Where is the Novo Tikhvin Convent located? Novotikhvinsky Monastery of Yekaterinburg: photo, directions

Novo-Tikhvin Monastery, 1st class, in the city of Yekaterinburg, Perm province. Founded in 1799 under the name of a women's community, in 1809 it was renamed a cenobitic monastery. It contains especially revered icons Mother of God— Joy and Tikhvinskaya to all who mourn. At the monastery there has been an orphanage since 1866, a school, an almshouse for old women, a hospice house, a candle factory and 18 handicraft establishments and workshops, of which the most extensive are gold embroidery, icon painting, and painting. The monastery owns 2 farms: Elizavetsky, 10 versts, and Bulzinsky, 90 versts from the monastery.

From the book by S.V. Bulgakov "Russian monasteries in 1913"

Gorno-Uralsky (Alexandro-Nevsky) Novo-Tikhvinsky convent- one of the largest in the Urals. It is located almost in the very center of Yekaterinburg, in the area of ​​Green Grove Park, Dekabristov Street, Universitetsky Lane and Narodnaya Volya Street.

The monastery was founded in 1796. Then, at the Assumption Church, built by the merchant Khlepetin Ivan Ivanovich, at the newly opened Yekaterinburg cemetery, an almshouse was formed. In 1799, it transformed into a women's community and was accepted under the patronage of the spiritual leadership. The community was headed by the daughter of an artisan at the Verkh-Isetsky plant, Tatyana Kostromina (Mitrofanova), whose husband died in military service.

The community lived according to the charter of the Sarov communal hermitage, which Kostromina received from the builder of the hermitage, Hieromonk Isaiah, in 1802. In 1807, with the support of local merchants Kalashnikov, Martynov, and the tradesman Bronnikov, who promised to build a church in honor of Emperor Alexander I and his guardian angel Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky, Tatyana went to St. Petersburg to the emperor himself and the Holy Synod with a request for permission to transform the community into a women's community. monastery. It took Kostromina two years to obtain permission. Finally, on December 31, 1809, the Holy Synod approved the Ekaterinburg Novo-Tikhvin three-class convent. Tatiana herself became a nun in 1811 in the St. Petersburg Resurrection Monastery, took the name Taisiya and became the first abbess of the newly established monastery. Taisiya received from Novgorod Sofia cathedral 25 particles of holy relics, which, after the consecration of the rite of consecration of water in the St. Petersburg Peter and Paul Cathedral, were placed in a specially prepared image and sent to Yekaterinburg with the icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God. Upon the arrival of the icon at the monastery, a celebration was held with a religious procession around the monastery and through the streets of the city, which became a tradition.

In 1822, the monastery was renamed the Gorno-Ural Novo-Tikhvin Monastery of the first class, in Yekaterinburg. Perm Bishop Justin said: “And the Ural Mountain, abounding in gold, copper and iron mines, as well as precious colored stones and precious different breeds with fossil works it especially enriches and supports the well-being, greatness and glory of our fatherland. On this mountain, the towering city of Yekaterinburg encloses itself, as it were, as a gateway to the rich and hitherto obscure Siberia. It will be worthy and righteous throughout the entire Ural Mountain as a sign of thanksgiving to our God in honor and glory Holy Mother of God and the Ever-Virgin Mary to restore the designated wasteland into a first-class monastery with the name: Gorno-Uralsky Novo-Tikhvinsky nunnery. Let every Russian, entering and passing through these gates to the country of Siberia, look at this holy monastery as if it were a monument erected.”

Throughout its existence, before becoming Soviet power, the monastery flourished and developed. The number of people living in the monastery was constantly growing. So, by 1917 their number reached 911 people, and the monastery was one of the three largest in Russia. At first, the nuns provided their livelihood by handicrafts and caring for the sick. After some time, a candle factory appeared in the monastery, which became a monopolist and provided all the churches of the Yekaterinburg diocese with candle products. Painting and icon painting workshops, an enamel workshop, a wood carving workshop, a bookbinding workshop, a shoe workshop, a gold embroidery workshop and some other local industries appeared here. Some of the nuns were engaged in farming on a farm in the village of Elizavet (currently the Elizavet microdistrict). At the monastery there was an almshouse for the elderly and an orphanage, a hospital, and a school for teaching children literacy and handicrafts. By the middle of the 19th century, a school was opened here, mainly for the children of the clergy.

From 1914 to 1917, the monastery housed a hospital for the wounded and a women's educational institution for 400 people. After the October Revolution, the monastery was constantly attacked by the authorities: searches were carried out under the pretext that the property of the bourgeoisie was stored in the monastery.

