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Nikolo-Volosovsky Monastery

Nikolo-Volosovsky Monastery (Nikolo-Volosov Monastery) is an Orthodox convent located in the village of Volosovo, Sobinsky district, Vladimir region.

The time of the establishment of the Nikolo-Volosov Monastery is unknown, but information about the Volosov monastery is found back in the 15th century.
There are many places in Russia where the ancient temples of Volos were replaced by St. Nicholas churches and monasteries. One of them is not far from Vladimir, in a village called Volosovo. The nuns know the legend that their monastery was originally built on the site of the destroyed temple of the god Volos (Veles).
According to one legend, the St. Nicholas Church was initially built on a mountain, on the site of the temple of the god Volos, but the miraculous image of St. Nicholas, which was in it, began to disappear from the church and each time ended up in the lowland near the Kolochka River, suspended from a tree by a hair. I had to move the monastery to the place chosen by the icon. That's where he is now.
Then all the buildings of the monastery were wooden.

From the monastic charters and synodics the abbots of the Volosov Monastery are known: Jonah (1511), Dementius (1514-1517), Paphnutius (1519-1524), Anufriy (1543-1546), Porfiry (1572), Sylvester (1573), Jonah (1577) , Pimen (1595-1598), Joseph (1599-1600), Serapion (1621), Isaac (1635). In 1643, during the “Vladimir Campaign,” Patriarch Joseph (patriarchate from 1642 to 1652) visited the St. Nicholas Volosov Monastery. In the book of the State Prikaz (accounting for alms distributed by the patriarch during the campaign) it is written: “in the Nikolsky Volosov Monastery, the abbot for a prayer service for the cathedral is half a ruble, and the beggars are 6 money.”
From 1645 to 1647 the monastery was ruled by Abbot Theodorit, in 1650 by Jonah, in the same year by Filaret, from 1652 to 1660 by Abbot Kirill, in 1662 by Nikon, from 1667 to 1675 by Justin, from 1675 to 1680. - Abbot Hilarion and from 1685 to 1690 - Abbot Dionysius.

Refectory building with the Temple of Sergius of Radonezh (XVII century)



Refectory building with the Temple of Sergius of Radonezh (XVII century)

In the 17th century was built Sergievskaya Church monastery In addition to the main altar, consecrated in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh, there was also a side church in the name of Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen.
From 1691 to 1707 (he died this year), the monastery was ruled by Abbot Pitirim. In 1713, abbot of the Volosov monastery Nikolai (appointed abbot in 1708, in 1718 transferred to the Pokrovsky Ust-Nerlinsky monastery) consecrated the church in the village. Yeltsino.
From 1719 to 1724 - Abbot Bogolep.

Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1727) with bell tower

Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1727) with bell tower

Cathedral St. Nicholas Church was built in 1727 under Abbot Paul (ruled the monastery from 1725, transferred to the Volosov monastery from Tsarekonstantinovsky, died in the Volosov monastery on December 22, 1738).
From 1742 to 1748, the Volosov Monastery was ruled by Abbot Matthew. In 1748 he was dismissed from management and later placed in the Bogolyubov Monastery. In March 1749, Archimandrite Pavel was appointed to the Volosov and at the same time Kozmin monasteries; until February 25, 1751, Abbot John was appointed to the Nikolsky Volosov Monastery. From 1758 to 1761, the monastery was ruled by Abbot Ambrose.

The first surviving tower of the fence


The second surviving tower of the fence


Cell building

Four towers and walls, a gatehouse, cell building(former rectory) were built in 1763.
In 1763-1764. The monastery was managed by Abbot Pavel, the monastery consisted of a second class.

Intercession Gate Church (1763)


Intercession Gate Church

It was built in 1763 Intercession Gate Church. The Intercession Church stood unconsecrated for a long time and began to collapse. The temple consisted of only walls, which between the temple itself and the annex that was once made to it, due to the fragility of the rubble, diverged. In the 1890s. the temple was restored.
Here is what A. Borisoglebsky wrote at that time in the “Vladimir Diocesan Gazette”: “There are three churches in the monastery: in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, in the name of St. Sergius the Wonderworker, the 3rd church is above the former Holy Gates. This last temple, built 150 years ago, has stood unconsecrated until now. During this time, the building suffered significant destruction. However, according to the Providence of God, the peasant from. Stavrov, Vladimir district, Yakov Ivanovich Busurin took upon himself the sacred task of restoring this destroyed temple. On September 21, the solemn consecration of the newly built church took place. On the eve of the consecration, September 20, the abbot of the Bogolyubov Monastery, Abbot Varlaam, arrived at the St. Nicholas Monastery of St. Nicholas, and held an all-night vigil in the new church with the cathedral and local hieromonks.
On the morning of September 21, the cathedral cleric Prigkips-Evgenov arrived from Vladimir with deacons and a choir of bishops’ singers. By 9 o'clock in the morning the following arrived at the monastery: His Eminence Tikhon, Bishop of Murom, under whose control the monasteries of Bogolyubov and Nikolo-Volosov were located, and the rector of the seminary, Archimandrite Nikon. Soon the consecration of the temple began. Immediately, upon consecration, the first Divine Liturgy began in it, which was also performed by His Eminence Tikhon (Klitin, ordained Bishop of Murom in 1892, since 1895 Bishop of Prilutsk.) in concelebration with the persons mentioned above. The bishop's choristers sang. During the sacramental verse, the teacher of the parochial school located in the monastery, seminary student A. Borisoglebsky, with the blessing of His Eminence, uttered words appropriate for the occasion.
At the end of the service, His Eminence Tikhon and his concelebrants were offered tea and lunch in the premises of the fraternal monastery building. Having taught the Holy Blessing to the people, with the bells ringing, His Eminence Tikhon went back to Vladimir, and the rest of the participants in the sacred celebration followed him.”

Before the establishment of the states, there were 460 peasant souls behind the monastery. After the confiscation of the monastery estates and the introduction of states in 1764, the monastery was abolished, and in 1775 it re-emerged.

In 1775, by decree of the Holy Synod, the Constantine-Eleninsky Monastery with its abbot, brethren and church utensils was transferred to the St. Nicholas-Volosov Monastery, which is why it is sometimes called the Tsarekonstantinovsky St. Nicholas-Volosov Monastery.
Leonty Fedorovich Tikhonravov, after graduating from the Vladimir Theological Seminary (1822), was a candidate at the Moscow Theological Academy, in 1830 he entered the Volosov Monastery, from 1839 - in the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery, from 1839 he had a secular rank.

Until 1844, the monastery was independent; in this year the monastery was assigned to the Bogolyubovsky Monastery, where all its property was transferred; the remaining churches and buildings were transferred to the management of the abbot of the Bogolyubsky Monastery.
The Nikolo-Volosov Monastery was finally closed in 1874, the church and monastery property was transferred to the Bogolyubov Monastery, the remaining churches and buildings were transferred to the management of the abbots of the Bogolyubov Monastery.

