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	Danilov Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Danilov Monastery, in full Svyato-Danilov Monastery or Holy Danilov Monastery (Данилов монастырь, Свято-Данилов монастырь in Russian), is a male monastery on the right bank of the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia.
		In 1812, the monastery was ransacked by the French army.
		The last monastery closed in Moscow became the first one to be returned in 1983 to theMoscow Patriarchy and became a spiritual and administartive centre of the Russian Orthodox Church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danilov_Monastery (637 words)

	Sacred Sites of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Monasteries began to spring up across western Russia, amassing great riches and land holdings, even during the Tartar period (beginning in 1224) when monks and priests were exempt from the Tartar taxes.
		In 1721 the patriarchate was suspended, the monastery lost most of its land and wealth to the state, and the church was governed by a council controlled by the Tzar.
		Monastery chronicles tell of numerous miracles performed with the relics, of their ability to save people from drowning and freezing in the lake, and that prayers addressed to the relics heal nervous, mental and infectious diseases, as well as alcoholism.
	sacredsites.com /asia/russia/russia.htm (3475 words)

	Danilov Monastery - Moscow, Russia
		Danilov Monastery, or Svyato-Danilov Monastery (Данилов монастырь, Свято-Данилов монастырь in Russian) is a male monastery on the right bank of the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia.
		In 1983, Danilov Monastery was returned to the Moscow Patriarchate and became a spiritual and administartive center of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		Danilov Monastery - Moscow-Beijing with the Trans-Siberian Railway
	www.sacred-destinations.com /russia/danilov-monastery.htm (495 words)

	Pereslavl-Zaleskiy The Danilov monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Danilov monastery was founded in 1508, is located in the southern part of the city.
		The most ancient building of the monastery Troyitsky Cathedral, erected by the command of Basic III in memory of birth of the son Ivan the future tsar Ivan the terrible.
		On the territory of the monastery is situated the one-headed Vsechsvyatsraya church (1687), two-storied refectory chamber (1695), the three-apsed church (1695).
	library.thinkquest.org /C006006F/engpart/perzal2/perzal4.htm (153 words)

	Danilov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Danilov (Russian: Данилов) is a common Russian last name and may refer to:
		Alexander Danilov (1916–1980), a Soviet historian and academician
		Danilov (town), a town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danilov (123 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1330 the brethren of the monastery was moved to the Kremlin, where was founded a new monastery in the name of the Saviour (near the church of Saviour - on the Bor.The word Bor means a pine forest.).
		In 1610 the monastery was burnt by False Dimitriy II.
		The main Holy Thing of the monastery is the remains of St. Daniel of Moscow, while are in the tabernacles both in St. Trinity Cathedral and in the Cathedral of Holy Fathers of 7 Ecumenical Councils.
	www.saintdaniel.ru /eng/index.htm (1302 words)

	Russian monks ask Harvard to return bells -DAWN - International; 02 February, 2004
		The bells in the monastery tower peal loudly and tunefully enough, but their chimes are a cause more for rancour than religious reflection because they are only replacements for originals whisked away by a US benefactor 70 years ago.
		Stalin closed the central Moscow monastery in 1930 and it was turned it into a prison under communist rule which sought to actively discourage religious practice by closing monasteries and destroying religious artefacts such as bells and icons.
		When the 700-year-old monastery was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1983, the monks gathered bells from around Russia to hang in the empty pink and white bell tower.
	www.dawn.com /2004/02/02/int16.htm (589 words)

	The St. Petersburg Times - News - Russian Bells Inspire Tug of War at Harvard
		When the Soviet government threatened to destroy the Danilov Monastery's bells in the late 1920s, American industrialist Charles Crane saved them by purchasing the entire set of 18 bells, and it was installed at Harvard in 1930.
		And this year, Patriarch Alexy II and several priests at the Danilov Monastery, where the offices of the patriarch are housed, launched a campaign to return the bells to the monastery's bell tower in time for the 700th anniversary of St. Daniel's death in March 2003.
		The monastery's bell tower is not empty today: It was rebuilt in 1985 and outfitted with bells taken from razed churches in northwest Russia, but Father Roman Ugrinko, the current ringer at Danilov, said the substitutes' sound doesn't come close to the original bells' distinctive ring.
	www.sptimes.ru /story/8818 (1374 words)

	Blagovest Bells— Talks on return of bells of Svyato-Danilov monastery to Russia
		The monastery has been trying to get the bells back for the past 20 years, but they have become part of Harvard's culture too, and the university is not just hoping to get rid of them.
		In 1930 the Soviet authorities closed the monastery, shot its abbot and monks and confiscated the property.
		The oldest bell was presented to the monastery by Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich in the 16th century.
	www.russianbells.com /interest/harvard-danilov/harv-dan-11.html (407 words)

