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The history of the Vvedensky Vladyka Convent in Serpukhov is directly related to the life of St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow. According to legend, the Mother of God herself appeared to the saint and commanded him to found a monastery, which would serve a great service in the salvation of human souls. The saint was also given a place - the outskirts of the city of Serpukhov. It is also said that the founding of the monastery will become one of the most important things in Alexy’s life.

A little history

Founded back in 1360, the monastery went through many trials over several centuries of difficult Russian life. But at all times it remained a place of pilgrimage, where believers from all corners of the Russian land flocked. It is also known for the fact that here, in the St. George Church, there is a miraculous icon of the Mother of God “The Inexhaustible Chalice”. Since its founding, it has been one of the largest spiritual and cultural centers central Russia.

The first abbot of the monastery was the Monk Varlaam, under whom the stone Vvedensky Cathedral was built. The monastery was revered by the Moscow dynasty of princes, and by the end of the 17th century it had extensive estates not only in the vicinity of Serpukhov, but also in Moscow. At the beginning of the 19th century it was converted into a women's one, and half a century later the image of the “Inexhaustible Chalice” was acquired here.

Icon "Inexhaustible Chalice"

According to the stories of the nun Elizabeth, everything was like this. In one of the villages there lived a retired soldier who was very ill with his legs and drank bitterly. One day an old man appeared to him in a dream and told him to go to Serpukhov, to the Vvedensky Monastery, in order to pray before the icon of the Mother of God “The Inexhaustible Chalice”. However, he did not heed the elder. But the dream repeated itself again, and then the sick man set off on his journey.

At first he walked on all fours, stopping with good people for the night. Once he stopped in a house where an old woman rubbed his feet before going to bed, and in the morning he was able, although not firmly, to stand on them. A day later, taking two sticks, the old warrior set off. He was getting better and better, and he reached the Vvedensky Monastery without any supports at all. There he asked to serve a prayer service at the image of the Mother of God “The Inexhaustible Chalice,” but the nuns did not know about such an icon. Then they assumed that we were talking about the image in the St. George Church, on which there is an image of a vessel. Imagine everyone’s surprise when exactly the same thing was inscribed on the back of the icon. It turned out that the old man who appeared to the soldier was Saint Varlaam.

What to see

The monastery is surrounded by a thick brick wall, which once served as protection for the residents of Serpukhov. You can enter the monastery through an arch, which is crowned by an elegant gate temple in the name of the martyr Fedot of Ancyra. The oldest church is the white-stone Vvedensky Cathedral of the 14th century, built in the Russian style - in the form of a massive quadrangle. The roof is decorated with voluminous kokoshniks and five domes, and later apses and porches were added to it from different sides. Another temple of the monastery - in the name of St. George the Victorious, dates back to a later era and is a striking example of the times of Boris Godunov. It is distinguished by a characteristic hipped roof - one of the signs of Moscow architecture of the second half of the 16th and 17th centuries. But the bell tower, which forms a single whole with the overall volume of the building, is made in the style of the Moscow Kremlin, which was erected with the assistance of craftsmen from Italy.

Near the entrance to the Vvedensky Cathedral there is a small wooden chapel in which the relics of the founder of the monastery, Saint Varlaam, rest. They pray to him for deliverance from demons and for the health of livestock. IN last years Several dozen miraculous healings through the prayers of the saint were documented.

Inside the Vvedensky Church, everything is covered with paintings in the old Russian style, which creates a cozy prayerful atmosphere. In the Church of St. George, on the contrary, there are no paintings, only icons hang on the snow-white walls. It is worth paying attention to lamps that are unusual in shape and design. The entire territory of the monastery is planted with flowers and well-groomed; it is not for nothing that this is a convent. When going to the monastery, you must not forget the container for water - the “Inexhaustible Chalice” spring is famous for its help to those suffering from alcohol and other excesses. Next to the monastery there is a bakery where you can buy delicious monastery pastries and have a snack.

Practical information

Address: Serpukhov, st. Oktyabrskaya, 40. Website.

How to get there: by car - along Simferopolsky, Borisovsky highway, st. Voroshilov, Leninsky Komsomol and Oktyabrskaya; by train - from the Kursk station of the capital to the Serpukhov station, then by bus No. 4 to the final stop.

