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Convent in Komarovka Ulyanovsk. Convent of Michael the Archangel. Services in the monastery

The history of the monastery began ten years ago, quite recently, that is, in 1994. The monastery of Archangel Michael owes its birth to the bishop, now Metropolitan of Simbirsk and Novospassky Proclus. After his appointment to Ulyanovsk, he began to get acquainted with the diocese and drew attention to a large stone church that stood alone on the outskirts of the small village of Komarovka, on the road to Undory. And when Vladyka saw a hill there that strongly reminded him of Pyukhtitskaya, they say, he decided: to be here for a convent.

Special mention should be made of the temple in honor of the Archangel Michael. According to Vladimir Efimov, head of the Undorovka Museum of Local Lore, the church was founded in 1895, and built and consecrated on November 8, 1917 (according to the old style), exactly on the feast of Michael the Archangel. She managed to serve one single service and the temple, which had not yet been painted from the inside, was closed by the new government. The architecture of the temple is interesting and original: according to experts, it was erected in the Russian-Byzantine style.

Subsequent events show that the Archangel Michael of God retained his offspring. An attempt by the Revolutionary Committee, with the help of men drugged with moonshine, to dismantle the temple ended in tragedy. As soon as the peasants managed to remove several rows of bricks from the bell tower, as a sin, the unexpected happened before the eyes of the crowd. Both zealous executors of the will of the atheists crashed from a height to the ground: one died, the other was badly injured. After that, the church was left alone. At various times, the village council was located there, then a warehouse.

And now, after almost 80 years, incense was again lit in the temple, the words of prayers sounded. By the time Abbess Mother Magdalena arrived here, a teacher in the world of architecture, co-author of the book "Architectural Monuments of the City of Ulyanovsk" Mitropolskaya, here, in addition to an abandoned temple, there was also a wooden one-story building not far away - a club in which the communists planted a new, unprecedented religion under called Marxism-Leninism. What came out of it - we all see perfectly. Mother Magdalene and the first inhabitants of the monastery had to start from scratch.

Monasteries, as a rule, are restored where they used to be, before the defeat, and were located where at least some of the old buildings were preserved. And here everything had to start all over again. Only God only knows what labors it took for Mother Magdalena to knock on the thresholds of high or even petty authorities, beat out, coordinate, shake, ask, bow. She knew one thing - not for herself, but for people she does, and this gave new strength. Mother corrects me: “Why do people go to a monastery? That’s right, to pray to God. Here prayers help us. Obedience is easier with them, and with God’s help we manage to do everything. There are, of course, benefactors who come here by faith and offer their help, but there are not many of them.Mostly they come and ask: "And how much, mother, will you pay for the work?"

The monastery is well equipped. There is a sister building with a refectory, a hotel for pilgrims, houses for priests, households have been built. yard and garage, garden and apiary. A healing spring was put in order, which is under the mountain near the monastery, there, to the delight of pilgrims, a bathhouse was set up, as well as a pond in which residents of Komarovka can also swim and fish.
From the entrance arch with the chapel, a beautiful paved path leads to the temple.

Human rumor, as you know, knows no boundaries. Today, people come from different cities and towns, this was already mentioned at the beginning, in order to feel the grace of God, to unite with the Lord themselves, to venerate the ancient, even pre-revolutionary icons of the Archangel Michael and the Mother of God, which miraculously survived from that distant time. Many come to be cured of ailments: mental and bodily.

Although the monastery is young, it is already known among the people for miracles of healing. People associate them with the name of the late schema nun Mariam, God rest her. And to this day, pilgrims coming to the grave of Mother Mariam to cry to her, ask for help, take with them a handful of earth from the grave. They say that through the prayers of the nuns, they managed to save a soldier recognized by doctors as hopelessly ill from death, one of the sisters of the monastery was healed, and one of the pilgrims recovered from the addiction of drunkenness. There are many cases of miraculous healing, and all this speaks of the great power of prayer offered by the nuns of the monastery, of the grace of God.

