The monastery is biography

In this regard, we suggest that you find out the story of the image itself, recall the history of the monastery and get acquainted with the plan of its upcoming restoration. The icon of the Mother of God "Nicopay" - Byzantine origin. This is a waist image of the Virgin, holding in front of him in the arms of the goddress. The prototype dates from the beginning of the 12th century.

Initially, he was in the monastery of St. John the Theologian in Constantinople. It was believed that the image gave protection to those who revered him, so the Byzantine emperors prayed in front of him in battles. The icon was considered the keeper of the imperial house and the emblem of the triumph of her troops over enemies. When plundered by Constantinople, the image was taken to Venice in the year and placed in the Cathedral of St.

Mark. Until a year, he was located in the sacristy and put on public display only on big holidays. The northern limits of our Motherland, especially in ancient times, have always been attacked from the outside, have always been a defensive line. And to whom, as not to the mistress of the Virgin, at all times, the noble princes and princesses, warriors, and peasants resorted.

And they were never left by the mercy of the Queen of Heaven. We believe that the holy image of the winner will help strengthen and revive our monastery, ”says the abbess of the Assumption of the Old Ladoga Monastery of the abbess of Euphrosyne. The rector of the Novodevichy Monastery Sofia, representatives of the Committee on the Leningrad Region and the Head of the Volkhovsky District, and representatives of the Malachit structural bureau, and representatives of the Malachite Bureau, and representatives of the Malachite structural bureau, The participation of which is written and decorated with a metal salary.

The life of the monastery. Behind these words are designers and men and women, and for them it means a lot, because the defense capability of our country is not only in the weapons that we create, but also in the faith, the bearers of which you are, ”said the representative of the Malachite Bureau Vladimir Dorofeev to the sisters of the monastery. It was created as a temple of a tomb for the faces of the princely kind of Rurikovich.

The temple could arise simultaneously with the construction of the Ladoga fortress in - gg. The probable customer of the temple could be the Novgorod prince Mstislav the Great. The transfer of the icon was one of the events on the occasion of the upcoming celebration of the flying of the monastery. Just imagine: the Old Ladoga Monastery was founded in the XII century!

But the time of its foundation is impossible to determine with accuracy, because over the years of historical battles, almost all annalistic sources have been destroyed. There are enough versions about the founders of the monastery, but the Sisters themselves say that the works of the construction of the cathedral were put by Prince Mstislav the Great, who also erected a stone fortress on Ladog in - years.

In the Time of Troubles, the monastery was ruined by the Swedes. It is to this period that the disappearance of written monuments on the monasteries of the old Ladoga is also attributed. Only after the conclusion of the Stolbovsky world in the year, the sisters of the monastery resumes work. In the same year, its main temple was re -consecrated - the stone church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Mother of God - the northernmost of the temples of the pre -Mongol period of Ancient Rus'.

В году в монастырь была сослана первая супруга Петра Первого, Евдокия Фёдоровна Лопухина — последняя русская царица. She lived in the monastery for 7 years. The walls of this monastery remember the stay of A. Hannibal, great -grandfather of the poet Alexander Pushkin - Evdokia. Under Nicholas I, relatives of the Decembrists lived in the monastery. As the church messenger “Living Water” writes on his pages in his pages, “the monastery became a witness to many key milestones of Russian statehood and, if the walls had ears and could speak, would tell the words of not husbands about those events, but the wives who found here, by their own will, who are against ...”.

After the October Revolution in the year of Abbess of Porfiry, in order to preserve the monastery, she wrote a petition for the organization of an orphanage here. Her request was satisfied. Up to a year, the children lived next to the nuns, then the nuns were evicted. From the year of the walls of the monastery, a correctional boarding school has occupied. In July alone, the whole complex of buildings of the monastery was handed over to the diocese.

The children were transported to a new school, and on August 28, a solemn service took place in the monastery, marked the beginning of the revival of the ancient monastery. Igumenia Angelina recalled that the territory was a real passing yard - in the summer people through the monastery in swimsuits went to the beach, in winter lovers were declared to steal iron. But patience, labors and prayers, managed to turn the situation.

After a year, they carried out a major overhaul of the monastery cuisine and the refectory, the abbess building, the cross -wing church with the reconstruction of the tank dome, recreated the chapel over the holy well and the entire stone fence around the monastery with the restoration of the lost northern wall and towers, restored the Church of Alexy, built the ringing crosses in the territory monastery.The Governor of the Leningrad Region instructed his deputies and heads of relevant committees to work out the issue of attracting federal financing for the development of the project and restoration of the Assumption Cathedral.

The house of the pilgrim is also put into operation. Perhaps the ecotropes will be laid from the monastery to the source located nearby. At the expense of extra -budgetary funds, it is planned to build a chapel nearby. Now, on the eve of the anniversary date, a large -scale project was launched to restore the entire monastery complex. Now active discussions and consultations of its ministers are underway with historians, the administration of the district and the region.

Experts are working on the development of a plan for restoration work, taking into account the historical and architectural value of the ancient monastery. Under the governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, the Board of Trustees began work to organize a new stage in the revival of the monastery. The first meeting was held in January of this year. This is one of the oldest monasteries in the northwest, we are careful about his heritage and today's life.

I understand that in the year of the holiday there will be a lot of pilgrims, tourists, so together with Leningrad organizations and our state enterprises we will help with the infrastructure, ”said Alexander Drozdenko at a meeting with the abbess of the monastery Igumenia Euphrosyne. Plans for this year are to develop projects and carry out gasification, heating, water supply and sanitation of a number of buildings, prepare a project for restoring the refectory building, and implement a design project of landscaping.

We believe that all the tasks set by the governor will be solved and brought to the end, and the monastery in all its ancient beauty will meet the day of its glorious anniversary. And the image of the Virgin of the “Nikopai” will become an adornment of the cathedral and the place where everyone will find comfort, spiritual help and support, which the Virgin who resorting to her is unquestioningly pours out, ”the abbess of the monastery of the Euphrosyne, the abbess of the monastery of Euphrosyne, shared the hope of.