Kirzhachsky district of the Vladimir region.
| Monastery | |
| Sorrow Monastery | |
|---|---|
| Sorrow Monastery |
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| 56 ° 08'37 ″ s. NS. 39 ° 08′38 ″ in. etc. HGI AMOL | |
| Country | |
| Location | Khmelevo |
| Denomination | Russian Orthodox Church |
| Founder | Ivan Mikhailovich Meshkov |
| Date of foundation | 1902 year |
| Building | |
| Church of Catherine, Bell tower with the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin | |
| Status | OKN № 3300356000 № 3300356000 |
| State | Active |
History
The mourning community in the Pokrovsky district was founded in 1902 in the village of Khmelevo, Funikovskaya volost, near the Sheredar river. A native of these places, a Moscow merchant of the second guild and an honorary citizen of Moscow, Ivan Mikhailovich Meshkov, on his own initiative and at his own expense, founded a monastery in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow". The land for the construction of the monastery was donated by local peasants. The community had one church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" - a wooden house, built in -1903. architect I. T. Baryutin, with adjoining abbots' chambers, arranged in a former manor house. The church had a four-tiered iconostasis, which contained 73 large icons. In Soviet times, when the church was closed, they disappeared, only the icon of the Great Martyr Catherine has survived, in whose honor the house church in the cell building of the monastery was consecrated on December 31, 2000.
From the stone Holy Gates (also destroyed), past the cell building, an alley leads to a stone bell tower, in the first tier of which there was a small temple of the Assumption of the Mother of God (the altar is dismantled) and a tomb. The hotel and clergy houses were made of wood. The monastery was surrounded by a wooden fence, along its perimeter were alleys of birches and oaks. The entire area of the monastery was planted with fruit trees. The bell tower is built of bricks made at a brick factory in the monastery. After the closure of the monastery, 9 bells were removed from it. The plant was requisitioned in 1919.
Three religious processions were performed annually in the Sorrowful community: on July 26, on the day the church was laid, on September 4, in commemoration of its consecration, and on October 24, on the patronal feast of the monastery. In 1921, there were 72 monastics in the monastery, who founded an agricultural artel to feed themselves. In a note to the information about the land property of the monastery for 1921, someone sympathizing with the nuns wrote:
Sorrowful Khmelevsky Convent
Orthodox religious organization the mourning female diocesan monastery of the village of Khmelevo, Kirzhachsky district, Vladimir diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The mourning community in the Pokrovsky district was founded in 1902 at the village of Khmelevoy Funikovskaya volost, near the Sheredar River.
A native of these places, a Moscow merchant of the second guild and an honorary citizen of Moscow, Ivan Mikhailovich Meshkov, on his own initiative and at his own expense, founded a monastery in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow".
Monument to the founders of the monastery, located on the territory
The monument is stone. It is a memorial chapel erected in honor of the founding of the monastery.
The monument is a stele on a pedestal with a triangular end. Initially, the stele apparently ended with a cross. In the center of the stele there is a niche-icon case, and under it is an inscription about the foundation of the monastery and its founders and organizers.
The chapel is an interesting architectural monument of the early 20th century. Lost filling of the icon case.
The land for the construction of the monastery was donated by local peasants. The community had one church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" - a wooden house, built in 1901-1903. architect I.T. Baryutin, with adjoining abbots' quarters, arranged in a former manor house. The church had a four-tiered iconostasis, which contained 73 large icons. In Soviet times, when the church was closed, they disappeared, only the icon of the Great Martyr Catherine has survived, in whose honor the house church in the cell building of the monastery was consecrated on December 31, 2000.
Bell tower with the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1905 - 1917
From the stone Holy Gates (also destroyed), past the cell building, an alley leads to a stone bell tower, in the first tier of which there was a small temple of the Assumption of the Mother of God (the altar is dismantled) and a tomb. The hotel and clergy houses were made of wood. The monastery was surrounded by a wooden fence, along its perimeter were alleys of birches and oaks. The entire area of the monastery was planted with fruit trees. The bell tower is built of bricks made at a brick factory in the monastery. After the closure of the monastery, 9 bells were removed from it. The plant was requisitioned in 1919.