Mother abbess accepts everyone. You can live, pray, work for the glory of God. The monastery observes a long-standing custom - the upbringing of orphans. They are taken to school in the nearest village. And whether they stay in the monastery for good is up to them to decide.

The monastery lives its quiet, measured life. Here we hasten to take refuge, tired of life's adversities, mired in vices. And, like gratitude, like a declaration of love, the voice of one of the pilgrims sounds: "The monastery of Michael the Archangel became the first step of my ladder leading to God"

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Church of the Archangel (Archangel) Michael in Troparyovo- an Orthodox church built in 1693-1694 on the lands near Moscow of the Novodevichy Convent (now the territory of the city of Moscow). After returning to believers in 1989, it has the status of a patriarchal farmstead.

Located in the Moscow district of Troparevo-Nikulino on the territory of the Nikulino park, 800 meters from the metro station 01 Yugo-Zapadnaya at 90 Vernadskogo Prospekt.

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The wooden temple of the Archangel Michael in the village of Troparyovo was rebuilt twice, the last time in 1669. At the end of the 17th century, a stone church began to be erected on the site of the burnt wooden church, which was completed by 1694. The temple was built at the expense of the Novodevichy Convent, which then belonged to the village of Troparyovo. There is no exact information about the author of the temple project.

Judging by the architecture, the bell tower was built earlier, in the middle of the 16th century in the style of the Moscow pattern. On October 25, 1694 (according to the old style), an antimension was issued (instead of an altar, a consecrated silk or linen cloth depicting the position of Christ in the tomb, with particles of the relics of the saints sewn into it, on which the liturgy is performed). During the Patriotic War of 1812, the temple, though not much, but still suffered during the retreat of Napoleon's troops along the Starokaluga road. In 1823 the church was renovated.

In Soviet times, in 1939, the temple was closed, the fence was destroyed, only the gates remained, the interior of the church was destroyed, the bells were thrown down and, subsequently, with the exception of one, were not returned. In the 1960s, the premises housed the scenery warehouse for Mosfilm. In 1964, the architects of the association "Mosoblrestavratsiya" conducted a survey and restoration of the domes of the temple. In the late 1970s, the church was restored from the outside.

In 1988, in commemoration of the millennium of the Baptism of Russia, a decree was issued by the Moscow authorities on the transfer of the Church of the Archangel Michael to the use of the Moscow Patriarchate. The decision was not made immediately, since at that time the building was occupied by the Moscow Art Combine. The consecration of the temple took place on February 23, 1989 (timed to coincide with the feast of the Hieromartyr Kharlampy).

In subsequent years, a clergy house with a baptismal church and a library, a Sunday school, and kiosks for selling church utensils were built. On the eastern side there is a memorial sign with the names of the inhabitants of the village of Troparyovo who died during the Great Patriotic War.

On the territory of the courtyard, the chapel of St. Vitaly was consecrated. A memorial service is served in the chapel at the end of the morning service.

Architecture

The peculiarity of the church is the combination of traditional rural church architecture with atypically rich design of the facade of the temple. The temple was built at the end of the 17th century, when in church architecture there was a transition from the Ukrainian style (three-domed) to the Moscow, or Naryshkin style (so named because churches of this type were built on the Naryshkin estates). The temple has a symmetrical composition, consisting of a two-light five-domed quadrangle with a three-part apse, a refectory (the thrones of the Origin of the Holy Trees of the Cross of the Lord and the martyr Harlampy) and a three-tier hipped bell tower. The church is distinguished by the elongated proportions of the pillarless quadruple, completed with kokoshniks imitating zakomaras, and “deaf” two-tier drums of heads. The windows are framed with lush carved platbands, a wide frieze is drawn under false zakomara, the corners are decorated with columns, the same columns separate the semicircles of the apses. The drums have an octahedral shape, on the large lower octagon, covered with small domes, miniature octagon-drums are placed, ending with small gold cupolas, also faceted. Domes and crosses are gilded. The bell tower consists of two quarters carrying an octagon of ringing, topped with a tent with rumour-windows. The bell tower is located strictly according to the canon - along the axis above the western entrance to the temple. In its composition and set of decorative details, it more gravitates towards the architecture of the middle of the 17th century; it is possibly the earliest part of the building. This is also evidenced by the nature of the junction of the bell tower to the masonry of the western wall of the refectory, carried out with the "interruption" of the cornices. Some elements of the architecture of the bell tower have not survived to this day: columns on the pillars of the tent, decorative architraves of rumors. The bells were cast specially for the temple at one of the Ural factories during the revival of the church in the late 80s of the last century, and one bell was preserved from ancient times, picked up and hidden by parishioners during the destruction of the temple in the late 30s. During the demolition of Troparev, the bell was preserved and later transferred to the South-West Theater located opposite the temple, where it was kept until 1989.

