(Russia, Moscow region, Klinskiy district, Akatovo)
How to get there? From the highway [M9] turn to the ring [A108] towards Klin and the village. Novopetrovsky. Near the village of Vysokoye, turn to the Egoryevskoye Rest House (Akatovo and Podzhigorodovo). Public transport: from Klin by bus to Nudol to the stop. High - 28 km, then on foot - 2 km.
It was formed in 1899 on the basis of a women's community established at the expense of F.O. Zakharov a decade earlier. Developed monastic complex of the late XIX - early XX centuries. consisted of two churches and numerous cells. We have only reached our days stone structures- a cathedral, two residential buildings and the front line of the fence with towers, Holy Gates and services adjacent to the wall. The architecture of civil buildings from the outside is of little interest and utilitarian. The compositional and artistic center of the ensemble is the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, which imitates the images of the 17th century with its typology, decorative richness and decoration system.
Description of the Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery in Akatovo
The cathedral was built in 1902-1904. according to the project of I.P. Mashkov. The building has, in principle, a symmetrical volume-spatial composition with a double-height temple in the center. The pillarless quadrangle was crowned with two tiers of kokoshniks and a compact decorative five-domed head. The nature of the completions of the temple was repeated on single-domed aisles.
The entrance to the church, contrary to tradition, was located at the southern end of the western aisle and was marked by a high porch on figured pillars with a hipped roof.
After the monastery was adapted for a pioneer camp in 1930 architectural ensemble in general, and to the greatest extent the cathedral - has undergone drastic changes. The temple was decapitated, the windows were hewn, and the main entrance was arranged in the center of the three-part apse. And, perhaps, the most shocking is the conclusion of the altar part in a glass "sarcophagus". Large stained-glass windows that covered the church up to the crowning cornice were designed to hide the cult orientation of the building. Here is a dining room for young Leninists.
We visited the monastery for the first time in autumn 2003. Much has changed since then, the monastery is functioning again. Believers returned here, the temple was restored...
Photo gallery of Olga Tkachenko and Natalia Bondareva
Plan of the Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery
Article by V.S. Yudin "Akatovo"
In the remote side of the Klin district, in the picturesque surroundings of the Nudol River, the Klin merchant Fyodor Zakharov founded a convent in 1890. Then in 1898 it was converted into a monastery.
Until relatively recently, Nudol was a working river. Dammed by dams, it turned mill wheels, ground grain, bleached linen for peasants. Fish and crayfish abounded in its waters. The shores were buried in grass, and in the forest backwaters there was a bird.
The monastery building arose far from the roads in the silence of the forest. It consists of two temples: one wooden in the name of the Trinity, the other - stone - in the name of Alexander Nevsky. Two hotels for pilgrims and a hospitable house were built nearby. The monastery in Akatovo is small. But it is extremely interesting for its originality, artistic and architectural direction, in which the development and originality of Russian architecture XVII century. The architectural complex of the monastery and its individual buildings have survived to this day in a slightly modified form.
The general layout of the monastery courtyard consists, as it were, of two parts - the southern, front, and the northern, on which the outbuildings are located. most high point The monastery square is occupied by the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, around which other buildings are grouped. This building is built of brick in eclectic forms, stylizing ancient Russian motifs.
Not far from the entrance gate to the east of the Cathedral is a residential two-story building built in the late 19th century. Its main facade faces the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The building is brick, not plastered. In its external design, motifs of ancient Russian and classical architecture are used. To the southwest of the Cathedral is the second residential two-story brick building.
Brick fences with gates and corner towers are located on the side of the eastern entrance to the monastery.
Single-span holy gates in the line of the fence are oriented towards the main Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The towers of the fence are octagonal, separated by wooden ceilings, ending with wooden tents covered with iron. The southern tower is three-tiered, the northern one is four-tiered. The upper elongated and almost undecorated tier, probably, was not designed and appeared in the process of construction. The second tiers of the towers, equal in width to the lower ones, are completed with decorative machicolations formed by bricks. The third tiers are smaller in width and have semicircular openings. The upper tiers are completed with serrated bricks. The entrances to the towers are located from the side of the monastery territory. Metal stairs adjoin the towers to enter the upper tiers. They probably replaced the wooden ones. North of the Royal Gates, apparently used as service buildings, three one-story, brick buildings adjoin the wall of the monastery.
For a long time in the buildings of the Akatovsky Monastery there was a pioneer camp "Fakel" of the Moscow Machine-Building Plant "Soyuz".
