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  Tradition refers to the emergence of the male monastery "near the Sparrows, in Captives" to the 13th century, but early documentary evidence of it dates only to the middle of the 17th century. V. I. and G. I. Kholmogorovs found a number of documents, the earliest of which date back to 1625 - a note on the payment of “on the salary of money 6 alt<ын>and 2 den<ьги>"priest Ivan and by 1627-1629 - scribal books of Ratuev's camp:" on the river in Moscow, near the Sparrow steeps, the church of Andrei Stratilat, drevyan dumplings.

  The monastery was created with a school "for the sake of teaching the children of the Slovene-Russian people the Hellenistic punishment"; 30 monks settled in the monastery, called by Rtishchev back in 1646-1647 from several Little Russian monasteries. In 1649, the learned monks Arseniy Satanovsky and Epiphanius Slavinetsky were brought here, and in 1650, Damaskin Ptitsky. The “Teaching Brotherhood” that arose, which united the most educated monks of that time “for the sake of book teaching”, became in essence the first academic structure in Moscow in terms of time. In 1652, Kyiv singers settled in the monastery with the regent and composer Fyodor Ternopilsky. The opening of the school took place at the end of 1652. At this time, Epiphanius (Slavinetsky) composed a verse in which he called the monastery Andreevsky: "In the name of Andrea, Christ the first-called apostle, this monastery was created." The number of brethren in the monastery did not exceed 60 people, and there were no more than 10-15 learned elders.

  In 1650, Donskoy was attached to the Andreevsky Monastery (until 1678), in which at that time there were only eight monks. In 1682, the Andreevsky Monastery itself was assigned to the Zaikonospassky Monastery: “attached” to the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, where the monks of the Teaching Brotherhood moved, on the grounds that it was created “for the sake of this monastery of the Russian kind in the enlightenment of the free wisdom of teaching” .

  In 1703, the patrimonies of the Andreevsky Monastery were transferred to the Monastyrsky Prikaz, and a “rug” was assigned to the maintenance of the monks. In 1722, hegumen Filaret (Burkashev) filed a petition to return the lands to the monastery, but in 1724, by decree of Peter I, the monks were transferred to the Donskoy Monastery, and in the abolished Andreevsky, an institution was established for receiving and keeping foundlings and street children, closed on April 21, 1731 . Until 1730 there was also a prison here.

  In 1762, the Synod appointed St. Andrew's Monastery as a temporary place for keeping the insane. With the beginning of Catherine's secularization, in 1764 Andreevsky Monastery was turned into a parish church, since "it turned out to be hopeless for its own maintenance", and an almshouse was set up in its buildings.

  During the epidemic of 1771, a cemetery was built on the territory of the Andreevsky Monastery for well-born citizens and inhabitants of Moscow monasteries; representatives of such noble families as the Pleshcheevs, Shcherbatovs, Sheremetevs, Mashkovs, Larionovs and others were buried here.

  In 1918, communal houses of the 1st Moscow factory Goznak were located in the buildings of the monastery. In 1923, at the suggestion of the Zamoskvoretsky District Council of the City of Moscow, the Church of the Holy Martyr Andrei Stratilates was closed. In 1925, a club was organized in the Church of the Resurrection. In the church of St. John the Theologian, divine services were performed until the end of the 1930s.

  On August 14, 1991, by decree of Patriarch Alexy II, the Patriarchal Metochion was opened in the former Andreevsky Monastery with churches of the Resurrection of Christ in Captives, the Apostle Evangelist John the Theologian (Archangel Michael) and the martyr Andrei Stratilates. The Synodal Library was transferred here from the Danilov Monastery due to crowding. Archpriest Boris Danilenko, head of the Synodal Library, was appointed rector of the metochion. By order of the Government of Moscow dated July 29, 1992, the above churches were transferred "under the patriarchal courtyard."

