Hegumen John Rubin Biography

Printing continuation. The first written mention of the Ugreshsky monastery was noted in the record at the collection from the collection of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.

I corresponded a multi -sinful and humble monk Afanasia Rusin. Follow the command of Mr. Zinovia Igumen Sergiev, the monastery wrote off the sinful Ion Igumen Ugreshsky. In the summer, the book is a book of this in the Holy Mount Afonca from the sheet. ” The recording date is determined by the time of abbess Zinovy ​​in the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, which is clearly traced according to acts-gg.

She connects the first Ugreshsky abbot known to us with the monastery of the Monk Sergius of Radonezh. This is a very logical fact, since many Moscow and near Moscow monasteries that arose at the end of the XIV-early XV centuries. There is every reason to believe that the Ugrash monastery, founded by Dimitri Ioannovich as the Bownstat Ktitarian Monastery, in the early years of his arrangement experienced the beneficial influence of ascetic traditions, widely planted by the "abbot of the Russian land." It is noteworthy that the hegumen Jonah, who rewrote the book of the lives of saints for the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, appears to us as a book person.

The remarkable cultural tradition of book description is traced from him on the Ugrash. In the next XVI century, under the monastery there was a scriptor and a bookstore. As the researchers write, “the monastery is based on Earth with. Kapotnya, who was part of the domain of the eldest in the family of Calitovich, who at that time was Dmitry Donskoy. ” In the reign of Vasily II, the monastery received this village.

The status of the Ktator, that is, the monastery founded and belonging to the Grand Duke, which the monastery acquired at the foundation, largely determined its historical fate. In this letter, the Metropolitan, turning to the prince, says: “... Zanya, the gentleman of Kirilov, the monastery of my sovereign, like that of the sovereign from the Grand Duke of his monasteries, saved in Moscow, and the Most Holy on Simonov, and Nikola on the Ugrash.” It is significant that the three named Ctitor monasteries are devoted respectively to the Savior, the Virgin and St.

Nicholas, that is, the three most revered in Rus' to sacred persons. The exaltation of the monastery in the first period of its existence with the years was directly related to its status of the Grand Duke and then the Tsar’s Mother of God. It is no coincidence that the first dated chronicle of her reports that the monastery had its compound in the Kremlin, near the Church of the miracle worker Peter, from where in September the destructive fire began, which destroyed a significant part of the city: “In the summer of September 9, on the 6th hour of the night, from Thursday, Moscow is inside the city near the Church of the Church of the Chyuda, and even in the Ugreshi courtyard.” In the spring of the year, the Galician from the Paisiev Monastery predicted in Moscow a fire “for a great day”.

As the researchers rightly believe, "the Chernets was sent to the monastery to the monastery, because of the walls of which no one would hear his speech, and only the monastery, whose elders were directly subordinate to the Grand Duke, could be such a monastery." In the period under consideration, according to the same D. Blazovo, “the Abbesses of the Ugrash with some other rectors of the great monastery took part in the most important affairs of the state, were present at the cathedrals ...

in the special celebrations of the church, during the service of the patriarch with a consecrated cathedral, when consecrating temples, in large processing moves.” From the very beginning of the existence of the monastery, a special strategic location contributed a lot to its development. Founded near the main water arteries of the capital on the southern approaches to the city, the monastery, starting from the 15th century, served as the function of the southern river gate of Moscow.

In addition to the defense and economic significance, the position of the Nikolo-Ugra Monastery had a special spiritual and symbolic meaning, recalling the Holy Nicholas as a holy defender and patron saint of early Moscow; He - “Nonoborimaa took the statement of our degree,” said in the manuscript of the late XIII - early XIV centuries. Leaving the city, saying goodbye to him, the travelers turned in prayer to St.

