Sretensky Monastery Biography

Tweet Sretensky Monastery and its abstracts in the years the history of the Sretensky monastery, the biography of its abbot and inhabitants still have little studied. In those materials that are published, it is not always correctly indicated in which years of the abbess controlled the monastery, sometimes their sequence is confused, the activities of some of them are completely unknown.

The specified data can be found in the archives. These archival materials and previously unknown documents dating back to the middle of the 18th century are offered to the attention of readers. Archimandrite Joasaf - the petition of Prince Fedor Ivanovich Golitsyn was preserved to Empress Elizabeth Petrovna on the appointment of the rector of the Sretensky monastery, the archimandrite Joasaph, who was dismissed from the Voronezh diocese of the former abbot of the Kozlovsky Trinity Monastery.

And so that the highest of your imperial majesty was ordered by the decree in the Holy Government Synod to accept, and the above archimandrite Joasaph to the largest renewment in this monastery in the renewed monastery of the Sretensky monastery Archimandrite, and where it is put on, send decrees ”[1]. On the certificate of Archimandrite Joasaf in the case, it was said that he was “before in the Trinity Monastery of the Voronezh diocese Archimandrite where he was produced from the hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery in December [2] and from there from the late Grace Feofilah, Bishop Voronezh, fired in Moscow and was fired in Moscow and consisted of Moscow Portions against two brothers in the Miracle Monastery ”[3], where he was allowed to be in the verbal allowing of the Archbishop of the Moscow Plato [4].

Then, “according to the death of his Grace in the year, from the Moscow Holy Synod the office of Archimandrite Joasaf was determined the same year in the Kaluga Lavrentiev Monastery, which was then in idle, where on May 13 the ruling of the Moscow Holy Synod was ordered to appoint the Archimandrite Ilarion Tarshevsky former in the Putivlsky Monastery. Archimandrite Joasaf from the same Moscow Holy Synod of the office as in the indicated Prince Golitsyn, a passage is defined in December of the year ”[5] in the Sretensky monastery before the decree.

In the protocol of the Holy Synod on October 28, the Archimandrite Joasaaph was ordered to be to the future archimandride vacancy, if he himself wants, in that Sretensky monastery, and so that the Sretensky monastery could not be revered, then he should be written by the rector and archimandrite, and the priesthood should be sent according to the priesthood His archimandric rank, and about that to the Synodal Member of the Grace Timofei, Metropolitan of Moscow, and for the knowledge of the Moscow Holy Synod to send decrees ”[6].

Little information has been preserved about the activities of Archimandrite Joasaph in the Sretensky Monastery. He, like the previous rectors of the Sretensky Monastery, served in the cathedrals of the Kremlin. In the year, Archimandrite Joasaf was present in the Assumption Cathedral at the thanksgiving prayers on December 17 and 18 on the occasion of the birth of Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna on December 9.

In the year, he was during the service of Molebn on January 1, on January 21, on the prayer service “On the conquest of the victorious of its imperial majesty weapons of the capital's city and the entire Kingdom of the Prussian”, February 3, on the day of the namesake of Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna; He served the Liturgy in the Assumption Cathedral and on other days. The last time is mentioned in the service of the Liturgy in the Blagoveshchensk Cathedral on September 20, on the birthday of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich, and on a prayer service on this day in the Assumption Cathedral [8].

The department of Archimandrite Joasaph continued to correct the deficiencies at the Schumaevsky Cross set in the Sretensky monastery. The work was entrusted to the Georgian nobleman Semyon Tulaev, who, according to the obligation concluded on July 1, was supposed to correct a number of carved figures and an icon letter. The work of Semyon Tulaev was supposed to finish in the last days of October of the year.

The cost of the work performed was rubles [9]. In December, Archimandrite Joasaf was appointed Archimandrite of the prevechev of the Vyazemsky monastery of the Smolensk diocese [11]. Here it is mentioned up to a year [12]. Hegumen Aaron - Little information has been preserved about the abbot Aaron. It is known that under him the chapel of the Lord’s session in the church of the Monk Maria of Egypt was built and the chapel of St.

Dimitri Rostov in the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Hegumen Aaron died in August, his funeral service passed on August 18 [13]. The chapel in the name of St. Demetrius of Rostov, the miracle worker, was built at the expense of the widow of Praskovy Korina. In the Moscow Theological Consistory on March 13, it was decided to send to the Sretensky monastery of the present John, the Priest of Spassky, and “to command him to make an inspection in the mentioned meal of the Church of St.

Nicholas to build the required chapel: will not in this meal of elimination and darkness or what damage or what a plan to make a plan; And that monastery, the abbot with the brother, to build that chapel, agree whether to take written news from them.In addition, to examine whether there are in that monastery in the churches of what dilapidations, repairing, and there are available, then they can be described with an example, with a colic with a number of dilapidations, you can correct those dilapidations, and the plan and the abbot with the brother and the inventory submit to the consistory at an ordinary repetition and submitting to the report ”[15].