“It is located 27 versts from the Bogolyubov Monastery, to the southwest of it, 17 versts from the city of Vladimir, and 8 versts from the highway. Behind the monastery fence on the eastern side there is a large and beautiful pond, with a hay meadow growing in front of it.”
In 1891, the former Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery had the following buildings:
a) Stone three-story building, renovated in 1891; This building served as premises for the abbot of the monastery.
b) Remains of the second stone building, which served as a building for the brethren.
c) The wooden cellar, barn and bathhouse are dilapidated.
d) The stone fence with four towers is also dilapidated.
The following lands belong to the Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery:
a) Estate land, garden land and under the pond 4 tens. 44 sq. soot There is a plan for this land dated 1821.
b) Haymaking 7 dessiatines 359 sq. soot Plan from 1822. This land is leased from the peasants of the village of Volosov for 6 years from May 3, 1888 - 100 rubles per year.
c) Pakhatnaya at the state-owned village of Fomitsyna, which is in the Starkova wasteland, 21 dessiatinas, 1909 sq. m. soot Plan from 1831. It was leased to the peasants of the village of Fomitsyna for 71 rubles. per year, according to the condition from February 1, 1890 for 6 years.
d) Lake Skovorodino, four miles from the city of Vladimir, measuring 3 tens. 5 sq. soot This lake does not provide any income to the monastery due to its lack of water and swampiness.
e) The flour mill on the Koloksha River, near the village of Stavrov, is leased from the peasant Mikhail Sergeev Ivanov, under a contract from October 1, 1888 for 8 years, with a fee of 800 rubles per year.
When the Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Bogolyubov Monastery, according to the monastery inventory, 20,727 rubles were listed as tickets and cash for the Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery. 8 kopecks banknotes; This amount, by order of the diocesan authorities, was transferred to the Consistory.

In the village Volosovo was parochial school. In 1893, the teacher there was Alexey Egorovich Borisoglebsky, who graduated from the Vladimir Seminary in 1892. In 1895, he was transferred to teach the preparatory class at the Shuya Theological School.
The priest Pyotr Mikhailovich Kazansky became the teacher of the law at the Volosov school. He graduated from the Kazan Theological Academy with the title of full student, and in 1890 - candidate. In 1884 he was appointed priest of the village. Georgievsky Melenkovsky district, in 1889 - the Assumption Church in Murom, due to widowhood he entered the Bogolyubov Monastery.

In 1909, the monastery was converted into a women's monastery.
At the monastery there was a water mill on the Kolochka River.
The monastery was closed in the 1920s.

In 1927-1928 Fr. served in Volosovo. Sergius Sidorov (born 1895), author of “Notes”. He was arrested three times and shot in 1937. From 1923 until his first arrest in 1925, Fr. Sergius served in the Resurrection Church of Sergiev Posad. Father Sergius and his family arrived in the city of Sergiev (as Sergiev Posad was then called) in the late autumn of 1923. Here he was given a place as a priest in the Church of Peter and Paul, which is located next to the Duck Tower of the Lavra. Immediately upon arrival Fr. Sergius, the church council unanimously elected him rector of the temple. He and his family settled almost next to the church, on Bolshaya Kokuevskaya Street, in a small wooden house with a terrace (house 29).
In the 1920s many noble families moved from Moscow to Sergiev: in Moscow it was dangerous because of denunciations and arrests, but in Sergiev, next to the shrines of the Lavra and under their cover, it seemed more possible to survive the furies of the revolution. Even before the revolution, during his life in Moscow, Father Sergius knew many of those who moved to Sergiev: he always found a warm welcome in the Istomin, Bobrinsky, Komarovsky, and Ognev families, and Sergei Pavlovich Mansurov became his friend. In this town near Moscow, Fr. Sergius again entered the circle of people of high culture and Orthodox spirituality. And the long tea parties and evening conversations were repeated, as before, in which Fr. Sergius took the most ardent part, forgetting for a while about the difficulties of everyday life, about the illnesses of children, about constant need. “Father Sergius very soon became a priest especially revered by believers not only of his parish, but of the entire city. Many families wanted to meet him, and when he visited them, he left an indelible mark... There was something attractive in his beautiful, noble, spiritual face... Being a widely educated man, Fr. Sergius easily interested his listeners with his fascinating and insightful stories on a variety of topics. The conversations concerned literature, history, art and many other issues related to the spiritual life of a person, his behavior in society and his individual qualities. He convincingly instilled moral principles in youth, could interpret the Gospel with great interest and, at the same time, lead listeners into the world of unsolved mysteries of nature...”
In 1924, St. Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, served in the Peter and Paul Church. He was invited by Fr. Sergius, to strengthen the believers in Orthodoxy, but he himself was arrested three days before the arrival of St. Tikhon. For the second time Fr. Sergius was arrested in 1926 in the case of the Locum Tenens of the Patriarchal Throne, Metropolitan Peter. Upon leaving prison, he was deprived of the right to reside in 6 of the largest cities of the USSR and was sent for 3 years to a city of his own choice. Father Sergius chose Vladimir.
In Vladimir at that time many churches and monasteries were already closed, and there was an excess of clergy. Father Sergius could not obtain a permanent place of ministry until he was sent to Volosovo. On July 27, 1927, the second daughter of Father Sergius was born in Vladimir, and they named her Tatyana. By this time, he had already received a parish in the ancient St. Nicholas Church of the former St. Nicholas-Volosovsky Monastery, and the Vladimir GPU allowed him to move to the village of Volosovo.
On April 1, 1927, two sleighs arrived and took Father Sergius to Volosovo. After Easter, when the summer road was established, the family was supposed to go. Volosovo was a charming place: nearby there is a forest with saffron milk caps and strawberries, behind the monastery there is a small but clean river with fish. The monastery garden, although already wild, was still fragrant in spring, and the walls of the ancient monastery were surrounded by thickets of rose hips. An almshouse for old women and elderly people has been preserved, and after the revolution a school was opened there. Fr.'s family Sergia settled in the former gatehouse at the Church, in a house unsuitable for living. Very soon upon arrival Fr. Sergius faced all the hardships of life in a small, poor parish, which had only one hundred and fifty houses. There was not enough money to pay taxes, there was nothing to support the family. Small children often got sick, and doctors could only be seen in Vladimir. Fr. became seriously ill. Sergius: high temperature, suspected typhoid fever. Wrapped in sheepskin coats, they took him to Vladimir and admitted him to the hospital. Finally, his dearly beloved “mother,” Vera Ivanovna Ladygina, fell fatally ill with stomach cancer.
She died in 1928 in Moscow and was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
During the last war, Vera Ivanovna’s grave was lost, and it is now impossible to find it. Father Sergius, cut off from his friends, felt very lonely in Volosovo.
In 1928, he wrote to a friend: “It is impossible to live in Volosovo with your family in winter. My wife is exhausted and sick all the time, and so are the children.” Father Sergius served briefly in Volosovo - from April 1927 to the end of 1928. During this time, the parishioners fell in love with him. A leaflet of gratitude has been preserved, expressed by the church council to Fr. Sergius. On a small sheet of paper, in gold paint, it is written in block letters: “To the rector of the Volosovo religious community, priest Sergei Alekseevich Sidorov. Most Reverend Father Sergius! We ask you to accept from us our deep gratitude for those fiery appeals that, in our time, meager in virtues and lacking in faith, ring like an alarm bell in the ancient church of the historical Nikolo-Volosov Monastery, encouraging us to cool our addiction to the corruptible things of this world, and strive for the happy infinite eternity... Mentor!
The flock, entrusted to your leadership and entrusting themselves to you, earnestly asks you so that at that time, standing before the terrible Throne of the Lord of Glory, you can say: “Behold, I and the children whom God has given me to eat!” And signatures: elder Pavel Chugunov, chairman advice. Members: V. Akimov, M. Zakharov, N. Blinov.
In 1929 Fr. Sergius receives a parish in the village. Lukin, Serpukhov district. He is replaced in Volosovo by the renovationist priest Sergius Andreev.
Archpriest Sergiy Evgenievich Andreev (1902-1991) was ordained a priest at the end of 1923 by the Renovationist Bishop Lavrov. From 1924 to 1925 he served in the village. Olikov, from 1925 to 1929 - in the village. Kistysh, from 1929 to 1932 - in Volosovo, from 1932 to 1940 - in Stavrov.

