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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

The architectural complex of the Holy Trinity Alexander - Nevsky Monastery is located to the west of the village of Akatovo on an elevated place. The Nudol River flows 100 - 150 meters west of the complex.
Created in a short time with God's help architectural complex The monastery is characterized by harmony and unity of artistic forms, based on the strongest stylization of ancient Russian motifs and forms of classicism. All buildings are united not only by a common style, but also by the decorative technique of exposed brickwork. The main entrance to the monastery is from the east. The Holy Gate of the eastern line of the fence is oriented towards the cathedral, which occupies a dominant, central position in the complex. To the east and south of the cathedral there are stone cell buildings.

After the coup of 1917, the monastery was closed and in its place an agricultural artel was organized from the nuns of the former monastery, led by the abbess.

Schema-Abbess Olympias, drawing of sisters

In 1927, the monastic labor community was dissolved, and the last abbess, schema-abbess Olympias, was arrested.
IN Soviet time On the territory of the monastery there was a NKVD sanatorium, and since 1948 a pioneer camp.
The temple in the name of the Holy Trinity was dismantled; the temple in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was completely destroyed; The Alexander Nevsky Church was decapitated, the windows were smashed, and the main entrance was built in the center of the three-part asp. The altar part was enclosed in a glass “sarcophagus”. Large stained glass windows, covering the church to the very top of the crowning kokoshniks, were designed to hide the cult orientation of the building. The temple was used as a dining room.
In the last decade, the territory of children's health complex The Soyuz AMTC with all its buildings was not used by anyone and was in disrepair.

By decree of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II dated April 11, 2000 No. 1610, a Patriarchal metochion was established at the Church of the Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky of the former convent in the village of Akatovo, Klin district, Moscow region.

According to the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' dated July 7, 2005 No. 4194, Hieromonk Peter (A. N. Afanasyev) was appointed rector of the church in the name of the blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky.

July 04, 2007 in pursuance of government orders Russian Federation from 05/15/2007 No. 612-r and on the basis of the order Federal agency on federal property management dated June 15, 2007. No. 1832-r, the complex of buildings and structures of the former Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery was transferred into the ownership of the Orthodox religious organization Compound of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus'.

Over the course of 10 years, the temple, sister buildings, monastery fence with towers, refectory and other utility rooms were restored. The building has been restored as a girls' school. The monastery has a farmstead, a bakery and a dairy kitchen.

Patriarch Kirill elevated nun Anthony (Minina) to the rank of abbess

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill erected, older sister sisterhood, to the rank of abbess. During the Divine service, all three altars of the temple were consecrated. The central one was consecrated in the name of St. blgv. led book Alexander Nevsky; the throne of the northern aisle is in the name of St. Nicholas, Archbishop World of Lycians; the throne of the southern aisle - in the name of the Great Martyr. and the healer Panteleimon.

It was founded as a women's community in 1889 by a poor merchant of peasant origin, Fyodor Osipovich Zakharov, on his estate in memory of the abolition of serfdom and in the name of the patron saint Alexander I. He acquired land for building a monastery from the local landowner G. Glebov-Streshnev. In 1890, the community was officially registered by the Holy Synod. The management of the community was entrusted to the nun of the Novoalekseevsky Monastery of Eutykhia.

The first building on the territory of the future was the wooden Trinity Church. Afterwards, a residential building was built.

In 1891, the icons of the Mother of God “Quick to Hear” and the holy great martyr and healer Panteleimon were transferred to the temple by the monk Aristocles, who became the main shrines of the community. In 1894, the community was given copies of the revered icons of the All-Merciful Savior and the Bogolyubskaya Mother of God.

In 1898, the community received the status of a monastery with a communal charter. Several workshops are being formed in the monastery, including gold embroidery and icon painting.

August 30, 1892 on the day of memory of St. Alexander Nevsky founded the stone Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The temple was built in the pseudo-Russian style according to the design of the architect A. S. Kaminsky for six years.

