Shenkursky Holy Trinity Monastery

It was founded in 1664 in Shenkursk on the place of the parish Catherine and Trinity churches, during which elderly poor women lived, who were called Ekaterina’s old women. The permission to open the monastery came from Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich nun Martha, who became the first abbess.

In 1764, during the secularization reform, the monastery was abolished, and its four nuns were transferred to the Kholmogory Assumption Convent .

In 1778, restored and became masculine.

On November 1, 1853, a huge stone temple was laid down according to the plan. In the course of 12 years, the building was not even brought to vaults for lack of money. The church council was very poor, almost no donations were received, newspaper ads received up to 890 rubles, and 8 thousand were required.

On August 11, 1857, a fire broke out that caused irreparable damage to the monastery: the Church of the Holy Trinity burned down (the Catherine's Church burned down even earlier), the bell tower, storerooms, part of the monastery wall, the monastery archive and church property: expensive salaries, an icon donated by Anna Ioannovna, and much more.

In 1865, converted to women. Thirty sisters from the Kholmogory monastery, headed by Superior Superior Theophania, actively began to resume the decaying monastery.

The abbess Feofania (Sidorova) , who reigned in the monastery in 1866-1888, was “the old lady of mercy, meek, and the sisters the mother of child-love”. In her administration, the monastery came into a flourishing state, many stone buildings were erected, for which she was awarded the silver-embroidered cross of the Synod and the golden cross with diamond ornaments.

The main occupations of the sisters were animal care and tillage.

The revered icon of the Mother of God of Three-handedness was kept in the monastery; on the day of the celebration of this holy day. icons and on the day of the Holy Trinity around the monastery a procession was carried out, and on July 25 - in the Makaryevsky desert.

The monastery had a hospice house and workshop: icon painting, gold embroidery, handicraft, etc.

The monastery was attributed to: Makaryevskaya desert (16 miles from it) and Uzdrinsk desert , near the confluence of the river Uzdra in the river Puyu , 112 miles away to the south-west of Shenkursk.

The growth of welfare of the Shenkursk monastery allowed to contain a significant number of sisters. In 1917, there were 64 nuns and 54 novices in the monastery.

In 1918, the new government seized earthen grounds from the monastery.

However, in February 1920, the departments of health and social services were located in the premises of the former monastery.

In the spring of 1922, in connection with the famine in the Volga region, a decree was received about the seizure of church property (in fact, legalized their pillaging).

On July 17, 1923, the executive committee decided to close the monastery. In 1924, Shchegolikhin, the chairman of the district executive committee, wrote a memorandum that “ShenUMK did not implement this resolution in a timely manner”, meanwhile “the swamped nest of Cherni under the illegal guidance of the administrative-exiled priest of the archpriest Rudinsky ... presented new conditions for the district county”.

After the reorganization of Holy Trinity Church in 1926, a “cinema” “Revolution” was placed on the upper floor, and a local history museum in the lower floor.

• Trinity Monasteries // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 extra.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Soykin P.P. Shenkursky Holy Trinity Monastery // Orthodox Russian monasteries : A full illustrated description of the Orthodox Russian monasteries in the Russian Empire and on Mount Athos. - SPb. : Resurrection, 1994. - p. 69-70. - 712 s. - 20 000 copies - ISBN 5-88335-001-1 .

• Trinity Shenkursky nunnery on the site of the Temples of Russia
• Shenkursky Holy Trinity Convent. (T. Shunina, Researcher, Museum of Regional Studies)
• Codem Parish