Kimlyaysky Alexander Nevsky Monastery

The monastery arose on the site of the hermit cell of the ascetic Flegont Dormidontovich Ostrovsky. Son of a poor, roughly-strict life of an reverent deacon p. Volgapino, Dormidont Ostrovsky, Phlegont from childhood attracted the attention of others with the features of his childhood character: he was not friends with his peers and was looking for more privacy. The favorite place for his children's entertainment was the forest, located not far from his native home; there he very successfully caught birds and, having fed them, released them into the wild. If he couldn’t manage to get into the forest, he sculpted at home from wax or clay clay bells and various church supplies; other entertainments did not occupy him. Very early and easily, under the guidance of his father, Phlegont learned to read and write; he especially liked to read a primer with religious and moral content and other instructive books and church services; he read instructive books to anyone who asked him, and when the audience gave him pennies in gratitude, he threw them into the well. Raised under the guidance of a religious, moral father, Phlegont from a young age had the seeds of virtue, the fear of God and purity of heart. When the time came for school age, my father took Phlegont and his brother Theodore to the Lomovsky Theological School. Phlegont’s life was not red at school: enduring ridicule, sometimes beatings from his comrades, he also felt a material need: because of his poverty, his father often didn’t deliver enough bread to his children, and then the brothers had to take care of the lessons more about feeding themselves. More than once it happened to Phlegont to feed on the “Name of Christ”, especially in the winters: it happened that she would go to the mill, beg Christ for the sake of flour or rye and eat it stealthily so that her comrades would not taunt her and drink some water. In the summer, in their free time, the brothers went fishing with a fishing rod, they caught it - they exchanged some for bread, and they cooked the rest for themselves and thank God with joyful tears that He the Merciful did not allow them to starve to death. Despite such harsh living conditions, a capable and diligent Phlegont successfully completed a college course and moved to the Penza Theological Seminary. The living conditions in the Seminary were not even better, but this did not sadden him. Brought up in the fear of God, Phlegont from childhood was accustomed to thinking and listening to his inner voice every time he acted. The modest and quiet Phlegont, who was ridiculed and mocked by his comrades for his deep religiosity, under all the adverse conditions of his student life, nevertheless reached the second grade of the Seminary. In the second year of Rhetoric, he had been sent so hard a test from God that he had to prematurely leave the Seminary. Upon dismissal from the Seminary, Phlegont appeared in the parental home; here, after recovering, he began to share the heavy household chores with his father. It was sad for the poor father to look at the incomplete Phlegont, who had returned to the hard work of the farmer, and with the help of good people, the father managed to give his son easier tasks: Phlegont joined the Penza Zemsky Court.

In his spare time, Phlegont often plunged into self-knowledge with the aim of religious and moral improvement; in one of these self-deepening he hears an inner voice: “buy a book of the New Testament and go to the forest beyond the Sura River for three days.” There, surrounded by beautiful nature, he indulged in prayer and rigorous self-testing. A strong thunderstorm began: thunder and lightning followed each other almost continuously and heavy rain poured and poured for three days, so the Sura overflowed the banks, and the tract bridge over the Sura was flooded with water. Phlegont spent all these three days in the forest behind Sura in a prayer vigil, and on the fourth day he was transported by boat to the city; he was hardly recognized in the apartment and the Court: his prayer and vigil changed his face; all his acquaintances spoke of Phlegon after that he became a new man. Vividly impressed by everything experienced for three days in the forest in complete solitude, Phlegont upon returning to the city did not want to completely communicate with people. Archpriest of the Nikolaev church Ovs, having noticed deep religiousness in him, made him a reader in this church. The phlegont in the church always read with such sacred fervor, in such ecstasy and so expressively, that the parishioners of Mykolayiv church asked Ave Ovsov to assign special readings to Phlegont, which the first performed, setting the time for reading after the proskomidia and before the liturgy. After that, the rumor about Phlegon spread almost throughout Penza.