In December 1919, the Gorno-Uralsky Novo-Tikhvin Convent was closed, the nuns were sent to work at a factory in Kasli, and Abbess Khaitia was shot. In 1920, the liquidation of the monastery was officially announced. After the premises were cleared of nuns, dormitories for the newly created Ural University began to be located here. However, subsequently the monastery buildings were transferred to the military department. The remaining churches were gradually closed - Feodosievskaya, All Saints, Vvedenskaya. The Tikhvin religious community was formed by parishioners of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the Assumption Church. In 1926, the military command decided to close the Assumption Church and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. But thanks to the efforts of Archbishop Gregory Yatskovsky, the cathedral operated until 1930, when it was finally closed. After some time, the monastery cemetery was destroyed along with tombstones, some of them were considered works of stone carving and foundry art. After some time, the military men who occupied the premises were already former monastery, were transported to the barracks, and the district military hospital was located in their place. In 1961, the building of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was transferred to the local history museum.

Since 1991, active efforts began to return the monastery to believers and the diocese. By 1994, the cathedral was freed from museum exhibits and transferred to the diocese. Currently, the Alexander Nevsky Church, the Sorrow Church, and some other service premises have been completely restored, with plans for the restoration of the Assumption Church.

Assumption Church

The Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the Assumption Church, is the oldest surviving church in the city of Yekaterinburg. It was founded on the site of an old wooden one on May 16, 1778 and was a cemetery church. The main chapel is consecrated in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God, the left one - in the name of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, the right one - John the Baptist. The temple was consecrated on May 31, 1882 and church services It was open until July 7, 1921, when it was closed by order of local authorities. For a long time The church premises served as a canteen at the hospital. Demolished in April 2017.

All Saints Church

Initially, blessed Andrei and Vasily, revered by the local inhabitants, were buried at this place. Later, a chapel appeared here, which from 1817 to 1822 was rebuilt into a single-altar church. It stood until the end of the century, after which it was dismantled. And in 1900, at the expense of M.I. Ivanov, it was rebuilt in a new look. It is noteworthy that the temple did not have a bell tower and is the only church in the city built in the Byzantine style. The temple building was connected to a two-story residential building, on the first floor of which there was an almshouse for 80 people, and on the second a hospital with 20 beds.

Church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”, or the Sorrow Church was founded in 1823, consecrated on November 2, 1832. The temple building was attached to the complex of cells from the north. In Soviet times, the church partially lost its historical appearance, the dome was lost, and the interior was partially rebuilt. Currently, the Church of the Sorrows with its cells has been completely restored.

Vvedenskaya Church

The Church in honor of the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or the Entry Church, is a gateway single-altar church. It was founded in 1823, but consecrated only in the summer of 1865. The temple building was connected with the Assumption Church by extensions. IN Soviet time Instead of a dome, a superstructure appeared on the roof with loopholes like a fortress, so that in case of defense, machine-gun fire could be fired from there. Until recently, the church premises housed a conference room. Currently, there is a project and work has begun to restore the temple, the superstructure has already been dismantled.

St. Theodosius Church

Church in honor of St. Theodosius of Totem, or St. Theodosius Church. Its construction began in 1823 and was consecrated in 1866. From 1837 to 1916 it was the house church of the Yekaterinburg Diocesan Women's School, located nearby. Nowadays, the building has been transferred to the diocese, but restoration work has not yet been carried out.

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Cathedral in the name of the Holy Blessed and Prince Equal to the Apostles Alexander Nevsky, also called Alexander or Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The temple was founded on August 22, 1814 by merchants Kalashnikov, Martynov, and tradesman Bronnikov in memory of the end Patriotic War 1812 and in honor of Emperor Alexander I and his Guardian Angel - Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky. Its construction was delayed for long years. The original project was unsuccessful. According to some reports, a large dome of the existing temple collapsed; after some time it was restored. According to other sources, the unfinished temple was partially dismantled and rebuilt again in 1838. It is also possible that initially the cathedral building was small, but due to the fact that the monastery was rapidly developing, it was necessary to expand the premises of the temple. The first architect of the temple was probably the well-known M. P. Malakhov, according to whose designs several buildings had already been built in the city. The new project was led by Visconti and Charlemagne. The main aisle of the new church was consecrated in 1852, the left one - Nikolsky in 1853, the right - Voskresensky in 1854. It was the largest cathedral in the city at that time, it could accommodate up to 6,000 people. On the territory of the monastery complex in the 19th century there was a holy spring, which was located next to the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. Old photographs show a rotunda built above it, but, apparently, it “did not survive to this day.” After the return of the cathedral to the diocese in 1991, its gradual restoration began. Re-consecrated the temple His Holiness Patriarch Moscow and All Rus' Kirill May 19, 2013.

Chapel of the Transfiguration at the Hospice House

The chapel was built around 1820. On the side of Aleksandrovsky Prospekt (now Dekabristov Street) a cell was attached to it. On the side of Uktusskaya Street (now 8th March Street) a two-story house is attached to the chapel - a hotel for pilgrims. After the closure of the monastery, the chapel building lost its dome and cross. For some time, in the premises of the hospice house and chapel there was grocery store. After which the Russian traveler and explorer G. E. Grumm-Grzhimailo lived here for some time, and during the Second World War, correspondent and writer A. A. Karavaeva. During the years of perestroika, the house was emptied of residents and was occupied by the Institute of Philosophy and Law, and administration offices were located in the chapel itself and on the second floor.