Three religious processions were performed annually in the Sorrowful community: on July 26, on the day the church was laid, on September 4, in commemoration of its consecration, and on October 24, on the patronal feast of the monastery.
In 1921, there were 72 monastics in the monastery, who founded an agricultural artel to feed themselves. In a note to the information about the land property of the monastery for 1921, someone's hand sympathizing with the nuns wrote: “On this land they work for their food, by their own labor they get food, heating and fodder for their livestock ... Nuns and novices in the monastery are literally poor and from peasant origin, from different provinces, partly orphans, without relatives, and they work by physical labor. "
Home church of St. Catherine the Great Martyr. 1902 g.
Monastic cells with the house church of the Great Martyr Catherine
The cell building, built in 1903 from bricks made at the monastery factory, and a huge stone, on which the events associated with the emergence of the monastery are recorded, have been preserved.
The monastery was closed in 1924 (according to other sources, in 1928), the nuns were expelled, and there is evidence that some of them were forcibly taken out and shot. The abbess, Abbess Meletina, died near the monastery in the village of Khalino. A colony for juvenile delinquents is located on the site of the convent. Subsequently, a school, a village council, a club, a cinema, and a library were located on the territory of the monastery. The wooden church of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was sold for sale, the abbot building (the former manor house) burned down not so long ago. Dismantled outbuildings, a fence, clergy houses, a hotel, a chapel.
In 2000, the monastery was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, at the same time monastic activity was resumed in it.
Temple in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" with a bell tower
The temple in honor of the icon of Our Lady "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was built in 1903, as is evident from the signature on the stone, which stands near the church in the alley. Leading from the village to the temple. The stone was erected in honor of the founding of the monastery. The builder and founder of the new monastery was a hereditary and honorary citizen Ivan Mikhailovich Meshkov, a native of the village of Bolshie Gorki. Together, nuns are named in it: a certain Matrona Vasilievna Kuznetsova and Alexandra Nikolaevna.
The temple was consecrated on September 4, 1983.
The roof of the bell tower is partially lost, the masonry is weathered. Doorways on the western and eastern sides have been laid. A door was made in place of the window on the south side. The window opening on the north side has also been laid.
I appeal to the entire community with a request to help in solving an interesting historical riddle related to the birthplace of the pioneer of color photography S.M. Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944). Currently, it is documented that he was born in the family estate "Funikova Gora" near the town of Kirzhach, Vladimir region. Funikova Gora village exists to this day and until the last moment everything seemed to be clear. The locals of this village will willingly show you the old oak grove ("garden"), which once served as the park of a manor house. However, there are no obvious traces of at least the estate planning there.
On old maps, no manor house in Funikova Gora is shown at all:
Above - a map of Mende (circa 1850), below - a map of general land surveying of the late 18th century.
If on the map of Mende the manor house is shown near the village of Khmelevo, then on the older map it is approximately halfway between Khmelevo and Funikova Gora.
Only in May of this year I learned that the great-grandfather of S.M. Prokudin-Gorsky owned two villages - Khmelevo and Funikova Gora. In this case, the family estate could well be located in Khmelevo, and the estate as a whole could be called "Funikova Mountain", according to the old tradition.
However, further riddles begin. In 1902, the peasants of the village of Khmelevo donated the land of the former estate for the creation of the Sorrows Convent. According to my information, not yet verified, the estate was alienated from the father of S.M. Prokudin-Gorsky in favor of the state around 1892. Obviously, then this land was bought by local peasants.
The former manor house became the abbess's chambers, a house church was added to it (see photo above).
In 1924 the monastery was closed, and in recent years it began to revive again in the old place.
Some time ago I managed to visit Khmelevo, but the mystery remained unsolved: neither the old residents of the village, nor the sisters of the monastery know who owned the estate before the foundation of the monastery. At the same time, many traces of the estate are well preserved:
For example, here is the old alley of the estate with a monument to the founders of the All-Sorrowful Convent: 
The base of the gate of the former manor house: 
The abbess kindly showed the place where the former manor house stood: 
According to the old residents of the village, this one-story building housed the village council for a long time, then it was abandoned and burned down in the 1970s. The place of the manor house is already overgrown and only mounds of foundation bricks are visible.