Pursued by rumor, Phlegont intended to leave the service in the Court and enter the monastery. On September 15, 1848, Phlegont received his resignation and residence permit in all cities of Russia and went to his homeland, pledging to himself to live there for three years, in order to learn all kinds of dirty work and then go to the monastery. And now the future ascetic begins to work with his father: in the spring he plows, sows, then reaps, threshes, weaves wickers, cleans stables, and in winter walks around monasteries, carefully looking at all the details of monastic life. Meanwhile, the Flegont family was very saddened by his dismissal, and some members of the family sometimes reproached him with folly, only one sister constantly sympathized with him. Under such circumstances, Phlegon sought to seek solitude for both prayer and rest. He dug himself a cave for secret exploits, but his cave was soon discovered by people and he suffered many ridicule from his fellow villagers; as a result, the cave was left by him and he went to Sarov. He lived in Sarov for quite some time and fell ill there; ill, he decided to return to his homeland.

In 1850 and for three months of the following year, Phlegont stayed in his parents' house. Obeying his inner voice, Phlegont began to ask his parents for a pilgrim blessing. He received a blessing and went to travel around the monasteries, he was in Sarov and Diveyevo, in Murom and Vladimir, the Bogolyubsky monastery, in Suzdal, Yaroslavl, in the Yakovlev-Dmitrievsky monastery, where he worshiped the relics of St. Demetrius Metropolitan of Rostov; in Sergius Lavra, in Moscow in New Jerusalem, in the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. Having reached Orel, he learned about the insight of one Optina elder, Schemon Macarius, he wanted to see the visionary elder, and he went to Optina monastery. Then he went through Kursk to Voronezh to bow to the relics of St. Mitrofan. Paying tribute to this saint, Phlegont went to the Samara Diocese through Saratov, Nikolaev and Buzuluk. Phlegont came to Buzuluk to Pokrov, and spent the winter in Sorochinskaya fortress. In a week of myrrh-bearing women, Phlegont went from Sorochinskaya fortress to his homeland. Having walked around the holy places, Phlegont began to take a closer look on the way to the mountains and forests in order to choose a place for hermit living. On the third day, upon arriving home, Phlegont asked his father for blessings to work in the form of a seclusion somewhere close to his home, bearing in mind the mountain shown to him in a dream, but his father, in order to avoid rumors, did not advise him to live in the vicinity and suggested that he go to The Samara Diocese in the Buzuluk monastery, where he was called by the monks. Then Phlegont, having said goodbye to his relatives and taking the icon of the Mother of God, again went to the Samara side. For some time he wandered around the Samara Diocese with the goal of choosing a place of residence; finally, he liked the wild mountain near the city of Buzuluk in the Samara province. On the top of this mountain Phlegont, with the permission of the clerical and civil authorities, dug a dugout and settled in it.

At the bottom of this mountain was a man’s monastery. At first, Phlegont lived in peace; he was visited by visitors; the monks didn’t like it, they informed the bishop that Phlegont was accepting visitors without permission. The bishop urged Phlegont to join the monastic brotherhood, but he refused, because he had a different calling. After some time, he left his dugout and went to his native side, to the mountain shown to him in a dream near the village of Kelmlyay. Arriving at the village in 1856, he begged a small corner of the mountain from the peasants, with the help of his admirers he began to level the place and make an earthen pillar from the dug earth, and planted a small space near the pillar with fruit trees. This pillar has the appearance of a truncated cone; sazhen three heights; a three-arshin cell with one small window was lowered to its top; Phlegont lived in this cell for 7 years. Then he set himself a 4 arshin cell at the top of a pillar above the old dwelling; Phlegont also lived in the upper room for seven years. The lower cell was presented to him by his father and, with the help of good people, was put in place; the upper cell was bought from his father at the expense of admirers; Phlegont was kept partly from his father, and mostly from benefactors. During his stay on the pillar, the hermit Flegont prayed and worked, in his free time he read spiritual books and talked with visitors on the basis of Holy Scripture and the life of the saints. In early December 1870, Phlegont fell ill; about the day of his death, he told in advance to his loved ones who served him; according to Christianity, he prepared to meet his death, and on the night of December 12 to 13, 1870, having locked himself inside his cell, the servant of God Phlegon died. Before the funeral of Phlegont, a dispute arose: his father, the deacon of the village of Volgapin, wanted to bury his son in Volgapin, while other relatives and admirers at the John the Theological Church of Troitsk. The dispute was ended by the lot that fell on John the Theological Church.

