Moscow St. Nicholas Monastery of Edinoverie. Church of St. Nicholas at the Transfiguration Cemetery Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at Preobrazhenka schedule of services

St. Nicholas at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery, 1966

The monastery was built in 1784-1790s. Only then it had a slightly different purpose and bore a different name. It was the Assumption Cathedral in the pseudo-Gothic style, which was built by the Fedoseyevsk Old Believers community.

For reference: Fedoseevites are Old Believers who do not accept the priesthood. In everyday life they are called bespopovtsy. This direction of the Old Believers has its own characteristics, for example, the conviction in the coming of the kingdom of the Antichrist and in the absolute depravity of the Russian state. Another characteristic feature of Fedoseevites is celibacy.

For a long time, V.I. Bazhenov was considered the architect of the building, since he is the most famous architect who worked in the false Gothic style. However, now researchers are inclined to believe that it was built by F.K. Sokolov.

In the early 1850s. Old Believers were accused of treason. Therefore, in 1854, after the collapse of the Old Believer community, some of the parishioners turned into co-religionists. Uspenskaya was given to them. According to P.V. Sinitsyn’s description, it was made of stone with a single dome and a low bell tower rising above the western porch. The temple contained many ancient icons worth tens of thousands of rubles. Today it still houses beautiful ancient icons of the Stroganov, Novgorod, Korsun and other schools of icon painting of the 15th-17th centuries.

St. Nicholas at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery

In 1854-1857 It was rebuilt according to the design of the architect Alexander Vivien. The St. Nicholas chapel was built in the refectory, and the day when Metropolitan Philaret consecrated it (April 3, 1854) can be considered his birthday Nicholas Church at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery. In 1857, after adding an altar apse to the main volume of the church, the Metropolitan consecrated the main altar in the name of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In 1866, Edinoverie St. Nicholas was founded at the temple, and the monastery itself turned into its cathedral. Looking ahead, let's say that today there is little left of the monastery architectural ensemble (besides the St. Nicholas Monastery): the Vozdvizhensky Church, a bell tower, cell buildings and several service buildings.

In the early 20s. closed, and the dormitory of the Radio plant was located in it.

divided between the co-religionists, who settled in the Assumption part of the monastery, and the renovationists, who were in the refectory part of the temple and added a new Assumption chapel to it. By 1930, the Edinoverie community disintegrated, and the Assumption part of the temple was transferred to the Bespopovites of the Novopomorsky persuasion (unlike the Fedoseevites, they prayed for the emperor), who still occupy it today. The Nikolskaya part of the monastery belongs to the Russian Orthodox Church. That is Nicholas Church at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery

divided into two parts: Orthodox (western entrance) and Old Believer (entrance from the north).

The building is built of red brick, with which the white decorative elements contrast well - these are curlicues, peaks, and battlements, as well as multi-stage cornices with ornaments. Half-columns also attract attention - both large ones at the entrances and small ones that separate the pointed windows of the light drum. False windows decorated with weights also look great. In a word, here there is everything that is characteristic of pseudo-Russian Gothic. St. Nicholas Church on Preobrazhenka

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Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (formerly Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

- Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese.

Then began the addition to the former Dormition Chapel of a stone altar for the main church, which on June 2, 1857 was consecrated according to the same ancient rite by the same Metropolitan Philaret, in the name of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose name was also given to the former Bespopovskaya chapel, converted into the said church. In the iconostasis of the main Assumption Church, the icons remained the same ones that were in this chapel and which, as the story goes, by the founder of the Transfiguration Almshouse, Ilya Alekseevich Kovylin, were replaced and stolen from the Church of St. Anastasia on Neglinnaya, near Kuznetsky Bridge (dismantled in 1793 g.), built by Queen Anastasia, wife of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. For allowing such a substitution, the priests of that church were deprived of their rank, and Kovylin was brought to criminal court, which, due to Kovylin’s infiltrates and bribery, made the following very significant ruling: “Since the main culprits who allowed the theft of the images were punished by the spiritual court, and the accomplice of this kidnapping, Kovylin, disappeared, then this case will be stopped,” and it was stopped. In the altar of this Assumption Church, along the eastern wall, there are very remarkable ancient images that came to the Transfiguration Almshouse from the former Moscow Ozerkovskaya Bespopovskaya Fedoseyevskaya prayer house, and the image of the union of the earthly militant Church of Christ with the heavenly Triumphant Church, located at the southern door, came from the former Moninskaya Bespopovskaya prayer house. During the consecration of the Assumption Church, many said that this event fulfilled and realized the words of Christ the Savior, who promised to found His Church so strong and invincible that the gates of hell would not overcome it, for the internal foundation for this temple was the Shrine, once stolen from the temple of St. Anastasia. This means, let us add to this, everything taken from the holy churches into schismatic hands and their chapels, sooner or later, will have to turn back into the Orthodox Church, because the Holy Place belonging to the church cannot forever remain, according to the word of Holy Scripture, in desolation and abomination.