Icons

On both sides of the Royal Gates there are lists of the icons of the Don Mother of God, which is venerated on September 1 (August 19 according to the old style) and the Smolensk Mother of God (Hodegetria), venerated on August 10.
The church keeps a rather rare icon of the Holy Blessed Princess Anna Kashinskaya, the wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Yaroslavich, who, after the death of her husband, became a nun and moved to the city of Kashin, to the Assumption Convent.
Icon of the Mother of God "Worthy to eat", revered on June 24
Icon of the Mother of God "Inexhaustible Chalice", revered on May 18
Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, commemorated May 22 and December 19
Icon of the Holy Great Martyr and Victorious George, commemorated May 6
Icon of the Holy Blessed Matrona of Moscow, commemorated May 2
Icon with a cross reliquary of the 18th century. All the saints whose relics are kept in the reliquary are depicted on the icon itself. These are the First Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul, the Apostle James, the Apostle and Archdeacon Stephen, Saints Nicholas the Wonderworker and John the Merciful, the faithful Great Prince Alexander Nevsky and St. Daniil Moscow, St. Sergius of Radonezh, St. Alexander Svirsky, great martyr healer Panteleimon and many others.

The convent of Michael the Archangel is a new monastery, and this is quite unusual for our period of church revival, because. newly opened monasteries usually arise on the basis of old ones that had their own history, their shrines, their ancient (even if destroyed) buildings, their own historical territory, their own chronicle.

Mikhailov Monastery was built on a place where there had never been a monastery. After all, where it could be reborn - in the center of the city of Ulyanovsk, everything was carefully destroyed and indicatively built up for the centenary of the fellow countryman, whose name is imprinted in the name of the city itself.

So, our monastery was founded in 1994, forty kilometers from the city,

In October 1994, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church approved the opening of a nunnery at the church.

The temple itself appeared in the village of Komarovka, Simbirsk province, shortly before the revolution. More accurate information, unfortunately, has not been preserved. But the local legend about the builder of the temple remained.

PROCESSION IN THE MONASTERY - ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD

The Women's Mikhailovsky Monastery is located in the village. Komarovka.

On September 19, 1994, the consecration of the patronal church in the name of the Archangel Michael took place. In October 1994, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church approved the opening of a nunnery at the church.

An interesting legend is connected with the monastery. According to legend, it was built by a merchant who owned an estate in the village of Komarovka. The linden alley leading to his estate is still visible through the grown hazel.

“This man had a beautiful wife and, moreover, a very pious one. Beauty is like a rose: there are many who want to pick it. Unfortunately, the merchant's friends turned out to be dishonorable people and tried to court someone else's wife. They forgot or did not want to recognize the 10th commandment: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife...". The first sin was followed by another, the 9th commandment says: "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor." He was not afraid of sin to slander an honest woman in revenge for indifference. In a fit of jealousy, the merchant killed his wife. When it turned out that the woman had been slandered, the widower's despair knew no bounds: he vowed to build a temple in honor of the Archangel Michael, who is not only a warrior, but also an avenger for all injustice.

