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	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
		Meanwhile, the monastery of Saint Stephen and its hegumen became known of in the capital.
		On his first journey, in 1384, he received from Patriarch Nilos the dignity of archimandrite, and the Simonov monastery was put under the Patriarch, thus stavropygial; in 1387 he was ordained archbishop and occupied the Rostov cathedra-seat.
		At the Simonov monastery were tonsured the monks Kirill and Pherapont -- the future founders of two famous Belozersk monasteries -- the Kirillov and the Pherapontov.
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/november/28th.cfm (1777 words)

	Churches, Monasteries and Convents in Moscow, Russia
		Danilov Monastery - built in the 13th century by Prince Daniil Moskovsky, the youngest Son of Alexander Nevsky, and thought to be the oldest monastery in Moscow.
		Danskoi Monastery - founded in the 16th century by Boris Godunov in honor of the Donskaya Icon of the Mother of God, which was thought to have delivered Moscow from the repeated attacks of the Crimean Khanates that century.
		Simonov Monastery - founded in 1371 by the monk Fyodor, the nephew of Sergei of Radonezh, the 14th century Russian monastic reformer and later patron saint of the Moscow principality, and one of the city's mightiest defensive outposts during the 15th century.
	www.moscow-taxi.com /churches/index.asp (593 words)

	Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery (Russian: Кирилло-Белозерский монастырь), loosely translated in English as the Assumption monastery of St Cyril, used to be the largest monastery of Northern Russia.
		The monastery was founded in 1397 on the bank of Lake Siverskoe, to the south from the town of Beloozero, in the present-day Vologda region.
		In the 16th century, the monastery was the second richest landowner in Russia, after its model, the Trinity Monastery near Moscow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kirillo-Belozersky_Monastery (729 words)

	Isaac Levitan
		With the exception of the (currently lost) "View of Simonov monastery", mentioned by Nesterov, Moscow is present only in the painting "Illumination of the Kremlin".
		In the end of the 1870s he worked a lot in the vicinities of Moscow, and created the special variant of the "landscape of mood", in which the shape and condition of nature are spiritualized, and become carriers of conditions of the human soul ("Autumn day.
		The image of a silent monastery and planked bridges over the river, connecting it with the world around, expressed deep reflections of the artist about life.
	libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Isaac_Levitan.html (725 words)

	Simonov Monastery in Moscow, Russia
		The Simonov Monastery was founded in 1371 by the monk Fyodor, a nephew of Sergei of Radonezh, the 14th century Russian monastic reformer and later patron saint of the Moscow principality.
		The monastery's impressive fortress walls resisted many enemy attacks until the complex was sacked by rebel Poles during the 16th century Time of Troubles.
		During Soviet times the monastery suffered the same fate as ecclesiastical buildings and institutions all over Russia and was almost entirely destroyed to make way for the building of a car factory, football stadium and a palace of culture to keep the factory workers entertained.
	www.moscow-taxi.com /churches/simonov-monastery.html (352 words)

	History of Moscow and regional towns
		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.
		In 1431 the church of the Vvedenie Vo Khram Svyatoi Bogorodisty was built in brick on the grounds of the Simonov monastery on the north end of the ramparts built by Dmitrii Donskoi in 1367.
		The monastery was devastated by the Mongols in 1392.
	www.xenophon-mil.org /ruscity/moscow/moscow.htm (20340 words)

	Harvard University Press: Documentary Sources for the History of the Rus' Metropolitanate by Andrei Pliguzov
		Epistle [by Metropolitan Kiprian to Hegumen Fedor of the Simonov Monastery or Hegumen Sergii Radonezhskii of the Holy Trinity Lavra]
		of the Derevianitskii Monastery of the Resurrection] as [Arch?]Bishop [of Novgorod?]
		Admonition by Archbishop [Feodosii Byval'tsev of Rostov and Iaroslavl'] to a newly-ordained priest or to a hegumen of a monastery
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/PLIDOC.html?show=contents (5615 words)

	Ploschansky elders
		Paphnutius led the brotherhood of the monastery in 1746-1758 and Serapion in 1777-1807.
		After recovering Adrian and his pupils lived in the Smolensk forests, then he was the abbot of the Konevsky Monastery on an island in Lake Ladoga and died in the Simonov Monastery of Moscow in 1812.
		A disciple and co-laborer of elder Leonid, elder Macarius was instrumental in the publication of patristic literature by Optina Monastery.
	www.ploschan.debryansk.ru /english/elders.htm (1266 words)

	Wikinfo \| Isaac Levitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Behind exception nowadays lost "View of Simonov monastery", mentioned by Nesterov, Moscow is present only in the painting "Illumination of the Kremlin".
		In the end of 1870th he worked a lot in vicinities of Moscow, he created the special variant of "landscape of mood" in which the shape and a condition of the nature are spiritualized, become carriers of conditions of human soul ("Autumn day.
		So the plan of one of his best pictures "The silent monastery" was born, where the image of a silent monastery and planked bridges through the river, connected it with world around, expressed deep reflections of the artist about life.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Isaac_Levitan (699 words)

	ELIAN TRAVEL / Moscow Churches, Monasteries, Cathedrals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		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)