Establishment of the Nikolsky Edinoverie Monastery

History after 1917

Entrance to the Church of St. St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (west side)

“They moved to it at the beginning of 1930 from the closed church of their own in Tokmakov Lane.” The Old Believers occupied the temple itself, and the refectory again went to the Patriarchate. A blank wall was made between the temple and the refectory; In the Orthodox part, two altars were consecrated: the main one in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker from the north (after which the temple is now called Nikolsky) and another throne in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God from the south. Aleksandrovsky mentions that “the building has ceased to be an Orthodox church.” But if it was closed, it was not for long, because the main interior decoration was preserved.

The Orthodox community, in whose use the St. Nicholas Church (former refectory) is located, has never ceased to exist since April 3, 1854.

In the St. Nicholas chapel of the present Orthodox Church, as in the time of Metropolitan. Philaret, the iconostasis and the altar are decorated with marvelous images of ancient Russian writing. They belong to the brushes of icon painters of the Korsun, Novgorod, Stroganov, Moscow and other schools of the 15th-17th centuries. The iconostasis contains the rarest of the icons of the Mother of God - “Akathist” (XVI century), the ancient image of “Sophia of the Wisdom of God” (XVI or XVII century); Its true decoration is the Royal Doors and the “Last Supper” icon crowning them, which date back to the 15th century.”

The restoration and icon painting workshop “Alexandria” operates on the territory of the temple.

Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery, ex. Nikolsky Edinoverie Monastery, Resurrection Deanery of Moscow (Eastern District)

Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Transfiguration Cemetery (formerly the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

The temple was originally built in 1784 as the Assumption Cathedral Chapel of the Old Believer community of the Fedoseyev persuasion (architect F.K. Sokolov, some sources cite the authorship of V.I. Bazhenov). In 1854, the Old Believer community disintegrated and some of its parishioners accepted the same faith. The Assumption Chapel was transferred to the newly formed St. Nicholas Edinoverie parish. In the refectory part a chapel was created in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

Consecration of the chapel in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker took place on April 16 (3), 1854 - this day is the birthday of the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery. After the addition of the altar apse to the main part of the temple, on June 15 (2), 1857, St. Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow consecrated the main altar in honor of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In 1866, the temple became the cathedral of the Edinoverie St. Nicholas Monastery established under it. What has survived from the monastery buildings are: the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (early 19th century, architect F.K. Sokolov, consecrated in 1854 from an Old Believer chapel), the bell tower (1876-1879, architect A.M. Gornostaev) , cell buildings (1801).

By 1923, the monastery was closed and turned into the home of a radio factory commune, and in the 1930s. its walls were broken. In the first half of the 1920s, the Soviet authorities transferred the temple into the possession of the renovationists. But the Edinoverie community did not liberate the entire temple and remained to exist in the front - Assumption part of the temple. The temple was divided into two parts, so that the main part of the temple with the Assumption throne was separated by a wall from the renovation - the refectory part. In the separated refectory part, in addition to the Nikolsky (left) aisle that existed since the mid-19th century, a new Assumption (right) aisle is being built.

By 1930, the Edinoverie community in the front - Assumption part of the temple practically ceased to exist. And in 1930, in connection with the liquidation of the Novopomorsky community in Tokmakov Lane, the Edinoverie - Assumption part of the temple was transferred by the Soviet authorities to the Old Believers of the Bezpopovsky Novopomorsky persuasion, who occupy it to this day.

