Pilgrimage to the Holy Vvedensky Island Convent

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55.924603; 39.124972

Russia, Vladimir region, Petushinsky district, Pokrov, Vvedensky village

Pokrov, Vladimir region

Russia

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Pokrovskaya Svyato-Vvedenskaya Island Hermitage

(St. Vvedensky Island Monastery) is an Orthodox women's (formerly men's) monastery. Metochion of the Alexander Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Located on an island in the middle of Vyatskoye (now Vvedenskoye) Lake.

History[edit]

The emergence of the Vvedenskaya monastery is associated with the abolition at the beginning of the 18th century. Anthony's Hermitage, like a small monastery, around which the settlement of Pokrov has already formed. The monks of the Anthony Hermitage, Sergius and Timofey, retired to the island of Lake Vyatka and built a wooden chapel and cell there. So in 1708 the Holy Vvedensky Island Monastery was founded. Rumors about the new desert spread throughout the area, attracting those who wanted to become its inhabitants. Very soon the island brethren multiplied so much that it was decided to ask Peter I for permission to build their own temple on the island. In 1710, a beautiful wooden church was erected from a forest cut down here on the island, consecrated in the name of the Entry of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the temple.

The chapel originally built by Sergius and Timofey was moved from the island to the Vladimirsky tract and used to collect donations for the maintenance of the monastery. The chapel brought in little income, was plundered several times and was dismantled in the early 1740s. In the second half of the 18th century. The stone chapel was restored, which was moved in the 1880s following the displacement of the Vladimir Highway. A one-story brick house for novice monks was built near it. Until 1918, on Elijah’s day, monks made a religious procession from the desert to the chapel.

During the first half of the 18th century. The Vvedensky Monastery constantly experienced difficulties with paying taxes and even lost its independence. The spiritual flourishing of the monastery is associated with the arrival of Elder Cleopas, famous for his ascetic activities, from distant Athos in 1760, who was elected by the brethren himself as abbot of the Vvedenskaya Ostrovskaya hermitage. The Monk Cleopas was famous for his foresight (for example, he predicted the exact date of his death) and the gift of healing. The elder was known even in Moscow as a true monk and Christian, and the hermitage existed at that time mainly due to the contributions of rich and eminent Muscovites. It was under Cleopas that stone churches were built in the monastery - Vvedensky and Nikolsky. In addition, Elder Cleopas ordered the construction of a spacious house with a mezzanine and a courtyard with stables and a barn on the shore of the lake for visiting pilgrims, who were transported by boat to the island by the monks.

The Vvedenskaya island hermitage was often visited by the nobles Prozorovsky, Nesvitsky and others living in the neighborhood. Many representatives of these noble families were buried in the cathedral church of the monastery.

After the death of Elder Cleopas in 1778, his burial place in the Vvedenskaya Hermitage began to be especially revered by the residents of Pokrov and surrounding settlements. Even in the Soviet years, when a women’s colony for minors was set up on the territory of the Vvedenskaya Hermitage, pilgrims sought to get to the island, breaking through the cordons to venerate the grave of Elder Cleopas, canonized as a locally revered saint. The relics of the elder are considered a shrine of the currently active women's Vvedenskaya island desert.

An important shrine of the monastery was also the icon of the Presentation of the Mother of God, through whose intercession, according to legend, in 1863 the residents of the city of Pokrov miraculously got rid of cholera. The acts of spiritual ascetics and Orthodox shrines of the Vvedenskaya island desert attracted believers and philanthropists.

In the 1870s, the winter church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was rebuilt and expanded in the monastery. In 1891-1894. the former Vvedensky Church was replaced by a new one, made of red brick, also with five domes. The iconostasis was silvered and gilded, and the cathedral walls were painted with images of “Greek writing”. A bell tower was built at the Vvedensky Church (it has not survived today), brick cell buildings, a rector’s building and a fence were erected along the perimeter of the island. The list of donors for reconstruction and new construction within the Vvedenskaya Hermitage included the industrialists Morozovs.

