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	Donskoy Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As of 1629, the Donskoy Monastery possessed 20 wastelands and 16 peasant households (20 peasants altogether).
		In the mid-17th century the monastery was attached to the Andreyevsky Monastery.
		In 1683, the Donskoy Monastery was elevated to the archmandrite level and given 20 desyatinas of the nearby pasturelands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donskoy_Monastery (1088 words)

	Simonov Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Simonov monastery in Moscow was established in 1370 by monk Feodor, a nephew and disciple of St Sergius of Radonezh.
		The monastery land formerly belonged to Simeon Khovrin, a boyar of Greek extraction and progenitor of the great clan of Golovins.
		In 1379, the monastery was moved half a mile to the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Simonov_Monastery (287 words)

	Encyclopedia: Donskoy Monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As of 1629, the Donskoy Monastery possessed 20 wastelands and 16 peasant households (20 peasants altogether).
		In 1683, the Donskoy Monastery was elevated to the archmandrite level and given 20 desyatinas of the nearby pasturelands.
		The 16th-century Donskoy Monastery, situated in a secluded, wooded area in the southwest section of Moscow, is a fascinating memorial to Russian architecture and art.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Donskoy-Monastery (396 words)

	Encyclopedia: Simonov Monastery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Krutitsy is a former ecclesiastical estate and monastery, situated on the steep left bank of the Moskva River, in the south-east of present-day Moscow.
		The monastery’s abbot was considered the first among the hegumens of all the Russian monasteries until 1561.
		Patriarch Hermogenes was starved to death by the Roman Catholics in the monastery vaults in 1612.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Simonov-Monastery (1046 words)

	Donskoy Monastyr \| Moscow Sights & Activities
		Today the monastery is once again functioning as a religious institution, and the museum is slowly removing its exhibits from inside the churches.
		The monastery was built on the site where, in 1591, the Russian army stood waiting for an impending attack from Tatar troops grouped on the opposite side of the river.
		The victory was attributed to the icon of the Virgin of the Don that Prince Dimitry Donskoy had supposedly carried previously, during his campaign in 1380 (in which the Russians won their first decisive victory against the Tatars).
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=moscow@107&cur_section=sig&property_id=29987 (485 words)

	Danilovskaya Moscow - Moscow Hotels
		The St. Daniel Monastery, one of the oldest in Russia, founded at the end of 12th century, is a vivid example of wonderful Russian architecture.
		At present the St. Daniel Monastery is the official residence of His Holiness, Patriarch Aleksy II of Moscow, and All Russia.
		Due to the fact that the hotel is owned by the monastery, no loud music is permitted, and guests should remember at all times that they are staying in an important historic and cultural environment.
	www.allmoscowhotels.net /htm/MOS281.htm (371 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		One of the youngest, the Donskoy Monastery in the south-west of the capital, Moscow's guard for more than four centuries, has had a rich and tragic history.
		The monastery and its first church, the Small Cathedral, were erected to commemorate the remarkable event.
		The monastery is regaining its former religious role.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch8_eng.html (1885 words)

	GlavUpDK - «Donskoy Posad» (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We are glad to offer apartments on lease in "Donskoy Posad", a wonderful 20-storey development.
		The complex of remarkable architectural style was built in 1996 under the design of famous architect Yakov Belopolsky.
		Donskoy Posad is conveniently located at 4 Stassovoy Street, at the beginning of Leninsky Ave.
	www.updk.ru /real-estate/donsk_posad_eng.htmls (243 words)

	Nikolai Gogol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was buried at the Donskoy Monastery, close to his fellow Slavophile Aleksey Khomyakov.
		In 1931, when Moscow authorities decided to demolish the monastery, his remains were transferred to the Novodevichy Cemetery.
		A piece of rock which used to stand on his grave at the Donskoy was reused for the tomb of Gogol's admirer Mikhail Bulgakov.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikolai_Gogol (1482 words)

	Pics from Russia!
		This is a church at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.
		This is the main church of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow.
		Novodevitchy (also the home of the pink and yellow churches that you already saw at the beginning) was actually a convent, and it's where the tsars would send their wives when they wanted to divorce them or get rid of them for some reason.
	www.geocities.com /Wellesley/2276/russpics.html (862 words)