  On September 1, 1993, on the feast day of the holy martyr Andrew Stratilates, Patriarch Alexy II visited the former monastery for the first time. The reason for this visit was the opening of the reading room of the Synodal Library within its walls. The Patriarch bowed to the relics of the Church of the Resurrection, sprinkled holy water on the walls of the premises temporarily equipped to serve readers and expressed the hope that the library's activities would gradually take on new dimensions. From that day on, the work of the Synodal Library, interrupted for a short time due to the move, was resumed.

  On the basis of the Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 1004 dated December 17, 1996, the Andreevsky Monastery complex was completely transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church for free, perpetual use.

  Architectural ensemble

  In 1648-1654, under the leadership of the architect Grigory Kopyl, the initial complex of monastic buildings was built, in particular, the Church of the Resurrection was built (1648). In 1675, above the "Holy Gates" on the eastern wall of the monastery, the church of the martyr Andrei Stratilat was built with a chapel of the Great Martyr Theodore Stratilat (existed until the beginning of the 19th century), the facades of the church were decorated with tiles made by Belarusian masters. In 1689, on the site of the former Resurrection Church, construction began on a new one (consecrated in 1703); in the basement above the crypt, in which, according to legend, Rtishchev was buried, there was a chapel of the Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates. To the north of the Church of the Resurrection was the Church of the Intercession (built in 1701?), later dismantled, in its place a building of almshouses was built. In 1748, a bell tower was built at the expense of Count S. B. Sheremetev - in a 19th-century engraving, a four-sided bell tower with large arched openings in the upper tier was completed by a four-sided tent with a small ball topped with a cross; Initially, the temple in the lower tier of the bell tower was consecrated in honor of the Archangel Michael, and after the reconstruction of the bell tower in 1848, Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov) consecrated the church, established at the expense of the merchant M. Setkin, in honor of the Apostle John the Theologian.

  By the end of the 20th century, the ensemble of the monastery consisted of:

  • Church (former cathedral) of Andrey Stratilat with colored glazed tiles "peacock's eye";
  • Cathedral (former church) of the Resurrection of the Word
  • Church of St. John the Evangelist in the bell tower