Literature:
Yudin V.S. Our land Klinsky, Klin, 1999, p. 193-1957
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Within the boundaries of the Moscow diocese
The women's community was organized by a peasant, a poor merchant Fyodor Osipovich Zakharov, in memory of the abolition of serfdom and in the name of heavenly patron The king is the liberator. He purchased land for the future monastery from the local landowner G. Glebov-Streshnev in his estate in the Klin district of the Moscow province not far from the village of Akatova, which is why the monastery was often called Akatovsky.
The rights of the community, due to extreme poverty, the new monastery received from the Holy Synod only in the year when its first organizer was no longer alive. The nun Evtikhia of the Moscow Novoalekseevsky Monastery, known for her piety and by the time of her appointment, had already spent forty years in prayer deeds, was entrusted with managing the community.
With the small funds available to the community, a wooden temple was quickly erected in the name of St. Life-Giving Trinity. Soon they built an urgently needed residential building, for the number of sisters reached seventy. In the year the famous Athos monk Aristokliy gave the blessing of the Panteleimon Monastery of Athos to the Trinity Church - icons Mother of God"Quick to Hear" and the Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon, which became the main shrines of the Akat community. In the same year, the community received lists of revered icons of the All-Merciful Savior and the Mother of God "Bogolyubskaya".
In the same year, by decree of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', Alexy II, a patriarchal courtyard was established at the former monastery church of the Right-Believing Prince Alexander Nevsky of the former monastery. In subsequent years, repair and restoration work was carried out, the temple and the bell tower, monastic buildings were restored, the nuns who lived in accordance with the rules of the monastic hostel gathered in the courtyard. On May 29, the Holy Synod decided to transform the courtyard into a stauropegial monastery.
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Holy Trinity Church
A small wooden one-domed church in the pseudo-Russian style, built in, the first temple of the monastery under construction. Dismantled in the 1930s.
Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky
A large brick five-domed cathedral, built according to the project of A.S. Kaminsky s. The chapels of the Mother of God the Quick Hearer and Panteleimon the Healer were supposed to be. Due to lack of funds, it was never completed before the revolution. All R.
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Monasteries in Russia were built not only by the rich and aristocrats. A middle-class merchant, a recent peasant, Fyodor Zakharov bought a plot of land in the village of Akatovo in 1889 and founded a women's community in memory of the abolition of serfdom by Alexander I. Just 9 years later, it was transformed into the Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery. After the revolution, the inhabitants went to the trick and declared themselves an agricultural commune. This did not save them, and in 1927 the monastery was closed. On its territory, the NKVD rest house was first located, and then a pioneer camp. The nuns continued to live together, but they were not left alone. Three novices were arrested on false charges and shot. Now they are numbered among the holy new martyrs of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The abandoned camp was returned to believers with the beginning of perestroika. The walls of the decapitated temple of Alexander Nevsky are well preserved, because they organized a dining room in it and surrounded it with glass stained-glass windows on a steel frame.
What to see
Now the cathedral has been completely restored and regained its former splendor. It was built at the beginning of the last century in pseudo-Russian style and stylized as buildings of the 17th century. The facades are decorated with architraves, kokoshniks and columns, repeating the elements of ancient Russian architecture. The temple is symmetrical, with a high double-height room in the middle. The roof is framed by two rows of kokoshniks and decorative five domes. There are carved platbands on the windows, cornices and columns with intercepts on the facades. Nothing remains of the original interior decoration.
The main shrine of the monastery is the icon of the Mother of God "Quick Hearer", painted in the Panteleimon Monastery on Mount Athos and brought here in 1891. After the revolution, the image was lost, and many years later it was found in a neighboring village, where it was used as a countertop. She returned home only at the end of the millennium.
During the restoration, the sisters of the revived monastery painted frescoes in the cathedral depicting the Holy New Martyrs Alexandra, Anastasia and Catherine, who were executed at the Butovo training ground in 1938.
In the temple, a full circle of service is going on and the Indestructible Psalter is being read. The gold-embroidery and icon-painting workshops resumed their work. Since 2014, the female Orthodox Alexander Gymnasium has been operating at the monastery. In addition to the usual school subjects, students are engaged in needlework, choreography, singing, drawing and swimming. A small hospice was organized for pilgrims with a separate dining room.
Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery
S. Akatovo.The Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery was opened in 1899 on the basis of a women's community, established at the expense of the merchant F.S. Zakharov (owner of match shops in the Spas-Nudol volost).