The restoration of the Novo-Tikhvin Convent continues, part of the restoration was carried out at the expense of parishioners, part of the funding comes from the federal budget. Judging by the richest external and interior decoration cathedral (stunning interior paintings, intricate carved patterns on entrance doors and window frames, marble brought from Italy, unique cross the main dome of the cathedral, glowing at night, gilded domes and capitals) enormous amounts of money are spent on repairs.

Diocesan School

Currently, the Yekaterinburg Assembly College is located in the building of the diocesan school. The new building of the Diocesan School, now the second building of the Mining University, in one of the classrooms of which frescoes on the vaults are still preserved. The Church of St. Catherine the Great Martyr is located here. Honor and praise to the rector of the Mining University - Nikolai Petrovich Kosarev, he returned the church to its historical appearance. Under his leadership, the “Temple of the Miners,” or the church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, was also restored.

The monastery also owns a courtyard in honor of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos in the Elizavet microdistrict. The Chapel of Alexander Nevsky, located in the Dendrological Park, built in 1890, was also transferred to the jurisdiction of the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery.

The Novo-Tikhvin monastery was visited by Emperor Alexander I himself in 1824, by the heir to the throne Alexander II in 1848, and by Princess Elizaveta Feodorovna in 1914.

The article used materials from the book by S. I. Voroshilin “Temples of Yekaterinburg”. https://phateev.ru/2014/11/novo-tixvinskij-monastyr/

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The Alexander Nevsky Novo-Tikhvin Convent in Yekaterinburg opened at the end of the 18th century and traces its history back to the Church of the Assumption at the cemetery. There was an almshouse and a women's community attached to it, which in 1809 turned into a monastery. Over the course of half a century, the monastery grew, becoming one of the largest in the Urals. People came here from all over the region in order to pray to the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, the original of which was painted, according to legend, by the Apostle Luke himself. Even Russian emperors came to the monastery.

By the time of the revolution, the monastery had six churches, many workshops, charitable institutions, a bakery, and a hospital. The monastery, where approximately 1,000 women lived permanently, grew so large that its territory, fenced with a fortified wall, occupied almost 10% of the entire territory of the then city.

Over the course of half a century, the monastery grew, becoming one of the largest in the Urals. People came here from all over the region in order to pray to the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God.

After the establishment of Soviet power, the monastery was closed, the buildings were partially destroyed and partially remodeled. The monastery was officially revived only in 1994. Currently, the reconstruction of the monastery buildings continues, but its main temple, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, has already been restored and consecrated in 2013.

The cathedral, founded in 1838, was an excellent example classical architecture. Construction took 10 years, and the result was an incredibly harmonious building with semicircular domes and a bell tower with a tall thin spire, reminiscent of classical St. Petersburg churches. During the Great Patriotic War, the cathedral was used as an arsenal and was significantly rebuilt for these purposes.

The famous pioneer of Russian color photography, Prokudin-Gorsky, while in Yekaterinburg, took a lot of pictures of monastery buildings and in particular the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. Today, based on these photographs, one can get an idea of ​​how harmonious and beautiful this place was.

Alexander Nevsky Novo-Tikhvin Convent

List from St. The Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, which was lost without a trace in the post-revolutionary years, can be seen in the monastery today. In 2008, the nuns of the monastery rewrote the icon, and subsequently it was consecrated in Tikhvin. The icon was brought back in a solemn religious procession.

Other shrines of the monastery are particles of the relics of St. patron Alexander Nevsky and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Also in the monastery are kept particles of the relics of the Kiev-Pechersk saints, the relics of 25 saints of God, St. Cyprian and Ustina, Venerable Mary of Egypt, as well as an icon with particles of the relics of Fyodor Ushakov.

In 1918 she was imprisoned in the monastery Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna, later killed and canonized.

Currently, the monastery functions as before. On its territory there are many workshops: sewing, icon painting, publishing, singing class, library - in which most of the sisters work. As before the revolution, the monastery produces, among other things, souvenirs: lace, woven and wood carved items, and painted porcelain dishes. The sisters work together with local craftsmen, and the results of their labors can be bought in the monastery shop.

Practical information

Address: st. Green Grove, 1.

The monastery is located on the border of the Green Grove park. It can be reached on foot from the nearest tram stop “Ulitsa Dekabristov / Ulitsa 8 Martha” in about five minutes.