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  One of the most important villages in the Gagarinsky district of the Southwestern District of Moscow is Andreevskaya Sloboda, which arose near the Andreevsky Monastery, which is still located under the steep bank of the Moscow River, where it turns from the Sparrow Hills to the Kremlin. The monastery had a clarification in its name - “that in Captives”, and several points of view were expressed in the literature on this matter.
  According to I.E. Zabelin, such a “book interpretation” of the origin of the name of the tract does not stand up to criticism: “In Moscow and in the south, for example, on the lower Dnieper, they call bundles of rafts or, in fact, rafts of any forest driven along the spring water to the appointed places. The Moscow tract of Captives got its name from the fact that in this area from the top of the river, captive rafts, driven for urban consumption, gathered from time immemorial.
  According to another version, a small village of the Captive has long stood here (this is evidenced by the fact that the icon of St. Andrew Stratilates was kept in the monastery with the inscription that this image was brought from their village of the Captive).
  The exact date of foundation of the monastery is unknown. It was first mentioned in the news about the Moscow fire of 1547, which makes it possible to speak cautiously about the foundation of the monastery at the turn of the 15th-16th centuries.
  Tradition dates the emergence of the male monastery "near Vorobyovy Kruch, in Prisoners" to the 13th century, but early documentary evidence of it dates only to the middle of the 16th century.
  Until the end of the 16th century, the monastery was called the Transfiguration Hermitage.
  The places lying near the Andreevsky Monastery were inhabited in ancient times. Archaeological excavations show that from the middle of the 1st millennium BC to the 3rd-4th century AD, people belonging to the "Dyakovo culture" lived here. According to the old manor located above, this settlement was called "Mamon's Settlement". As scientists have established, it ceased to exist after a big fire and no longer resumed.
  At 300-400 meters from the Mamon settlement, on the other side of the Andreevsky Monastery, on a high cape above the ravine, along which the District Railway (now the Third Transport Ring) passed, there was an ancient settlement that arose even before our era. According to archaeological data, people lived here in the early feudal period.
  In the IV part of the book “Moscow, or a Historical Guide to the Famous Capital of the State of Russia” it is said about the Andreevsky Monastery: “It is difficult to find the time of the founding of this monastery, but one cannot but attribute it to the time of at least the Grand Duke John III Vasilyevich, for it is mentioned in the annals of the reign John IV Vasilyevich the Terrible as existing for a long time. However, this news is doubtful, since it does not say what exactly the chronicle of "the times of Ivan IV" is meant.
  It is strange: both Russian and foreign sources are silent about the Andreevsky Monastery. For example, when describing the raid of Kazy-Girey in 1591, contemporaries do not mention in a word the monastery located on the banks of the Moscow River, which (even a wooden one) could become one of the strongholds of Moscow's defense.
  In the Historical Guide, with reference to V. N. Tatishchev, it is said that in the Andreevsky Monastery, Tsar Boris Fedorovich opened the first school for youth in Moscow. Again, an error showing how unreliable the data was sometimes used by the author. Feeling this, he postpones the possible emergence of the school to the time of Alexei Mikhailovich.
  As for V. N. Tatishchev, we were unable to find such a fact in his History of Russia. On the contrary, in the Russian Historical, Geographical, Political and Civil Lexicon, the historian writes: “Andreevsky Monastery, on the Moscow River, from the city, counting from the Kremlin, 5 versts, a village is written in the seasoning and construction books. Under Peter the Great, shameful children were kept and taught there. Vasily Nikitovich, as you know, very carefully studied Russian chronicles, including those that have not come down to us.
  To date, some historical materials have been discovered that make it possible to lift the veil over the history of the tract and the Andreevsky Monastery. Let's start with the "Nesvizh Plan of Moscow", engraved in 1611 in the city of Nesvizh by Tomas Makovsky based on a drawing by Shimon Endrashevich Smutansky. According to the legend set forth in the title of the plan, Shimon compiled it while in prison along with the ambassadors of King Sigismund III, who arrived at the wedding of False Dmitry with Marina Mnishek. They entered Moscow on May 12, 1606, and on May 27 False Dmitry was killed. The ambassadors were released to their homeland only at the beginning of August 1608. Apparently, during this period, the "Nesviyazh plan" was drawn. It is of great interest, because, firstly, it was created before the burning of Moscow by the Poles, and secondly, it depicts some details of the surroundings that lay outside the Wooden City and were absent from the plans of Moscow at the beginning of the 17th century. Before its opening, supporters of the legend expressed by I. M. Snegirev could appeal to the fact that the monastery was destroyed during the Time of Troubles. Indeed, Moscow and the Moscow region then suffered greatly. “Trouble rushed like a hurricane over the outskirts of Moscow. Impostors, people's leaders like Bolotnikov, Cossacks, Poles did not pass without a trace for them. Descriptions of the Moscow district in the 1710s are always accompanied by a bleak conclusion: “and now everything is empty”, “villages and villages have become deserted from Lithuanian people”, “and according to the new patrol everything is empty”.