On May 22, 1909, the Penza Ecclesiastical Consistory considered the question raised by the Penza Governor about transferring the ashes of the old man Flegont from the provincial city of Troitsk to the Alexander Nevsky Convent. On August 8, 1908, the resolution of His Grace followed: “In view of the special respect with which the local population, as it turns out, refers to the memory of the old man Flegont (Ostrovsky), for a comprehensive review of the initiated case of transferring his ashes from the city of Troitsk to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery , I find it necessary to organize a commission, composed of under the chairmanship of Archimandrite Khariton, the following are appointed: Cathedral Archpriest Grigory Sokolov, Diocesan Missionary Simeon Magnusov and Seminar Lecturer Alexy Khvoshchev. ” September 6, 1910 the ashes were transferred without any solemnity and the crypt was closed tightly.

After the death of the old man Flegont (01/12/1870), a praying mantis and the spiritual daughter of the hermit Ksenia Ermolaevna Akhlestina (abbess Catherine), who lived near Flegont Mountain since 1859, Ksenia Ermolaevna Akhlestina came from the peasants of the village of Volnaya Lashma, Narovchatsky district, settled in his cell. In the twentieth year of her life, Ksenia Ermolaevna, together with her mother, visited Phlegont Ostrovsky, about whom rumor was circulating among the people, as about a man of vision. The high moral character of Ostrovsky and his exploits in the spirit of Christian seclusion made a deep impression on Ksenia Ermolaevna, and she decided to visit him as often as possible. For ten years she served him almost without interruption. Widowed, in 1868 she finally settled next to the pillar of Elder Phlegont. Sensing the approach of death, Ostrovsky in the fall of 1869 called to Xenia Ermolaevna and informed her of his imminent death. The elder bequeathed to his best student to arrange a monastic monastery on the site of his exploits, and the monastery was created by the labor of Akhlestina.

After the death of the ascetic Flegont, Ksenia Ermolaevna, guided by a feeling of reverent respect for the memory of the ascetic and the desire to sacredly fulfill his covenant, from spring 1870 to February 1909 Ksenia Akhlestina tirelessly erected a monastery: in an empty place she built two churches, cells, a courtyard, founded a school, an orphan a shelter, a hospital, built a farm near the village. Crow of Krasnoslobodsky district. By 1890, a group of 30 sisters had gathered around Ksenia Ermolaevna, and although the community did not pass any legalization in the first years of its existence, the sisters' lives were built according to strict monastic rules written off from the charter of the Serafimo-Diveevsky monastery .

In the spring of 1870, she settled in the cell of the late old man. To begin with, it was necessary to acquire Ostrovsky’s garden and cell, as the mountain was in the possession of the peasants of the village of Kimlyai. Thanks to the respect that the ascetic Flegont enjoyed among the residents of the village of Kimlyai, the peasants willingly gave up Ksenia Ermolaevna the place of residence of the ascetic. To ensure her existence, Ksenia Ermolaevna opened a home school in her cell, in which she taught boys and girls of the neighboring villages in Church Slavonic letters. Teaching children in a strictly religious spirit, Ksenia Ermolaevna soon attracted the sympathy of the population. Even adults came, especially girls who did not want to get married for some reason. Some of them, after learning to read and write, began to remain. There was a need for additional housing, which was built, with the help of benefactors, at the entrance to the garden in 1874. For the hostel of the inhabitants of the mountain, there was a wing with front and rear rooms, separated by a canopy, a kitchen, a barn and a cellar. At the beginning there were few sisters. By 1883, the community consisted of five people. In 1883, Ksenia Ermolaevna decided to set up a chapel on the mountain in memory of the martyrdom of Tsar the Liberator Alexander II. The idea of ​​building a chapel was also supported by the inhabitants of the village of Kimlyai. Notarially, the community was allocated half a dozen of the land, providing a decision of April 23, 1883 for its use of two tithes of arable land under the same boundary with its garden. By decree of the Penza Spiritual Consistory of May 31, 1884, Ksenia Ermolaevna was allowed to build a chapel. But in June 1885, Bishop Anthony (Nikolaevsky) visited Flegontov Mountain and expressed the opinion that it would be better to build a church instead of a chapel. By this time, there were already sixteen sisters in the community.