Gorno-Uralsky (Alexandro-Nevsky) Novo-Tikhvinsky convent is one of the largest in the Urals. It is located almost in the very center of Yekaterinburg, in the area of ​​Green Grove Park, Dekabristov Street, Universitetsky Lane and Narodnaya Volya Street. The monastery was founded in 1796. Then, at the Assumption Church, built by the merchant Khlepetin Ivan Ivanovich, at the newly opened Yekaterinburg cemetery, an almshouse was formed. In 1799, it transformed into a women's community and was accepted under the patronage of the spiritual leadership. The community was headed by the daughter of an artisan at the Verkh-Isetsky plant, Tatyana Kostromina (Mitrofanova), whose husband died in military service. The community lived according to the charter of the Sarov communal hermitage, which Kostromina received from the builder of the hermitage, Hieromonk Isaiah, in 1802. In 1807, with the support of local merchants Kalashnikov, Martynov, and the tradesman Bronnikov, who promised to build a church in honor of Emperor Alexander I and his guardian angel Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky, Tatyana went to St. Petersburg to the emperor himself and the Holy Synod with a request for permission to transform the community into a women's community. monastery. It took Kostromina two years to obtain permission. Finally, on December 31, 1809, the Holy Synod approved the Ekaterinburg Novo-Tikhvin three-class convent. Tatiana herself became a nun in 1811 in the St. Petersburg Resurrection Monastery, took the name Taisiya and became the first abbess of the newly established monastery. Taisiya received from the Novgorod St. Sophia Cathedral 25 particles of holy relics, which, after the consecration of the rite of blessing of water in the St. Petersburg Peter and Paul Cathedral, were placed in a specially prepared image and sent to Yekaterinburg with the icon of the Tikhvin Mother of God. Upon the arrival of the icon at the monastery, a celebration was held with a religious procession around the monastery and through the streets of the city, which became a tradition.
In 1822, the monastery was renamed the Gorno-Ural Novo-Tikhvin Monastery of the first class, in Yekaterinburg. Perm Bishop Justin said: “And the Ural Mountain, replete with gold, copper and iron mines, as well as precious colored stones and precious minerals of various types, especially enriches and supports the well-being, greatness and glory of our fatherland. On this mountain, the towering city of Yekaterinburg encloses itself, as it were, as a gateway to the rich and hitherto obscure Siberia. It will be worthy and right throughout the entire mountain of the Urals, as a sign of thanksgiving to our God in honor and glory of the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, to restore the said wasteland into a first-class monastery with the name of that: Gorno-Uralsky Novo-Tikhvinsky nunnery. Let every Russian, entering and passing through these gates to the country of Siberia, look at this holy monastery as if it were a monument erected.”
Throughout its existence, until the establishment of Soviet power, the monastery flourished and developed. The number of people living in the monastery was constantly growing, so by 1917 their number reached 911 people, and the monastery was one of the three largest in Russia. At first, the nuns provided their livelihood by handicrafts and caring for the sick. After some time, a candle factory appeared in the monastery, which became a monopolist and provided all the churches of the Yekaterinburg diocese with candle products. Painting and icon painting workshops, an enamel workshop, a wood carving workshop, a bookbinding workshop, a shoe workshop, a gold embroidery workshop and some other local industries appeared here. Some of the nuns were engaged in farming on a farm in the village of Elizavet (currently the Elizavet microdistrict). At the monastery there was an almshouse for the elderly and an orphanage, a hospital, and a school for teaching children literacy and handicrafts. By the middle of the 19th century, a school was opened here, mainly for the children of the clergy.
From 1914-1917, the monastery housed a hospital for the wounded and a women's educational institution for 400 people.
After the October revolution in the country, the monastery was constantly attacked by the authorities: searches were carried out under the pretext that the property of the bourgeoisie was stored in the monastery. In December 1919, the Gorno-Uralsky Novo-Tikhvin Convent was closed, the nuns were sent to work at a factory in Kasli, and Abbess Khaitia was shot. In 1920, the liquidation of the monastery was officially announced. After the premises were cleared of nuns, dormitories for the newly created Ural University began to be located here. However, subsequently the monastery buildings were transferred to the military department. The remaining churches were gradually closed - Feodosievskaya, All Saints, Vvedenskaya. The Tikhvin religious community was formed by parishioners of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the Assumption Church. In 1926, the military command decided to close the Assumption Church and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. But thanks to the efforts of Archbishop Gregory Yatskovsky, the cathedral operated until 1930, when it was finally closed. After some time, the monastery cemetery was destroyed, along with tombstones, some of which were considered works of stone-cutting and foundry art. After some time, the military personnel who occupied the premises of the former monastery were transported to the barracks, and instead of them the district military hospital was located here. In 1961, the building of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was transferred to the local history museum (I even remember visiting this museum in the 80s of the last century, in the middle of the museum exhibition there was a huge skeleton of some kind of fossil monster).
Since 1991, active efforts began to return the monastery to believers and the diocese. By 1994, the cathedral was freed from museum exhibits and transferred to the diocese. Currently, the Alexander Nevsky Church, the Sorrow Church, and some other service premises have been completely restored, with plans for the restoration of the Assumption Church.


The Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary or the Assumption Church is the oldest surviving church in the city of Yekaterinburg. It was founded on the site of an old wooden one on May 16, 1778 and was a cemetery church. The main boundary is consecrated in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God, the left one - in the name of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, the right one - John the Baptist. The temple was consecrated on May 31, 1882, and church services were held there until July 7, 1921, when it was closed by order of local authorities. For a long time, the church premises served as a canteen at the hospital. Restoration has now begun.
All Saints Church


Initially, blessed Andrei and Vasily, revered by the local inhabitants, were buried at this place. Later, a chapel appeared here, which from 1817 to 1822 was rebuilt into a single-altar church. It stood until the end of the century, after which it was dismantled. And in 1900, with funds from M.I. Ivanova was rebuilt in a new look. It is noteworthy that the temple did not have a bell tower and is the only church in the city built in the Byzantine style. The temple building was connected to a two-story residential building, on the first floor of which there was an almshouse for 80 people, and on the second a hospital with 20 beds.


The church in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” or the Sorrowful Church was founded in 1823 and consecrated on November 22, 1832. The temple building was attached to the complex of cells from the north. In Soviet times, the church partially lost its historical appearance, the dome was lost, and the interior was partially rebuilt. Currently, the Church of the Sorrows with its cells has been completely restored.




The Church in honor of the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary or the Entry Church is a gateway single-altar church. It was founded in 1823, but consecrated only in the summer of 1865. The temple building was connected with the Assumption Church by extensions. In Soviet times, instead of a dome, a superstructure with loopholes appeared on the roof like a fortress, so that in case of defense, machine-gun fire could be fired from there. (The second and third photographs are later; the church no longer has a superstructure; restoration has begun). Until recently, the church premises housed a conference room. Currently, there is a project and work has begun to restore the temple, the superstructure has already been dismantled.


Church in honor of St. Theodosius of Totem or St. Theodosius Church. Its construction began in 1823, consecrated in 1866. From 1837 to 1916 it was the house church of the Yekaterinburg diocesan women's school, located nearby. Nowadays, the building has been transferred to the diocese, but restoration work has not yet been carried out.






The Cathedral in the name of the Holy Blessed and Equal to the Apostles Prince Alexander Nevsky, also called Alexander or Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The temple was founded on August 22, 1814 by merchants Kalashnikov, Martynov, and tradesman Bronnikov in memory of the end of the Patriotic War of 1812 and in honor of Emperor Alexander I and his Guardian Angel - Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky. Its construction dragged on for many years. The original project was unsuccessful. According to some reports, a large dome of the existing temple collapsed; after some time it was restored. According to other sources, the unfinished temple was partially dismantled and rebuilt again in 1838. It is also possible that initially the cathedral building was small, but due to the fact that the monastery was rapidly developing, it was necessary to expand the premises of the temple. The first architect of the temple was probably the well-known M.P. Malakhov, according to whose designs several buildings have already been built in the city. The new project was led by Visconti and Charlemagne. The main aisle of the new church was consecrated in 1852, the left one - Nikolsky in 1853, the right - Voskresensky in 1854. It was the largest cathedral in the city at that time, it could accommodate up to 6,000 people. I wrote above about the fate of the Alexander Cathedral in Soviet times. On the territory of the monastery complex in the 19th century there was a holy spring, which was located next to the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. Old photographs show a rotunda built above it, but, apparently, it “did not survive to this day.” After the return of the cathedral to the diocese in 1991, its gradual restoration began. The temple was re-consecrated by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' on May 19, 2013.

Chapel of the Transfiguration at the Hospice House

The chapel was built around 1820. On the side of Aleksandrovsky Prospekt (now Dekabristov Street) a cell was attached to it. On the side of Uktusskaya Street (now 8th March Street) a two-story house is attached to the chapel - a hotel for pilgrims. After the closure of the monastery, the chapel building lost its dome and cross. For some time, a grocery store was located in the premises of the hospice house and chapel. After which the Russian traveler and explorer G.E. lived here for some time. Grumm-Grzhimailo, and during the Second World War correspondent and writer A.A. Karavaeva. During the years of perestroika, the house was emptied of residents and was occupied by the Institute of Philosophy and Law, and administration offices were located in the chapel itself and on the second floor.
The restoration of the Novo-Tikhvin Convent continues, part of the restoration was carried out at the expense of parishioners, part of the funding comes from the federal budget. Judging by the rich external and internal decoration of the cathedral (stunning interior paintings, intricate carved patterns on the entrance doors and window frames, marble brought from Italy, the unique cross of the main dome of the cathedral, glowing at night, gilded domes and capitals), colossal amounts of money are spent on repairs.
Diocesan School


Currently, the Yekaterinburg Assembly College is located in the building of the diocesan school. The new building of the Diocesan School, now the second building of the Mining University, in one of the classrooms of which frescoes on the vaults are still preserved. The Church of St. Catherine the Great Martyr is located here. Honor and praise to the rector of the Mining University - Nikolai Petrovich Kosarev, he returned the church to its historical appearance. Under his leadership, the “Temple of Miners” or the church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was also restored, I will talk about this in another article.
The monastery also owns a courtyard in honor of the All-Merciful Savior and the Most Holy Theotokos in the Elizavet microdistrict. The Chapel of Alexander Nevsky, located in the Dendrological Park, built in 1890, was also transferred to the jurisdiction of the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery.