In addition to the churches, cells (1763) and part of the fence with towers (1763) survived.
The monastery was revived in 1993 by the sisters of the Bogolyubsky convent. Since 1993 it existed as a women's monastery of the Suzdal Intercession Monastery, and since 1996 it has been an independent monastery.
The abbess of the monastery is Euphemia (Romashova).
/From the books of Archpriest Oleg Penezhko./

Chapel



West entrance gate

The image of Nicholas, which is located in the St. Nicholas Volosov Monastery, looks as if it was painted quite recently. The nuns say that this icon miraculously survived in the niche of the bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral since the revolutionary upheavals. And that this is the same image that was included in the monastery inventory at the very beginning. XIX century

Village Volosovo

“This monastery is located near the village of Velisova, or Velesova, which resembles Volos, or Veles, the pagan god of cattle.”

Village Volosovo



Houses in the village of Volosovo


Shop in the village Volosovo


Volosovsky FAP. St. Michurinskaya, 11a


Monument to the soldiers of their native land (Volosovo village and villages: Azikovo, Velisovo, Voronino, Krutoy Ovrag, Mikhlino, Pshenichnikovo, Churilovo), who died heroically in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.


Village Krutoy Ravine


Mikhlino village

Holy spring of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

Voronki River


Spring on the river Voronki near the village. Volosovo


Holy spring of St. Nicholas. Photo from 2015.

Not far from the monastery there is a holy spring of St. Nicholas.
With the blessing of Archbishop Evlogiy of Vladimir and Suzdal, a wooden chapel should be built at the spring of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker; its design has already been developed. In this place, according to the stories of nuns and local residents, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared repeatedly. According to the abbess of the monastery, Mother Euphemia, during the cleaning of the spring, ancient bricks, apparently from the monastery, rose from the bottom. In the monastery, there are only 12 nuns who can work, improve, and even more so build a chapel at the source on their own.
A worship cross was installed at the spring.
The holy spring is hardly noticeable; concrete rings are dug in at ground level. Through the efforts of a local resident, a pipe was removed from the well and a trench was dug to the river.

Chapel at the spring of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Photo from 2016.


Source

In 2016, with the blessing of Archbishop Evlogiy of Vladimir and Suzdal, a chapel was built at the source of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker near the village of Volosovo.

Village Churilovo

This village has been since the beginning. XVII century Before the abolition of the monastic estates, it belonged to the patriarchal house of the Nikolaevsky Volosovsky monastery, and after that it passed into the department of state property. In the beginning. XVII century There was already a church here in the name of the holy prophet Elijah, which is confirmed by the entry in the patriarchal salary books of 1628, which says: “the church of the holy prophet Elijah in the patriarchal estate of the Volosov monastery in the village of Churilov tribute 19 altyn with denga.” From 1631 to 1656 the church was not listed in the salary books. “Perhaps either the church was abandoned, or tribute was granted to the Volosov Monastery. In 164 (1656) tribute was due 2 rubles. 22 altyn 5 money, arrival hryvnia, but in 165 (1657) “it was not ordered to take tribute in the future.” In 185 (1677) tribute was due 2 rubles. 26 altyn with dengo; the tribute was paid by the priest of the same church, Vasily Timofeev; By decree of the patriarch of July 19 of the same year, this tribute was granted to the Nikolaev Volosov Monastery to the abbot and the brethren “for church needs” for the future. In 187 (1679) a demarcation was made between the church land and the peasant village of Churilov: The clergy were allotted 6 tens each. Boundary signs were placed in 3 fields.
In 1720, by decree of the patriarch, it was ordered to dismantle the dilapidated church in the village of Churilovo and in its place to build a new one, also in honor of St. Prophet Elijah. Probably this wooden church existed before the construction of the stone church in 1817; The refectory at this church was expanded in 1872. At the church there is a stone bell tower, built at the same time as it. The cross on the church is four-pointed with a crescent moon below.
There are now three altars in the church: a cold one in honor of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, a warm meal in honor of St. the prophet Elijah and the Mother of God “the joy of all who mourn” (the renaming of the altar of the main church probably occurred during the construction of the stone church).
The church library preserves a wonderful ancient printed Gospel, published in 1575 “in the notorious city of Vilna under the power of the merciful sovereign Henry, by the grace of God, the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania, and under the Right Reverend Archbishop Jonah, Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia”; The centerpiece and evangelists on it are made of silver, and the sides are lined with embossing.
The church was bequeathed a capital of 150 rubles, from which it enjoys interest. There is church land available: about 1 dessiatine of estate land, 26 dessiatines of arable land, 3 dessiatines of hay land. and 4 des. uncomfortable. There is no specific plan for the land.
The clergy according to the staff are: priest, deacon and psalm-reader. The maintenance of the parish is received from demand corrections, grain collection, interest on capital in the amount of 408 rubles. 32 k. and land - only about 750 rubles. per year. The clergy lives in his own houses, on church land.
The parish consists of: the village of Churilov, the village of Volosova (1 verst from the church), the villages: Krutoy Enemy (1 verst), Golovin (1 verst), Yakovleva, Zykova, Velisova, Voronina (3 versts), Bryantseva, Shchegolikha (1 verst), Azikova, village of Lukhovets. There are 870 souls in the parish. gender and 894 female souls. gender, of which there are 10 unsigned schismatics.
In Churilovo, since 1887, there has been a parochial school in the deacon's house; There are about 40 students.”
Historical and statistical description of churches and parishes of the Vladimir diocese. 1896

