Knyaginin Dormition Monastery

The Knyaginin Assumption Monastery is a functioning women's monastery in Vladimir. Founded in the beginning of the XIII century by the Grand Duke Vladimir Vsevolod the Big Nest at the insistence of his wife, Grand Duchess Maria Shvarnovna. Repeatedly he was ruined, he suffered from fires. In the XX century was closed, the restoration of the monastery began in 1993.

Foundation and development
The monastery was first mentioned in 1200 [1]. He received the name Knyaginin in honor of the Grand Duchess Maria Shvarnovna, who took tonsure in this monastery with the name Maria and schema with the name of Martha, having stayed in the monastery for 18 days until her death [2]. Initially, the monastery was conceived as a family burial vault of princesses and princely daughters of the Vladimir princely house.

In the 13th century Maria Shvarnovna herself was buried here, her sister Anna, the daughter of Vsevolod III and Maria Shvarnovna Elena, later both Alexander Nevsky and Alexander's wife Alexander and Vassa, and his daughter Evdokia (they were under a slumber in the Nativity of the Assumption Cathedral) [3].

March 6, 1230 Grand Duke Vladimir Yuri (George) Vsevolodovich in the monastery were moved and buried the relics of the holy martyr Abraham of Bulgaria.

The center of the ensemble of the monastery is the Assumption Cathedral, built in the first years of the 16th century in the image and likeness of its predecessor (the lower parts of the walls of the ancient temple were preserved). It is famous for the frescoes of 1648, over which Moscow isograms worked.

XX century
The monastery was closed in 1923. In 1986, an atheistic museum was located at the Knyaginin Assumption Monastery in Vladimir, an atheistic museum is located. Once again became operational in 1992. Until 2009, it housed Bogolyubskaya icon of the Virgin, which was transferred to the monastery from the Vladimir Museum in 1992. In 2009, the mold was found mold. At the moment, the icon is in a specially equipped room of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum

Modern life [ edit | edit source ] In 1997, the monastery opened a regency school. In 2008, the chapel of the Kazan temple dedicated to St. John Chrysostom was consecrated.

The abbess of the Abbess of the Abbess Olympiad (Horuzhaya). The monastery is home to 28 sisters.

The Knyaginin monastery has its own farmstead in the village of Sanino, Suzdal Rayon.

Shrines
List with the Bogolyubsky Icon of the Mother of God. Part of the relics of the martyr Abraham of Bulgaria [4]. Icon of the Great Martyr Panteleimon with a part of the relics, written on the Holy Mount Athos, in the hermitage of the righteous Anna [5].