Mikhailovsky Monastery

Monastery - to be

We ended up in Komarovka when they met the Zhadovskaya Icon of the Mother of God there. The nuns lined the courtyard in front of the gate with freshly cut grass and primroses, laying out compositions from them on the path leading to the temple. By the way, in the temple itself there is a list from it, made before the October Revolution. It was lost, but in the mid-90s it was found, happily finding a new place here, in the Komarovsky Church.

In general, the history of the Komarovsky Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk convent began only in 1994. The Archbishop of Simbirsk and Melekessky Prokl, on one of his trips around the diocese, drew attention to a small dilapidated stone parish church on the outskirts of the village of Komarovka and to the hill on which it stood. This hill was very similar to the Holy Mountain in the stavropegic Pyukhtitsky Dormition Convent in Estonia, which Vladyka loved to visit in the old days. And work began on the creation of a nunnery monastery around the Michael-Arkhangelsk Church, which was headed by Abbess Magdalena (Metropolskaya). And soon the bishop had a dream, and in his dreams he saw Michael the Archangel, who blessed him for his work and thanked him for everything he does. The image was so clear that Vladyka decided that it was necessary to order an icon depicting the saint. Interestingly, the artist redid his work three times. Neither the first nor the second options corresponded to the image that Vladyka saw in his dream. And only the third option turned out to be correct.

CITIZENS OF THE MONASTERY

Mother Magdalene turned out to be, as they say, a very effective manager. In a short time, a sister's building with a refectory appeared here, a hotel for pilgrims, houses for the clergy, bishops' and abbot's buildings, a household yard, vegetable gardens, orchards, an apiary were built, a pond was dug in which fish is bred, and art workshops. At the foot of the mountain, a spring was cleaned and brought into proper shape, on which a bath was built. The scale of what has been done in 14 years is amazing. And it is impossible not to pay tribute to Mother Magdalene. Without her knowledge, experience (she is an architect by profession), will and desire, nothing would probably exist here. But the abbess herself thinks differently: everything that happened in her life, and what is happening around the monastery now, is a real miracle.

“I was worried that I didn’t have enough bricks to build my sister’s house, I was already in despair, although you can’t despair - it’s a sin,” said the abbess. - I began to pray: “Lord, how can I be? Tell me, understand." And suddenly they call from Togliatti and say that they will bring everything we need. Well, isn't that a miracle? And it always happened when I fervently prayed for something. None of us have seen God, but he manifests himself in such good deeds.

ARRIVAL TO THE METROPOLITAN MONASTERY

Mikhailovsky Monastery. From happiness to happiness

There is some misconception about why people decide to enter a monastery. Women, the rumor says, leave allegedly because of unhappy love or grief (the death of loved ones, for example). Nothing of the kind, one of the young nuns, who has been in Komarovka for ten years, told an NG correspondent.

“I left happiness—fortunately,” the nun assured us with a smile.

“I have fulfilled all my most cherished desires here. In the world, I probably would never drive a car. And then she got behind the wheel. Have us any sister can hand over on rights. Mother made this rule. But at first they didn't let me. I begged the abbess to give me a chance. She quickly passed all the tests, processed the documents.

By the way, it turned out that the nun we were talking to is a builder by profession. Her graduation project for a cowshed (the monastery has a huge farm of its own) was carried out in Komarovka. After that, the girl remained here, taking the tonsure.

From happiness - to even greater happiness they come to the monastery, - says the abbess, - such was my path to serving God.

MIKHAILOVSKY MONASTERY

Monastery of the Archangel Michael. I went to "rescue" my daughter

Magdalena came to Komarovka from the Moscow region, from a monastery in Novogolutvin, where she was an assistant to the abbess. And before she was tonsured, she led an ordinary secular life, even held high positions, had a family. In general, there was a lot, like everyone else. By the way, there are clergymen in her family (even one bishop). But the fact that her own life would take such a sharp turn, she did not even think.

“My daughter studied in Moscow as an artist-designer of clothes, preparing for a trip to Paris, which she was awarded for her success in her work,” says Mother Magdalena.