Divine services are held daily at 7:15 on weekdays, at 8:00 and 17:00 on holidays and Sundays; Confession is held after the evening service.

Vvedensky Vladychny Convent

Russia, Moscow region, Serpukhov, st. Oktyabrskaya, d. 40.

The monastery was founded as a monastery around 1360. The reason for its occurrence was the following miraculous circumstance. One day, Saint Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow, performed a prayer rule in his cell in front of the icon of the Mother of God. When the akathist to the Most Pure Virgin had already been read, suddenly an extraordinary light illuminated the metropolitan’s cell, and from the image Holy Mother of God He twice heard a wonderful voice saying to the saint: “Alexie! It is fitting for you to build a monastery in My name.” The saint asked where he should build a monastery, to which he was answered: “Within the city of Serpukhov, because I loved the place for the salvation of many human souls.”

Obeying the will of the Queen of Heaven, Saint Alexy soon sent his disciple Varlaam to Serpukhov to choose a place for a new monastery. When Saint Varlaam came to Serpukhov, a special sign showed him a place on a hill covered with dense forest and located at the confluence of the Oka and Nara rivers. With this miraculous revelation, Barlaam was followed by a wondrous vision. He saw angels holding the monastery on their shoulders, and in it a temple. At the door of this temple stood the high priest Zechariah, towards whom the Holy Virgin Mary, accompanied by Her parents, walked up the steps. When the Most Pure One approached the high priest, he took Her and led her into the temple. Tradition tells that Varlaam was not only consoled, encouraged and strengthened by this vision, but from it he should have understood that the Mother of God Herself was blessing him to build a temple and a monastery, and precisely in honor of Her Entry into the temple. The vision showed the builder that even the angels would help him in building the temple and maintain the monastery, that in this church the Lady of Heaven Herself would dwell in the same way by Her grace, as She once dwelled in the Temple of Jerusalem, into which she was led by her parents. The Monk Varlaam himself said that this monastery would be called the Master, because he saw the Lady and the creation of the monastery was according to Her thoughts. The monk kept this vision in his heart with reverent awe. But it did not remain unknown. When in old age the blind Venerable Varlaam was miraculously granted sight, he told in writing about the wondrous sign of Divine favor.

The first church of the Vladychny Monastery, created by the first abbot, the Monk Varlaam, was wooden. In 1362, instead of the old wooden one, a stone temple was built. Before his death, the monk asked Saint Alexy to come to his monastery, consecrate the new church and give his body to rest. In 1377, the saint performed the burial and, according to his will, laid the body of the saint in the porch of the Vvedensky Church.

After the death of Saint Varlaam, the monastery expanded and flourished despite the wars and unrest in which the monastery had to take part. The times of interregnum were especially difficult for the monastery. At this time, the monastery became a real fortress, surrounded by walls and equipped with military weapons and supplies.

The period of decline for the monastery began at the beginning of the 18th century, when it was assigned to the Zaikonospasskaya monastery in Moscow. Although the independence of the monastery was soon restored, this did not improve its situation.

In 1737, only one elderly hieromonk remained in the entire monastery. By the end of the 18th century. The Bishop's Monastery fell into almost complete desolation: the brethren of the monastery dispersed, the cells and churches fell into disrepair, and worship ceased. In view of such a sad situation of the monastery, the Moscow Hierarch Plato decided to convert the Serpukhov monastery into a convent, which was done in 1806. Soon the monastery was completely landscaped both externally and internally.

The precious shrine of the monastery, main goal numerous pilgrims visiting the Vladychny Monastery, there was the tomb of its founder, the Monk Varlaam. The tomb was wooden, placed on a stone tombstone and covered on top with an ancient icon of the saint. At the foot there was also an ancient image of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the temple, and above the tomb of the saint of God was overshadowed by a canopy on gilded columns.