	Novospassky Monastery in Moscow, Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The monastery's original buildings were razed to the ground by the Tartars and most of the structures still standing today date from the 17th century, when thick fortress walls and bastions were built to protect the complex from further Tartar attacks during the Time of Troubles.
		During the 20th century the monastery played a more sinister role in Russia's history, serving the Bolsheviks as a concentration camp, the NKVD as an archive, housing a furniture factory and finally a alcoholics' rehabilitation center, before eventually being returned to the church in 1991.
		Also in the monastery complex visitors will see a large pond, near the western wall of the fortifications, which once supplied the resident monks with fish but whose banks were later used by the NKVD to bury foreign Communists secretly shot during the purges of the 1930s.
	www.moscow-taxi.com /churches/novospassky-monastery.html (742 words)

	Blagovest Bells— Danilov: A Monastery's History
		After he died in 1303, the monastery fell into a period of ruin, but was revived by Ivan the Terrible in the 17th century after several visions of Prince Daniel were heralded as miracles and the Russian Orthodox Church canonized him.
		It wasn’t until 1982, when Patriarch Pimen petitioned the government to allow one monastery to reopen to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Christianity in Russia that the Danilov was allowed begin operating again.
		Today, the monastery is the center of the Russian Orthodox Church, with Patriarch Alexei II residing on its grounds and monks active in charity work.
	www.russianbells.com /interest/harvard-danilov/harv-dan-08.html (391 words)

	ELIAN TRAVEL / Danilov Monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thought to be the earliest of the monasteries (forts) in the Moscow principality and founded by Prince Daniel as one of the six fortified complexes guarding the southern approaches to Moscow against Tatar attack.
		The foundations of the monastery were laid no later than 1282 and perhaps as early as 1272.
		The first mention of the existence of the Danilov monastery we learn from the article pertaining to 1330 in the Troitskaya chronicle, written not earlier than the beginning of the XVth century.
	www.loverussianwife.com /travel/moscow/sights/churches/danilov.htm (133 words)

	Danilov Monastery-Danilovskiy Monastyr-Russian Patriarch
		His son, Ivan I, moved the monastery, its icons and its monks, to the Kremlin in 1330, and it wasn't until the reign of Ivan IV (the Terrible) that the Danilov Monastery became active again, mostly as a defensive structure.
		The oldest building in the monastery today is the Cathedral of the Holy Fathers, which dates from 1565 and holds the remains of St. Daniil, and icons of him and of Our Lady of Vladimir painted around the time of the church's construction.
		The monastery was reconstructed, many of the original buildings were either demolished or fundamentally altered, and the monastery graveyard - which included the tombs of Nikolai Gogol and the great Moscow pianist and composer Nikolai Rubinstein - was destroyed.
	www.moscow.info /orthodox-moscow/danilov-monastery.aspx (507 words)

	Danilov Monastery in Moscow, Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Danilov Monastery purports to be the oldest in Moscow and was founded in 1282 by Prince Daniil Moskovsky, the youngest Son of Alexander Nevsky.
		Like the city's other monasteries (Novodevichy, Donskoy, Simonov, Novospassky and Andronikov), which were all built between the 13th and 16th centuries, Danilov was not merely a center of religious and spiritual life and a seat of scholarly learning, but a powerful defensive fortress whose walls defended Moscow from attacks by enemy Tartars, Lithuanians and Poles.
		Today many of the monastery's original structures are still standing and have been renovated and augmented with new buildings to house the modern residence of the Patriarch and the administration buildings of the Synod.
	www.moscow-taxi.com /churches/danilov-monastery.html (971 words)

	Links to Other Orthodox Monasteries
		Monastery of the Nativity of the Theotokos - Pelagias, Levadias, Greece.
		Monastery on Solovki Island - A virtual tour of the monastery located on an island in Russia’s White Sea.
		Golia Monastery - Iassy, Romania - Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bucovina.
	www.balamandmonastery.org.lb /monasterieslinks.htm (499 words)

	Baylor University \|\| College of Arts & Sciences \|\| From the Ruins of the Cold War to the Wellsprings of Tomorrow's ...
		The Soviet government returned the Danilov Monastery to the Church in 1982, in the latter years of Leonid Brezhnev's rule, not in 1988, as American books often state, the year of the millennium of Orthodox Christianity in Russia.
		As I sat there that afternoon in the Danilov Monastery, I both felt the passage of time personally and also recalled the enormous political transformations that had taken place in the last decade, changes that are everywhere visible.
		But in the Danilov Monastery that summer afternoon, it was not the aspirations for connection to the outside world that I found most impressive and surprising.
	www.baylor.edu /arts_sciences/index.php?id=15128 (2142 words)