- My daughter had bright prospects in the fashion world. But suddenly she goes to Novogolutvino with some order from our relatives and stays there, is going to take the tonsure. I'm going to "rescue" her and - I also stay. Almost 20 years have passed since then. And 14 of them I serve in Komarovka. My obedience was to build a monastery here. When I arrived here, there was only a dilapidated temple and another small building ...

GRAPE HARVEST IN THE MONASTERY

WHERE IT IS, HOW TO GET TO:

Mikhailovsky convent.

Temple in honor of the Archangel Michael.

The village of Komarovka is located 5 km. from the village of Undory (40 km north of the city of Ulyanovsk), which is on the right bank of the Volga, near the border of the Ulyanovsk region and the Republic of Tatarstan.

Nearby is the route: Ulyanovsk-Undory-Tetyushi.

Mikhailovsky Monastery. HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE KOMAROVKA

The comrades of the roundabout Bogdan Matveyevich Khitrovo in building the city of Simbirsk, the boyar son Savin Komarov with his sons Nikita and Fedot, were measured in 1648; 30 versts from the city under construction, 160 quarters of manorial land, along the river. Sviyage. The Komarovs settled on this land and thereby laid the foundation for the present day. Komarovka. Soon they were joined by the boyar son Lavrenty Mikhailov Surin, who received 50 quarters of land next to the Komarovs. The descendants of this Surin still live in the village. Komarovka. In 1685, Kazanians Stepan and Andrey Ivanov Verigins received from the Order of the Kazan Palace an import letter for 27 quarters of “empty land” in the village of Komarovka. Five years later, the Verigins exchanged this land for the steward Fyodor Alekseev Zeleny, and they took land from him along the Uren River, on the meadow side of the river. Volga. In 1696, the widow of Fyodor Zelenago, Anna Ippolitova, received 45 quarters from her husband's estate near the village of Komarovka "for a living". At that time, Komarovka was listed in the Kazan district. The founders of the village, the Komarovs, must have lived here for a short time and sold their estate to other persons, since already in 1694 they were not among the local landowners. Then Komarovka belonged, besides Fyodor Zelenago, to the Sinbirians Kirill Danilov and Akim Vasiliev Aristov, Dmitry Ivanov, Osorgin, Fedor and Ivan Petrov Surinyma, the heirs who owned land here sixty years later, in 1757 (Maxim Elistratov Osorgin, Fyodor Dmitriev and Anna Lukyanovna Aristovy); and Anna Ippolitova Zelenaya sold her land to Colonel Pyotr Mikhailovich Mikulin. Then, by the time of the general land survey, the prime landowner here is Major Nikolai Alexandrovich Zhikharev, and after him his daughter, lieutenant Elizaveta Nikolaevna Karpova; she, in common ownership with the Surins of the same palace, captain Ivan Fedorovich Aristov, lieutenant colonel Gerasim Grigoriev Osorgin and Art. owls. Natalya Fedorovna Popova, was, in 1794 in Komarovka, 1954 dec. 386 sazhens. earth. With a special survey, in 1845, the land of Aristov and Osorgin was assigned to the village of Teleshovka, but in Komarovka they remained, from the former landowners: Colonel Pyotr Alexandrovich Karpov (87 souls of peasants and 880 dec. 1600 sazhens of land), and the one-palace Nikifor Surin with his son Mikhail (13 souls of both sexes and 94 dec. 640 sazhens of land), and from the new ones were: the maiden Alexandrovna Pavlovna Lukina (91 souls of peasants and 457 dess. 1900 sazhens of land), nobleman Pyotr Fedorov Laptev (66 dec. 100 sazhens. land), and the maiden Elena Fedorovna Ukova (44 souls of peasants and 285 dec. 600 fathoms. land). A.P. Lukina sold the land (173 dec.) of the provinces remaining behind the allotment of the peasants. sec. Petr Petrovich Meshcherinov, and he sold it, piece by piece, to different people.