In March 1888, Ksenia Ermolaevna received permission to build a temple. In November 1888, the temple was founded, and in September 1889 the temple was rebuilt and consecrated on October 15 in the name of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky Archimandrite Gideon. The temple was wooden, on a stone foundation, without a bell tower, with an iron roof. Four rooms were arranged under the church: the refectory, the hymnal, the corridor and the reception room, and the basement underneath. Built on willing donations. General Lieutenant Ivan Andreevich Arapov donated the required amount of forest, and the Krasnoslobodsky merchant of the second guild, Ivan Dimitrievich Golov, built an iconostasis. Other decoration of the temple was made at the expense of other benefactors. There was no priest at the church constantly, the service was temporarily performed by a non-staff priest.

In the same year, the community increased by another sixteen people. In total, in 1889, 31 girls lived under the supervision of Ksenia Akhlestina, whose average age was 22 years. In 1889, Reverend Bishop Vasily (Levitov) arrived at the Penza department. By decree of the Penza Ecclesiastical Consistory No. 8156 dated September 30, 1889, the community of Ksenia Ermolaevna was temporarily assigned to the Krasnoslobodsky Assumption Monastery and consisted of the Dean of the Nizhne Lomovsky Kazan Monastery , Archimandrite Gideon.

While Bishop Pavel (Velchinsky) was at the Penza department , (1893-1902), the case of Ksenia Ermolaevna in setting up the monastery quickly went ahead. His Grace Pavel, having personally acquainted himself with the religious, moral, and material condition of the community of Ksenia Ermolaevna, gave her broad powers to collect donations. In 1895, she acquired 127 tithes of arable land in her own name, which she donated along with the estate to open a women's community. In 1896, Bishop Paul petitioned the Holy Synod for the establishment of a female community and for the strengthening of a sacrificial estate with a garden (35 plants long and 20 wide) in the village of Kimliay and a plot of land. In addition, it was reported that the Krasnoslobod merchant Glotov wrote in writing that if the community was established on the Phlegont Hill, he would donate 82 tithes of arable land to the community. No obstacles were found by the Ministry of the Interior. Having discussed the above, the Holy Synod, according to the request of the Most Reverend and on the basis of the highest command, by decree No. 4244 determined: “Near the village of Kimlyai of Krasnoslobodsky Uyezd, in the area called“ Phlegont Mountain, ”to establish a female community with as many sisters as the community will be able to August 31, 1896, the community assigned “lands of the village of Volnaya Lashma, the Narovchatsky district, as well as 108 tithes of 1,200 square kilometers, or how many will be in kind, consisting of the Penza province, Krasnoslobodsky district At the hamlet Vasilevka (Svischevka too). "

By the decree of the Penza Ecclesiastical Consistory of September 24, No. 245 of 1869, Ksenia Ermolaevna, by the election of the natives of the Kimlyai community, was approved by the abbess. And Maria Ivanovna Karyakina, who had been living on Phlegont Hill since 1971, was approved as treasurer by decree of the Penza Spiritual Consistory on October 3 this year, No. 5216. Another close assistant to Ksenia Ermolaevna during this period was Anna Timofeevna Belskaya (from the clergy), the girl of the village of Volgapino, the niece of the old man Flegont, who entered the mountain in 1869. Passed obedience - decoration of icons with flowers. In 1896, the community increased in number to 71. Moreover, 68 natives were damsels. According to the resolution of His Grace Paul of August 10, 1897 No. 3946 attached in the decree of the Penza Ecclesiastical Consistory of August 12, No. 9075, Ksenia Ermolaevna Akhlestina was tonsured a monk with the name Ekaterina on August 30 of that year. In the same year, on August 30, the future abbess of the monastery, Maria Ivanovna Karyakina, was tonsured a monk with the name of Barbara (Decree No. 9075 of August 12).