In 1918, the monastery was closed and its property was nationalized. On its territory there were juvenile correctional facilities. The domes and under-dome drums of the monastery churches were cut down.

In 1994, the Holy Vvedenskaya Island Hermitage was transferred to the Vladimir-Suzdal diocese and today operates as a convent. The abbess of the monastery, Abbess Fevronia, and her sisters are making considerable efforts to revive the monastery. The first to be restored was the St. Nicholas Church, its painting and iconostasis. The Vvedensky Cathedral is also being restored.

How to get there

Address: Vladimir region, Petushinsky district, Pokrov, Vvedenskoye village

Coordinates: 55.925713, 39.119875

From Kursky Station in Moscow, take the train to Pokrov station, then take the city bus “Pokrov-Vvedenskoye” to the final stop.

By car from Moscow you need to follow the M-7 highway to Pokrov. The route passes through the city center. Before reaching it, turn left onto Belozerskaya Street and follow it through the village to the lake.

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Current state[edit]

At the revived monastery there is an Orthodox boarding house “Ark” for minor children left without care. On September 1, 2009, the first school year for twelve girls began there. Children are taught by teachers according to the primary school curriculum, as well as a choirmaster, choreographer, and piano teacher. Nuns teach embroidery to pupils. Children participate in divine services, older girls sing in the monastery choir.

The nuns run a gold-embroidery workshop, make church utensils and restore old icons. Pilgrims and sightseers are invited to the monastery refectory, located on the terrace above the waters of the lake.

Children's shelter-boarding house "Ark"

In 2007, on the shores of Lake Vvedenskoye, with the blessing of Mother Superior Fevronia, the Kovcheg children's shelter was built for girls of all ages who are in difficult life situations. These are girls left without parental care, from low-income families, and homeless. Mothers and their children also live here. The brick building of the shelter is designed for 50 people.

The girls in the orphanage study, sing and dance, help the nuns in the kitchen, the monastery cowshed, the garden, and also learn the art of gold embroidery.

Superiors and Abbesses

St. Varlaam (1360 - ca. 1375)

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Theodosius (1551)
Dionysius (1551 - 1559)

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Barsanuphius (1572 - 1580)

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Sergius (1584 - 1593)

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Vassian (Ladyzhensky) (1598 - 1599)

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Pimen (mentioned 1607)
Savvaty
Joseph (mentioned 1614)

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Kirill (1618 - 1625)

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Thomas (1628 - 1629)
Theodosius (1629 - 1633)
Jonah (1634 - 1647)
Stephen (1649-1650)

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Macarius (1653 - 1656)
Gerasim (1656 - 1661)
Ignatius (1661 - 1683)
David (1683 - 1686)
Alexander (1686 - 1691)
Reuben (1691 - 1697)
Simeon (1697 - 1720)
Pavel (1721 - 1724)

1724 - 1727 - assigned to the Moscow Zaikonospassky Monastery

Lawrence (1727 - 1729)
John (1729 - 1740)
Ambrose (1740 - 1743)
Feofan (Charnutsky) (1743-1744)
Theophilus (1744 - 1749)
Barsanuphius (1749 - 1750)
Joseph (Golden) (November 20, 1750 - July 30, 1755)
Simeon (1755 - 1765)
Gerasim (1765 - 1769)
Andrey (1770 - 1771)
Ezekiel (1771 - 1775)
Nicholas (1775 - 1779)
Anthony (1779 - 1780)
Joseph (1780 - 1784)
Joasaph (1785 - 1786)
Alexander (1786 - 1789)
Jonah (1789-1790)
Theodore (1791 - 1805)
Jonah (1805 - 1806)

1806 - transformation into a nunnery

Dionysius (1806 - 1815)
Rachel (1815 - 1817)
Margarita (1817 - 1827)
Nadezhda (1827 - 1829)
Palladia (Shuiskaya) (1829 - 1830)
Nazareth (Yumatova) (1830 - 1848)
Ilaria (1848 - 1854)
Anastasia (1854 - 1855)
Flora (1856 - 1861)
Mitrophania (Rosen) (1861 - 1874)

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Maria (mentioned 1878)

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Valentina (Lentoshnikova) (1908 - 1919)

1919 - May 1995 - the monastery was closed

Alexia (Petrova) (from May 5, 1995)

To date, several buildings have been restored and erected on the territory of the monastery

Parishioners and benefactors restored the Church of the Presentation. Several two-story buildings were erected near the temple, as well as a bell tower with a belfry.