P. F. Laptev sold, in 1868, the land to the peasants Vasily and Spiridon Prokhorov, whose heirs now own this land at the village. courtyards.

E. F. Ukova sold the estate (220 dec.), in 1870, count. ass. Sergei Sergeevich Chunosov, and according to his will, received, in 1886, his daughter, wife of a piece. rotm. Varvara Sergeevna Osorgina; from her, by inheritance, this land passed, in 1890, to his wife count. ass. Marya Alexandrovna Benkendorf, current owner.

At st. owls. Nikolai Petrovich Karpov (and now his widow and children) left, after the liberation of the peasants, at Komarovka, 745 acres.

Four peasant societies were formed in the village of Komarovka: 1) former P. A. Karpov peasants; 82 audit souls received 304 dess. convenient allotment land (10 dess., 1924 sazhens of the estate, 250 dess. of arable land, 9 dess. 476 sazhens of pasture and 34 dess. of forest); 2) the former A.P. Lukina, for 63 souls, was given 252 dess. 200 sazhens, land (6 dess. 215 sazhens of the estate, 159 dess. 2185 sazhens of arable land, 9 dess. 1900 sazhens of pasture, 12 dess. 200 sazhens of sen. mowing and 63 dess. 1100 sazhens of forest); 3) former E.F. Ukova 44 souls were transferred to a donation allotment (manor 4 dessiatines, arable land 24 dessiatines, and pasture 16 dessiatines) and 4) Surin’s single-palaces were expelled into the allotment of 44 dessiatines. 2160 sazhens. convenient land (manor 1 dess., arable land 17 dess., meadows 4 dess. 2160 sazhens and forest 22 dess.) at present in all four communities of the village. Komarovka has 87 households, with a population of 679 people (350 men and 329 women).

The school has been open since the autumn of 1902.

St. Michael's Convent (founded in 1994).

MIKHAILOVSKY MONASTERY - VILLAGE KOMAROVKA

Mikhailovsky Monastery. Hotel for pilgrims

The monastery hotel provides places only for women. Those wishing to come with small children should call the hotel sister nun Seraphim in advance (mobile phone +79278216743) and clarify whether it is possible to accept children. Leaders of pilgrimage groups should also agree in advance on the provision of rooms in a hotel. The monastery does not accept the mentally ill.

To stay in the monastery, you must have with you:

passport with a residence permit;

personal hygiene items

Accommodation and meals are provided to pilgrims free of charge.

The length of stay in a hotel in each case is determined individually: from three days or more.

Mikhailovsky Monastery in the village of Komarovka

Rules for visiting the monastery

So, the gates of our monastery are open to visitors from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on all days except Wednesday and Friday, as well as the first and last weeks of Great Lent, with the exception of especially revered holidays. Pilgrims who plan to stay at a hotel are not subject to these restrictions.

We remind you that a monastery is a place for those who have retired from worldly fuss, who have dedicated, or wish to devote themselves to serving God and striving to lead a life of chastity and obedience. This is a place where the name of God should be glorified, therefore, one should behave here accordingly.

Entrance to the residential and utility rooms of the monastery is prohibited.

Smoking is prohibited on the territory of the monastery, persons in a state of intoxication are not allowed on the territory.

The sisters are not entitled to meet with relatives or acquaintances who have come to the monastery without the permission of the abbess or dean. If, when visiting the monastery, there is an intention to meet with one of the sisters, it is advisable to warn her about this in advance, or inform the hotel sister about this intention (see the "Contacts" section). None of the sisters has the right to have personal money or accept it from strangers. For those wishing to provide all possible financial assistance, donation boxes have been set up in the temple and in the monastery shops.

Dress appropriately when visiting a monastery

With a worthy appearance, you show respect at least to those who, despite the difference in views, beliefs or confessions, are hospitably and lovingly ready to receive you. Clothing should not be defiantly open or tight. Miniskirts, shorts and T-shirts are inappropriate. Women are encouraged to wear hats.