  According to the New Chronicler, on August 24, 1612, in the area of ​​​​the present Crimean Wall, Kozma Minin, with three hundreds of nobles, dealt a tangible blow to the detachment of Hetman Khodkevich, forcing him to retreat to the Donskoy Monastery: In the morning, run away from Moscow. It’s a shame, for the sake of one’s own, to go straight to Lithuania. ” We do not know what suffered during the retreat of the Poles to the Sparrow Hills.
  The "Nesvizh plan" shows a part of the south-west of Moscow. On the right bank of the Moskva River, at the place where the St. Andrew's Convent later arose - a group of buildings surrounded by a wall. Due to poor print quality, it is difficult to make out in detail what exactly is depicted there. A high tower almost on the very shore, crowned with a hipped roof, is quite clearly distinguishable. A building adjoins it from the east side, to which another building is attached parallel to the river. Behind the first building is another one. From the tower to the southwest, a wall or fence goes uphill. From the second building uphill, perpendicular to the river, another wall stretches, consisting of sections. Inside the territory covered by the walls - a lot of trees (outside, by the way, there are almost none at all).
  It is doubtful that such structures performed any defensive function: they were located under the mountain, from where they could shoot perfectly. What is it then? It can be assumed: in front of us is a boyar estate near Moscow.
  One can only guess what happened to the estate during the turmoil. It could be, as already mentioned above, burned by the retreating detachment of Hetman Khodkevich. It is possible that the owner stained himself with assistance to the Poles, after which the estate was confiscated.
  V. I. and G. I. Kholmogorov found a number of valuable documents relating to the history of St. Andrew's Church. The earliest of them is dated 1625: a note on the payment of “6 altyn and 2 money for the salary” by priest Ivan. It should be borne in mind that the main type of fees from the clergy was an annual tribute, the amount of which depended on the size of the parish and its profitability. The amount mentioned is small. But if it was paid, it means that St. Andrew's Church had, albeit small, but a parish.
  The most valuable is the document extracted by the Kholmogorovs from the cadastral books of the Ratuev camp and relating to the years 1627-1629: “On the river in Moscow, near the Sparrow steeps, the church of Andrei Stratilat, drevyan dumplings. And in the church there are images and candles and books and on the bell tower - everything is sovereign. And at the church in the courtyards: priest Ivan Kondratiev, priest Alexei Denisov, church deacon Timoshka Ivanov, the place of the sexton is empty, the place of prosvirnitsyno, and right there on the church land in the yard there is a bean. Yes, there are sheds on church land, and bricks are burned in them. Yes, priest Ivan Kondratiev's barn, and in it the priest himself burns a brick for sale; Yes, another shed of priest Alexei Denisov, and in the same shed the deacon's lot, and the same lot in the dispute between priest Alexei and the church sexton with Timoshka. And priest Aleksey gives his barn for rent to the merchant Ivan Istomin, the son of the Boiler Row. The arable land of the church lands in the field 56 four, and in two because, the middle land. Yes, to the church of Andrei Stratilat, the patrimony in Sosensky camp, the wasteland of Katerinkin with wastelands, and in Torokmanovo I will become the wasteland of Kosilovo with wastelands "
  More detailed information about the Andreevsky Monastery came from the middle of the 17th century and is associated with the name of Fyodor Mikhailovich Rtishchev (1626-1673).
  In the St. Andrew's Monastery, which he resumed in 1648, he opened a school, where he invited learned monks from Kyiv to organize teaching "Slavic and Greek languages, verbal sciences to rhetoric and philosophy." Rtishchev was obvious.
  Under Rtishchev, the Transfiguration Church was built in the monastery, and in 1675 the construction of the gate church of St. Andrew Stratilat was completed. In 1689, a new one was built on the site of the former Resurrection Church (consecrated in 1703); in the basement above the crypt, in which, according to legend, Rtishchev was buried, there was a chapel of the great martyr. Theodore Stratilates. To the north of the Resurrection Church was located c. Intercession (built in 1701), subsequently. dismantled, in its place a building of almshouses was built. The bell tower with the Church of Michael the Archangel was erected in 1748 with donations from Count S. B. Sheremetev.
