Tikhvin monastery - the oldest in the glorious Russian city of Yekaterinburg.Its long history started with the almshouses at the Assumption Church (1796).First female community consisted of three women who led the sister Taisiya (in the world - Tatiana Kostromina).
Create monastery
Kostromina Tatiana, the daughter of working-Top Isetsky factory, founded Novo-Tikhvin Nunnery in Yekaterinburg.
few years she traveled to St. Petersburg, trying to achieve the opening of the monastery and receive salaries for nurses.December 31, 1809 was officially opened Novotihvinsky Monastery Yekaterinburg.He continued to build for most of XIX century.
Every year the monastery grew rapidly.The community could start everyone women, regardless of their social status or age.By the middle of the XIX century Novo-Tikhvin female monastery (Ekaterinburg) has become the largest in the Urals, as well as one of the most significant in the whole of Russia.
Shrine monastery
most revered shrine of the monastery has been and remains today an icon of the Virgin.Comes to her thousands of pilgrims from around the country.
In 1824 the monastery came to the Emperor Alexander I, and 13 years later (1837) visited the crown prince Alexander, the future Alexander II.
Description Monastery
the beginning of the last century, the monastery lived 135 nuns and 900 novices.In those days, the monastery was surrounded by high and thick walls with towers.There were six churches, a variety of workshops, monastic cells, an orphanage, library, hospital, bakery.
Near the monastery built a hospice (today it houses the Institute of Law and Philosophy, UB RAS).Inside the present mounting College has diocesan school.It studied orphaned girls.
Novotihvinsky Monastery Yekaterinburg had owned farms, where the nuns and novices grown vegetables, fruits, poultry breeding.
Assumption Church is the oldest church of the monastery.Assumption church built back in 1782.Finance the construction of merchant I. Hlepetin.Later it was rebuilt many times and remodeled.
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
The monastery is a temple, which is known far beyond the monastery.Novotihvinsky Nunnery (Ekaterinburg) is proud of its largest temple.The majestic and very beautiful cathedral today again restored.Previously, he was the main architectural landmark of this part of town.At the feast day the temple could accommodate more than six thousand people.
All Saints Church
This building is interesting, first of all, that it is very rare for Yekaterinburg sample of Byzantine architecture.The church was built in 1900 at the expense of the local patron MI Ivanov.
Development monastery
The unique shape of the monastery contributed greatly MP Malakhov - known architect, a native of this wonderful city.Novotihvinsky Yekaterinburg Monastery was known for its beauty.Malakhov led the reconstruction of the temple of the monastery.Today it is the most famous landmark in Yekaterinburg.
Basic earnings monastery received from the sale of various products made in the workshops.Part of it financed by the state.
Novices and nuns engaged in silk, and gold embroidery beloshveynym needlework, sewing robes for the priests, painted porcelain, spun webs and carpets.
Novotihvinsky Monastery Yekaterinburg had on its territory most prestigious cemetery.He buried many of the great citizens of Ekaterinburg - Chuprin local historian, architect MP Malakhov, a physician A .A.Mislavsky and many others.
Monastery after the Revolution
risk to life in 1918, novices and nuns of the monastery tried to help the latter is under arrest in Ekaterinburg, Nicholas II and the imperial family.They brought food, strongly supported them spiritually.This continued until the execution of the royal family.
In Soviet times, first shut Novotihvinsky Nunnery in Yekaterinburg (1920), and later liquidated cemetery.Gravestones and plates, many of which are masterpieces of stone-cutting is a true art, brutally wrenched from the ground, and then used for construction.Burial great Yekaterinburg were lost forever.Bala proposed the idea in its place build a zoo.Fortunately, she was not destined to become a reality.
In 1922, before the monastery church was monstrous blasphemy - at the stake burned the monastery archive, which contains unique historical documents.
crippled destinies
Novotihvinskogo Nuns Monastery was prepared plight - many of them were arrested, they were sent to prison camps and prison cells.Last Abbess Magdalene been arrested eight times, but after a few months spent in the dungeons, to let her go.Magdalena died in 1934.She was buried at the Ivanovo cemetery.
Soviet years
Many of the buildings of the monastery in the Soviet times were rebuilt, and often destroyed.On this holy place were placed military hospital.
In one of the temples of the monastery for 30 years was a museum.
New life of the old convent
Only in 1994 began a normal life Novo-Tikhvin female monastery.Now the monastery is reviving, the place of destroyed churches occupied by new beautiful temples.
still one of the main shrine of the monastery remains miraculously survived in the difficult years of the icon of the Mother of God.In addition, all the parishioners and nuns revered ark that holds the relics of 25 saints, sacred icon of St. Nicholas and a particle of his relics.
Today Novotihvinsky monastery involved in charity work, helping those in need.These good deeds joined the creators of the guide to the sights of the Urals.In 2011, the author of the collection presented Chebotaeva Marina monastery dozens of books on native land.
Getting
Anyone who would like to see Novotihvinsky monastery, I would say that the directions to the monastery can be found at the official site of the monastery.Address Monastery Street.Green Grove House 1.