There were two temples in the monastery: a wooden temporary one in the name of the Holy Trinity (founded on August 30, 1890 by the rector of the Joseph-Volokolamsk monastery, Archimandrite Sergius, destroyed in Soviet times) and a stone one of St. Prince Alexander Nevsky. It was built in 1902-1904. designed by the architect Ivan Pavlovich Mashkov (1867-1945), who graduated in 1886 and taught at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1894 to 1907.
From 1908 to 1918 he was a deputy chairman of the Moscow Architectural Society, from 1897 to 1933 director of the architectural department of the Polytechnic Museum, since 1898 a member of the Moscow Archaeological Society.
In 1913, he participated in the restoration of the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral, the Smolensky Cathedral of the Novodevichy Convent.
In Soviet times, after the closure of the monastery and the organization of the economy of the NKVD in it, the temple of the Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky lost its heads and the tier of zakomar, later the altar was built with a veranda.
On October 5, 1910, the abbess of the Trinity Alexander Nevsky Convent, Abbess Evtikhia (Anna Vasilievna Milovidova), daughter of a priest of the Kostroma diocese, abbess since 1890, abbess since 1899, died. She built a temporary wooden church of the Holy Trinity.
In 1905, a stone St. Nicholas Church was built with a chapel of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God.
By 1910, the construction of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was not completed. The monastery had a stone fence with two towers (1893, preserved), two stone two-story residential buildings, holy gates, services, three wooden hotels and wooden cells for the sisters (destroyed), a hospice house and a brick factory.
In the 1910s There were 150 sisters and 10 nuns in the monastery.
On March 23, 1918, the abbess of the Trinity-Alexander Nevsky cenobitic convent, nun Olimpiada, “in view of her increased concern for the improvement of the monastery,” was elevated to abbess.
In 1927 the monastery was closed. Some of the nuns moved to the village. Mokrush, Istra region. They continued to keep the statutory way of life, to remain in unanimity, having only one desire - the salvation of the soul.
In December 1937, with the help of false witnesses, testimony was obtained, on the basis of which the head of the district department of the NKVD in Istra issued an arrest warrant for the novice of the Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Ekaterina Cherkasova (1892-1938). She was born into a peasant family in the village of Kashino, Volokolamsk district, graduated from a parish school, and entered a monastery in 1915. On January 20, 1938, she was arrested and shot on February 5. Another novice Anastasia Bobkova (1890-1938) entered the monastery in 1920 after the death of her parents and stayed in the monastery until its closure.
Then she served in the church with. Shestakovo, Volokolamsk district.
In 1930 the authorities wanted to close the temple. A church meeting was convened to discuss the illegality of the closure, the Komsomol members wanted to disrupt the meeting, believing women began to expel them. One of them fell. Five people were arrested for “resisting the authorities”, three of them were novices of the monasteries, among them Anastasia. She was sentenced to three months in a forced labor camp. From prison, she returned to the same village where she lived. On March 2, 1938, she was arrested again, the secretary of the Shestakovo village council testified that Anastasia had connections with the nuns, they got together and, “in his opinion, they were carrying out counter-revolutionary anti-Soviet activities.” On April 5, 1938, the Monk Martyr Anastasia was shot.
In 1937, the case of priests and nuns of the former Akatovsky monastery was fabricated. Sester O.P. and P.P. Safonovs, A.P. Shishkov (their monastic names are unknown) and four other nuns of the Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery were arrested. Olga Safonova, although she pleaded guilty during the investigation to non-existent counter-revolutionary actions and even “confessed” that she was the leader of the “counter-revolutionary group of churchmen,” she was not afraid to tell the tormentors: “We have never refused God and will not refuse, whatever you want with us do."
The sisters Safonov and Shishkova were shot in Butovo on September 19 and 21, 1937, the rest were sentenced to 10 years in the camps.
In Soviet times, the NKVD household was arranged in the monastery, then it was rebuilt as a pioneer camp and later completely abandoned.