Annino village

Vladimir district: third deanery district.
“The village of Annino near the Peshcherka River is located 20 versts from the provincial town.
The time of the initial founding of the village is unknown, but it already existed in the 17th century. and in the second half of this century it belonged to the Duma clerk Lukyan Golosov, and at the end of the 18th century. was in the estate of Prince Nesvitsky.
The church in the village of Annin was included in the patriarchal books for the first time in 1671. It was consecrated in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh with the chapel of the Most Pure Mother of God (Uspensky). “The tribute paid in 1671 was 5 altyn 3 money, and in 1741 56.5 kopecks.”
In 1778, “through the diligence of the landowner Prince Nesvitsky,” a stone church with a bell tower was built. The cross on the church was eight-pointed with a crescent at the bottom.
There were three altars in the church: in the present one - in the name of St. John the Baptist, in the chapels: on the south side - in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and from the north - in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God (warm chapel).
“Of the holy icons in the parish, the icon of St. John the Baptist in a silver robe (weighing 20 pounds) enjoys special respect; suspended from the icon are two crosses with precious stones, and in one of them are particles of the relics of the holy martyrs Cyprian, Pimen and Julian. The church library has preserved: the Gospel printed in 1657 under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Nikon, it is lined with green velvet, an akathist book by Innocent Gisel in 1676, and the royal and patriarchal charters on the establishment of St. Synod".
The staff of the clergy consists of a priest and a psalm-reader. The maintenance of the clergy receives up to 450 rubles from demand corrections, services and from the land. in year.
The clergy lives in his own houses on church land.
The parish consists of the village of Annina, the villages: Fomitsyna, Malgina, Pshenisnikov (the village of Pshenisnikovo in the 17th century and after belonged to the Volosov Monastery) and Koryakin - all two miles from the parish church. According to the clergy registers, there are 530 male souls and 582 female souls, of which 7 are schismatic-non-priest souls of both sexes.
/Historical and statistical description of churches and parishes of the Vladimir diocese. 1896/

Vladimir Soloukhin in a conversation with Mother Evlampia, Nikolo-Volosov Monastery:
-Where do you get your icons from? - Some are from the monastery church, others from Annin. There was an old, splendid church in Annin. When it was broken, many icons were transported to the Petrokovskaya Church, I asked for the Kazan Mother of God, and the Archangel Michael, and also St. Nicholas the Pleasant...
Soloukhin did not go to Annino, and in vain, then there was still a road there, not like today, overgrown fields and abandoned land, sharp thorns and merciless plowing potholes ramming the surfaces of random and curious cars.
The huge church of St. John the Baptist in the village of Annino, designed for a congregation of more than a thousand people, has survived to this day. The stone temple is single-domed and large in size. The central quadrangle is surrounded by chapels, because of this the church resembles a massive cube. During Soviet times, the building was subjected to repeated vandalism, overgrown with vegetation, in ruins, in an abandoned state, the bell tower was dismantled by the Bolsheviks into bricks, no traces of the dome and cross could be found. The paintings lost their colors and became gray-black. Only the inscriptions sparkle in places with isolated droplets of gold. But the church itself is alive and existing, although it is not included in the lists of protected architectural heritage and is unknown to government agencies for the protection of monuments. It stands on a high hill, surrounded by dense thickets.
Below, in a deep ravine, there is a barely noticeable stream, and once it was the Peshcherka River. Near the church there is an old cemetery. Some graves are looked after and cared for, but no transport has been moving along the barely noticeable track, more like a ditch. A few years ago, a local farmer put his hives in the church for the winter, but all the bees died, the empty boxes were no longer touched, and birds shit on them. There were no other attempts to use the church; all the roads leading to it were overgrown with impassable grass. The condition of the temple is grave, it was broken and was not broken. The city of Sobinka.
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Nikolo-Volosovsky Monastery

St. Nicholas Volosov Convent (Nikolo-Volosov Monastery) is an Orthodox convent located in the Sobinsky district of the Vladimir region.

The time of the establishment of the Nikolo-Volosov Monastery is unknown, but information about the Volosov monastery is found back in the 15th century.

There are many places in Russia where the ancient temples of Volos were replaced by St. Nicholas churches and monasteries. One of them is not far from Vladimir, in a village called Volosovo. The nuns know the legend that their monastery was originally built on the site of the destroyed temple of the god Volos (Veles).
According to one legend, the St. Nicholas Church was initially built on a mountain, on the site of the temple of the god Volos, but the miraculous image of St. Nicholas, which was in it, began to disappear from the church and each time ended up in the lowland near the Kolochka River, suspended from a tree by a hair. I had to move the monastery to the place chosen by the icon. There he appeared - near the village of Velisova.
In 1781, certificates were requested from the abbots of all monasteries about the time of founding of the monasteries they managed and the remarkable events that had ever taken place in these monasteries. The report received from the archimandrite, who was the abbot of the Volosov monastery, stated that according to the information he received from local peasants and “neighborhood old-timers”, for a long time there had been patriarchal villages with villages near the Volosov monastery, “and the place where the monastery is now lay in vain, near a dry swamp, where hummocks grew, overgrown with grass called hairy grass; meanwhile, the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker allegedly appeared in the hummocks, why is it that just as the church was moved to that hummocky place then, the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker that appeared in that church was placed, and to this day in the cathedral stone church created in his name stands in the iconostasis and from there the monastery is called Volosov. And from that very time, the former patriarchate villages and hamlets, and from other votchinniki, estates were attached to it and stone churches and a fence were built and an abbot was established.” The monks do not know any other legends about the founding of the monastery. The tradition reported in the report of 1781 correctly notes the fact of the dependence of the Volosov Monastery, first on the Moscow Metropolis (it was a brownie), then on the Patriarchate; probably, it also gives a more consistent historical explanation of the name of the monastery, and from here some data on the definition and time of its foundation, which does not need to be attributed to the first times of Christianization of the Vladimir-Suzdal region, but is better dated in relation to the chronological data indicated above.

Initially, all the buildings of the monastery were wooden.
From the monastic charters and synodics the abbots of the Volosov Monastery are known: Jonah (1511), Dementius (1514-1517), Paphnutius (1519-1524), Anufriy (1543-1546), Porfiry (1572), Sylvester (1573), Jonah (1577) , Pimen (1595-1598), Joseph (1599-1600), Serapion (1621), Isaac (1635).
In the charter of Grand Duke John Vasilyevich of the early 16th century. (1504) The Volosov monastery is listed along with those monasteries and villages that are given the benefit of not being subject to the jurisdiction of governors and volostels. In 1511, Metropolitan Varlaam gave a grant to the Volosovo monastery for the village of Volosovo with land and hay fields. In P. Stroev’s list of abbots of the Volosov Monastery this year, the first known abbot of this monastery, Jonah, is noted in history. The successor of Metropolitan Varlaam, Daniel (1522 - 1539), wrote in response to a letter to him from the abbot and elders of the St. Nicholas Monastery of St. Nicholas, who complained that, contrary to the cenobitic rules, the presbyters and deacons take what was brought from Christ-lovers by hand, and not into the monastery treasury, - a special message in which he teaches the corresponding hierarchical instructions.
In 1643, during the “Vladimir Campaign,” Patriarch Joseph (patriarchate from 1642 to 1652) visited the St. Nicholas Volosov Monastery. In the book of the State Prikaz (accounting for alms distributed by the patriarch during the campaign) it is written: “in the Nikolsky Volosov Monastery, the abbot for a prayer service for the cathedral is half a ruble, and the beggars are 6 money.”
From 1645 to 1647 the monastery was ruled by Abbot Theodorit, in 1650 by Jonah, in the same year by Filaret, from 1652 to 1660 by Abbot Kirill, in 1662 by Nikon. In 1662, the abbot of the Nikolo-Volosovsky Monastery, Nikon, was forced to submit a petition to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich “about grievances and threats from Prince Theodore of Volkhov.” In it, he begged the sovereign for mercy, simply and artlessly complaining about the oppression inflicted on the defenseless “sovereign pilgrims”: “... on the 12th day of July, our monastery elder Larion and the peasants were throwing our monastery hay at the hayfield, and as they swept away the hay, they went to the camp on Golovin Meadow and he, Prince Fyodor, came with his people and from the peasants to that meadow Golovin armed himself with the camp and taught those of our monastery peasants to beat and rob and taught them to shoot at the peasants from arquebuses and they fled into the country, leaving two cauldrons of copper buckets ten and coats and hats and axes were thrown away and when Prince Fyodor arrived, he crushed two fields of Rzhanov and Yarovov’s grain, and at the same time he grabbed the elder Larion and the peasant Ivashka Ofonasiev, tying him up in only his shirts, took him to him and kept him in his granary all day.” .
From 1667 to 1675 - Justin, from 1675 to 1680 - Abbot Hilarion and from 1685 to 1690 - Abbot Dionysius.