There are no more buildings left from the old estate in the monastery. The oldest building was built at the beginning of the 20th century: 
So, it remains a mystery: was the estate in Khmelevo the estate of the Prokudins-Gorskys, where the pioneer of color photography was born?
And where lived one of the first Russian writers and playwrights M.I. Prokudin-Gorsky (1744-1812).
Inquiries to the Vladimir Regional Archives have not yet yielded results. Perhaps someone from the connoisseurs of Russian estates will help find the answer.
The study of memorial sites of Prokudin-Gorsky is being carried out in the project "The Legacy of S. M. Prokudin-Gorsky". A special topic at the scientific forum is devoted to this issue.
Monastery. It works.
Founded: 1902.
Address: 601017, Vladimir region, Kirzhach district, s. Khmelyovo, st. Centralnaya, 79
Temples of the monastery:
Church of Catherine
Bell tower with the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Affiliated parish and non-parish churches:
Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Sign" in the village of Znamenskoye
The mourning community in the Pokrovsky district was founded in 1902 at the village of Khmelevoy Funikovskaya volost, near the Sheredar River. A native of these places, a Moscow merchant of the second guild and an honorary citizen of Moscow, Ivan Mikhailovich Meshkov, on his own initiative and at his own expense, founded a monastery in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow". The land for the construction of the monastery was donated by local peasants. The community had one church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" - a wooden house, built in 1901-03. architect I.T. Baryutin, with adjoining abbots' quarters, arranged in a former manor house. The church had a four-tiered iconostasis, which contained 73 large icons. In Soviet times, when the church was closed, they disappeared, only the icon of the Great Martyr Catherine has survived, in whose honor the house church in the cell building of the monastery was consecrated on December 31, 2000.
From the stone Holy Gates (also destroyed), past the cell building, an alley leads to a stone bell tower, in the first tier of which there was a small temple of the Assumption of the Mother of God (the altar is dismantled) and a tomb. The hotel and clergy houses were made of wood. The monastery was surrounded by a wooden fence, along its perimeter were alleys of birches and oaks. The entire area of the monastery was planted with fruit trees. The bell tower is built of bricks made at a brick factory in the monastery. After the closure of the monastery, 9 bells were removed from it. The plant was requisitioned in 1919.
Three religious processions were performed annually in the Sorrowful community: on July 26, on the day the church was laid, on September 4, in commemoration of its consecration, and on October 24, on the patronal feast of the monastery. In 1921, there were 72 monastics in the monastery, who founded an agricultural artel to feed themselves. In a note to the information about the land property of the monastery for 1921, someone's hand sympathizing with the nuns wrote: “On this land they work for their food, by their own labor they get their food, heating and fodder for livestock ... Nuns and novices in the monastery are literally poor and from peasant origin, from different provinces, partly orphans, without relatives, and they work by physical labor. "
The cell building, built in 1903 from bricks made at the monastery factory, and a huge stone, on which the events associated with the emergence of the monastery are recorded, have been preserved.
The monastery was closed in 1924 (according to other sources, in 1928), the nuns were expelled, and there is evidence that some of them were forcibly taken out and shot. The abbess, Abbess Meletina, died near the monastery in the village of Khalino. A colony for juvenile delinquents is located on the site of the convent. Subsequently, a school, a village council, a club, a cinema, and a library were located on the territory of the monastery. The wooden church of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was sold for sale, the abbot building (the former manor house) burned down not so long ago. Dismantled outbuildings, a fence, clergy houses, a hotel, a chapel.
In 2000, the monastery was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, at the same time monastic activity was resumed in it.
(Information from the book of Archpriest O. Penezhko "The city of Kirzhach, the temples of the Kirzhach and Kolchuginsky districts of the Vladimir region", Vladimir, 2005)
Monastery of the Mother of God Joy of All Who Sorrow, communal, at the village of Khmelnaya, Pokrovsky district. Established in 1908 from the women's community, opened in 1902. He has a hospitable home with him.