	Moscow Sights & Activities \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		The monastery was founded in 1360 by Metropolitan Alexei and named in honor of its first abbot, St. Andronik.
		Today it houses an exhibit of the monastery's newer acquisitions, primarily icons from the 19th to 20th centuries.
		The Donskoy Monastery, at that time on the city's outskirts, became a fashionable burial place for the well-to-do.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=moscow@107&cur_section=sig&sort=name&review=full&pg=1 (2504 words)

	Moscow - Sightseeing
		While the Saint Daniel Monastery is situated outside the prerevolutionary boundaries of the city (nowadays it is quite close to the downtown area), The High Monastery of Saint Peter, situated more than a kilometer to the north of the Kremlin, originally represented the downtown type of monastery.
		The Monastery is situated to the southeast of the downtown area, to the east of the Saint Daniel Monastery and to the south of the New Savior's Monastery.
		The Mecca of the Russian Orthodox Church - The Trinity Sergius Monastery, the Saint Joseph of the Volokolamsk Monastery, and the New Jerusalem Monastery, are all significant to the spiritual history of Russia.
	www.vgp.com /moscow/sightseeing.html (4463 words)

	The Religious Landscape
		Another magnificent monastery is the Danilov located on Danilovskaya Street near the Tul'skaya metro station directly south of the Kremlin about four kilometers.
		Today, the significance of the monastery, other than the assemblage of churches and cathedrals contained therein, is the Residence of the Patriarch and the Holy Synod.
		The monastery was founded in 1345 and is one of the few fortresses that was not destroyed by invading armies.
	www.brooksgreen.net /Russia1994/Russia4.htm (691 words)

	Churches in Moscow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		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)

	Monasteries Convents Moscow Guide
		Moscow's rise to political prominence in medieval Russia is inextricably linked to its importance as a religious centre, and this is reflected in the large number of monasteries and convents that were established in the city from the 12th Century onwards.
		Century Novospasskiy Monastery came under the patronage of the Romanov and Sheremetev families, and hence is one of the most historically interesting in the city.
		Near the Donsky and Danilov Monasteries, this less celebrated institution has long been neglected, but it is one of the most harmonious collections of Old Russian architecture in the city.
	www.moscow.info /orthodox-moscow/monasteries.aspx (326 words)

	Squick News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Denikin, Ilyin remains to be re-buried in Donskoy Monastery.
		Evgenia Timoshenko marries Sean Carr in a monastery belonging to...
		The remains of General Anton Denikin, philosopher Ivan Ilyin and their wives are being reburied on Donskaya Square at the Donskoi Monastery in Moscow on Monday...
	www.xylera.com /monasteryblog.html (303 words)

	Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
		In 1922, with the blessing of Archbishop Mefodii of Harbin and Manchuria, he founded a men’s monastery on Krestovsky Island, in the outskirts of Harbin, but that very year he was sent to Serbia, where he became the superior of one of the men’s monasteries of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
		The monastery printshop issued a spiritual-moral periodical, Khleb Nebesniy [ТBread of HeavenУ] the editor of which for 10 years was Archimandrite Yuvenaly, a position later assumed by Archimandrite Vasily (Pavlovsky) and the famous church writer, historian and singer of Harbin, E.N. Sumarokov.
		During vigil at the monastery, he would emerge to the middle of the church during the 9th song and he would say ‘Everyone sing!’ The whole church then sang, and this seemed to refresh the worshipers.
	www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws /01newstucture/pagesen/articles/serganyuven.html (3356 words)

	Cathedrals & Monasteries, Moscow, Russia
		Monastery is situated in Bolshaya Lubyanka street and it took part in many significant events in Russian history.
		The monastery was founded in 1524 to celebrate the return of Smolensk to the Moscow Empire.
		The history of the monastery was always tied with russian history and many happenings had to do with the monastery.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Russia/Gorod_Moskva/Moscow-592480/General_Tips-Moscow-Cathedrals_Monasteries-BR-1.html (820 words)

	Patriarch's Tikhon's Relics Discovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On February 19, 1992, a midnight peal of bells from Moscow's Donskoy Monastery joyfully announced that the earthly remains of St. Tikhon had been found.
		When, two years later, the communists closed the monastery, it was feared that the hierarch's remains had been dug up and burned in the crematorium the communists had constructed in another of the monastery's churches-a not unreasonable surmise considering the Patriarch headed a list of "enemies of the people" published in Izvestia.
		Their actual whereabouts had, for years, been a painful mystery, and when, in May 1991, the monastery was reopened, one of the first things the monks did was to ask Patriarch Alexis' blessing to search for St. Tikhon's relics.
	www.roca.org /oa/115-116/115n.htm (563 words)