  However, after the death of Rtishchev, the school in the Andreevsky Monastery did not last long and in 1685 was transferred to the Zaikonospassky Monastery in Kitay-Gorod.
  Under Peter I, the buildings of the monastery were partially used to keep illegitimate children and foundlings. Andreevsky Monastery was abolished in 1724, its churches became parish churches, a school for foundlings and a prison were established in the buildings of the monastery. In 1730 the monastery was renewed, the school and the prison were liquidated. In 1762, the Synod appointed St. Andrew's Monastery as a temporary place for keeping the insane. In 1764 the monastery was abolished, and the main Church of the Ascension of Christ (erected in 1689-1703) became a parish church. As for the former monastic buildings, under Catherine II they were used for various kinds of correctional institutions.
  During the pestilence, which was in Moscow in 1771, a cemetery was arranged on the territory of the monastery for well-born citizens and inhabitants of Moscow monasteries. Later, already in the 19th century, the necropolis of the Andreevsky Monastery was finally formed. Among those buried in it are the Pleshcheevs, Shcherbatovs, Sheremetevs.
  By decree of Empress Catherine II in 1775, a workhouse for female “sloth” was located in the monastery.
  In 1788, according to the English traveler William Cox, Andreevsky Monastery contained "dissolute women" who lived there for two and three weeks, making ropes for the Admiralty "At the same time, according to him, there was a" shelter in the monastery for soldier's widows" for which "the empress gives 4 kopecks a day for every woman; there are ninety widows in the orphanage.”
  In 1803, at the request of the Moscow Merchant Society, with the “gracious permission” of Emperor Alexander I, the monastery was transferred to the “Almshouse House” for both sexes, and since 1805, according to the project of the architect F.K. Sokolov, at the expense of the Moscow merchants, buildings of the Almshouse are being built on the site of the dilapidated monastery walls. The number of convicts in it increased from 150 people in 1805 to 956 in 1906. Late in time, the southwestern building of the Almshouse was built according to the project of the architect of the Moscow merchant society A.S. Kaminsky in 1878.
  In the temples of the monastery, which were under the jurisdiction of the Almshouse, a clergyman from the white clergy served, who ministered not only to those who were treated in it, but also to the inhabitants of the nearest Moscow settlements - Andreevskaya and Zhivodernaya.
  Until 1917, at the Church of the Resurrection, there was a parochial school, opened in 1900 on the initiative of the rector, priest Nikolai Molchanov.
  In 1918, the Almshouse ceased to exist, since communal houses of the 1st Moscow Goznak factory were placed in the buildings of the former monastery.
  In 1923, on the proposal of the Zamoskvoretsky District Council of Moscow, the Church of the Holy Martyr Andrei Stratilat was closed and transferred to the workers of Goznak for a school, which was never opened.
  In 1925, "at the request of the working people," the Moscow Council handed over the Church of the Resurrection to the workers to set up a club in it.
  In the church of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian, divine services were performed until the end of the 1930s.
  The necropolis of the monastery was mostly destroyed in the 20-40s of the XX century. So far, only three burial slabs (XVIII century) have been preserved, embedded in the basement of the altar apse of the Church of the Resurrection.
  In 1964, in accordance with the decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Moscow authorities transferred the complex of buildings of the former Andreevsky Monastery to the Committee of Standards, Measures and Measuring Instruments of the USSR for the placement of the Moscow State Control Laboratory for measuring equipment, which was later transformed into the All-Union Research Institute of Metrological Service of the State Standard of the USSR. In accordance with the design developed by the architect G.K. From 1967 to 1971, restoration work was carried out in the Andreevsky Monastery complex with the Ignatiev project-adaptation to the needs of VNIIMS.
  By decree of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus', on August 14, 1991, the Patriarchal Metochion was opened in the former Andreevsky Monastery with the churches of the Resurrection of Christ in Captives, the Apostle Evangelist John the Theologian (Archangel Michael) and the Martyr Andrei Stratilates. The Synodal Library was transferred here from the Donskoy Monastery due to crowding. Archpriest Boris Danilenko, head of the Synodal Library, was appointed rector of the metochion.
  In 1996 the complex of the former. Andreevsky Monastery was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church to house the Synodal Library of the Moscow Patriarchate. Since 1998, the general education "School at the Andreevsky Monastery" has been operating.
  On July 16, 2013, by the decision of the Holy Synod, the Patriarchal Metochion in the former St. Andrew's Monastery was transformed into the St. Andrew's Stauropegial Monastery. Bishop of Dmitrov Theophylact (Moiseev) was appointed the abbot of the monastery