In the cathedral church of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the temple, there was also kept an ark with part of the relics of another founder of the monastery, St. Metropolitan Alexy. In addition to these shrines, the Vvedensky Cathedral kept many other ancient and venerable holy icons. The temple miraculous icon of the Presentation of the Mother of God, painted in the 14th century and decorated with a precious frame, was especially revered by the residents of the city of Serpukhov. ancient work. In the temple there was a miraculous image of St. John the Warrior and Vladimir icon The Mother of God, the altarpiece of Our Lady of Tenderness from an ancient letter, the Image of Christ the Savior Not Made by Hands, the icon of St. George the Victorious, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow. No less attracted the attention of pilgrims and lovers of Orthodox antiquity and the three ancient folding doors located in the cathedral, one of which was located above the royal doors, the other two - on the right and left pillars of the temple.

Adjoining the northern side of the Vvedensky Cathedral Church of the Vladychnaya monastery was stone church XV century in the name of three Moscow saints: Peter, Alexy and Jonah. Below it was a tomb with ancient stone tombstones.

In 1598–1609, after Boris Godunov visited Serpukhov, the monastery was almost completely rebuilt with donated money. Today it is a unique complex of Godunov architecture. At the end of the 16th century, at the expense of Tsar Boris Godunov, a stone two-tier church was built in the monastery in honor of the Holy Great Martyr George. A local legend tells about the heavenly protection shown to these saints: during the siege of the city of Serpukhov by enemies, the townspeople saw the Great Martyr George riding out on a white horse from the back gate of the monastery and riding up to the enemy hordes. The latter, seeing the saint, were afraid and fled, and the great martyr returned to the monastery through the same gate. In memory of this sacred event, a festival was established in the monastery to the holy great martyr and victorious George. It takes place on the seventh Monday after the day of the Dormition of the Mother of God (in mid-October) and is popularly called “St. George the Hidden.”

A chapel was added to the northern side of the St. George Church in the name of the holy Tsarevich Dmitry, erected by order of Tsar Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky. This chapel is one of the first, if not the first, church in Russia dedicated to St. Demetrius. The temple miraculous image of St. Dmitry, located in this chapel, represents the very first and most faithful image of the prince. Under the St. George Church in the lower tier there used to be a monastery bakery, and since 1818 there has been a church dedicated to the glory of the Ascension of the Lord. In 1840, under the chapel of St. Dmitry, a chapel was built in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. The temple icon of the saint miraculously appeared in the mentioned bakery. The fifth temple of the Vladychny Monastery, dedicated to the Image of the Savior Not Made by Hands, was located above the monastery gates.

The church was built in the 16th century with the blessing of Patriarch Job, whose charter was kept in the monastery.

In the 19th century, the Vladychny Monastery became a women’s monastery with the blessing of Metropolitan Platon (Levshin) of Moscow. From that time on, an unprecedented flourishing of the monastery began. Temples were renovated, new stone buildings were erected, hotels for pilgrims were built, a hospital with a laboratory and a home pharmacy was built. At the monastery there were vegetable gardens, orchards, meadow and arable land, 180 acres of forest, a barnyard, and a beekeeper. By the middle of the century, the number of nuns increased to 300.

The shrines of the temple were the temple image of the Savior Not Made by Hands and the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God, brought from Mount Athos by Archimandrite Matthew of the Xenophon Monastery.

At the beginning of the 20th century. in the monastery there were abbess, 50 nuns and 326 novices.

In 1919, the monastery was closed, its territory became the Aviation Town. A school for “red military pilots” was opened there, then a secondary military school. And then in just seventeen years it was almost completely destroyed.

In May 1995, monastic life was resumed at the Vladychny Convent. After the revolution, the original of the “Inexhaustible Chalice” icon was lost. Now in the Vladychny Convent and in the Vysotsky Monastery of the city of Serpukhov there are copies of the icon, which are also miraculous. The monastery contains miraculous icons of the holy prince Dmitry of Uglich and the holy martyr John the Warrior.

In front of the three shrines of the Vladychny Monastery: the icons “The Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple”, “The Inexhaustible Chalice” and on the tombstone of St. Varlaam, unquenchable lamps burn.

Speaking about the Vvedensky Vladychny Monastery, one cannot help but talk about another monastery: the Vysotsky Conception Monastery.

