Saint Theodor Monastery, Kiev

Saint Theodor Monastery was built by Prince [Mstislav I Vladimirovich of Kiev (1076-1132)|Mstislav Vladimirovich]] as an extension of the church in honor of Saint Theodore Tyron Theodore Tyron, which he built in 1129. The chronicles do not mention that the monastery was built simultaneously with the church, but it is known that it was already completed in 1146.

History of the monastery
The son of Vladimir Monomakh, the Grand Duke of Kiev Mstislav Vladimirovich, built the church in honor of Saint Theodore Tyron, in whose name he had been baptizedas an exension. In the same summer, "Mystislav's church will be laid by the shrine of the holy vne Knew". The chronicle does not inform about the laying on of the prince at the church and the monastery. But in 1146 he existed, and he accepted the schema (he was cut off from the monk), who was expelled from the reign of Igor Ol'govich in Kyiv, and in 1147 he was taken and killed by the Kyivites from here. In the life of Mstislav, the foundation of the monastery is attributed to him.

The foundations of the Fedorovsky church are laid out on the surface with red quartzite. Modern look Obviously, the monastery was damaged during the battles of 1240. In 1259, Danilo Galitskyi brought out the best church utensils for his church of John Chrysostom in the hill. Of course, the right to such an act was given by the origin of the Mstislav family, since he was the great-grandson of the founder of the Fedor monastery. In those days, none of the older posterity of Mstislav was alive. Meanwhile, the monastery of his great-grandfather, desolate from the days of the Mongol invasion, retained the remnants of his former greatness. Probably the monastery ceased to exist somewhere after 1240.

Throughout its history, the monastery was a generic tomb of the Mstislavich. In 1838, on the corner of the streets of Vladimir and Zhytomyr, foundations of the building, made of square bricks. The excavation report said that two small parallel walls oriented from west to east and the third round wall were opened. To the southern wall was a tomb of the same material with her. Here were found the remains of the foundations of residential monastic buildings, located next to the church. According to researchers, these foundations should be associated with the Fedorovsky monastery, founded by the Grand Duke Mstislav Vladimirovich in 1129.

Description of the temple [ ed. • Ed. code ] The walls of the temple were recorded on the plan of Kyiv in 1638 Athanasius Kallnofoy (where the temple is named "Theodore of Tyron") and pictures of 1651 by Abraham van Westerfeld. In 1983-85 the remains of the temple were discovered by S. R. Kilievich and V. O. Kharlamov.

He was a three - headed six-storied temple measuring 28 by 19.5 m with a burial ground of 6 × 5.7 m. Oriented apse to the north-east. The foundations had a width of 1.8 m (in apse - 2.2 m). The inner diameter of the central apse is 5.8 m, the stove is 3.1 m. The foundations had wooden substructures. The laying of the walls - orderly, without a deepened row and booth. This is the first building in Kiev, built in this new masonry technique. Plint size 27,5-30 × 21-23 × 4,5 cm in cemic solution. The facades had flat pilasters according to the internal division of the structure. A floor laid with slate slabs, inlaid smaltAnd colored ceramic oblivnye tiles sized 12x12x2 cm. Church generously painted fresco painting. In the XIII century for the entire length of the southern wall a new chapel with a round apse is added. The width of the foundation raft is 1.2 m. Its walls are made of 25.5x12x7.5 cm thick tiled bricks. There were several burials in the sarcophagi of the same bricks with remnants of ornament of costume. Perhaps they belonged to someone from the Mstislavich family or their entourage.

Necropolis [ ed. • Ed. code ] The main category: buried in the church of St. Theodora (Kiev)

Memorial "Princes Tombs" Fedorovsky monastery later took the name "Votch", "father", that is, generic, and became the tomb of the descendants of Mstislav the Great. In addition to the founder, seven princes were buried here: in 1154 Kiev prince Izyaslav Mstislavich, in 1151 his wife, in 1167 his brother Rostislav Mstislavovich , 1168 - the son of Izyaslav Yaropolk Izyaslavich Lutsky, 1172 - another brother, Vladimir Mstislavich Dorogobuzsky, who had been in Prince Prince for four months only, 1187 - Mstislav Davidovich Vyshhorodsky, son of David Rostislavich Smolensky , 1196 - great-grandson of the founder of the monastery Izyaslav Yaroslavovich "lesser".

Present [ ed. • Ed. code ]

Church of St. George (photo 2007) After archaeological research, the plan of the Fedorovsky church is laid out on the surface with red quartzite.

The rebuilding of the ancient temple, the care of the memorial "Princes of the graves" was assumed by the community of St. George the Victorious, whose efforts on this ancient land, near the foundation of St. Feodor's temple, in 2003, a small church of St. George appeared. The church preserves miraculous relics of the apostles and saints and unique icons. In 2011, the masters Galina Nazarenko and Irina Kibets painted the interior of this church by the petrike [1]. The Church of St. George became the first church institution that has such a decoration.

Notes [ ed. • Ed. code ] Top ↑ Crafts, 2011 Sources [ ed. • Ed. code ] O. P. Tolochko. Fedorivsky monastery // Encyclopedia of the history of Ukraine : 10 t. / Ed.: VA Smoly (head) and others. ; Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. - K. : Science. Opinion, 2013. - Vol. 10: T. Y. - P. 276. - ISBN 978-966-00-1359-9. Fedorovskaya church Fedorivsky Votch Monastery (Encyclopedia of Kyiv) Kachur K. In Kiev, a temple appeared painted with a "petrykivka" // Handmade. - 2011 Categories :Lost monasteries in KievMonasteries of Kiev