ladder of the staircase tower, has survived to the present day [4]. Probably, in the redemption of this atrocity and was founded in Bogoliubov monastery. NN Voronin suggested that the monastery in the castle was arranged under the successors of Andrew, in the early 13th century [3], but early information about the history of the monastery is very scarce and dates back to a much later time. In academic lists of ancient Russian monasteries, he is not listed [5].

According to the reading and writing of the kings of St. John and Peter Alekseevich in 1687, the monastery became the Patriarchal house monastery; in 1753 - synodal; later transferred to the Vladimir bishops; From 1882 until the close, he was governed by the vicar of the Vladimir diocese. With the establishment of the states in 1763, the monastery was assimilated to the third class, in 1872 - the second, and in 1891  - the first. A huge, heavy Cathedral in honor of the Bogolyubsk Icon of the Mother of God was erected in 1855-66. in the so-called. " Russian-Byzantine style " according to the project of its founder, KA Ton.

In 1921 - 1923, the rector was the vicar of the Vladimir diocese of Kovrov Bishop Athanasius (Sakharov). June 3, 1923 the monastery was closed; On September 17 of the same year, the Presidium of the Vladimir Uyezd Executive Committee decided to transfer all the property of the former monastery to the district and volost executive committees; the decree of the same executive committee on December 21 and the Vladimir gubzemudravleniya of January 8, 1924 ensemble of the former monastery with all the property was transferred to the management of the museum department.

List of abbots and abbesses [show] Revival of monastic life [ edit | edit source ] In 1991, a part of the buildings was transferred to the monks led by the schemer Nicodemus. January 14, 1997 by decision of the hierarchy, 60 sisters from the Transfiguration Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Transfiguration of the Savior were transferred here; there were two monasteries: male and female. After that the active revival of the monastery began.

The Cathedral of the Bogolyubsky Icon of the Mother of God was completely plastered, steam heating was carried out. In the cathedral hanged panikadila : central weighing about 2 tons and nine small side; granite and marble laid floor, white marble - salt, altar , throne , altar and a higher place. The mural paintings were restored, in 2002 a new three-level carved gilded iconostasis was made. Farm buildings were erected, an orchard was planted, and cell buildings were restored. There are sewing, icon painting, carpentry workshops. The neighborhood of the bell weighs 1050, 2500 and 8000 kg. On the holy spring at the walls of the monastery a chapel is builtand two fonts.

The tradition of the procession with the Bogolyubsk icon of the Mother of God, established in the 18th century, was revived in memory of the miraculous cessation of prayers before the image of the terrible frosty weather. The religious procession from the city of Vladimir to the Holy Bogolyubsky Monastery is performed every July 1 - the day of the celebration of the Bogolyubsky Icon of the Mother of God.

The construction of the farmstead in the Spas-Kupalishcha tract of the Sudogodsky district near the confluence of the Sudogdy River into the Klyazma River was completed by the forces and means of the Holy Bogolyubsky Monastery. Since 2001, with the blessing of Archbishop Vladimir and Suzdal Evlogiya, an entire monastic complex with a cell building and economic buildings was erected from scratch, a miraculous source is arranged, the restoration of the Transfiguration Church has now been completed, in which divine services are renewed.

Architectural ensemble of the monastery [ edit | edit source ]

Cathedral in honor of the Bogolyubsk Icon of the Mother of God (1855-66, architect KA Ton ) and the bell tower Cathedral in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1751-1758) Remains of the palace of Andrei Bogolyubsky (1158-1165) The Annunciation Church (1683), rebuilt in 1804 Cathedral in honor of the Bogolyubsky Icon of the Mother of God (1855-1866) The Gate Belltower (1841) [4] [6] Shelter for minors [ edit | edit source ] In September 2009, the media reported the escaping in August of 2 girls-pupils of the monastic shelter for minors: Valentina Perova, 16, who fled from the orphanage, sent letters of accusation to the RF Prosecutor-General, Patriarch Kirill and the President of the Russian Federation [7] [8] [9].

October 1 2009, it was reported that a special committee appointed by Patriarch Kirill, is engaged in the situation around the shelter at convent [10]. Some observers scandal in connection with the escape was regarded as a provocation against the ultraconservative archimandrite Peter (Kucher) [11]. On November 18 of the same year, the chairman of the Investigation Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, proposed to legislatively guarantee the observance of the rights of minors held in monastic shelters, which was the result of a check conducted in connection with the treatment of the orphanage pupil at the Bogolyubsky Monastery Valentina Perovoj about the unlawful deprivation of her and another pupil freedom. [12]

On December 4, 2009, it was reported that in the work of the shelter at the monastery, the specialists who carried out the check revealed a number of violations of the legislation; the abbess was deprived of the right to guardianship, but the verification did not confirm the facts of the ill-treatment of the nuns with the shelter dwellers, which were set forth in a letter of the former ward of Valentina Perovoi's orphanage to the president and the patriarch [13].