  Andreevsky Monastery

  m. Leninsky Prospekt
  Andreevskaya embankment, 2

  From the metro - to the left, to the underpass, through the underpass under Gagarin Square, exit to the store " big people”, go around this building on the right side, on your right there will be the Third Transport Ring, on the left - the former building of the research institute of a monstrous appearance, in which the bank is now. The monastery is located by the river, behind the bank building (a couple of stairs between the bushes lead there). Above the monastery and the new residential quarter there is a good observation deck, from where you can clearly see the Sparrow Hills, a little of the Moscow River, the Moscow City skyscrapers under construction, and even the golden domes of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and the Kremlin bell tower. If you look closely, you can also see the bell tower of the Novodevichy Convent.

  

  

  

  

  The legend says that the monastery was founded at the end of the 13th century, but was first mentioned in chronicles in the 14th century. Until the end of the 16th century, the monastery was called the Transfiguration Hermitage. In 1593, after the miraculous deliverance of Moscow from the raid of the Crimean Khan Kazy Giray (in honor of this event, the Donskoy Monastery was also founded, see History of the Donskoy Monastery http://www.talusha1.narod.ru/travel/russia/moscow /moscow_02.htm#p2_1), which happened on the day of the martyr Andrei Stratilat, first a wooden and then a stone (1675) church was built in the monastery, and the monastery began to be called Andreevsky. He organically fit into the southern defensive semicircle of Moscow, which also includes the Novodevichy, Donskoy and St. Danilov monasteries.

  Boyar Fyodor Rtishchev became a patron of the monastery in the 17th century, who created here the first school in Moscow, where Ukrainian scientists Epiphanius Slavinetsky and Arseniy Satanovsky taught - the prototype of the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, which laid the foundation for the Moscow Theological Academy and Moscow University.

  In 1731, the academy was transferred from here to the Zaikonospassky Monastery, and the Andreevsky Monastery was turned into a shelter for foundlings and homeless children, in 1764 an almshouse was built here - the monastery wall and part of the cells were dismantled. In 1924, the premises were used as living quarters, then as research institute offices. The monastery was returned to the church in 1992, however, now it is not a monastery.

  Even from the observation deck it can be seen that the monastery is a small square of buildings, inside of which 2 churches are hidden and one more - over the gate. The strong high walls of the monastery, apparently, were dismantled back in the 18th century, and the very buildings of the almshouse were built from the resulting building materials.

  

  We are greeted by the freshly restored gate church of Andrei Stratilat (1675, rebuilt in 1805), which gave the name to the monastery. The dome, covered with dark tiles, "sits" on a turret covered with colored tiles, while the tiled ribbon goes a little lower, which is why the church takes on a festive look. From the side of the street, several frescoes and a commemorative plaque about the first educational institution in Moscow, founded here in 1648 by the boyar Rtishchev, have been preserved.

  

  Inside there is a booth on duty, which, however, does not react in any way to tourists wandering here. It is noticeable that the premises surrounding the territory of the monastery partly belong to the church (Synodal Library), partly there is still something like a scientific research institute - the roots of dusty folders, teapots and boilers are visible in the windows, and in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ there are several desks, tubs of flowers and fridge. The territory is clean, flowers and several fir trees are planted, at the foot of the bell tower there is someone's grave.

  

  In the center of the monastery stands the Church of St. John the Evangelist with a powerful three-tiered bell tower (1748, rebuilt in 1848). I don’t know if the bells are ringing or not, but the temple looks neglected - as if all the partitions inside were demolished. Outside, the church has recently been painted, and the frescoes have been restored on the wall.

  

  The third church of the monastery ensemble is the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, built in 1689-1701. in the Moscow Baroque style on the site of a stone church founded by the boyar F.M. Rtishchev in 1648.

  

  In front of it is a small rose garden, behind which three ancient gravestones are visible, and the windows of the dungeon.

  

  Maybe the guilty were kept there, or were they warehouses? In the church, several ancient-looking icons and a wrought-iron chandelier are interesting.