Refectory - St. Nicholas part of the church with two chapels belongs to the Orthodox parish. Icons from the 15th-17th centuries have been preserved in the interior.

  • Full name: Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery.
  • Short names among the people: St. Nicholas Church, St. Nicholas Church, St. Nicholas Church, St. Nicholas Church.
  • Affiliation: Voskresensk Deanery of the Eastern Vicariate of Moscow.
  • The rector is Priest Alexy Timakov.
  • Nearest metro station: Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad.
  • In the church at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery you can submit a note of repose, as well as order services - funeral service, memorial service, magpie.

The temple was built at the end of the 18th century as the Old Believer Cathedral Church of the Assumption. In the next century, the Old Believer community split, some of the parishioners accepted the same faith, and in the refectory the Orthodox throne was consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Currently, the front, Assumption part of the temple is occupied by Old Believers of the Bespopovsky Novopomorsky persuasion, and in the refectory there is an Orthodox St. Nicholas Church with two chapels.

Address of the church at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery:

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Location

Confession

Orthodoxy

Moscow

Architectural style

Russian pseudo-gothic

F. K. Sokolov

Base

Start of construction

Completion of construction

State

valid

Renovation period

Famous priests

Currently

55.79125° N. w.- Orthodox Church of the Resurrection Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese.

The temple is located in the Preobrazhenskoye district, Eastern administrative district of Moscow, on the territory of the former St. Nicholas Monastery of Edinoverie. Temple address: st. Preobrazhensky Val, 25.

To the arrival of the Church of St. Nicholas at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery is also attributed to the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Chizhevsky Compound (Nikolskaya Street), services in which are held on Sundays and holidays.

History in the 18th-19th centuries

The temple was originally built in 1784-1790 in the pseudo-Gothic style as the Assumption Cathedral Chapel of the Old Believer community of the Fedoseyev persuasion. The architect of the cathedral was previously supposedly considered to be V.I. Bazhenov, but according to the latest, most reliable research, the project was F.K. Sokolov.

“The stone one-domed church with a low bell tower above the western porch was built from the former Bespopovshchina Fedoseevsky men's main chapel, called the cathedral chapel. It was built according to the type of the Tsaritsyn palace and named Uspenskaya. It was built by Kovylin. The temple contains many ancient icons from Novgorod, Korsun, Stroganov, Moscow and other letters, valued at tens of thousands of rubles.”

In the early 1850s, Emperor Nicholas I began to fight sectarians and schismatics. At this time, the Old Believers community at the Preobrazhenskoe cemetery fell into disgrace and an investigation began, after which the Preobrazhensk Old Believers were charged with treason because:

In 1812, the Preobrazhensky Old Believers joyfully greeted Napoleon and helped him organize the issuance of counterfeit Russian money, thereby undermining the Russian financial system;

And also in the building of the Preobrazhensky Almshouse, a caricature of the Russian emperor was found, where he “was depicted in a picture hanging in the chapel, in His face and robe with horns on his head, a tail behind him and with an inscription on his forehead 666, meaning the Antichrist.”

For this reason, some of the community leaders were sent into exile from Moscow. Many other Old Believers accepted Edinoverie. More than 50, mostly merchant, families of Old Believers joined Edinoverie, writing a letter of petition addressed to the emperor (although most of the Old Believers remained with their Fedoseyev faith).

Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich, zealous for Orthodoxy, wished to bring the light of Orthodoxy to the most important places of schism, from which it spread throughout Russia, by opening Orthodox churches in them, among which he appointed to open one in the men's department of the Transfiguration Almshouse. But at the beginning of 1854, some of the most important, non-priest parishioners of the Preobrazhensky Almshouse, such as: the Guchkovs, Nosovs, Gusarevs, Bavykin, Osipov and others, expressed a desire to join Edinoverie in order to build a Edinoverie church from the mentioned prayer house in the men's department of this House , to which the Highest Imperial command followed, to the satisfaction of their desires. And the desire of those who turned to Edinoverie to establish a Edinoverie Church here was all the more natural since the rites of Edinoverie Divine services are similar to the Old Believers' worship, to which those who joined were accustomed, and therefore their transition from the schism to the Orthodox Church became invisible to them.