The Novo-Tikhvin monastery was visited by Emperor Alexander I himself in 1824, by the heir to the throne Alexander II in 1848, and by Princess Elizaveta Fedorovna in 1914.

The article used materials from the book by S.I. Voroshilin "Temples of Yekaterinburg".

coordinates: 56.822608,60.599080

Founded in 1796 as a community. Since 1809 it has been a communal monastery.

Temples 6: Assumption with chapels in honor of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God and the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (1782); in the name of St. blgv. book Alexander Nevsky with chapels in the name of renovation of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Jerusalem and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (consecrated in 1852); in the name of All Saints (converted from a chapel in 1822 to 1832); in honor of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple (consecrated in 1865); in the name of St. Theodosius of Totemsky (consecrated in 1866).

In 1822 the monastery was elevated to 1st class. The monastery owned two agricultural farms: Bulzinsky and Elizavetinsky (the temple in the name of the All-Merciful Savior with chapels in the name of St. Paraskeva and in honor of the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael - built in 1876).

The monastery had a shelter for girls, a parochial school, a religious school, a hospital, an almshouse, a candle factory, and 18 workshops (icon painting, painting, gold embroidery, etc.). In 1912, there were about a thousand nuns in the monastery.

The monastery was closed in 1920.

Revived in 1994. Currently operating is the temple in the name of All Saints. Cathedral of St. blgv. book Alexander Nevsky - under restoration. In 1995, the St. Ignatievsky monastery was founded (in the name of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov) with a house church in the name of St. John of Tobolsk. Since 2007, there has been a farmstead in the village of Elizavet.

In 1997, the St. Simeon's farmstead was opened in the village. Merkushino - on the site of the exploits of St. Simeon of Verkhoturye. Simeonovsky and Michael-Arkhangelsky churches have been restored; There are hotels for pilgrims.

The monastery was initially created under the leadership of a confessor, schema-abbot Abraham (Reidman). In 2008, there were more than 150 sisters in the monastery, including 5 schema-nuns, 35 nuns, 61 nuns. This leads to a conscious desire to lead a virtuous life aimed at cleansing the heart. Therefore, life in a monastery is daily conscious work on one’s soul: obedience, reading the Holy Fathers, and, of course, the main thing is prayer.
The icon-painting workshop (canonical writing with a focus on Byzantine examples) is widely known for its work. Five sisters are members of the Union of Artists of Russia. There is a large embroidery workshop.

The monastery choir revives Byzantine singing, professional teachers from the conservatory work with the sisters, and world-famous specialists are invited. Feature znamenny chant - single-voice performance. Singing is accompanied by a continuously lasting sound - ison. Znamenny singing is still a unique phenomenon for Yekaterinburg. Znamenny chants make services especially solemn and grace-filled.

A translation obedience has been created in the monastery, where sisters translate the works of the holy fathers from Greek. Professional historical office where sisters collect materials for
The monastery maintains a shelter for girls in the name of the Military Medical Center. Elizaveta Fedorovna, Orthodox gymnasium in the name of the Saints Royal Passion-Bearers, a soup kitchen that serves 1,500 people daily. The monastery operates Higher Orthodox Missionary Courses. The purpose of the classes is to understand your faith and teach it to others.

The monastery also built and maintains a temple in honor of the Siberian saints on the site of the prayer feats of St. right Simeon. In 2009, construction of the St. Nicholas Church in the village was underway. Putimka, Verkhoturye district.

This should have been the name of the first monastery of the city of Yekaterinburg, founded in 1809, but only after two or more centuries the name became exactly that. And the monastery, paradoxically, owes its appearance to two married women and one outstanding admiral, who was later canonized.

The history of the monastery began with a small country cemetery church, which was founded in 1778 by the merchant Ivan Ivanovich Khlepetin to pray for the repose of his beloved wife buried in that cemetery (perhaps if not for this married woman, the monastery would not have appeared). Next to the temple, consecrated in 1782 in honor of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a wooden house for the clergy was built, in which several women settled after some time. In 1796, the nuns self-organized into a monastic community-almshouse, which was headed by the wife of a man called to military service soldier of the artisan department of the Berezovsky gold mines Pyotr Sergeevich Mitrofanova Tatyana Andreevna, who by that time had not received any information about her husband for 14 years. From the first day of the community’s existence, the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God enjoyed special love among the nuns; they prayed in front of this image in the Tikhvin chapel of the Assumption Church. In September 1798, soldier Tatyana Mitrofanova (in documents she signed with her maiden name Kostromina), together with the rest of the residents of the temple house, turned to the Yekaterinburg City Duma with a request to legalize the almshouse, as a result of which the Duma not only decided to allocate monetary benefits to this women’s community, but also handed over the documents necessary for the official recognition of the almshouse to the diocesan authorities. At that time, Yekaterinburg, like the entire Asian part of Russia, was located in the Tobolsk diocese, and in 1799, by the Decree of Varlaam I, Archbishop of Tobolsk, women were officially allowed to live at the Assumption Church. From the first years of the almshouse's existence, the sisters read the Psalter for the dead, did handicrafts, and cared for the sick, who were specially brought from the city. The residents of Yekaterinburg, in turn, looked after this community, appointing trustees from among wealthy merchants and officials. In 1802, Tatyana Kostromina brought from a pilgrimage trip to Sarov the monastery charter, which was approved by the Perm Bishop Justin (by this time Yekaterinburg was already part of the Perm diocese), and the community actually became a real convent.