With the permission of the Penza Diocesan Authorities of September 3, 1898, No. 9438, according to the project approved by the Construction Department of the Penza Provincial Government of August 31 of the same year, No. 47, September 13, a stone cathedral church was laid by the abbot Trinity-Scanov monastery of the Narovchatsky district, Father Superior Barsanuphius. According to the project, the temple was three-altered and five-domed, 15 long and 11 wide. In 1908, the construction of the cathedral church was completed and on October 19 of that year, the consecration of his middle throne took place in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord by Archimandrite of the Krasnoslobodsky Transfiguration Monastery Gregory. At the temple, at a distance of 10 fathoms, a temporary wooden bell tower was built, with a length and width of 6 arshins at a height of 17 arshins.

By 1901, the amount of land that became the property of the community increased significantly. December 17, 1900 “The Sovereign Emperor, HIGHLY deigned to strengthen the Kimlyai women’s community, sacrificed by the Krasnoslobodsky 2 guilds by the merchant sons Alexei and Peter Guryev, meadow land in two plots, in the amount of 88 acres of 1770 square meters. it was planted, or how many in nature it would be, consisting of the Krasnoslobodsky uyezd, near the contingent city of Troitsk, in tracts called the villages of Izosimovki, the villages of Ezhovka, Potma and beyond the Moksha River. ” On January 9, 1901, a plot of land in the amount of 11 acres of 220 3/4 square meters was strengthened behind the community. Sazhen, located near the town of Troitsky. This land was donated to the community by the peasant of the village of Sutyagin, Krasnoslobodsky Uyezd, Mikhail Karpov.

In 1901, His Grace Bishop of Penza and Saransk Pavel (Vilchinsky) applied to the Holy Synod with a petition for the conversion of the Kimlyai women’s community to a communal convent with the name of Alexander Nevsky. The Holy Synod, having heard the proposal of the Ober-Prosecutor Pobedonostsev K. P. for No. 5026 on this subject, by decree No. 4833 granted the application. Ksenia Ermolaevna, during the stay of His Grace Bishop Paul at the Penza Department, managed to bring her community to a flourishing appearance. She earnestly embarked on the internal structure of her community. Extremely affectionate and at the same time strict and persistent, she set herself the rule to always be what she should be in her rank and duty, so that the sisters, seeing her living example everywhere, would also not retreat, but would completely and accurately coordinate their life with a monastic charter. Soon the rumor spread about the famous builder of the monastery. The number of pilgrims increased, especially during the holidays. The more the pilgrims flowed into the monastery every year, the more noticeable became the inflow of funds. On April 7, 1905, for “excellent diligent and useful service,” Mother Superior Catherine was awarded the Pectoral Cross.

In 1906, under the leadership of the Mother Superior of Catherine, there were 7 nuns, 37 ordained novices and 173 sisters living in the trial. A total of 218 inhabitants. By this time, the monastery already occupied a fairly large territory with three stone two-story buildings, several dozen wooden outbuildings, cells, and other household buildings, owned large tracts of arable land, forest areas.

From hard work, the health of the abbess of Catherine was shaken. She stopped leaving the monastery. She was brought to the temple with the help of her sisters, only for the liturgy and occasionally for matins. February 6, 1908 she died. The funeral service and funeral of the abbess body were performed on February 8, with a huge gathering of people, by the archimandrite of the Krasnoslobodsky Transfiguration Monastery Grigory, with the participation of many district priests. At the liturgy, priest V. M. Issinsky honored the deceased with a tombstone. The body of the late abbess Catherine was buried under the altar of the cathedral church.

