Svyatogorsk Holy Assumption Monastery is an Orthodox male monastery in the Pskov region . Located in the village of Pushkinskiye Gory . The main shrine of the monastery is the icon of the Virgin Hodegetria , according to legend, was found around 1566 by the shepherd Timothy on one of the hills in the vicinity of the city of Voronich (now the city of Voronich as part of the A.S. Pushkin Museum-Reserve).
| Monastery | |||
| Svyatogorsk Holy Assumption | |||
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| Svyatogorsky monastery | |||
 Cathedral of the Assumption of the Svyatogorsky Monastery
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| A country |  Russia | ||
| City | Pushkin Mountains , Pskov Region | ||
| Denomination | Orthodoxy | ||
| Diocese | Pskov | ||
| Type of | Male | ||
| Established | 1569 year | ||
| Relics and Shrines | Hodegetria | ||
| Abbot | Bishop Sergius (Bulatnikov) | ||
| Viceroy | Archimandrite Makarii (Shvaiko) | ||
| Status | protected by the state | ||
| condition | satisfactory | ||
| Site | svyatogorsky.org | ||
Content
History
It was founded in 1569 by order of Tsar Ivan the Terrible as one of the border outposts of the Russian kingdom , in memory of the appearance of the Virgin Mary icons “Tenderness” and “Hodegetria” on Sinichaya (later Holy) Mountain [1] . The founder was the Pskov governor Prince Yuri Tokmakov [1] . At the end of the 16th century, it suffered from the invasion of the troops of the Polish king Stephen Batory .
In the XVI century, a monastery appeared at the monastery Tobolenets (the name is given by the name of the nearby lake), which by the beginning of the XVIII century had grown into the village of Svyatye Gory (since 1925 - Pushkin Hills ).
In the XVIII century it lost its defensive significance. At the monastery, fairs were held annually, attracting a large number of merchants and people. Svyatogorsky monastery is widely known as the burial place of the Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (buried in the family tomb of Hannibalov-Pushkin in 1837) [2] . By a synodal order of March 19, 1899, to the centenary of the poet’s birth, the monastery was transferred from the third to the second class of full-time monasteries [1] .
In 1924, the Svyatogorsk Monastery was closed by the Bolsheviks.
During the Great Patriotic War, the monastery buildings were seriously damaged, some were destroyed, others were mined.
By 1949, most of the monastery buildings were restored and until 1992 was used as an exposition and administrative part of the A.S. Pushkin State Memorial Museum-Reserve .
Since 1992, the monastery was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church . In 2007, the monastery was home to 28 monks and novices.
The monastery is protected by the state as part of the A.S. Pushkin Museum-Reserve .
Abbots and governors of the monastery
- Gennady (1587 - 1588)
- Zosima (Zavalishin) (mentioned 1598) [3]
- Joel (Ozeryansky) (mentioned 1679)
- Veniamin (Sakhnovsky) (July 8, 1726 - June 8, 1730)
- Nicodemus (Skrebnitsky) (July 1731 - January 1734)
- Theodosius (Golosnitsky) (1758-1761)
- Lawrence (Cordet) (176? —1765)
- Gennady (1827-184?) [4]
- Herman (Klitsa) (1859-18 ??)
- Mikhail (Galushko) (1922-1943 [5] )
- Arseniy (Yakovenko) (1995-200?)
- Makarii (Shvaiko) (mentioned since the mid-2000s) [3] [6]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Svyatogorsky Assumption male second-class monastery of the Pskov diocese .
- ↑ Svyatogorsk-Uspensky Monastery // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ 1 2 Pskov-Svyatogorsk Monastery in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Pushkinskiye Gory Velikiye Luki diocese .
- ↑ Sheremetevsky V.V. Gennady (archimandrite) // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- ↑ Rector of the Orthodox community after the monastery was closed
- ↑ According to the spiritual writer, Archpriest S. K. Smirnov (1818–1889), Archimandrite of the Pskov Svyatogorsky Monastery was for some time Bishop Gennady (Kratinsky) , although he is not mentioned in this capacity either in the Stroev Lists or in the special Description Svyatogorsky monastery ”, published in 1899 by the abbot John).
Literature
- Svyatogorsk-Uspensky Monastery // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Soikin P.P. Svyatogorsky Assumption Monastery in Opochetsk Uyezd // Orthodox Russian cloisters : Full illustrated description of Orthodox Russian monasteries in the Russian Empire and Mount Athos. - SPb. : Resurrection, 1994 .-- S. 174-176. - 712 s. - 20,000 copies. - ISBN 5-88335-001-1 .
- Bozyrev V.S. According to the Pushkin Reserve. - Ed. 5th. - M .: Profizdat , 1977. - 160, [32] p. - 50,000 copies.