The monastery is quite picturesque, and the desire to capture some moments in photographs or with the help of video filming is understandable, but this should be done delicately, without disturbing anyone or drawing attention to yourself. Photography in the temple during worship is strictly prohibited. Attention and concentration are required from believers in prayer, therefore, all those present at the service should stand quietly, not talk or walk around the temple. Cell phones should be turned off or switched to silent mode during this time.

When the monastery was built is not known exactly. According to legend, the Church of the Archangel Michael was opened here in the XII century.

The first description of the monastery is given by Vasily Barsky, who visited it in the summer of 1735. He wrote in his memoirs: "... this monastery was created by ancient noble men in honor of the holy Archangel Michael." Even then the monastery was distinguished by its antiquity. Indirectly, the time of the construction of the monastery was confirmed by Greek scientists after they analyzed the archival materials of past centuries. They expressed the idea that the monastery existed here already at the beginning of the 15th century.

As you know, the bishops of Cyprus in those days were under the jurisdiction of the Catholic Church. According to scientists, the secret meeting of the Holy Synod, which took place in the summer of 1406, most likely took place in this monastery. Icons and murals of the main temple also testify to the ancient origin of the monastery. They were created in the 17th century by skilled craftsmen from the monastery of St. Herakleidios.

However, if we do not know anything about the time of the foundation of the monastery, there is reliable information about when it was completely rebuilt and renovated by Archbishop Chrysanths in 1769.

Archimandrite Cyprian, a well-known Cypriot chronicler, in his work “The Chronological History of the Island of Cyprus”, published in 1788, confirms: “life in the monastery never faded away, and the monks never left it.”

At the end of the 18th century, a large-scale reconstruction was carried out in the monastery. The main temple was renovated, new cells were built. But by the middle of the 19th century, the monastery was empty, as, indeed, were many other monasteries in Cyprus. A large-scale restoration of the monastery began only in 1970, after the monastery was visited by Archbishop Makarios III. Then the chapel of St. Nektarios was built, and the main monastery church was restored.

Despite all the difficulties experienced, the monastery managed to preserve unique masterpieces of art for posterity. The appearance of the holy monastery, which we see now, began to take shape during the reign of Archbishop Chrysanthos. Under him, the main temple was restored in the monastery, the frescoes and iconostasis were updated, new utility rooms and cells were built.

The one-vaulted temple of the monastery is decorated with images of saints, the lower part of the northern, western and southern sides is decorated. Basically, the temple is a typical example of single-nave temples with apses and three entrances from the north, west and south sides.

To the west of the main entrance is a ktitor - Archbishop Chrysanthus, who brings the temple as a gift to the Archangel Michael. Two brief inscriptions indicate the date of the reconstruction of the temple by Archbishop Chrysanthus and the steward of the monastery Leonty: 1769. The dedicatory fresco was painted by the fresco master Hieromonk Leonty, who painted all the frescoes on the western and southern walls and most of the frescoes on the northern wall of the temple.

Behind the western window of the northern wall, the holy healers unmercenaries Cosmas, Damian and Panteleimon are depicted. On the other side of the same window, images of three saints are visible, whose names are not indicated. The images of three unknown saints, as well as the image of St. Mina to the east of the northern gate, were created in 1863 by the icon painter Anthony Hadjichristou. Other frescoes on the northern wall were painted by Hieromonk Leonty and were completed simultaneously with the reconstruction of the temple. These frescoes, as we read in the inscriptions, are dedicatory and were created at the expense of various donors. The technique of painting the temple of the monastery of the Archangel Michael is close to the technique of making an icon on a tree, which indicates the creation of this painting during the decline of church painting in Cyprus.

A true relic is a large temple icon of the Archangel Michael. The famous Russian monk-traveler V. Grigorovich-Barsky said this about this icon: “It is made with such skill and in such a dimension that it fills everyone who looks at it with extraordinary excitement and inexplicable anxiety. And there is no other such image in all of Cyprus that could be compared with it both in terms of the power of influence and size, and in terms of execution technique. These words of the famous Russian traveler have not lost their relevance today.