Refectory building with the Temple of Sergius of Radonezh (XVII century)



Refectory building with the Temple of Sergius of Radonezh (XVII century)

In the 17th century was built Sergievskaya Church monastery In addition to the main altar, consecrated in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh, there was also a side church in the name of Equal-to-the-Apostles Constantine and Helen.
From 1691 to 1707 (he died this year), the monastery was ruled by Abbot Pitirim. In 1713, abbot of the Volosov monastery Nikolai (appointed abbot in 1708, transferred to 1718) consecrated the church in the village. Yeltsino.
“Hegumen Nikolai of Volosovsk was there and presented the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker with a frame and bread; and the monks in that monastery were not fed, but were given alms of 4 per brother” (1720).

In the beginning. XVIII century Peter I began reducing the number of monasteries, the income of which he intended to use for the needs of the state. Small monasteries, where the number of monks did not exceed 30 people, were either merged with other monasteries or completely closed. escaped the fate of closure and was assigned to the Intercession Monastery on the Nerl River. In 1722, by decree of the Holy Synod, both of these monasteries were assigned to the Nikolaev Volosov Monastery.

From 1719 to 1724 - Abbot Bogolep.
From 1725 to 1727 he was assigned to the Volosov monastery as a small brotherhood.

Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1727) with bell tower

Cathedral St. Nicholas Church was built in 1727 under Abbot Paul (ruled the monastery from 1725, transferred to the Volosov monastery from Tsarekonstantinovsky, died in the Volosov monastery on December 22, 1738).
From 1742 to 1748, the Volosov Monastery was ruled by Abbot Matthew. In 1748 he was dismissed from management and later placed in the Bogolyubov Monastery. In March 1749, Archimandrite Pavel was appointed to the Volosov and at the same time Kozmin monasteries, until February 25, 1751. In 1751, Abbot John was appointed to the Nikolsky Volosov Monastery.
In the statement for 1749, Abbot Victor wrote about the patrimony and income of the monastery: “Behind this Volosov monastery in the Vladimir district in the village of Churilovo with the village of Volosov and with the villages, according to the current revision, 460 male souls are written. From these peasants, according to their salary, they collect 20 rubles a year for the monastery for the quitrent village of Fomitsyno. Money data s. Churilov with priests and clerks 2 rubles each. 89 k. per year. Total salary money 22 rubles. 89 k.”
Non-salary money on average per year is calculated by Abbot Victor as follows. From 7 wastelands, rented out, 73 rubles, “and sometimes, for lack of crops, according to the abbot, nothing was received.” From the issued coronal memorials issued from the Volosov Monastery, by virtue of letters of grant, to the patrimonial peasants of the monastery, 2 rubles. 42 k. For the release of broods issued for girls and widows who were married to other estates, 3 rubles. 90 k. Total non-salary fees 79 rub. 32 k. And in total with salaries 102 rubles. 21 kopecks
In addition, the monastery owned arable land near the village of Lukin and near the village of Filippushka, “80 ½ dessiatines per field and two for the same.” This arable land was plowed by peasants from the village. Churilov and nearby villages. They also mowed hay fields for 250 kopecks. With the money received, candles, incense and church wine (20 rubles) were purchased, salaries were given to the abbot (10 rubles), the hieromonk (5 rubles), 2 white priests (5 rubles each), one deacon (5 rubles). ), 4 monks (20 rubles), 3 psalm-readers (9 rubles), baker (2 rubles), clerk (2 rubles), 5 grooms and one cattleman (6 rubles), abbot's cell attendant (2 rubles) and a retired soldier sent for food (50 k.). In total, on average, 91 rubles were issued per year from the money received by the monastery. 50 kopecks The rest of the money went to repair the monastery's dilapidations. If the monastery did not receive the average amount shown at the parish due to a shortfall, the salary of everyone living in the monastery was reduced according to the amount of money not received.
The fruitful grain from the monastery's arable lands was partly sent to the Moscow Office of the Synodal Economic Board (rye flour 50 quarters each, oatmeal 25 quarters each, oatmeal 25 quarters each), and partly went to support the people living in the monastery. The hay was used without a trace to feed the monastery's livestock.
These were the resources that the Volosov Monastery had at its disposal in the middle of the 18th century. Around the same time, an inventory of the monastery buildings, sacred objects and all property belonging to the Volosov Monastery was compiled. Namely, in 1751, the rector of the Volosov monastery, Archimandrite Paul, who was dismissed from the Vladimir diocese for various atrocities, was replaced by Abbot John. He was instructed by the consistory, upon assuming the position of abbot, to draw up, in the presence of the brethren, a detailed inventory of all the monastic property. From the inventory he compiled it is clear that there were three churches in the monastery. The first cathedral in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built by Osmerik, the head is covered with iron, and the roof is with planks. The iconostasis of this temple was gilded; Most of the icons are decorated with precious stones. Above the entrance doors there was a stone bell tower, also built by Osmerik; 8 bells hung on it, of which the largest weighed 103 pounds 32 pounds. There was also an iron combat clock on the bell tower. The second warm refectory church in honor of Sergius of Radonezh is also made of stone. The iconostasis of this church was carpentry; Only one belt is gilded. The third church, located on the holy gates, in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, also made of stone, had fallen into disrepair by 1751: “the vaults had collapsed, it was very dangerous for the service, for which reason the iconostasis was taken to the court church of His Eminence, which is at the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir.
In addition to church books, the monastery library contained several letters of grant, which made it possible to judge the past of the Volosov Monastery. Exactly:
1) Charter of the Great Sovereign Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich of All Russia, unconvicted 7131 (1623).
2) Letter of commendation from His Holiness. Job the Patriarch on the Koreevskaya meadow and on the aspen tree behind his hand in 7106 (1598).
3) List from the letter of the unconvicted Great Sovereign Tsar Boris Feodorovich under the hand of clerk Ovdokim Nikitin, 7107 (1599).
4) List from the letter of Metropolitan Anthony to Vladimir on the tithe yard of not paying duties for 7081 (1573).
5) Certificate of Anthony, Metropolitan of All Russia, for half of Lake Chiretev, which is in the Nizhny Novgorod district, under his hand, 7086 (1578).
6) Diploma of His Holiness. Job of the Patriarch about why servants should take money and bread and ship supplies and weddings from peasants a year, behind the hand of clerk Ovdokim Nikitin in 7109 (1601).
7) Certificate of Metropolitan Anthony, so that with. Churilov from the church in Vladimir did not pay this money in 7081 (1573).
8) Letter of grant from Metropolitan Varlaam to the village of Volosovo with land and hay cuttings for his hand, Varlaam 7019 (1511).
9) Letter of grant from Metropolitan Varlaam, so that this money and no other money should be paid for his hand in 7026 (1518).
10) Certificate from Joasaph the Patriarch for the wasteland of Fomitsyno and for half of Buyakovo, it was ordered to take 20 rubles from the peasants. per year 7149 (1671)
11) Letter of commendation from His Holiness. Joachim the Patriarch, according to which the monastery peasants were ordered to take the crowns of memory in the monastery and pay duties to the monastery treasury, signed by the treasurer Elder Paisius, signed by the clerk Ivan Veshnyakov, 7193 (1685).
12) Charter of the Great Lord His Holiness. Patriarch Joachim, as the peasants were ordered to do all sorts of work for the monastery and pay whatever money they could into the monastery treasury, with the signature of clerk Denis Dyatlovsky and the certificate of Vashka Svetikov, 7185 (1677).
In addition to the letters, the library of the monastery contained: A notebook, who granted what to the deposit 7019 (1511). Inscription in the columns of Prince Grigory Shekhovsky and clerk Pyotr Vasiliev, Rodion Beketov 153, 154 and 155 (1645, 1646 and 1647) in words of clerk Anisim Nevezhin. Boundary record signed by clerk Ivan Kokoshilov 158 (1650)
The monastery churches were surrounded by stone buildings that housed the abbot's and brethren's cells, and wooden outbuildings (two glaciers, a brewery, two granaries, a stable yard, three barns, sheds). Around the entire monastery building there was a stone fence 78 fathoms long, 70 fathoms across. Towers were built in the corners in three places; two towers housed cells, and the third served as a “malt barn.” Behind the monastery there was a horse yard, on it there were two huts, a shed and sheds - all made of wood. There was a similar horse and cattle yard in the village. Lukin, the estate of the monastery.
Judging by these data, extracted from the cited inventory, the Volosov Monastery by the middle of the 18th century was not so poor in sources of content that one could assume the possibility of its abolition. There were 460 souls behind him. In addition to monetary income, the monastery received grain crops from the monastery's arable lands. The monastery construction indicates a significant development of the monastery economy. In 1751, there were 23 horses and 8 foals in the monastery stable. There were 27 cattle and 46 sheep in the barnyard.
From 1758 to 1761, the monastery was ruled by Abbot Ambrose.

