Rzhischevsky Transfiguration Monastery is a convent of the Belotserkov diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in the city of Rzhischev, Kiev region .
| Monastery | |
| Rzhischevsky Transfiguration Monastery | |
|---|---|
| A country |  Ukraine |
| Location | Rzhischev |
| Denomination | Orthodoxy , UOC (MP) |
| Diocese | Belotserkovsky and Boguslavsky diocese |
| Type of | Female |
| Founder | Anthony Pechersky and Theodosius Pechersky |
Content
- 1 History of the monastery
- 2 The decline of the monastery
- 3 Revival of the monastery
- 4 Shrines
- 5 notes
- 6 Literature
- 7 References
Monastery History
According to church legends, the monastery was founded 80 km from Kiev by the founders of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra Blessed Anthony and Theodosius : “The holy elders fled peace and bustle, looking for peace and grace, and in a boat passage from the Kiev Pechersk Lavra in natural caves they founded a small wagon in place which over time the monastery arose. ” This apocrypha dates back to the 13th century [1] .
A different version of the emergence of the monastery was given by the famous Ukrainian landowners brothers Voronichi, the founders of the monastery. According to the letter of donation of the village of Balyki to the monastery in 1649 , it is indicated that the first rzhischevsky monastery was founded by the ancestors of the Voronichi and was under the jurisdiction of the Kiev-Kirillovsky monastery [2] .
At the end of the XVI century, the Transfiguration Monastery among the three monasteries of the Kiev region received a crown letter from the Polish king Stephen Batory , who granted him the right, along with the Mezhigorsky and Trakhtemirovsky monasteries , to be the last refuge of the old Cossacks, warriors “worn out”.
At the end of 1653, the first meeting of the Moscow ambassador Boyar V.V. Buturlin with the hetman of Ukraine Bogdan Khmelnitsky took place in the Rzhyschevsky Transfiguration Monastery. It was in the Rzhischevsky monastery that they began a preliminary discussion of the conditions of a peace allied treaty, later known as the Pereyaslavsky treaty [3] .
During the Russian-Turkish war of 1676-1681 . the monastery was devastated, its lands were given to the Catholic monastery of Rzhishchev, and the monastery in 1710 was assigned to the Metropolitan House of the Sofia Monastery .
In the status of the male, the Preobrazhensky monastery lasted until 1852 , after which it was reformed into a female. In 1870 , a female teacher's seminary was opened at the monastery, which trained teachers of parish schools . The last issue was 1917 . By that time, the monastery had three churches: St. Barbara, the Church of the Transfiguration and the Church of the Life-Giving Source.
The Russian writer N. S. Leskov wrote in the early 1880s: “I visit Kanev almost every year, because there, in this city and its county, I have close relatives whom I like to relax in the summer. In the same Kanevsky district there is a lovely deserted female “monastery”, nicknamed “Rzhishchevsky”, the treasurer of which is my sister Nun Gennady ” [4] .
The decline of the monastery
In 1927 the monastery was dissolved, some of the nuns were repressed, some were simply dispersed and only a few remained to live next to the monastery. At first, after the closure, the artel-commune was located in the monastery buildings, at the end of 1927 an agricultural technical school was located in the monastery buildings.
Revival of the monastery
In 1995 , the monastery was revived, although only a few miraculously survived icons remained from it, a fragment of the refectory and monastery control.
Shrines
Particles of the relics of prpp. Pechersk, St. Theophan the Recluse , St. Basil , St. Marsalia, schiarch. Divnogorsk, St. Gabriel of Athos , St. Ignatius of Rostov , St. Ignatius of Mariupol, St. Alexy of the Carpathians; revered icons of the vmc. Barbarians, St. Lawrence of Chernihiv, the icon is right. John of Kormyansky with a particle of relics; stones from st. places of Jerusalem, from the place of the feat of Equapo. Nina, from the scene of the killing 40 mchch. Caucasian with blood, from the place of killing Mch. Simone Kananita with blood. The source of John the Baptist is in with. Ulyaniki , 5 km from the monastery.
In addition to the remains of the Transfiguration Monastery in Rzhishchev there are the Trinity Church (1860) and the cellars of the Trinitarian Catholic monastery.
Notes
- ↑ Rzhyschevsky Transfiguration Monastery // News Nadrosa. - Bila Tserkva, 1996 .-- March 29-4, 2004. S. 7.
- ↑ Russian Orthodox monasteries. A full illustrated description of all Orthodox Russian monasteries in the Russian Empire and on Mount Athos. Compiled by P.P.Soykin. - SPb., Book publishing of P.P. Soikin, 1910. S. 596
- ↑ Myakotin V.A. Pereyaslavsky treaty of 1654. - Prague, 1930
- ↑ Life of Nikolai Leskov
Literature
- Encyclopedia of Ukrainian knowledge. At 10 t. / Goal. ed. Volodimir Kubіovich. - Paris; New York: Young Life, 1954-1989.
- Umrikhin V.V. Istoriya Rzhishchivschini. We found the most recent hours to our days. - Rzhishchiv, 1995.
- Umrikhin V.V. Rzhishchiv - 850 years: The most valuable zbіrnik . - Rzhishchiv, 2001 .-- 63s. : il.