In 1899-1900, at the expense of the merchant P. P. Smirnov, a wooden church of Peter the Apostle and Eugenia the Martyr was built outside the monastery fence, in 1902-1905 (according to the design of I. P. Mashkov) - the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker: stone, stylized under Moscow architecture of the 17th century. In the refectory there were chapels of the Iveron Mother of God and Tikhon of Kaluga and Paraskeva Pyatnitsa (since 1915).

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were about seventy sisters in the monastery. After 1917, the nuns were forced to declare themselves an agricultural commune (artel), which allowed the monastery to exist until 1927. It is known that the persecuted Father Varlaam Dmitrovsky took refuge within the walls of the monastery for some time.

In 1927 the monastery was abolished. In 1933, the wooden Holy Trinity Church was destroyed. Services in the Alexander Nevsky Church continued until 1933. On the territory of the former monastery there was a rest house of the NKVD and warehouses of this organization, since the 1960s - a pioneer camp “Fakel”, for the sake of the improvement of which the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was greatly rebuilt and the Church of Alexander Nevsky was destroyed. The monastery cemetery was turned into a football field. The camp has not operated since the early 1990s.

Since 1994, prayer services have been held irregularly in the former monastery. In 2007, part of the buildings was officially transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church as the Patriarchal Metochion; The monastery complex is assigned to Moscow and, with his active help, is being restored.

Monastic life in Rus' took place not only in these famous centers of piety. Hundreds of other “small” monasteries need their chroniclers. Thus, in the small village of Akatovo, located not far from Klin near Moscow, there was a monastery of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky

“Through the prayers of monks, the Lord supports this world,” said Saint Demetrius of Rostov. By 1917, thousands of monks and nuns accomplished the feat of their personal salvation and the salvation of the world in hundreds of monasteries and communities that adorned Russia and visibly testified that Holy Rus' is not an empty, although a beautiful symbol, but life itself. Monasteries formed an integral part of national existence, being the material embodiment of the people's ideal. The famous Czech liberal publicist T. Masaryk, who became the first president of Czechoslovakia, visiting Russia, insightfully remarked: “There (in the Russian monastery - A.E.) the most characteristic, primordial features of Russian life, feelings and thinking were preserved... Russia, Ancient Rus' This is a Russian monk."

Russian monasticism is glorified in great ascetics and great monasteries. The entire Orthodox world knows the Lavra of St. Sergius, Optina, Diveevo and Sarov, the glorious monasteries of our North. Dozens of books have been written about them and films have been made. However, monastic life in Rus' did not take place only in these famous centers of piety. Hundreds of other “small” monasteries need their chroniclers. Without this it will be difficult to modern man discover the "Atlantis" of the great Orthodox Russian civilization.

In the small village of Akatovo, located not far from Klin, near Moscow, there was a monastery of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky. The monastery was founded by a native of peasants, a poor merchant Fyodor Osipovich Zakharov, in memory of the abolition of serfdom and in the name of the heavenly patron of the Tsar - the liberator. He purchased land for the future monastery from the local landowner G. Glebov - Streshnev.

Due to extreme poverty, the new monastery received the rights of the community from the Holy Synod only in 1890, when its first organizer was no longer alive. The management of the community was entrusted to the nun of the Moscow Novoalekseevsky Monastery, Eutykhia, known for her piety and by the time of her appointment, she had already spent forty years in prayerful endeavors.

Arriving in Akatovo, Eutykhia immediately began to create a temple of God, in which she was actively assisted by Volokolamsk Archimandrite Sergius and the abbess of the Novoalekseevsky convent, Anthony. Using the small funds available to the community, a wooden church was quickly erected in the name of St. Life-Giving Trinity. Soon an extremely necessary residential building was built, for the number of sisters reached seventy. Pious laymen also helped the community as best they could. And in 1891, the famous Athonite monk Aristoclius conveyed to the Trinity Church the blessing of the Athonite Panteleimon Monastery - the icon of the Mother of God "Quick to Hear" and the holy great martyr and healer Panteleimon, which became the main shrines of the Akatov community. In 1894, the community received lists of the revered icons of the All-Merciful Savior and the Mother of God "Bogolyubskaya".