The first surviving tower of the fence


The second surviving tower of the fence


Cell building

Four towers and walls, a gatehouse, cell building(former rectory) were built in 1763.
In 1763-1764. The monastery was managed by Abbot Pavel, the monastery consisted of a second class.

Intercession Gate Church (1763)


Intercession Gate Church

It was built in 1763 Intercession Gate Church. The Intercession Church stood unconsecrated for a long time and began to collapse. The temple consisted of only walls, which between the temple itself and the annex that was once made to it, due to the fragility of the rubble, diverged. In the 1890s. the temple was restored.
Here is what A. Borisoglebsky wrote at that time in the “Vladimir Diocesan Gazette”: “There are three churches in the monastery: in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, in the name of St. Sergius the Wonderworker, the 3rd church is above the former Holy Gates. This last temple, built 150 years ago, has stood unconsecrated until now. During this time, the building suffered significant destruction. However, according to the Providence of God, the peasant of the Vladimir district, Yakov Ivanovich Busurin, took upon himself the holy task of restoring this destroyed temple. On September 21, the solemn consecration of the newly built church took place. On the eve of the consecration, September 20, the abbot of the Bogolyubov Monastery, Abbot Varlaam, arrived at the St. Nicholas Monastery of St. Nicholas, and held an all-night vigil in the new church with the cathedral and local hieromonks.
On the morning of September 21, the cathedral cleric Prigkips-Evgenov arrived from Vladimir with deacons and a choir of bishops’ singers. By 9 o'clock in the morning the following arrived at the monastery: His Eminence Tikhon, Bishop of Murom, under whose control the monasteries of Bogolyubov and Nikolo-Volosov were located, and the rector of the seminary, Archimandrite Nikon. Soon the consecration of the temple began. Immediately, upon consecration, the first Divine Liturgy began in it, which was also performed by His Eminence Tikhon (Klitin, ordained Bishop of Murom in 1892, since 1895 Bishop of Prilutsk.) in concelebration with the persons mentioned above. The bishop's choristers sang. During the sacramental verse, the teacher of the parochial school located in the monastery, seminary student A. Borisoglebsky, with the blessing of His Eminence, uttered words appropriate for the occasion.
At the end of the service, His Eminence Tikhon and his concelebrants were offered tea and lunch in the premises of the fraternal monastery building. Having taught the Holy Blessing to the people, with the bells ringing, His Eminence Tikhon went back to Vladimir, and the rest of the participants in the sacred celebration followed him.”

On October 18, 1764, in the Vladimir Consistory, a decree of Her Imperial Majesty was heard “on leaving the Sanaksar desert, Temnikovsky district, destined for abolition (which at that time belonged to the Vladimir diocese), as before, among other deserts and on excluding another from the allotted number instead what monastery or desert? The Consistory, in pursuance of the decree, decided: “Of the monasteries left in the diocese of His Eminence on their own subsistence, the Florishcheva and Sarov hermitages are precisely included in the schedule, while the Yaropolskaya Annunciation Monastery has land for its maintenance, and the Gorokhovsky Nikolaevsky Monastery, which is located in the city and is left on the alms of those there citizens, who are supported by this. And although there is a favor from investors regarding the maintenance of the last - Volosov monastery, but since this monastery is not part of the city, therefore, in it, except for the investors, there is no hope of receiving alms, for which, in the opinion of the consistory, Volosov should be excluded instead of that Sanaksar desert a monastery, which will be established as a parish church, to which half of the parish from the village of Churilov will be assigned, namely one hundred and two courtyards, and for the sacred service, the priest Joseph Gavrilov will be assigned from that village with a sexton and a sexton; for their food, to separate from the arable land of that monastery, by virtue of the order, ten quarters per field, and in two according to the same, hay cuttings per quarter per shock, and the measure is three dessiatines.”
After the confiscation of the monastery estates and the introduction of states in 1764, the monastery was abolished, and its cathedral St. Nicholas Church was converted into a parish church.
However, the abolished Volosov Monastery did not remain in this situation for long, although, as can be seen from what follows, in a short period of time, due to neglect, it was subjected to great destruction. A file has been preserved in the consistory archive, from which it is clear that there was even an attempt on the part of the appointed priest - however, not crowned with success - to sell to one schismatic 12 images of the Volosov Cathedral Church, located behind the choir, and only a timely denunciation apparently stopped deal.

On April 11, 1775, the Supremely approved Synodal Decree ordered, on the basis of the report of the commission established on church estates, to abolish the Vladimir diocese “due to the inability to live in it,” and transfer its abbot with the monastics to the abolished Volosov Monastery. According to the inventory, the Tsar Constantine Monastery was ordered to be transferred to the priest of the village. Good luck with the clerks.

