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| Photo Log: Here the founder of the Romanov dynasty was tonsured as a monk |
| 2021-05-29 |
| by Vladimir Stanulevich [Regnum] The Holy Trinity Monastery was founded by Saint Anthony in 1520. This was the second attempt by the monk to found a monastery - the first on the Sheleksa River existed for seven years, while the local peasants, fearing for their lands, loaded the monks onto a raft and sent them down the river. Anthony found a new place on the shore of Lake Mikhailovskoye, where the monastery now stands. The first years were difficult, the monk himself chopped down churches and cells, but more and more novices came to the monastery. In 1570, Anthony, nicknamed by that time Siysky, reposed and was buried next to the wooden Trinity Church. Half a century later, when the brethren began to build the stone cathedral, its foundation was calculated so that the saint's burial was inside the cathedral walls. Now the burial place is covered with a slab of white limestone, all pilgrims first go to the burial place. The Antoniev Monastery became the place of exile and forcible tonsure of the founder of the Romanov dynasty, Fedor Nikitich, the monk Filaret . According to legend, his cell was located on the site of the current Church of the Annunciation. Soon the persecutor of the Romanovs, Boris Godunov, suddenly died, and in recent years Filaret Romanov took an active part in the events of the Great Troubles. In 1613, his son Mikhail was elected by the Zemsky Sobor to the royal throne. The tsars, and especially the Romanovs, have always favored the monastery. Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible, personally copied the Life of Anthony of Siysk . A unique contribution was made to the monastery in 1693 by the patriarchal treasurer Paisios - a magnificent 900-page gospel with over 2000 miniatures. There is no other such publication in history. Having become the Patriarch and ruler of Russia, Filaret made the Siysk Monastery and its abbot Abbot Iona the conductor of his patriarchal will in the Russian North. Jonah performed judgment and reprisals against violators of church commandments in robes and informed the patriarch about the connivance of the local authorities to drunkards, polygamists and other sinners. After the establishment of the Kholmogory and Vazhsk dioceses, the importance of the monastery fell, but thanks to the library, it remained the cultural center of Orthodoxy in the North. From here, Mikhailo Lomonosov left for Moscow to study , and he consulted with the monastery treasurer, his uncle. In 1923, the monastery was closed, a commune, a rest house, a boarding house and, finally, a pioneer camp were set up here. The monastery was reopened in 1992, soon the abbot Hieromonk Trifon (Plotnikov) and novices Leonid Eisenman, Valery Dulsky and Vladimir Chugunov arrived here. In 2002, benefactors restored the destroyed bell tower of the Three Saints of Moscow according to old drawings, in 2010 they erected the Church of Nicholas the Martyr... The monastery is friendly with the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, for several seasons they helped restorers to preserve the ancient monastic graves, In 2018, at the request of the Arkhangelsk Metropolitanate and the Imperator Foundation for the Preservation of Historical Memory. With the help of the Russian benefactor Vladimir Krupchak, they investigated the burial site of St. Anthony of Siysk, and also conducted anthropological research of dozens of remains of monks found in different years during the excavation work and saved in the monastery basements. For the first time, statistics were collected on diseases, food, injuries and injuries of the inhabitants of the monastery. The remains told anthropologists about a touching story of how the monk was seriously injured and for many years he was nursed by the brethren of the monastery. Photos of the sites at the link |
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