In the beginning of October 2010, two 17-year-old girls fled from the monastic shelter and turned to the police, and a few days later the father of Vitaliy Rysev, the director of the Suzdal Diocesan School-Board, came to the Izvestia newspaper along with three former orphans. some of the children from Bogolyubsky Monastery were transferred. The article in "Izvestia" quoted the mother of one of the former novices, who said: "Very often, the crying of children from the teacher's room was heard, they were beaten with a belt, many of them had fingerprints on their legs and hands." Commissioner for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin, Commissioner for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov and the Russian Prosecutor General's Officepromised to investigate reports of beatings and mockeries of children who had previously lived in the monastery shelter [14].

As one of the runaway pupils of the Bogoliubov orphanage reported, the children were taught in it that a monarchy would be restored in Russia, and one of the male pupils would become the new "king of All Russia" [15].

On October 21, 2010, the media reported that the order of Archbishop Vladimir Eulogia (Smirnov) in the monastery discontinued any stay of underage children - even with parents [16].

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↑ PSRL. - T. 6. - Release. 1. - Stb. 231. ↑ Zagraevsky, S.V. Velikoknyazhesky castle in Bogolyubovo: the experience of graphic reconstruction. / Mat-XVII interregional. ethnographer. Conf. (April 20, 2012). - T. 1. - Vladimir, 2013. - P. 296-312. ↑ Jump up to: 1 2 RusArch - Zagraevsky SV Bogolyubovsky architectural ensemble of the late 1150s-early 1170s: issues of history and reconstruction ↑ Jump up to: 1 2 3 AV Mashtafarov. Bogolyubsky in honor of the appearance of the Bogolyubsk Icon of the Mother of God (Nativity of the Virgin) monastery // Orthodox Encyclopedia. - M .: The Church-Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia", 2002. - T. V. - S. 465-471. - 752 sec. - 39,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-010-2. ↑ MI Bylkhova. Monasteries in Russia XI - the middle of the XIV century ↑ Description of the buildings of the monastery. Holy Bogolyubsky Women's Monastery ↑ The scandal around the Holy Bogolyubsky Women's Monastery in the Vladimir Region is covered with new details ↑ Escape from the monastery " Novaya Gazeta », № 105 of September 23, 2009. ↑ "KP": inmates of the orphanage at the Bogoliubov Monastery were deprived of food and beaten to bruises NEWSru, October 20, 2009. ↑ Church check of the incident in the shelter of the monastery in the Vladimir region revealed the facts of concern NEWSru October 1, 2009. ↑ Alexey Dobychin. CLEANING. The original script and the true director of the information show around the Holy Bogolyubsky Monastery portal-credo.ru September 28, 2009. ↑ The head of the UPC raises the issue of legislative guarantees of the rights of minors that are kept in the monasteries of Interfax-Religion, November 18, 2009. ↑ The abbot of the Bogoliubov Monastery was deprived of custodial rights regarding the Interfax-Religion contained in the orphanage , December 4, 2009. ↑ Monastery under Vladimir is being checked by investigators and officials // BBC Russian - 25 October 2010 ↑ The driver with the whip brought up the future king? ↑ Vladimir Archbishop suspended the work of the children's shelter of the Bogolyubsky Monastery NEWSru, October 21, 2010. Literature [ edit | edit source ] Hegumen Aristarchus. The chronicle of the Bogolyubov Monastery from 1158 to 1770. M., 1878, 20 p. A.V. Mashtafarov. Bogolyubsky in honor of the appearance of the Bogolyubsky icon monastery // Orthodox Encyclopedia. - M .: The Church-Scientific Center "Orthodox Encyclopedia", 2002. - T. V. - S. 465-471. - 752 sec. - 39,000 copies. - ISBN 5-89572-010-2. Reference [ edit | edit source ] Official site Bogolyubsky in honor of the phenomenon of the Bogolyubsky icon monastery Article in the Orthodox Encyclopedia Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve [ show ]⛭ Monasteries of the Vladimir region [ show ]⛭ The Ancient Monasteries of Russia Categories :Objects of cultural heritage of Russia in alphabetical orderFederal objects of cultural heritage in the Vladimir regionMonasteries in alphabetical orderMonasteries of the Vladimir dioceseWomen's monasteriesSuzdal districtMonuments of architecture of Ancient RussiaConstructions of Constantine Ton