In 1775, by decree of the Holy Synod, the Constantine-Eleninsky Monastery with its abbot, brethren and church utensils was transferred to the St. Nicholas-Volosov Monastery, which is why it is sometimes called the Tsarekonstantinovsky St. Nicholas-Volosov Monastery.
The abbot of the Tsar Constantine Monastery, Archimandrite Nikodim, upon his arrival at the restored Volosov Monastery, found here a picture of complete desolation and disorder. In a special petition submitted to the Rev. Jerome, Archimandrite Nikodim painted the gloomiest picture of all the disorders that he found in his new place of residence:
“After all this time, the abbot’s and brethren’s cells and other monastic buildings in this monastery, both on the outside with lids and porches, and on the inside, have completely fallen into disrepair, for there are almost no endings, and there are no ovens with doors in many of the cells; the monastery stable has collapsed, there are roofs on the barns and drying sheds, and there are no floors inside, as well as sheds and fences - which without doing everything, and especially without repairing the cells, there is no way to live in that monastery... With the same Volosov In the monastery, before its abolition, there was a pond around it on the eastern side (which should be considered a planter) for keeping fish, in which fish can be temporarily planted, but cannot breed. On the midday side there are the monastery cattle and stable yards and vegetable gardens for planting cabbage and other vegetables; on the western and midnight sides there are brick barns and a monastery threshing floor. Now, from those monastery estates since noon, where there were livestock and stable yards and vegetable gardens, former members of the same monastery, now supernumerary ministers, have settled, numbering eight households. And on the eastern and midnight sides the land is in the possession of the mentioned servants and peasants. From the west, until now, the land was owned by the priest and the clergymen who were at that monastery... In the same monastery, the church on the gates was not yet completed, and at the cathedral church, the altar, brethren and guard cells were completely damaged, and in the fence one wall had almost already fallen.” . Based on everything presented, Archimandrite Nikodim asked Bishop. Jerome to apply to the College for savings of 500 rubles. on the necessary repairs in the monastery and on the transfer to the former ownership of the monastery of the monastic possessions usurped by outsiders. The request was granted, the necessary repairs were made and the monastic property was restored to its legal limits. The Volosov Monastery added the new name of Tsarekonstantinov to its former name. Tsarekonstantinovsky Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery - this is the name by which the Volosov Monastery was known at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. Its abbots were entrusted with prominent administrative posts in the diocese, and among them there were several persons who were later notorious in the hierarchical world.
But the brethren who were transferred here still gravitated with their sympathies to the place of their former residence and for a long time could not come to terms with the order of the higher authorities. When in 1781 information was requested from the abbots of the monasteries about the time of the founding of the monasteries under their jurisdiction and the remarkable events in their history, Archimandrite Tikhon gave the most enthusiastic review about the location of the abolished Tsar Constantine Monastery and about those remarkable events that were associated with its recent past. Archimandrite wrote:
“The aforesaid Tsar Constantine monastery was built as a communal monastery, and villages, waters and all kinds of needs were satisfied by Saint Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, in the year from the creation of the world 6870, during the reign of Grand Duke Dimitri Ioannovich Donskoy in Moscow, for such a reason that when When he was appointed by the Patriarch of Constantinople Philotheus to the Moscow metropolitanate as metropolitan, he sailed on ships from Constantinople to Moscow, a great storm arose in the sea and the ship was crushed by the waves, then he promised to build that monastery in the name of Tsar Constantine and his mother Helen to get rid of it, which is why it was compiled and called Tsarekonstantinov, and from that very time the archimandric administration was established. It stands near the city of Vladimir in a beautiful and cheerful place. Near it, on one side, between hilly banks, smooth and grain-bearing fields, covered with cornfields and often populated villages, flows the Klyazma River, which in the spring spills over five miles of green and clean meadows, with fish of various kinds, except for sturgeon and beluga, and is not much inferior to the Oka, and when it merges into the banks of the hay fields, a great many people mow down. And on the other side, along the shores of the lake, floodplains, forests, groves, fields and also frequent villages. The city of Vladimir appears to that monastery so evenly and the monastery to Vladimir is cheerful. Last year, 1753, on the 9th day of the month of January, from the very deep morning, bells continued to ring in the holy gates in the ground with a selection of large and small bells, as is usually the case with a call to church processions, in which the ringing was not only from the local inhabitants, but also from the city of Vladimir many ecclesiastical and secular ranks flocked and heard. And that ringing ended before sunset, and the gathered people went their separate ways. And in April 27, 1775, by decree of the Holy Governing Synod, the archimandry of the same diocese was transferred from that monastery to the abolished St. Nicholas Monastery of Volosov, which, however, was ordered to continue to be called the Tsar Constantine Monastery, and this to be called a country bishop’s house.”
The report on the Volosov Monastery was dictated by completely different feelings.
“He stands,” writes Archimandrite Tikhon, in waterless, treeless and unprofitable valleys; Only the small river Kolochka flows and it dries up in the summer; Along its banks and dens, crooked bushes grow and urvins lie neoran and empty. There are only two built from investors, and the third is an imperfect stone church solely for the burial of bodies with them, and the fence walls are leaning towards the fall. From the diocesan city of Vladimir The distance is 20 versts and to the passage to this city the road to each, and even more so in the spring and autumn times it is very incapable, and for this purpose the authorities to correct the ceremonies that occur on highly solemn days and other lordly holidays to the city of Vladimir no way possible. There have never been any memorable incidents, except for the appearance of the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker between the hummocks, and now there are none.”

The monastic farm at that time consisted of a flour mill on the Kolosha River near the village of Stavrov, thirty-one acres of arable and hay land and the nearby Skovorodina Lake.
The quiet monastery graveyard, where, according to historical data, the ashes of representatives of ancient noble and merchant families rested, did not remain neglected or neglected. The ancestors of the Decembrist S.G. found their final refuge there. Volkonsky, playwright A.S. Griboyedov, Admiral M.N. Lazarev - a famous Russian naval commander and polar explorer. Their names were included for church commemoration in the ancient monastery synodik.
Leonty Fedorovich Tikhonravov, after graduating from the Vladimir Theological Seminary (1822), was a candidate at the Moscow Theological Academy, in 1830 he entered the Volosov Monastery, from 1839 - in the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery, from 1839 he had a secular rank.