	Plague Riot
		On September 15, huge crowds of Muscovites began to flow towards the Red Square at the sound of the alarm bell.
		Pushing aside a military unit, they burst into the Kremlin and destroyed the Chudov Monastery (archbishop's residence) and its wine cellars.
		Angry citizens captured the Donskoy Monastery, killed Archbishop Ambrosius, and destroyed two quarantine zones (Danilov Monastery and the one beyond the Serpukhov Gates).
	www.firebird.cn /wiki/Plague_Riot (585 words)

	Church Bulletin - St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church, Irvine, CA
		But when he returned to his monastery and saw that the persecution against icons was continuing, he then repented of his deed, returned to Constantinople and fearlessly denounced the Iconoclast heresy.
		During the Persian invasion of Amasea and its widespread devastation, they distributed grain to the hungry from the monastery granaries on the saint's orders, and by his prayers, the stores of grain at the monastery were not depleted.
		In the spring of 1463, the Turks raided the monastery and captured the monks.
	www.bulletin.goarch.org /ChurchBulletins/87/040305/feasts.html (4873 words)

	CRTours: Cultural and Religious Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Discover the monastery's thirteen churches, the Tomb of Boris Godunov, the relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and the Relics of St. Innocent, Apostle to America.
		Of special interest is the magnificent 13th century Spassky Monastery ensemble, a group of majestic 17th century cathedrals, an elegant rotunda and remnants of an ancient trading center.
		The pride of Kostroma is the museum at the former Ipatyevsky Monastery founded in the 14th century by the Zernov family, the forbearers of the Godunovs.
	www.crtours.net /russia.php (1015 words)

	arsenius1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Arsenius was appointed teacher of homiletics in the Tbilisi theological seminary on August 5, 1903, and treasurer of the Moscow Chudov monastery on September 2.
		On June 8, 1914, in the St. Alexis church of the Chudov monastery, he was consecrated Bishop of Serpukhov, a vicariate of the Moscow diocese, by Metropolitan Macarius of Moscow, Archbishop Alexis, who was in charge of the Donskoy monastery, Bishop Palladius of Perm and other bishops.
		After the closing of the monastery, Bishop Arsenius and the brotherhood settled in a small house in the Seraphimo-Znamensky Skete of the women's community of the Protecting Veil, Podolsk uyezd, near Moscow, where he had been spiritual father from 1912 to 1916.
	members.cox.net /serafim/arsenius1.htm (2016 words)

	Interfax
		The remains of the ‘White’ General Anton Denikin and Russian philosopher Ivan Ilyin were reburied on October 3 at the necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery.
		This significant event is a testimony to the revival of historical memory in Russia, demanding respect for events of the past to warn against errors in the future.
		Denikin, Ilyin to be reburied in Moscow at the Donskoy monastery 05 September 2005, 15:37
	www.interfax-religion.com /?act=dujour&div=20 (473 words)

	Religion Revisited :: New Martyrs Icon
		This saintly martyr was under arrest from May 1922 throughout June 1923 in Donskoy monastery.
		This particular scene portrays two basic sides of the service provided by the patriarch: his resistance and his spiritual care.
		On the one hand it resembles the real color of the walls in the Donkoy monastery, and on the other it has been associated since Byzantium with dawn.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/journalism/russia/Icon/kleimo7.html (303 words)

	Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Patriarch of Moscow, whose residence is the Danilov Monastery, serves as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		In 1380, prince Dmitry Donskoy of Moscow led a united Russian army to an important victory over the Mongols in the Battle of Kulikovo.
		Many buildings found off the main streets of the inner city (behind the Stalinist facades of Tverskaya Ulitsa, for example) are also examples of the bourgeois decadence in Tsarist times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moscow,_Russia (4404 words)

	Anti-Communist Freedom Fighter to Come Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On April 26, 2005, Maria A. Denikina, daughter of General Denikin, a well-known leader of the White Movement, was granted Russian citizenship by a special decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
		General Denikin, Ivan Ilyin and their wives will be buried in Moscow, at a special plot in the Donskoy Monastery’s cemetery, which will be henceforth used for such reburials.
		His Holiness Patriarch Alexy will lead the requiem service at the Major Cathedral of the monastery, after which the remains of General Denikin and Ivan Ilyin and their wives will be buried in the presence of state officials and prominent political and public figures.
	www.nationalvanguard.org /printer.php?id=6350 (934 words)

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