The treasurer of the nun Varvara (Marfa Koryakina) became the successor to the late abbess. In 1909, there were already 17 mistresses in the monastery, and the number of sisters was 250 people, of which 47 were novice novices, and 18 were living under trial. To the monastery buildings was added a wooden wing built in 1909, 27 arshins long and 11 wide. It housed donation sisters. For 40 meters the monastery was surrounded by a wooden fence 2.5 meters high. In the same year, the Krasnoslobod tradesman Vasily Saratovkin donated a manor place with a garden measuring 14 by 16 sazhens, with a wooden living room (9x7 arshins) located in Krasnoslobodsk . The priest of the monastery during this period had a salary not of 480, but 800 rubles. With the permission of the Penza Diocesan authorities, the construction of a two-story semi-stone building was begun. Abbess Varvara actively advocated the transfer of the ashes of the elder Flegont Ostrovsky to his monastery. With the permission of the Penza Diocesan Authorities of November 8, 1912, No. 18962, in 1913, a stone altar was added to the basement of the cathedral, above the remains of the ascetic Elder Flegont, at the zeal of benefactors of the bourgeoisie of Moscow, Maria Tarasova and Paraskeva Vasilyeva, to perpetuate his blessed memory ; whose throne it was decided to devote to the name of St. Apostle Phlegont.

Twice, with the permission of the Diocesan authorities, she left the monastery. The first time, from July 7, 1911, she was released for one month in Kiev to worship shrines, and the second time in Moscow for a pilgrimage from August 14, 1913 for a period of 15 days. The trip report says that she returned right on time. Some of the monastery's sisters were granted permission from the Church authorities for pilgrimage to holy places, mainly to Kiev.

According to the definition of the Holy Synod of March 30, 1910 under No. 2415, for excellent diligent and useful service, Mother Superior Barbara was awarded with a pectoral cross. In 1910, under her leadership, there were 30 nuns, 87 ordained novices and 137 sisters in trial, a total of 255 people. The priest's salary increased - in 1910 he already received 1000 rubles of salary per year. In the Parish School, 5 boys and 17 girls studied. The law teacher was priest Tikhon Nevzorov, and teacher Evgenia Veselovskaya. That year, one of the first inhabitants of the Phlegont Mountain died, a permanent member of the monastery council, nun Angelina (Belskaya).

In the summer of 1910, an epidemic of cholera spread in the Penza Province. His Grace Mitrofan (Simashkevich) blessed the abbesses of the Nizhnelomovsky Assumption, Mokshan Kazan and Kimlyaysky Alexander Nevsky convents to send their natives to villages to care for the sick. At the end of the epidemic, the abbess of the monasteries was marked with letters. The sisters of the Kimlyai Monastery were the first in the county to establish the correct medical examination of the population.

In 1914, 247 people lived in the monastery (of which 39 nuns, 105 decrees and 142 in trial). The clergy already consisted of two priests receiving a salary of 700 and 500 rubles. In the track records of the priestly church ministers at the monastery there are two priests - Tikhon Nevzorov and John Besonov. At school, 10 boys and 14 girls studied. The same Nevzorov and Veselovskaya taught in it. In the almshouse, 7 old women were kept at full security. The entire area occupied by the monastery buildings, according to the measurement plans of 1914, was 4.4 hectares. In the rebuilt two-story half-stone building housed the sisters of the monastery. The building on the north side had a basement floor, in which there was a bakery and sister-bread bins. In 1913, a painting workshop was opened in the monastery, located in a two-story stone building, where there was previously a needlework workshop. The Igumen chambers were on the second floor of a stone building, the first floor of which was occupied by a prosphora. Several wooden houses and outbuildings were added to the buildings. A house was built for the second priest 16x2. In the meadows, a 24x12 wooden house was rebuilt for sisters fishing and, with it, a 7x7 wooden hut for the guard and the fisherman. A second wooden barn for storing grain bread and another 10x7 bath were added. The monastery fence increased. Now it covered the cloister for 591 m. Other lands of the monastery, located in different places, occupied an area of ​​804.46 hectares and were divided as follows: under arable land - 532 hectares; under hayfields - 93 ha; under a small shrub - 31.8 hectares; under the forest - 105 ha; under estates and gardens - 14.55 ha; inconvenient - 28 ha. According to the registries of 1918, 39 nuns and 252 novices lived in the Kimlyai monastery.