The Vysotsky Monastery is located opposite Vladychny - on the other bank of the Nara River at its confluence with the Oka. This architectural solution makes the urban space of Serpukhov unique.

In 1374, St. Sergius of Radonezh came to Serpukhov on foot from his monastery to bless Prince Vladimir the Brave for the construction of the monastery.

In 1381, Vladimir the Brave erected the first stone churches in the monastery in memory of the Battle of Kulikovo. Since then, the monastery has been built and changed - all its buildings were created at different times.

In 1387, Abbot Athanasius left to serve in Constantinople forever. He entrusted the monastery to the hieromonk, to whom he once gave his own name during tonsure. The Monk Athanasius the Younger, who came to the Vysotsky Monastery as a twelve-year-old boy and reposed at the age of 33, became one of the greatest saints of the Serpukhov land.

Many miracles are associated with his name. Here's one of them. During the invasion of the Crimean Tatars to Serpukhov, the monks left the Vysotsky Monastery. But the enemies and some residents of the city saw how one evening a monk rode out of the monastery on a white horse with a staff in his hand. He had a dark complexion and a thick black beard - like the Monk Athanasius the Younger. Having ridden around the enemy camp, he rushed at them with a threatening look, and the Tatars, having lifted the siege, fled. This was in 1571, more than one hundred and fifty years after the death of the saint.

The relics of St. Athanasius the Younger were discovered only recently. Until 1994, the relics of the saint, according to his own will, rested under the stairs of the cathedral church.

Icon of the Mother of God “Inexhaustible Chalice”

There is something common and very important between these monasteries. The Icon of the Mother of God “Inexhaustible Chalice” - revealed in the Vladychny Monastery, disappeared during the Soviet years and returned in the form of a miraculous copy to Vysotsky. Today, copies of the original image are kept in both Serpukhov monasteries.

In 1878, this icon was found thanks to a peasant from the Efremov district of the Tula province, an honored retired soldier who was obsessed with the passion of drunkenness and reached a beggarly state. His legs were paralyzed, but he continued to drink. One day a peasant had a dream. The elder schema-monk insisted that he go to Serpukhov and serve a prayer service in front of the “Inexhaustible Chalice” icon in the monastery of the Lady Theotokos. The peasant did not dare. The elder appeared again. And the peasant crawled to Serpukhov. He approached the city, already leaning on a stick...

In the Vvedensky Vladychny women's monastery, the sufferer spoke about his dreams, but no one knew such an icon. “Isn’t this icon with the image of the Chalice located in the passage from the cathedral church to the sacristy?” – a thought occurred to someone. On the reverse side of the icon they actually saw the inscription “Inexhaustible Chalice”.

The peasant returned from Serpukhov healthy, having received healing of his sore legs, freed from an irresistible craving for wine. And the peasant recognized the schema-monk who appeared to him when he saw the icon of the Monk Varlaam, the builder of the Vladychny Monastery.

After the revolution, the Vladychny Monastery was closed, and the miraculous icon was moved to Cathedral Nikola Bely. In 1929, St. Nicholas Cathedral was also closed. All his shrines were burned on the banks of the Nara River. Icons with the image of the Mother of God “Inexhaustible Chalice”, including the prototype, disappeared without a trace.

The memory of her returned to the city in the 80s of the twentieth century. The pre-revolutionary tradition of the Serpukhov Alexander Nevsky Brotherhood of Temperance was resumed - on Sundays prayers for healing from the disease of drunkenness began to be held with the reading of an akathist to the Mother of God.

When the Vysotsky Monastery opened, Archimandrite Joseph moved the prayer service to the “Inexhaustible Chalice” here. With his blessing, the famous Russian icon painter Alexander Sokolov created a list of the miraculous icon. And in 1996, another list appeared in the Vladychny Monastery.

Since then, there have been two images of the “Inexhaustible Chalice” in Serpukhov. Both of them, like the prototype, are miraculous.

The “Inexhaustible Chalice” is today recognized as an all-Russian shrine. A huge number of pilgrims flock to this icon. And those who cannot come send letters and telegrams with requests to serve a prayer service for their loved ones. Monasteries keep books of gratitude from believers who received help through prayers before miraculous images.

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