Nezhinsky Vvedensky Monastery

The Vvedensky convent was founded under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, the widow of Starodubsky Colonel Anna Brislavskaya. ^[1] Having acquired land in the western suburb of Nizhyn, Anna, with the blessing of the archbishop, built two churches (no later than 1660 ^[1] ). The first of them is in honor of the Introduction to the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary , which gave the name to the monastery. The second church is south of the first, in honor of St. Elijah .

In 1756 there was a major fire that caused great harm to the monastery: both churches, as well as cells for nuns, were burned down. Stone Temple The introduction of the Virgin to the temple was built in 1778. In 1814, the bell tower and the temple of St. Elijah were built. In 1863, a school for girls, a hospital, and an icon painting school were opened in the monastery. ^[1] In 1877, the school was closed, and a military hospital was established in its premises. ^{[2] The} profitable part of the monastery was a two-story hotel. The monastery owned a manor in the city, a monastery in the forest near the village of Stary, where there was a church and a large agricultural farm.

In 1927, the monastery was closed, and the premises and temples were transferred to an artillery warehouse. ^{[3] The} values ​​of the monastery were stolen, many icons and church relics were destroyed. In 1941, during the German occupation , divine services were resumed in the main church. The monastery gathered 18 inhabitants. The priest of the monastery, Archpriest Vasily Bugaevsky, who was saved during the years of persecution of the church, began to perform regular worship services. However, in 1943, after the liberation of the Left-Bank Ukraine , the Soviet government again ceased the activities of the temple.

The monastery resumed operation only in 1998. Since that time, the restoration and restoration of the shrine began in the monastery. Divine services are performed in the restored Vvedensky church. The remains of the Elias Church were arbitrarily rebuilt by the nuns for housing.

• Mother Superior Melania Chuykevichivna - led the monastery from 1733 to 1736. It is very likely that this was Motrya Kochubeyevna - the daughter of General Judge Vasily Kochubey, the lover of hetman Ivan Mazepa . In 1707, she married Semyon Chuykevich, who later became a regimental judge of the Nezhinsky regiment. Probably, her married life did not work out, and her husband let her go to the monastery.
• Mother Superior Euphrosyne, a Greek by birth, led the monastery from 1775 to 1786. Under her, Empress Catherine II donated 150 rubles to the monastery during her stay in Nizhyn. From the report of her superiors it became known that in 1786 there were 26 nuns in the monastery.
• Mother Superior Pankratia - a monastery fence was built with her, a warm temple was completed (not preserved), a stone building for nuns was built (1857).
• Mother Superior Smaragda Nezhinskaya - from 7 years old she lived in the Vvedensky monastery. After the death of Mother Superior Anna in 1914, she became abbess of the monastery. After the monastery was closed in 1927, 80 inhabitants, led by the Mother Superior, were transferred to the Danevsky Monastery of St. George . In 1930 she was arrested for anti-Soviet activities and spent three years in prison. On May 8, 2012, the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was venerated as venerable saints. ^[four]

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• Shafonsky A. F. Chernigovskogo ussnichestva topographic description. - Kiev, 1851.
• Vasyutinsky F. Vvedensky Convent, 1895

• Monastery site