From the book of S.V. Bulgakov's "Russian monasteries in 1913".
The mourning community in the Pokrovsky district was founded in 1902 at the village of Khmelevoy Funikovskaya volost, near the Sheredar River. A native of these places, a Moscow merchant of the second guild and an honorary citizen of Moscow, Ivan Mikhailovich Meshkov, on his own initiative and at his own expense, founded a monastery in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow". The land for the construction of the monastery was donated by local peasants. The community had one church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" - a wooden house, built in 1901-03. architect I.T. Baryutin, with adjoining abbots' quarters, arranged in a former manor house. The church had a four-tiered iconostasis, which contained 73 large icons. In Soviet times, when the church was closed, they disappeared, only the icon of the Great Martyr Catherine has survived, in whose honor the house church in the cell building of the monastery was consecrated on December 31, 2000.
From the stone Holy Gates (also destroyed), past the cell building, an alley leads to a stone bell tower, in the first tier of which there was a small temple of the Assumption of the Mother of God (the altar is dismantled) and a tomb. The hotel and clergy houses were made of wood. The monastery was surrounded by a wooden fence, along its perimeter were alleys of birches and oaks. The entire area of the monastery was planted with fruit trees. The bell tower is built of bricks made at a brick factory in the monastery. After the closure of the monastery, 9 bells were removed from it. The plant was requisitioned in 1919.
Three religious processions were performed annually in the Sorrowful community: on July 26, on the day the church was laid, on September 4, in commemoration of its consecration, and on October 24, on the patronal feast of the monastery. In 1921, there were 72 monastics in the monastery, who founded an agricultural artel to feed themselves. In a note to the information about the land property of the monastery for 1921, someone's hand sympathizing with the nuns wrote: “On this land they work for their food, by their own labor they get food, heating and fodder for their livestock ... Nuns and novices in the monastery are literally poor and from peasant origin, from different provinces, partly orphans, without relatives, and they work by physical labor. "
The cell building, built in 1903 from bricks made at the monastery factory, and a huge stone, on which the events associated with the emergence of the monastery are recorded, have been preserved.
The monastery was closed in 1924 (according to other sources, in 1928), the nuns were expelled, and there is evidence that some of them were forcibly taken out and shot. The abbess, Abbess Meletina, died near the monastery in the village of Khalino. A colony for juvenile delinquents is located on the site of the convent. Subsequently, a school, a village council, a club, a cinema, and a library were located on the territory of the monastery. The wooden church of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was sold for sale, the abbot building (the former manor house) burned down not so long ago. Dismantled outbuildings, a fence, clergy houses, a hotel, a chapel.
In 2000, the monastery was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, at the same time monastic activity was resumed in it.
(Information from the book of Archpriest O. Penezhko "The city of Kirzhach, the temples of the Kirzhach and Kolchuginsky districts of the Vladimir region", Vladimir, 2005)
Help in the restoration of the monastery
The inscription on the monument in the form of a huge granite stone on the territory of the monastery:
WITH THE HELP OF GOD SUPPLIED THIS MONUMENT
IN HONOR THE BASIS OF THESE INHABITANTS IN THE NAME
MOTHER OF GOD OF ALL GORING JOY
BUILDERS AND FOUNDERS WERE
HONORARY CITIZEN
IVAN MIKHAILOVICH
MESHKOV
BORN OF THE VILLAGE OF BOLSHIKH GOROK
RASOPHORABLE MESSENGER
MATRONA VASILIEVNA
Kuznetsova
SHE IS THE FIRST HEAD
AND HER HELP TREASURANT MOTHER
ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVA
RESIDENCE FOUNDED 1903 FEBRUARY 10
UNDER STATE NICHOLAS II
ACCORDING TO THE BLESSING OF ARCHBISHOP SERGI
EGOR PETROVICH
ILYICHEV VILLAGE HMELEVA
IVAN NIKOLAEVICH
Kornilov VILLAGE OF ANDREEVSKY