	History of Moscow and regional towns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Monastery was to serve as a defensive bastion for the Kaluga gates of the city.
		This interpretation is dubious in that the distance between that of the Simonov monastery and the steep banks is substantial especially in distances measured in the middle ages.
		The monastery was devastated by the Mongols in 1392.
	www.xenophon-mil.org /ruscity/moscow/moscow.htm (20340 words)

	Novo-Spasski Monastery, Moscow, Russia
		This monastery was founded by Yuri Dolgoruki where the Danilov monastery is now.
		Then in 1490 the monastery was moved again, this time by Ivan III to the steep Krutitski hill by the Moscow River and on the Kolomna Road, where it became one of the defensive fortresses ringing the city.
		Novo-Spaski Monastery, Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Christ, 1645-49, was designed on the basis of the Uspenski Cathedral in the Kremlin.
	www.xenophon-mil.org /ruscity/moscow/novosp.htm (385 words)

	Troitsky Danilov Monastery
		Troitsky Danilov Monastery founded in 1508 by the monk of Goritsky monastery Daniel is located in the south part of Pereslavl.
		The most ancient building of the monastery the Trinity Cathedralwas erected according to the order of Basil the III to commemorate the birth of his son Ivan, the future Tsar Ivan The Terrible.
		Single-domed church of All the Sainted (1687), two-storey building of refectory (1695), three-apse with no piers church of Laudation, block of monastic cells are preserved on the territory of the monastery.
	www.cnit.uniyar.ac.ru /yaros/wwe01848.htm (191 words)

	Rescued bells heading back to Russia with love - The Boston Globe
		The monastery, founded 700 years ago and now considered the spiritual home of Russian Orthodoxy, burned down in 1610 and was robbed in 1812 by French soldiers who stole its silver tabernacle.
		The monastery assembled a set of replacement bells rescued from around the country in the perestroika period, but they are a motley collection, and no comparison to the originals.
		The plan is to extract the Danilov ensemble by partly dismantling Lowell House's tower and to insert the new bells in the same operation.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/09/10/rescued_bells_heading_back_to_russia_with_love (1276 words)

	The Lowell House-Danilovsky Bells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Danilovsky Monastery was one of the last to be closed; that was in 1930.
		Archimandrite Aleksiy, the Father Superior of the Monastery, and the Hierodeacon Roman, the Senior Sexton of the Danilovsky Monastery, will be visiting Harvard University in early December to open discussions on the future of the bells.
		Both the Danilovsky Monastery and Harvard University are committed to developing a relationship, discussing the problems and possibilities, and considering the many concerns and issues involved for both institutions.
	lowell.student.harvard.edu /Bells/QandA.html (1491 words)

	Independent Catholic News
		During the Communist regime thousands of monasteries were closed down, and the buildings were destroyed or converted for other uses.
		The monastery's superior, Fr Aleksey said he was grateful to Harvard for preserving the bells, but he prayed they would be returned.
		One proposal is that the monastery might take their bells back and give Harvard a replacement set, but a Harvard spokesperson said no decision has yet been made.
	www.indcatholicnews.com /rbels.html (420 words)

	Churches in Moscow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The walls and towers of the Monastery were built in the 17th century.
		The northern circle of monasteries stood closer to Moscow's centre, along the walls of the White Town (Bulvarnoye Koltso).
		The Monastery main cathedral (12th century), and several monk cells dated by the 17th-18th centuries are the only structures remaining.
	www.greyshadowbodyguard.org /Churches3.html (700 words)

	Cold War: Moscow (Reagan-Gorbachev) Summit (Reagan visit to Danilov Monastery) [declassified 2000] \| Margaret Thatcher ...
		He said that the monastery wished to greet the President on behalf of all members of the Russian Orthodox Church, which had traditions dating back a thousand years.
		Restoration of this monastery had been underway since 1983, with the intention to complete as much of it as possible in time for the Millenium celebration of the Church.
		The government was now returning other monasteries to the Church, and several had been returned just in the past year.
	www.margaretthatcher.org /archive/displaydocument.asp?docid=110613 (673 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Monks hope to retrieve sacred bells
		The monastery's original set was sold by Stalin to an American businessman at the height of the Soviet crackdown on religion.
		The Danilov monastery was silenced along with thousands of others.
		At Sunday Mass the main church at the monastery is crowded with worshippers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3434961.stm (640 words)

	ELIAN TRAVEL / Moscow Churches, Monasteries, Cathedrals
		While the monastery is beautiful, Novodevichy Cemetary is one of the most fasinating spots in Moscow.
		The Monastery is situated on a picturesque bank of the Yauza river in the outskirts of Moscow, and was found in the 14th century.
		Built in the 13th century by Prince Daniil Moskovsky, the youngest Son of Alexander Nevsky, and thought to be the oldest monastery in Moscow.
	www.loverussianwife.com /travel/moscow/sights/churches.htm (658 words)

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