  

  the iconostasis is a clear remake, although a pleasant one. On both sides of the temple, typical "NII-shnye" doors open onto the porches - full-wall glass in a metal opening, inside in the center a church has been restored, which is surrounded by a corridor with NII-shnaya furniture - you don’t need to poke your head in there: three aunts who immediately decided to check what was there in the corridor. A few seconds later the alarm went off, shrill howling for a good couple of blocks. The aunts quickly ran away, the guard rushed in, turned off the signaling.

  A tour of the Andreevsky Monastery will take half an hour at the most, you can combine it with a walk through the Neskuchny Garden and, if desired, with a tour of the Donskoy Monastery.

  Boring Garden

  To get to the garden from the monastery, you need to go up again to the entrance to the building of the research institute, whose towers hang over the monastery,

  

  cross the conditional square (trees have not yet grown there, however, but there are already paths and benches), and, having gone down to the road, go along the garden lattice to the gate. True, the places here are abandoned: ravines, mud, fallen trees,

  

  heaps of rubbish and bottles around the fires, where the local proletariat had a cool-turno rest. After a couple of hundred meters, the picture changes: clean asphalt paths, along which mothers and grandmothers roll strollers, birds sing. Farther away, between the trees, a large arbor, erected here in honor of the 800th anniversary of Moscow, gently whitens, grandparents sit on the benches around, harmlessly discussing some of their pressing problems.

  

  They say that once the Neskuchny Garden was a continuation of Gorky Park, now the park pavilion is used for filming the games “What? Where? When?" and sometimes Tolkienists can be found here, among whom the garden is known as "Eglador". If you want to see only the front side of the garden with its playgrounds, tennis courts, a pavilion where the peasants cut dominoes and sedately move chess pieces, and the flight stage, where the unforgettable Velurov from Pokrovsky Gates sang, then you should enter the garden from the side Leninsky Prospekt, 10-12 minutes walk from metro station Leninsky Prospekt.

  

  The garden was formed from three estates belonging to the most famous families of Russia - Golitsyn, Demidov and Trubetskoy. Palace department in 1826-42 bought the territory and erected here the imperial residence, which received its name from the pleasure estate of Trubetskoy "Neskuchnoye". From that estate, several park houses (Orlova, Okhotnichiy, a house with a rotunda) and an arched bridge have been preserved.

  The estate of the Trubetskoys' neighbors, the millionaire industrialists Demidovs, became the center of the created residence, and much more of it has survived: the main entrance alley, a courtyard with a cast-iron fountain in the center, the Freilinsky and Cavalier buildings, the building of the guardhouse, the arena, the tea house, the domed pavilion and the romantic grotto from large boulders. Now the Presidium is located here Russian Academy Sciences, and loitering tourists are not allowed here. If you get there, you will also see a fountain, transferred here from Lubyanka Square in 1934, on the site of which a monument to Dzerzhinsky was erected.

  If you still have strength left after the walk, you can stomp to the Donskoy Monastery http://www.talusha1.narod.ru/travel/russia/moscow/moscow_02.htm : Leninsky Prospekt towards the center on the right side to the intersection with the street. Stasova, which will lead you straight to the walls of the Donskoy. And there it’s not far to Svyato-Danilov http://www.talusha1.narod.ru/travel/russia/moscow/moscow_03.htm :)

  Add-ons from plushevii_zaits

  A good view of the monastery from the balcony-gallery of the Sky Lounge restaurant, located on the top floor of the Academy of Sciences.