After some time, the idea arose to make the community a monastery not only de facto, but also de jure. Implementing the idea was not so easy: the status of a monastery was assigned only in the capital, and only with the personal signature of the emperor. Therefore, Tatyana Kostromina again gathered in long journey, taking with him his assistant Agafya Kotugina - unlike Tatyana, Agafya was literate. At the beginning of 1807, the two of them went to St. Petersburg. The chances of success were slim, but the result was even more surprising. Having reached the capital, Tatyana and Agafya asked to stay in one of the houses, where they agreed to receive them. This turned out to be the house of naval commander Fyodor Fedorovich Ushakov, a man not only famous, but also devout, who helped Kostromina draw up a petition to the Synod and get an appointment with Chief Prosecutor Prince Golitsyn, and also repeatedly turned to Bishop Justin of Perm with a request to speed up the consideration of the case. On December 31, 1809 (old style), by personal decree of Emperor Alexander I, the Yekaterinburg almshouse was converted into the Novotikhvinsky communal monastery. The sisters petitioned for the monastery to be called Alexander-Novotikhvinskaya, but the tsar left only the second part of the name. Six months later, on June 26, 1810, on the day of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, a celebration took place in honor of the opening of the monastery with solemn worship and a crowded religious procession. Since then, it is traditionally celebrated not the winter birthday of the monastery, but its name day, only now in a new style - July 9. Not only nuns, but also numerous guests and pilgrims take part in religious processions with the Tikhvin Icon; in pre-revolutionary times such religious processions were even more popular and took several weeks, covering all surrounding settlements.

On August 7, 1810, Tatyana Kostromina, still in St. Petersburg, took monastic vows with the name Taisiya (at the Smolny Monastery in honor of the Resurrection of the Lord). This was also a small miracle, because according to the legislation of that time, widows over sixty years of age could only be tonsured into monasticism, and girls over fifty; Each tonsure required the permission of the Holy Synod. Tatyana Kostromina was forty-seven years old, however, noting her merits, the Synod asked the emperor, as an exception, to allow her to become a monk, but 35-year-old Agafya Kotugina was denied tonsure - she was not yet old enough! Permission from Emperor Alexander I to tonsure Tatyana Andreevna Kostromina was received, and on August 7, 1810, she was tonsured into monasticism with the name Taisiya in the St. Petersburg Resurrection Convent, and on September 20, 1810, by decree of the Holy Synod, she was appointed the first abbess of the Novotikhvin Convent. In the summer of 1811, now Mother Taisiya returned to the Urals, and on June 11 in Perm she was elevated to the rank of abbess “in honor of her zeal and godly deeds in establishing and organizing the desert.”

The newly minted abbess arrived in Yekaterinburg on the day of the celebration of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, when the monastery celebrated its first anniversary. She brought with her a reliquary casket with the relics of 25 great saints Orthodox Church, which was presented to her from among the shrines of the ancient temple Russia - St. Sophia Cathedral in Veliky Novgorod, and the new Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God - list (that is, a copy) miraculous icon from the city of Tikhvin, consecrated in the Tikhvin monastery. Mother Taisiya also brought a new charter, compiled specifically for the Ekaterinburg Monastery on the basis of the previous Sarov one, using the Valaam and Alexander Nevsky charters. It affirmed the election of the abbess by the sisters of the monastery from among their members, community life, which meant the renunciation of personal property, presence at a common meal, conciliar celebration prayer rule. Of all the monasteries in the Urals, only Novotikhvinsky had a charter specially developed for it; the rest borrowed someone from among the already existing ones.

After the official establishment of the monastery, active construction began on its territory, since any monastery must have at least two churches: one parish, the other purely monastic, for internal use. The very first was the foundation of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in 1814 - in honor of the victory of the Russian army in the war of 1812 and in honor of the saint, whose name was Emperor Alexander I. The emperor himself also did not forget about the Ural monastery: in 1821-1822 the monastery and Royal family exchanged gifts in response to the images of saints Elizabeth and Alexander donated to the monastery icon painting workshop, reigning Alexander and his wife Elizabeth donated precious liturgical utensils and vestments to the monastery. Such expensive gifts in the entire history of Yekaterinburg, only the Catherine Cathedral could boast, which received gifts from Catherine I. The nuns captured the list of things received from the imperial family on the epitaph icon, which was written after the death of Abbess Taisia ​​(the icon is in the Local History Museum).