Nicholas. No wonder in the year, on behalf of Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich Velmozh, the Grand Duke of Ryazan Anna Vasilievna “to the Ugrashi” escorted his sister. In the year, the miraculous Gelodretsa image of St. Nicholas, delivered to Moscow for celebration and poning, was solemnly met here. This was reported by the chronicle: “The same summer on Saturday, the apostle Peter and Paul, the image of the Holy Great Premier of Nikola from the Viettsi Selo of Greatrechia into the reigning city of Moscow, was brought to the same summer on Saturday on Saturday.

And the Tsar the Great Sovereign sent his brother, Yury Vasilievich, and ordered to meet the image of the Holy Wonderworker Nicholas at the Monastery of St. Nicholas at the Monastery of St. Nicholas on the Svyad on the river. ” The history of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky monastery is inextricably linked with the history of the Palace village of island, located near the monastery north of it on the left bank of the Moscow River.

This is a village, in antiquity, which was also called "funny", since the time of Prince Ivan Danilovich Kalita has been a grand -ducal patrimony. Frequent visits of the rulers to the island were usually accompanied by visits to the Nikolo-Ugra Monastery.These visits eventually acquired a special solemn character. Vasily Ioannovich is known as the first depositor in the history of the monastery.

In the year, he put into the monastery a sewn veil with the image of the Zarai image of St. Nicholas. Even earlier in the monastery there was a "cell of the Grand Duke." The certificate of this is conveyed to us by the book “The Gospel of the Gospel of Matthew and Mark Theophylact Bulgarian”, written in the year in this cell. It is noteworthy that it was with the Grand Duke Cellets that the first mention of spiritual and educational work, which the monastery carried out in those distant times, is connected in the history of the monastery.

The scripts at the beginning of the 16th century were far from in any monastery. The same monastery in which the books corresponded were large scientific and cultural centers. The meaning of the monastery in military history is connected not only with the memory of victory in the Battle of Kulikovo. Being on the southern approaches to Moscow, the monastery has repeatedly seen hordes of invaders from her walls.

The destruction of the monastery was associated with these episodes of history. However, every time after them, the monastery again rebuilt with even greater splendor. Thus, military disasters preceded a series of stages of expansion of the monastery and the formation of its architectural and art ensemble. The monastery experienced one of the first destructive devastations in the year when raiding the Principality of the Crimean Tsarevich, Mehmet Girey Gerey I and his brother, Khan Sahab Saip Girey.

The Vladimir chronicler, telling about this event, mentions in connection with him the presence of a stone temple in the monastery at that time, which was destroyed as a result of a fire. Apparently, it was then that the wooden structures of the monastery burned, which contributed to the expansion of stone construction during the reconstruction of the monastery. It is no coincidence that the remains of the foundation of the oldest of the temples of the monastery - the St.

Nicholas Cathedral - are dated by specialists exactly the second quarter of the 16th century. A special trace in the history of Ugrashi, like the village of Island, left the era of Tsar John the Terrible. In the spring of the year, in anticipation of the arrival of the Crimean king, Ivan IV went towards Kolomna to meet him, while in the process of the campaign, begun “May 6, in a quarter of the second weeks of the pass”, he prayed in the Nikolo-Ugrashsky monastery.

F, the icons “saved on the Ubrus” and “Do not sob Mene, Mati”, which researchers consider the sovereign in the monastery in memory of those who died in the Kazan campaign or the Molodinsky battle of the year. A major shock in the life of the monastery was the events of the Time of Troubles, involved in the monastery in the most thick of historical ups and downs. In the year, Grigory Otopyev fled here from the Chudov monastery.

In the fall of the year, Ugrash, like Kolomenskoye, was occupied by I.'s detachments of the monument of that era and still the oldest defensive structures of the monastery complex - the northeastern tower of the XVII century, as well as the foundations of the holy gates of the monastery and the tower located at the western end of the abbess corps. These few history monuments survived during the replacement of the monastery fence in the 19th century.

Continuation follows ... Illustration: V. The Upon train of the queen on the pilgrimage under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Last change Tuesday, 11 March