The fire of the revolution, which erupted in 1917, did not pass the Kimlyai Monastery. The Bolsheviks made every possible effort to completely eradicate the memory of the monastery, which existed for a relatively short time, but already proved itself to be famous. It all started with the execution of the procession in 1919. Then, at Shrovetide, about 10 thousand people gathered in the village of Bolshaya Azya, Krasnoslobodsky Uyezd. From the market square, with the singing of "Christ is Risen", the faithful moved with a procession to the Phlegont Hill to the Kimlyai Alexander Nevsky Monastery. The procession was organized in connection with the execution of the Royal family in July 1918 and expressed rejection of the new godless government. In the area of. Volgapino at the procession, surrounded by the Bolsheviks, fire was opened. There were many killed, many were captured. It is not yet possible to establish the exact date for the closing of the monastery. It is only known that it was closed until 1924. The construction of the monastery transferred the new authorities to the commune-agricultural cartel with. Sutyagino, located far from Kimlyaya, behind Big Azias, as the peasants Volgapin and Kimlyaya refused to raise their hand to the monastery, which had grown before their eyes and with their participation.

Later in the 40s. XX century remaining after the destruction of the body of the Kimlyai monastery were adapted for orphanages. On the territory of the monastery, the Kimlyai Orphanage No. 5 is located. Children from 3 to 7 years old were brought up here. Upon reaching the age of seven, the children were transported to the Ruzaevsky orphanage. All pupils were transported there in 1983, when the orphanage was closed. Two buildings inherited by the orphanage were soon completely destroyed and plundered.

In 1996, only the fourth part of the wall of the Abbot corps and the earthen pillar of the old man Flegont reminded of a once-existing monastery.

In 1996, the monastery was renewed, converted into a man’s. With the blessing of the Bishop of Saransk and Mordovia, Barsanuphius , a group of monks was sent to Flegontova Mountain, headed by the governor, hegumen (now archimandrite) Seraphim (Novakovsky). The revival of the monastery began with the construction of the St. George Church chapel on the pillar of the old man Flegont and the construction of a small cell building for the brethren. In the course of the restoration work, it was decided to try to restore half of the building of the Abbot corps, thereby attesting to the vigorous work of the sisters who had once worked here, and thereby received some kind of continuity from them. From the summer of 1997 to the spring of 1998, the left part of the Igumen corps was restored, on the upper floor of which on June 03, 1998, His Eminence Archbishop Barsanofy consecrated a house church in the name of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky , and on the lower floor there is a library, four cells refectory and kitchen.

In 2009, with the blessing of Archbishop Barsanuphius, the construction of the church began on the site of the destroyed cathedral church of the monastery. The territory was planned and the foundation was flooded. In 2010, the construction of the walls of the temple was completed and work began on the manufacture of crosses, domes, drums and roofing. In January 2011, five golden crosses crowned the domes of the new temple. In 2012, plastering of the internal and external walls was completed. The church is planned to be consecrated in honor of St. Rev. Anthony of Kiev Pechersk . The floor of the church was lined with porcelain stoneware, and the altar table and panels in the iconostasis were made of natural stone. Unusual was the choice of material for the manufacture of the iconostasis and other temple accessories, namely wrought iron. At its core, the temple is a quadrangle covered with a four-pitched roof and crowned with five chapters. Heads are made up of a high drum and bulb-shaped domes. The size of the temple is 25.8 × 9.6 m. The height to the bottom of the cross is 21 m. From the east, the altar adjoins the church, and from the west a narthex. Both abs are hexagonal. The church facades are decorated with a beautiful cornice with a row of kokoshniks. Large arched windows and doors of the church are surrounded by several arches inserted one into the other. Icon painting works are underway in the temple. By 2014, the Altar was fully painted.

In autumn 2012, the construction of a two-story stone abbot building began on the side of the altar absida of the new cathedral church, 20 meters away from it. At present, 6 monks and 2 novices are struggling on Phlegont Hill. The monastery has a courtyard in the town of Kovylkino.

" Aleksandronevsk Monastery, which is on the Phlegont Hill "