  

  Everyone is allowed to enter the territory of the presidium of the academy freely, and they cannot but be allowed in, since there is a functioning public mineralogical museum in the building of the former manor arena. By the way, one of the oldest museums with a very rich, interesting and beautiful exposition. Here he is:

  

  The presidium itself:

  

  The famous Vitali Fountain:

  

  Moscow

  Estates of Moscow

  Monastery pageRussian Orthodox Church, Stavropegial monasteries
  • Stauropegia: yes
  • Monastery type: male
  • Status: active
  • Worship language:Church Slavonic
  • Schedule of services (general briefly):In the main temple of the monastery, the Resurrection of the Word, daily services are performed:
    08:00 Liturgy on weekdays,
    09:00 Liturgy on Saturday and Sunday
    17:00 Vespers and Matins or All-Night Vigil on holidays.
  • Patronal feasts:
    • Andrew of Crete - July 17 [Gregorian]
  • Brief historical background:Until the end of the 16th century, the Transfiguration Hermitage was located on the site of the monastery. The miraculous deliverance of Moscow from the invasion of the Crimean Khan Kyzy-Girey in 1591, which happened on the day of memory of the martyr Andrei Stratilat, prompted the Muscovites to build in the monastery first a wooden, and then in 1675 a stone gate church in the name of the holy martyr Andrei Stratilat. Since then, the monastery began to be called Andreevsky.

    The monastery was abolished for the first time in 1724. Then a clergy from the white clergy was appointed to its temples, and within its walls a school for foundlings - "disgraceful" children and a room for "studs" was established. Under Empress Anna Ioannovna in 1730, the monastery was renewed, while the school and the prison were liquidated. In 1762, the Holy Synod appointed Andreevsky Monastery as a temporary place for keeping the insane. Finally, the monastery was turned into a parish church, since “it turned out to be hopeless for its own maintenance,” in 1764. This year is indicated by P.M. Stroev as the date of the abolition of the monastery, although the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kaluga Timothy (Shcherbatsky) approved the decision of the Moscow Ecclesiastical Consistory on this only in January 1765. During the pestilence, which was in Moscow in 1771, a cemetery was arranged on the territory of the monastery for well-born citizens and inhabitants of Moscow monasteries. Later, already in the 19th century, the necropolis of the Andreevsky Monastery was finally formed. Among those buried in it are the Pleshcheevs, Shcherbatovs, Sheremetevs. By decree of Empress Catherine II in 1775, a workhouse for female “sloth” was located in the monastery. Officially, in civil and church documents, after its final abolition in the 18th century, the monastery was called: Former St. Andrew's Monastery (in the sense - abolished).

    Until 1917, there was a parochial school at the Church of the Resurrection, opened in 1900 on the initiative of the rector, Priest Nikolai Molchanov. In 1918, the almshouse ceased to exist, since communal houses of the 1st Moscow factory Goznak were placed in the buildings of the former monastery. In 1923, at the suggestion of the Zamoskvoretsky District Council of Moscow, the Church of the Holy Martyr Andrei Stratilates was closed and transferred to the workers of Goznak for a school, which was never opened. In 1925, "at the request of the working people," the Moscow Council handed over the Church of the Resurrection to the workers to set up a club in it. In accordance with the design developed by the architect G.K. From 1967 to 1971, restoration work was carried out in the Andreevsky Monastery complex with the Ignatiev project-adaptation to the needs of VNIIMS.

    December 17, 1996 was followed by the Decree of the Government of Moscow No. 1004 dated on the transfer to the gratuitous perpetual use of the Russian Orthodox Church in the person of the Synodal Library of the entire complex of buildings of the Andreevsky Monastery.

    The Compound of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' in the former Andreevsky Monastery with churches of the Resurrection of Christ in Captives, the Apostle Evangelist John the Theologian (Archangel Michael) and the Martyr Andrei Stratilat (Moscow, Andreevskaya Embankment, 2) was established by Decree No. 2360 of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II August 14, 1991.

    By the decision of the Holy Synod of July 16, 2013 (magazine No. 90), under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', the Patriarchal Compound in the b. Andreevsky Monastery was transformed into the Andreevsky stauropegial monastery in Moscow. His Grace Bishop Theophylact of Dmitrov, vicar of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', head of the South-Western Vicariate of Moscow, has been appointed vicegerent of the Andreevsky Monastery.