In 1854-1857, the temple was rebuilt according to the design of the architect A. O. Vivien. In the refectory part a chapel was created in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

April 3, 1854 St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, consecrated the chapel in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - this day is his birthday Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the Preobrazhenskoye Cemetery.

Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (formerly Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

After the addition of the altar apse to the main part of the temple, on June 2, 1857, St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow consecrated the main (eastern) altar in honor of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

“The temple is cold, built according to the plan and facade of the Tsaritsyn palace and consecrated in 1857 by Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, who was wearing an ancient omophorion, the panagia of the first All-Russian Metropolitan Macarius and an ancient miter, with the staff of Moscow Saint Alexy.”

Then began the construction of a stone altar for the main church to the former Assumption Chapel, which on June 2, 1857 was consecrated according to the same ancient rite by the same Metropolitan Philaret, in the name of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, after whom the former Bespopovskaya chapel, converted into the said church, was also named. In the iconostasis of the main Assumption Church, the icons remained the same ones that were in this chapel and which, as the story goes, by the founder of the Transfiguration Almshouse, Ilya Alekseevich Kovylin, were replaced and stolen from the Church of St. Anastasia on Neglinnaya, near Kuznetsky Bridge (dismantled in 1793 g.), built by Queen Anastasia, wife of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. For allowing such a substitution, the priests of that church were deprived of their rank, and Kovylin was brought to criminal court, which, due to Kovylin’s infiltrates and bribery, made the following very significant ruling: “Since the main culprits who allowed the theft of the images were punished by the spiritual court, and the accomplice of this kidnapping, Kovylin, disappeared, then this case will be stopped,” and it was stopped. In the altar of this Assumption Church, along the eastern wall, there are very remarkable ancient images that came to the Transfiguration Almshouse from the former Moscow Ozerkovskaya Bespopovskaya Fedoseyevskaya prayer house, and the image of the union of the earthly militant Church of Christ with the heavenly Triumphant Church, located at the southern door, came from the former Moninskaya Bespopovskaya prayer house. During the consecration of the Assumption Church, many said that this event fulfilled and realized the words of Christ the Savior, who promised to found His Church so strong and invincible that the gates of hell would not overcome it.

Establishment of the Nikolsky Edinoverie Monastery

In 1866, the temple became the cathedral of the Edinoverie St. Nicholas Monastery established under it. From the monastery buildings, except for the Church of St. Nicholas also preserved: the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross (early 19th century, architect F.K. Sokolov, consecrated in 1854 from an Old Believer chapel), the bell tower (1876-1879, architect M.K. Geppener), cell buildings (1801) .

History after 1917

By 1923, the monastery was completely closed, and most of the buildings were turned into a commune house (dormitory) for the Radio factory, and in the 1930s, most of the walls of the monastery were broken down. In the first half of the 1920s (during times of church unrest and schisms), the Soviet authorities transferred the temple into the possession of the renovationists. But the Edinoverie community did not liberate the entire temple and remained to exist in the front (eastern) - Assumption part of the temple. The temple was divided into two parts by a brick wall, so that the main (eastern) part of the temple with the Assumption throne was separated from the St. Nicholas (western) renovation - refectory part.

The Renovation community existed in the refectory part of the temple until approximately the mid-1940s. One of the last renovationist abbots was Bishop Anatoly Filimonov (1880-1942). Then the refectory part of the temple was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Around 1930, in the separated St. Nicholas refectory part of the temple, in addition to the St. Nicholas (northern) throne that had existed since 1854, a new Assumption (southern) throne was built. A small iconostasis for which was brought from a certain temple closed by the communist authorities. Also, at the top along the entire eastern wall of the refectory, a new iconostasis was built and filled with tall ancient icons from the iconostasis of one of the cathedrals destroyed on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin.