Fruit trees, flowers and greenery grow in the monastery courtyard. The source of the purest water is decorated with a mosaic panel. And the completion of the appearance of the monastery was the portal, on which the images of the archangels Michael, Raphael and Gabriel are laid out in mosaic. People go to the holy monastery to find peace and tranquility here.

Photo from the site cyprusiana.ru and the archive of the Cyprus branch of the IOPS

The convent of Michael the Archangel has a rather unusual history for our period, because. in new Russia, newly opened monasteries arise on the basis of old ones that had their own history, their shrines, their ancient (even if destroyed) buildings, their own historical territory, their own chronicle.

This monastery can be considered a newborn baby. What is 19 years compared to a hundred or a millennium? Nineteen years for a monk is also not much, it is only the beginning, if we take into account the saying of the elders that "the new beginning experience in the monastery is up to 30 years."

Tradition...

This man was a rich merchant, and owned an estate in the village of Komarovka. The linden alley leading to his estate is still visible through the grown hazel.

This man had a beautiful wife, and also a very pious one. Beauty is like a rose: there are many who want to pick it. Unfortunately, the spouse's friends turned out to be not decent people and tried to take care of someone else's wife. They forgot or did not want to recognize the 10th commandment "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife...".

The first sin was followed by another, the 9th commandment says: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." He was not afraid of sin to slander an honest woman in revenge for indifference. And the husband in a terrible fit of jealousy killed his wife.

At the trial, vile slander was revealed and the widower’s despair knew no bounds, and then he vowed to build a temple in honor of Archangel Michael, who is not only a warrior, but also an avenger for any injustice. It is no coincidence that, built in honor of a woman - the righteous, he not only survived to this day, but also gathered women around him.

Small, but very graceful, looking to the sky like a ship in the desert, the temple, along with most of the others, was closed in 1918.

Revival...

In 1991, while traveling around the borders of the diocese, Bishop Prokl of Simbirsk and Melekessky drew attention to a dilapidated church standing aside from the houses of the village of Komarovka. The picturesque location reminded him of the monastery in Pyukhtitsy, and he said: "Here will be founded St. Michael's Monastery". These words of Vladyka were confirmed by Archangel Michael himself, who appeared to him in a light dream. A few years later, when the opening of the monastery took place, the monastery icon appeared, which Vladyka Proclus saw in a dream, the cover of Archangel Michael over the future monastery.

In June 1995, with the arrival of two sisters from the Novo Golutvin Kolomna Monastery, Vladyka appointed one of them as a builder and acting abbess, nun Marina (Metropolskaya, currently Abbess Magdalene). Since that time, active construction of a new monastery in honor of Michael the Archangel began.

The first small house was built in 4 months from an old log house in order to be able to spend the night on the territory of the monastery. Now the monastery has already eleven residential buildings along with the tower. At the moment, the building area is 3.5 hectares.

The monastery is located on a hillock, which, like a peninsula, is surrounded on three sides by a ravine, along which a stream runs, filling the monastery pond.

From the southwestern side of the ravine, monastery gardens descend to the stream: apple, pear, plum, apricot and vineyards. All this wealth is served by the sisters of the monastery.

Constant winds in this area interfered with the growth of plants and the previously deserted place was planted with firs, pines and chestnuts. A huge variety of birds appeared: nightingales, starlings, wagtails, swallows, robins, owls, etc. It is surprising that even sparrows did not fly to the temple before.

A small frame was placed at the source below and a font was organized in honor of the Archangel Michael, into which they plunge for healing both in winter and summer. The water in the font is mineral, cold in summer, warm in winter, the base is blue clay (there was a lot of it here, especially when the pond was dug).

The monastery itself, like a small border fortress, stood on the edge of the Simbirsk province. Nearby, ten kilometers away, Tatarstan begins, a little further Mordovia and Chuvashia.

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