It was founded at the end of the 19th century by the Klin merchant Fyodor Zakharov (the owner of match shops in the Spas-Nudolskaya volost) in memory of the abolition of serfdom. Therefore, the monastery was given the name of the heavenly patron of the Tsar-Liberator Alexander 2 - the holy noble prince Alexander Nevsky. For the monastery, Zakharov purchased the village of Akatovo and donated 23 thousand rubles, as well as outbuildings. The community was formed in 1890. Evtikhia (Anna Vasilievna Milovidova), a nun of the Moscow Alekseevsky monastery, became her abbess, who was distinguished by piety and spent 40 years in monastic deeds. With the assistance of Archimandrite Sergius of the Joseph-Volotsk Monastery, a small wooden church of the Holy Trinity was built (founded on August 30, 1890), to which in 1891 the icon of the Mother of God “Quick Hearing” and the image of the Holy Great Martyr Panteleimon were brought from the Athos Panteleimon Monastery, which became the main shrines of the monastery . In 1898, the community received the status of a monastery. In 1902-1904, a 5-domed cathedral was erected here in the name of the holy noble prince Alexander Nevsky, artistically the most significant building of the monastery ensemble. Architect Ivan Pavlovich Mashkov (1867-1945). A little later, the northern aisle was built. With its architecture, the temple imitates the architecture of the 17th century. In 1905, a stone St. Nicholas Church was built with a chapel of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God.
By 1917, under the igum. Anatolia, about 150 sisters labored in the monastery. The monastery had a stone fence with towers (1893), two stone two-story residential buildings, holy gates, services, three wooden hotels and wooden cells for the sisters (destroyed), a hospitable house and a brick factory. In 1925 the monastery was closed, but igum. Olimpiada (Ivanova) and the sisters managed to organize an agricultural artel, closed by the authorities in 1828. Church services continued until 1933. In 1938, the novices of the monastery suffered (shot) for their faith: Ekaterina Cherkasova (1892-1938, commemorated 5 February) and Anastasia Bobkova (1890-1938, commemorated 5 April). In 1937, the case of the priests and nuns of the former Akatovsky monastery was fabricated. Sester O.P. and P.P. Safonovs, A.P. Shishkova and four other nuns of the Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery were arrested. The sisters Safonov and Shishkova were shot in Butovo on September 19 and 21, 1937, the rest were sentenced to 10 years in the camps. The monastery housed a rest house and warehouses of the NKVD, since the 1960s. - pioneer camp. The log cabin of the Church of the Holy Trinity was transported to the territory of the Vysokoye rest house, then destroyed. In the disfigured temple, which lost its domes and tiers of zakomar, and the altar was later built with a veranda, a dining room and a kitchen were arranged. Two residential buildings and the front line of the fence with towers, holy gates and services adjacent to the fence have also been preserved.
Based on materials: Handbook-guide to the monasteries and shrines of the Moscow region. North direction. 4 release. Tverdislov. Moscow. 2005O. Penezhko. The city of Klin and the temples of the Klin region. Vladimir. 2003
Trinity Alexander Nevsky non-standard cenobitic female monastery, near the village of Akatova, in the 25th century. from the station of the Nikolaev railway. dor. "Podsolnechnaya", 30 ver. from the district of the city of Klin. Established as a women's community by the Klin merchant Feodor Osipovich Zakharov, who donated 50,000 rubles and 268 acres of land; opened in 1890; renamed the monastery in 1898.
Temples two: 1) wooden in the name of St. Trinity; 2) stone in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky (laid down in 1894).
Two hotels for pilgrims. A strange house. The monastery owns 268 dec. earth. abbess. Nuns and novices 70.
Denisov L.I. Orthodox monasteries of the Russian Empire, 1908, p.526
Holy Trinity-Nevsky Monastery, cenobitic, in the Klin district, near the village of Akatov, 25 miles from the Podsolnechnaya railway station. Established in 1899 from a sorority founded in 1889. He has a strange house.
From the book by S.V. Bulgakov "Russian monasteries in 1913"
Trinity Alexander Nevsky convent is located on the right bank of the Nudol River, 26 km southwest of the regional center (Klin) and 76 km northwest of Moscow. In 1917, there were two churches in the monastery: the Trinity wooden winter church was built in the pseudo-Russian style in 1890. (Dismantled in the 1930s) Nikolskaya stone church with chapels of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God, St. Tikhon of Kaluga and VMC. Paraskeva was built according to the project of arch. I. P. Mashkova in 1902-1905 (now Alexander Nevsky Cathedral). In addition, in the monastery since 1892, according to the project of arch. A. S. Kaminsky, the construction of a large five-domed stone cathedral St. blgv. book. Alexander Nevsky, in which the side-chapels of the icon of the Mother of God "Quick Hearing" and the Great Martyr were supposed to be. Panteleimon. But due to lack of funds, the temple was not completed, and in the middle. XX century - dismantled. Outside the walls of the monastery in 1899-1900. was built with funds. P. P. Smirnov according to the project of arch. I. S. Kuznetsov the wooden building of the monastery parochial school, in which the church of ap. Petra and Rev. Evgeniya. The school with the temple was dismantled in 1924.