By the end of the 1920s, the Edinoverie community in the Assumption (eastern) part of the temple ceased to exist. At the same time, the Moscow community of Old Believers-bespopovtsy of the Pomeranian consent in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ and the Intercession of the Virgin Mary, in Tokmakov Lane, was liquidated. But after an intense petition from the Old Believers from this liquidated Tokmakov community, the Soviet authorities decide to transfer the vacated Assumption (eastern) part of the temple for use by the Old Believers of the Bespopov Pomeranian persuasion, who occupy it to this day, although the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Tokmakov Lane was returned to the community of Old Believers of the Bespopov Pomeranian persuasion at the beginning 1990s.

“In the St. Nicholas chapel of the present Orthodox Church, as in the time of Metropolitan. Philaret, the iconostasis and the altar are decorated with marvelous images of ancient Russian writing. They belong to the brushes of icon painters of the Korsun, Novgorod, Stroganov, Moscow and other schools of the 15th-17th centuries. The iconostasis contains the rarest of the icons of the Mother of God - “Akathist” (XVI century), the ancient image of “Sophia of the Wisdom of God” (XVI or XVII century); Its true decoration is the Royal Doors and the “Last Supper” icon crowning them, which date back to the 15th century.”

The restoration and icon painting workshop “Alexandria” operates on the territory of the temple.

Old Believer Assumption (eastern) part of the temple

The Old Believer Assumption Prayer House, located in the eastern part of the temple, belongs to the Pomeranian Concord and is its center in Moscow. In 1990, there was an interesting notice on the doors of the Old Believer part: “Attention. Old Believer Church!!! Persons who are drunk, indecent or immodest, wearing hats, and women without headscarves or wearing trousers are not allowed to enter. Non-believers are not allowed to enter the temple during worship and pray and are forbidden by the holy fathers. The Patriarchal Church is around the corner to the right.” The entrance to the Orthodox part is from the west, to the Old Believer part - from the north. Both churches have preserved a large number of ancient icons. The Pomeranian Old Believers also do not have a priesthood or liturgy, so the former altar (apse) that exists in their part is used as a baptismal sanctuary.

Ministry of Father Dimitry Dudko

The translation of the word “edinoverticheskiy” into English for the name of the St. Nicholas Monastery literally means “dissident”; In this regard, the following coincidence can be noted - since 1963, St. Nicholas Church has become the site of the widely publicized ministry of Father Dimitry Dudko, who, after the sermon, answered questions from those present related to their spiritual problems. These conversations have been published. They attracted so much attention that it was difficult to get into the temple, which could only accommodate a small number of people. Unfortunately, in 1974, Father Dimitry Dudko was transferred to a parish near Moscow in the village of Kabanovo, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district.

Thrones of the Temple

  • St. Nicholas of Myra (northern),
  • Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary (south).

Temple shrines

  • An exact list of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” from the Seraphim-Ponetaevsky Monastery;
  • An exact list of the miraculous Tolga Icon of the Mother of God;
  • Revered icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”;
  • Revered Kazan Icon of the Mother of God;
  • Several icons of St. Nicholas of Myra (including an icon with relics);
  • Martyr icon. Boniface.

Clergy

In past

  • priest Vasily Petrovich Orlov (1870-†) - spiritual writer, rector in the 1920s;

Renovation period

  • Bishop Anatoly Filimonov (1880-1942) - rector until 1942;

Abbots after the return of the Russian Orthodox Church temple

  • Archpriest Nikolai Nikolaevich Sinkovsky (1888-1955) - rector until 1955;
  • Archpriest Vasily Vasilyevich Studenov (1902-1981) - rector until 1973;
  • Archpriest Vadim Yakovlevich Grishin (1929-1987) - rector in 1974-1981;

Famous priests

  • Archpriest Dimitry Dudko (1921-2004) - served in the church in 1962-1974;
  • Archpriest Vladimir Vorobyov (b. 1941) - served in the church in 1979-1984;

Currently

  • Archpriest Leonid Kuzminov - rector since 1981 (also acting rector of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Chizhevsky Metochion);
  • Archpriest Vladimir Klyuev;
  • Archpriest Sergiy Kodintsev;
  • Priest Mark Blankfelds;
  • Priest Boris Zykunov.
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