By decree of Emperor Alexander I of May 12, 1822, the Ekaterinburg supernumerary monastery was elevated to a regular 1st class monastery. From that moment on, the monastery was allowed to have 100 full-time monastic places, which were supported by maintenance from the treasury (non-staff monasteries were not entitled to any funding); all available land holdings, a cemetery and non-monastic buildings were assigned to the monastery. In 1824, during a visit to Yekaterinburg, Alexander I wished to personally visit the monastery, so for his arrival, a new bridge across the Iset was built on the approaches to the monastery - it was named Tsarsky, and the street leading to the monastery became Alexander Avenue (now Dekabristov Street). As a sign of deep respect, upon leaving, the emperor kissed the hand of one of the elderly nuns, which later became a local urban legend.

By the middle of the 19th century, under the leadership of the architect Malakhov, the modern architectural appearance of the monastery had developed, large-scale construction, in which the nuns participated, was completed. Now there were six churches on the territory of the monastery: three of them were in honor of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos, in the name of St. Theodosius of Totemsky (over the gate) and in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” (sick-list) - were built into the façade of the monastery, which ended with Alexander Avenue. It is believed that such a building has no analogues in Russian temple architecture of that time. The Assumption and All Saints Churches were located in the central part of the monastery, majestic cathedral Alexander Nevsky decorated the northern part. The territory of the monastery was surrounded by a stone fence with small turrets, some of which have survived to this day.

The nuns paid great attention not only to external construction and spiritual prayer life, but also to such things as education: the vast majority of nuns mastered not only crafts, but also literacy, which was then a rare phenomenon. In the 80s, the Diocesan Women's School opened at the monastery - an educational institution for girls with full board. One of the school's activities was the training of teachers for parochial schools. The list of subjects studied included not only the Law of God and church singing, but several more languages, arithmetic, physics, geometry, geography, history, handicrafts, hygiene, gymnastics and pedagogy. The first 19 teachers were graduated in 1887, and over almost forty years of the school’s operation, many zemstvo schools in the Urals were provided with teaching staff. From 1907 to 1914, Pavel Petrovich Bazhov worked as a teacher of the Russian language at the diocesan school, and here he met his future wife– Valentina Ivanitskaya was his student. The school operated until 1920; just before the revolution, a new brick building with its own house church was built. The church was consecrated in honor of St. Catherine, the patroness of miners, jewelers and brides dreaming of a good groom (like the girl Katie from the film about the three musketeers with her song “St. Catherine, send me a nobleman”), interestingly, it was last church, consecrated in pre-revolutionary Yekaterinburg, and like the first - in honor of the heavenly patroness of the city. In 2014, the dome over the house Catherine Church was reinstalled for the centennial anniversary of the Mining Institute (UGMU), which currently owns the former building of the diocesan school.

In 1920, Lenin signed a decree on the establishment of the Ural University, and due to the lack of its own premises, the building of the Diocesan Women’s School, the Yekaterinburg Theological Seminary and several other secular ones were adapted for the university. educational institutions. Until now, the lane in which the school was located is called Universitetsky.

In 1922 the monastery was closed. During this first period of its history, it replaced only four abbess, all of them today are reburied at the altar of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral. The cathedral itself, which became a parish after the monastery was closed, lasted for several more years. In 1930, the cathedral was closed, and at the same time the cemetery located around the cathedral, where the monastery began, was destroyed. In 1958, for demanding the return of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (which became a military warehouse) to the Church, Bishop Mstislav of Sverdlovsk and Irbit was removed from his cathedra. The cathedral, of course, was not returned then; since 1961, it has housed the District local history museum. Not only were mammoth bones exhibited here, but the relics of Simeon of Verkhoturye, confiscated from the Church, were also kept as an exhibit in the storeroom. It was possible to return the cathedral to its original purpose only in 1991, after three years struggle and almost a month-long hunger strike at the entrance to the city administration, undertaken by believers led by 83-year-old Olga Trofimovna Denisova. After Yeltsin’s personal intervention in the confrontation between the community and the city authorities, the cathedral was returned, but the museum’s storage facilities were moved to new buildings for several more years. In 1994, the cathedral again became a monastery - the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery was revived.

In his " new version» The Ekaterinburg convent returned to its previous traditions, restoring icon-painting and sewing workshops, actively repairing returned churches and devoting Special attention education issues. In 2006, the first and only competition of Orthodox websites “Mrezha-2006” was held in Moscow, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Orthodox Runet. In the most serious category “Official Church Websites”, beating such a competitor as “Patriarchia.ru”, the Ekaterinburg site – the site of the Novo-Tikhvin Convent “Sisters.ru” - sensationally won. In 2011, the monastery registered its own university - a non-state private educational institution higher vocational education(license dated 07/05/2011, No. 1482) “Missionary Institute”, providing training in the direction 48.03.01 “Theology” (qualification “Academic Bachelor”, training profiles - “Systematic Theology of Orthodoxy” and “Church History”). In 2013 after overhaul The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was consecrated anew. During the consecration of the cathedral, Patriarch Kirill, apparently impressed by the beauty of the temple, gave the monastery the very name that Alexandra Tatyana Kostromina asked for: now the Ekaterinbug Convent is called Alexander Nevsky Novo-Tikhvinsky.