The monastery has its own sister choir

The monastery also has several farmsteads. The first is Preobrazhenskoe. The destroyed temple has been restored, services are ongoing.

On the territory of the monastery, where the land is, where the nuns plant crops

The second courtyard is Pokrovskoye.

On the territory of the Pokrovsky Metochion there is a cemetery where clergy and sisters of the monastery are buried

The third courtyard is called Sergius Hermitage in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh.

Clergy and altar servers live on site

Currently the monastery has a website on the Internet

The Vvedensky Monastery has its own official website.

Here you can learn a lot: about the history of the monastery, about its abbot, about sister choirs, about the news that is happening at the moment.

Official website of the Vvedensky Convent

The site is very easy to use. Also, if someone wants to visit this place, there are coordinates where you can get there: the city of Ivanovo, Basic Street, 23.

If you have any questions, the website also has a telephone number: 8(4932)-37-43-91, which you can call or write an email to:

A very interesting film about the monastery is narrated by the sister of the monastery. And also about what happened on the site of the monastery and how the monastery lives now, Father Ambrose himself tells:

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Archimandrite Ambrose Yurasov - confessor of the monastery

Yurasov Alexander Ignatievich was born on September 10, 1938, in the village of Ogni, Altai Territory. Alexander was born into a fairly large peasant family.

Archimandrite Ambrose wrote a lot of Orthodox literature

In 1965 he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary. Graduated in 1975 with a PhD in Theology.

December 6, 1968

on this day Yurasov Alexander Ignatievich was tonsured a monk, receiving the name Ambrose

Then on December 6, 1968, in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, he was tonsured a monk. And already on December 19 of the same year he was ordained as a hierodeacon.

May 21, 1969 in hieromonk. At this time he served in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. With the blessing of his confessor, in 1976 he was transferred to the Pochaev Lavra and elevated to the rank of abbot.

In connection with the expected closure of the Lavra and the eviction of the brethren, with the blessing of 1981, he lived in the Caucasus Mountains. Wherever he had to be. Then he lived in Biysk, Barnaul, Alma-Ata, Chimkent, Tashkent, Dzhambay and Dzhambul.

In August 1983, Bishop of Ivanovo, Ambrose, was appointed rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the village of Zharki, Yuryevets district.

In November 1985 he was transferred to the Church of the Nativity of Christ in the village of Krasnoe near the village of Palekh.

1990

In the spring of this year, Ambrose was appointed rector of the Vvedensky Church

Since December 1986, he served in the rank of archimandrite in the Transfiguration Church in Ivanovo. In the spring of 1990, on the initiative of Ambrose, he was returned to the Vvedensky Church in Ivanovo. Here he was appointed rector.

Ambrose has also been the editor of the monastery newspaper since 1995. "A word of comfort."

In the newspaper “Word of Consolation” Ambrose very often answered people’s questions and helped them with advice

And since 1988, Ambrose has become the confessor of the Radonezh society. You can listen to all the radio recordings of Father Ambrose on the website book-audio.com.

Radonezh is a Moscow Orthodox radio station that has been broadcasting since 1991 and exists on donations from its listeners. At that time, he became a regular participant in radio programs.

On the website book-audio.com you can listen to radio recordings of Father Ambrose

Since 1996, he was appointed responsible for the spiritual feeding of those under investigation and those convicted in the Ivanovo diocese. At the beginning of 2006, Ambrose was appointed rector of the Ascension Cathedral under construction in Ivanovo.