On December 18, 1843, by a decree of the Holy Synod, the Nikolo-Volosovsky Monastery was again abolished due to the extreme disrepair of many of its buildings, especially the abbot's building and fraternal cells, in which, according to the provincial architect, it became unsafe to live. The brethren were transferred to near Vladimir, but the Volosovo monastery was not empty: a hieromonk, two novices and a servant, who were alternately sent from Bogolyubov to guard the churches and perform divine services in them on Sundays and holidays, lived and prayed in it. All his property was transferred to the Bogolyubov Monastery; the remaining churches and buildings were transferred to the management of the rector.
The intention to revive the Nikolo-Volosovsky Monastery, restoring its independent status, repeatedly arose in the 19th century both among the ministers of the Church of Christ and among virtuous laymen from the common people. († 1894, commemorated January 10/23), who at one time occupied the Vladimir See and zealously cared for the spiritual enlightenment of his contemporary society, in December 1865 sent a letter to the Synod proposing “to restore the said [Volosov] monastery under the name of Nikolsky Volosov missionary monastery, with the placement in it of persons who want to devote their talents and labors to interviewing schismatics in defense of Orthodoxy and admonishing those deviating from schism, in the following position:
a) place in the said monastery for the proposed purpose no more than seven persons, both monastics and widowed priests of proven good character, as well as those who have completed the course at will,
b) entrust the management of the monastery and supervision of the brethren to the eldest of them or according to the election of the brethren...
c) oblige priests to conduct divine services in turn, and according to the ancient church charter, with everyday singing, following the example of the definition of church services in the Transfiguration of the Savior Guslitsky Monastery of the Moscow Diocese,
d) charge all members of the brethren with the duty to regularly speak to the people on Sundays and holidays in the spirit of Orthodoxy, directed against schism, and to invite schismatics and those wavering in Orthodoxy to a special room in the monastery for an interview...”
And although the deeply thought-out and carefully developed project of Bishop Theophan was left by the Synod without consequences, the very fact of its existence foreshadowed the coming revival of the Nikolo-Volosovsky Monastery, at the origins of which stood the holy Vyshensky Recluse.
The restoration of the monastery was also hoped for by the residents of the village of Volosova, who in 1873 authorized the peasant Pavel Kozlov to submit a petition for this to Emperor Alexander II; and some Moscow monks, one of whom, the resident of the Zaikonospassky Monastery, Hieromonk Ammon, humbly asked for the same in 1875. “Competing with the pious desire of the Volosov residents,” he wrote, addressing Archbishop Anthony of Vladimir and Suzdal, “and trusting in the mercy of the Great Saint Nicholas of God, I, the humblest, had an immutable desire to restore the St. Nicholas Monastery. As a result, I have the honor to most humbly ask Your Eminence for a petition for the restoration of this monastery.”
The Nikolo-Volosov Monastery was finally closed in 1874, the church and monastery property was transferred to the Bogolyubov Monastery, the remaining churches and buildings were transferred to the management of the abbots of the Bogolyubov Monastery.

“It is located 27 versts from the Bogolyubov Monastery, to the southwest of it, 17 versts from the city of Vladimir, and 8 versts from the highway. Behind the monastery fence on the eastern side there is a large and beautiful pond, with a hay meadow growing in front of it.”
In 1891, the former Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery had the following buildings:
a) Stone three-story building, renovated in 1891; This building served as premises for the abbot of the monastery.
b) Remains of the second stone building, which served as a building for the brethren.
c) The wooden cellar, barn and bathhouse are dilapidated.
d) The stone fence with four towers is also dilapidated.
The following lands belong to the Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery:
a) Estate land, garden land and under the pond 4 tens. 44 sq. soot There is a plan for this land dated 1821.
b) Haymaking 7 dessiatines 359 sq. soot Plan from 1822. This land is leased from the peasants of the village of Volosov for 6 years from May 3, 1888 - 100 rubles per year.
c) Pakhotnaya at the state-owned village of Fomitsyna, which is in the Starkova wasteland, 21 dessiatinas, 1909 sq. m. soot Plan from 1831. It was leased to the peasants of the village of Fomitsyna for 71 rubles. per year, according to the condition from February 1, 1890 for 6 years.
d) Lake Skovorodino, four miles from the city of Vladimir, measuring 3 tens. 5 sq. soot This lake does not provide any income to the monastery due to its lack of water and swampiness.
e) The flour mill on the Koloksha River, near the village of Stavrov, is leased from the peasant Mikhail Sergeev Ivanov, under a contract from October 1, 1888 for 8 years, with a fee of 800 rubles per year.
When the Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Bogolyubov Monastery, according to the monastery inventory, 20,727 rubles were listed as tickets and cash for the Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery. 8 kopecks banknotes; This amount, by order of the diocesan authorities, was transferred to the Consistory.

Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary stood unconsecrated over the holy gates for a long time. Over a long period of time, the temple building suffered significant destruction: the walls between the temple itself and the once-made extension to it, due to the fragility of the rubble, fell apart, the floors rotted... in a word, the temple presented a ruined appearance. Due to lack of funds, there was no hope for its restoration. A peasant from the village of Stavrov, Vladimir district, Yakov Ivanovich Busurin took upon himself the sacred task of restoring this dilapidated temple. With reverent prayer to God, he began this holy work and successfully completed it.
On September 21, 1893, the solemn consecration of the newly built temple took place. On the eve of the consecration, on September 20, the abbot of the Bogolyubov Monastery, Abbot Varlaam, arrived at the Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery, and held an all-night vigil in the new cathedral church with the local hieromonks.
On the morning of the 21st at 8 o'clock the cathedral cleric Prigkips Evgenov arrived from Vladimir with deacons and a choir of bishops' singers. By 9 o'clock in the morning the following arrived at the monastery: His Eminence Tikhon, Bishop of Murom, under whose control the monasteries of Bogolyubov and Nikolaevsky-Volosov were located, and the rector of the seminary, Archimandrite Nikon. Soon the consecration of the temple began, for which all the necessary supplies were prepared in advance. The consecration was performed with the solemnity with which such sacred ceremonies were generally distinguished when they were performed by the Saints.
Immediately after the consecration of the temple, the first Divine Liturgy began in it, which was also performed by His Eminence Tikhon, co-served by the persons mentioned above. The bishop's choristers sang.
Both the consecration of the temple and the solemn, hierarchical service of the first liturgy there attracted a huge number of people, which was largely favored by the weather itself. Due to the small capacity of the temple, most of the people stood in the square under the windows of the temple. During the sacramental verse, the teacher of the parochial school located in the monastery, seminary student A. Borisoglebsky, with the blessing of the Right Reverend, uttered a word appropriate for the occasion.
At the end of the service, His Eminence Tikhon and his concelebrants were offered tea and lunch in the premises of the fraternal monastery building. During lunch, the conversation was focused mainly on the past and present of the life of the Nikolaevsky-Volosov Monastery. After lunch, the Right Reverend visited the school, where by this time the students had gathered. The Lord blessed them, to which they responded by singing under the guidance of the teacher. After testing, Vladyka gifted all the disciples with St. Gospels and St. crosses.
Having taught the Holy Blessing to the people, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, with the bells ringing, His Eminence Tikhon went back to Vladimir, and the rest of the participants in the sacred celebration followed him (“Vladimir Diocesan Gazette”).

In the village Volosovo was parochial school. In 1893, the teacher there was Alexey Egorovich Borisoglebsky, who graduated from the Vladimir Seminary in 1892. In 1895, he was transferred to teach the preparatory class at the Shuya Theological School.
The priest Pyotr Mikhailovich Kazansky became the teacher of the law at the Volosov school. He graduated from the Kazan Theological Academy with the title of full student, and in 1890 - candidate. In 1884 he was appointed priest of the village. Georgievsky Melenkovsky district, in 1889 - the Assumption Church in Murom, due to widowhood he entered the Bogolyubov Monastery.

In 1909, the Nikolo-Volosovsky Monastery was converted into a women's monastery.
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