Priest John Spassky, on the examination, reported that “in that meal to the construction of the above chapel of the newly -minted Dimitry Rostov, the miracle worker, ruling and crowded and there would be no damage” [16]. Hegumen Aaron with the brother also expressed their consent to the construction of the chapel [17]. In the year of the year, Praskovya Korina confirmed that “everything needed in the chapel: candles, incense, church wine - will be produced with pleasure, and in the monastery, for maintaining in the shown service anger, it will now come from it for each year without detention, and after life, its indicated exit will be required and the content of the service will be kept from the heirs from the rest of the real estate” [18].

The newly -built chapel was ordered to “decorate with holy icons written according to the ancient Orthodox Eastern Church by custom, and not from foreign Kunsste, so that the church vessels are silver, outfit and clothes on the altar to the floor”, the priestly vestments “would have from the matters of good, and at the last measure of the silk” and “the books of the entire church circle, and those church circles, and those church circles, and those Books in the name of the chapel on sheets sign.

” When “the chapel is built, and everything will be prepared for consecration, and no shortage will appear in anything, then it is ordered to describe all the above and submit an inventory to the consistory during the application”, and “about the Great Assumption Cathedral to the Protopop with the brother and the Sretensky monastery to the abbot with the brother” [20].

In November, Praskovya Korina wrote to Bishop Timofei, Metropolitan of Moscow and Sevsky: “The last July 12, by decree of your Eminence, was allowed to be built in the diocese of your Eminence in the Moscow Sretensky Monastery in the meal of the Church of Nikolai Wonderworker, to commemorate my ancestors, a chapel in the name Christ and the miracle worker Demetrius, who arrived in church God -headed and is decorated with consecration completely in readiness, and at the request of my consecration of this on November 12.

For the sake of your Eminence, I humblely ask for this outfit of that monastery to the abbot or to whom from your Eminence is allowed to inspect and give me, named, to consecrate antimins, and by examination by your archpastation on the 12th of the number of the Archpastor resolution of the archpastoral resolution ”[21]. Bishop Timothy set a resolution: “On November 8, we intend to personally consecrate the shown church” [22].

The Hegumen Maxim - on August 23, the Grace Timofei, Metropolitan of Moscow and Sevsky, wrote: "At the pastorsky discretion to the place of the deceased Sretensky monastery, the abbot Aaron was determined from us in the hegumen of the Cathedral of the Monastery of Hieromonk Maxim." He prescribed the spiritual consistory, calling on the hieromonk Maxim, to announce to him about the pastoral definition, and then with the deliberate, whom the consistory will appoint, send to the Sretensky monastery.

Hieromonkh Maxim was instructed to make a thorough inventory of church utensils and the estate of the Sretensky monastery in two versions: to leave one in the monastery, and the other to present to the consistory. Before the work of Hieromonk, Maxim in the hegumen, “called him the meaning of the Moscow Sretensky Monastery by the boss” [23]. At the same time, a trial began in the Moscow Spiritual Consistory regarding the fall in a fainting during the funeral service of the abbot Aaron on August 18, the White Priest of the Sretensky Monastery Sergius Evtikhiev, who was ordered to guard before the resolution.

The settled Jerely diploma given for the signing of his Grace in the year also has a clergy in the monastery in turn to his own in any serviceability. During the survey, the priest Sergius Evtikhiev showed that on August 18, during the burial of the deceased abbot of the Sretensky monastery, he served the liturgy, which was also served by the Grace Ilarion, Bishop of Sar, with Archimandrite Nicodemus and the Cathedral of the Monastery of the monastery by Hieromonk Aaron, the confessor and other priests.

At the end of the liturgy, he went to the cell of the priest of the Sretensky Monastery Sergius Semenov, who temporarily has a residence there, where he was, before the arrival of the present Moscow spiritual consistory of the Zlatoust, the archimandrite Joseph. Upon arrival, Archimandrite Evtikhiev came to church with other clergymen. In the beginning of the funeral service in the beginning of the funeral service, he was suddenly made in his head and in the eyes of the darkenness, and from that altar he fell in speed and lay for a quarter of an hour, and then, having come to memory, standing in the altar, taking off and without sending that burial, he was in the fraternal halls.

”The priest Sergius Evtikhiev also showed that on the eve of the burial “he read the gospel for the deceased abbot all night uncontiguently, but he was not drunk, also after the liturgy of wine and other goggled drinking did not drink, and hemorrhages have no illness, as the navalists of the monastery could testify. It has a wife and children. In fines, punishments and prohibiting the clergy, there was no case and has no suspicion ”[27].

Hegumen Maxim was ordered to “personally and diligently look after the priest, whether the Paduchi or another such illness would be forced to correct the clergy. After a three -month time, if nothing is seen behind him, then allow us to a conciliar clergy. ” On the same definition, signed by the hand of his Grace: “Timofey, Metropolitan of Moscow, this confirmed. In the years of abbot, Maxim is mentioned during the ministry in the cathedrals of the Kremlin.

He also asked in the case of a transfer, “if one of the living in Moscow will demand me for burial or commemoration, then I would allow me to serve with my title of archpastoral” [33]. He asked him to free him from this obedience. On this petition, on September 2, the resolution was staged: "to expect another idle place." In September, the Hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery Markell filed a petition for his appointment to a renovatory place in the Sretensky Monastery.