In 1898, the Akatov community received the status of a monastery and became known as the Trinity Alexander - Nevsky Akatovsky hostel convent. Rus', unlike Europe, did not know “mendicant monastic orders.” Russian monks worked hard. The sisters of the Akatov Monastery performed a wide variety of obediences - from heavy agricultural work to gold embroidery and painting of icons. The monastery provided itself with everything necessary for life. Material well-being also affected the appearance of the monastery. In 1893, its territory was surrounded by a stone fence with two towers; a two-story stone building for sisters, a small hotel and a hospice house were also built.

The most important event in the life of the monastery was the long-awaited beginning of the construction of the stone church of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky, long awaited by the nuns and local peasants. On August 30, 1892, on the day of remembrance of the saint, Archimandrite Sergius laid the foundation stone for a new church, which was built according to the design of the famous Russian architect A.S. Kaminsky. It took six years to build, in the then popular Russian style. After consecration, this wonderful church became a decoration of the Akatovsky Monastery and a worthy monument to the Tsar-Liberator. On the eve of the terrible troubles experienced by Russia in the twentieth century, the Akatovsky Trinity-Alexandro-Nevsky Monastery was a completely comfortable monastery, where one and a half hundred nuns and novices lived in the service of God, under the direction of Abbess Anatolia.

The persecution that befell the monastery after 1917 by the new revolutionary authorities. They forced the monastery sisters to declare themselves an agricultural commune, which allowed the monastery to exist for another ten years. Persecuted bishops, for example Varlaam Dmitrovsky, often stopped and took refuge within the monastery walls.

In 1927, the monastery was finally closed, which was joyfully reported by the organ of official atheism, the magazine “Atheist at the Machine.” However, the service in the monastery church of Alexander Nevsky continued until 1933. Then the NKVD rest house and warehouses of this organization moved into the territory of the monastery, and in the 60s the Fakel pioneer camp was located. The monastery cemetery was blasphemously turned into a football field.

In the 1930s, most of the monastery's wooden buildings, including the Holy Trinity Church, were destroyed. The Alexander Nevsky Church was preserved, but was rebuilt beyond recognition - it housed a dining room and a kitchen. Almost all of the monastery's property was destroyed. Church utensils were confiscated in the 20s, the icons were thrown away, no trace of the archive could be found, and the bells were melted down to play such funny doggerels:

The priest is doing badly -
Complete desertion.
Let's pour the bells
In rural tools.

Miraculously preserved, the only bell of the monastery, which served as a “fireman” for local residents, was kidnapped already under the current “democracy”.

However, it is believed that the Akatovsky Monastery will be reborn, like hundreds of other monasteries and churches in Russia.

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The first building on the territory of the future was the wooden Trinity Church. Afterwards, a residential building was built.

In 1898, the community received the status of a monastery with a communal charter. Several workshops are being formed in the monastery, including gold embroidery and icon painting.

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Monasteries in Russia were built not only by the rich and aristocrats. A merchant of average income, a recent peasant, Fyodor Zakharov in 1889 bought a plot of land in the village of Akatovo 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 nuns resorted to a 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 beheaded Church of Alexander Nevsky are well preserved, because they organized a dining room in it and surrounded it with stained glass windows on a steel frame.

What to see

Now the cathedral has been completely restored and has 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 platbands, kokoshniks and columns, repeating elements of ancient Russian architecture. The temple is symmetrical, with a high two-story room in the middle. The roof is framed by two rows of kokoshniks and a decorative five-domed structure. There are carved frames on the windows, cornices and columns with interceptions on the facades. Nothing has survived from the original interior decoration.

The main shrine of the monastery is the icon of the Mother of God “Quick to Hear,” 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 tabletop. 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, executed at the Butovo training ground in 1938.

In the temple there is a full circle of service and the Indestructible Psalter is read. The gold embroidery and icon painting workshops have resumed work. Since 2014, the women's Orthodox Alexander Gymnasium has been operating at the monastery. In addition to regular school subjects, students engage in handicrafts, choreography, singing, drawing and swimming. A small hospice house for pilgrims with a separate dining room was organized.