Satisfy My Sorrows (Community)

The “Satisfy My Sorrows” community was founded in 1865 by Princess N. B. Shakhovskaya , who worked in the Nikolsky community. She and 30 women moved to a house on Pokrovskaya Street, where the community settled. Princess Shakhovskaya was the youngest daughter of Prince B. A. Svyatopolk-Chetvertinsky and the wife of the head of the nobles of Serpukhov district . In 1863, Shakhovskaya lost her husband, after which she began to engage in charity, moving to live in one of the chambers of the Police Hospital. Over time, like-minded people began to join her. In 1865, Shakhovskaya founded the “Satisfy My Sorrows” community, and three years later she was officially appointed head of the newly created community. For a long time, her assistant and deputy was the widow of a state adviser, E. G. Bushman.

In 1872, thanks to charitable donations, the community moved to Lefortovo at Hospital Square, 2, a complex of charitable institutions was gradually organized: a shelter for children, a women's school, a hospital, an outpatient clinic, a pharmacy and a shelter for elderly sisters of mercy. In 1874, a separate three-story hospital building was built on Hospital Square, where patients were kept who could no longer be cured. Then they built a two-tiered church church: the upper church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God " Satisfy My Sorrows ", the lower - in honor of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky .

In the first years of work, the community “Satisfy My Sorrows” was subordinate to the Russian Red Cross Society , but in 1881 it became a self-governing institution, received the patronage of Alexander II and was named in his honor. In 1896, the community opened an almshouse for elderly poor women, a building donated to it by E.I. Kopteva. When Shakhovskaya died (1906), the community passed under the leadership of the Moscow City Duma .

The Sisters of Mercy of the “Satisfy My Sorrows” community helped the wounded soldiers during the Serbian-Turkish , Russian-Turkish , Balkan and World War I. In peacetime, they helped the inhabitants of the entire empire, experiencing crop failures and illnesses, worked in the leper colony in Yakutia .

After the revolution, due to the spread of the epidemic of typhus in the community, a typhoid department was opened. The community worked until the early 1920s, then its building was transferred to a hospital named after N.E. Bauman . Hospital services were located in the church, its head was broken, and Shakhovskaya’s burial place was lost. From the temple there was only a semicircular altar apse on the east side of the building. Currently, the complex is located City Clinical Hospital No. 29.

• The Alexander Community of Sisters of Charity “Satisfy My Sorrows” under the auspices of the emperor. Moscow (inaccessible link)
• Page on the website Discover Moscow
• The fight against cholera epidemic in Nizhny Novgorod // World illustration. SPb., T. 48, No. 1231, August 22, 1892, p. 151-153.

• Keltsev S. A., Alexander Community of Sisters of Mercy “Satisfy My Sorrows”, M., 1897