	VOLOGDA REGION - William C. Brumfield. PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTATION
		Indeed, the monastery's importance as both a religious center and as an anchor of Muscovy's northern flank was recognized by the canonization of Kirill in the fifteenth century and the naming of the entire monastic ensemble- consisting of two adjacent monasteries, the Dormition and John the Baptist-for St. Kirill Belozerskii
		Situated beyond the original Dormition Monastery walls near a small chapel erected by St. Kirill, this church became the nucleus of a "small" (malyi) Monastery of John the Baptist that complemented the Dormition to form the ensemble of St. Kirill Belozerskii Monastery.
		The monastery's first masonry structure, the brick Cathedral of the Nativity of the Virgin, was built in 1490, six years earlier than the Dormition Cathedral at the St. Kirill Monastery.
	www.cultinfo.ru /brumfield/province/index_e.htm (5607 words)

	The Orthodox Monasteries Worldwide Directory - A comprehensive collection of orthodox monasteries around the world ...
		The monastery is situated on the small granit island 15 miles far from Onega river.
		The Alexander Nevsky Lavra functions nowadays as an orthodox monastery belonging to the St Petersburg eparchy.
		Situated in the southeastern Taganka region of Moscow, the Novospassky Monastery claims to be the oldest monastery in Moscow and is thought to have been founded in the 12th century during the reign of Prince Yury Dolgoruky, the founder of Moscow.
	www.orthodox-monasteries.com /russia/index.html (344 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)

	Churches
		Danilov Monastery- built in the 13th century by Prince Daniil Moskovsky, the youngest Son of Alexander Nevsky, and thought to be the oldest monastery in Moscow.
		Danskoi Monastery- founded in the 16th century by Boris Godunov in honor of the Donskaya Icon of the Mother of God, which was thought to have delivered Moscow from the repeated attacks of the Crimean Khanates that century.
		Simonov Monastery- founded in 1371 by the monk Fyodor, the nephew of Sergei of Radonezh, the 14th century Russian monastic reformer and later patron saint of the Moscow principality, and one of the city's mightiest defensive outposts during the 15th century.
	www.russian-gateway.com.au /churches.htm (587 words)

	muscovy
		The present buildings date from the early 17th century, although the monastery was founded in the 14th century by St.
		Kiril (Cyril), from the Simonov monastery in Moscow.
		As part of the eremitic monastic tradition, Kiril built the monastery with his own hands, containing a small church and monastic cells for the original inhabitants, from wood.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /history/franks/classes/131b/perm/muscovy.html (365 words)

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		Indeed, the monastery's importance as both a religious center and as an anchor of Muscovy's northern flank was recognized by the canonization of Kirill in the fifteenth century and the naming of the entire monastic ensemble- consisting of two adjacent monasteries, the Dormition and John the Baptist-for St. Kirill Belozerskii (2).
		During the first century of its existence, the Dormition Monastery was built entirely of logs, but in the summer of 1496 a master builder from Rostov known as Prokhor, along with twenty masons, rebuilt in brick the main monastery church, dedicated to the Dormition (Photos 1, 2).
		The high walls of the main cube concluded not in zakomary, but in a row of bell gables (not preserved), behind which were two ascending rows of kokoshniki (5) (Semicircular gable ends at the top of walls are called zakomary and play a role in supporting the superstructure; kokoshniki are primarily ornamental).
	www.booksite.ru /bru/province/index.html (5631 words)

	OSTROWSKI: CHURCH POLEMICS
		The Answer of Makary to Ivan IV draws on the Donation of Constantine, the Statute of Vladimir (Ustav Vladimira), and the Patent from the Tatar Khan Uzbek to Metropolitan Peter [Yarlyk tatarskogo khana Uzbeka mitropolitu Petru) all in an effort to argue for the inviolability of Church lands.
		This monastery, close to the skity of the Trans-Volga Elders, is considered a hotbed of Non-possessorship despite its being one of the largest landholders in sixteenth-century Muscovy.
		The charter notes that votchiny had been transferred from deti boyarskie to the monastery by sale, mortgage, and bequest "for repose of the soul." The charter requests that a list of the properties acquired during "the past year or two" be sent to the diyak Fyodor Mishurin.
	www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/classes/ostrowski.html (9522 words)

	Orthodox Saints for June
		The monastery was destroyed by the Crusaders in 1204, restored in 1293 by Emperor Andronicus II.
		She lived in virginity in Rome during the reign of Valerian (253-260) — as the Prologue says, 'expelling the stench of the passions from her heart with the sweet-smelling perfume of purity and chastity.' She voluntarily presented herself to the pagans and announced herself to be a Christian, for which she was tortured to death.
		During the iconoclast period, the icon was hidden in a wall in the monastery of the Pantocrator.
	www.abbamoses.com /months/june.html (11299 words)

	This is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis: Saints and Martyrs Archives
		Meanwhile, the monastery of Mount Auxentius and its igumen became known in the capital.
		The dates of the feasts of these Saints were interchanged at the request of the Church and Monastery of Mount Sinai, so that the festival of Saint Catherine, their patron, might be celebrated more festively together with the Apodosis of the Feast of the Entry of the Theotokos.
		The head of this monastery began to teach the youth the method of concentrated spiritual prayer and mental activity, which was gradually appropriated and cultivated by monastics, beginning with the great desert ascetics of the fourth century: Evagrius Pontikos and St. Macarius of Egypt (January 19).
	chattablogs.com /aionioszoe/archives/cat_saints_and_martyrs.html (17131 words)

	This is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis: Our Father Among the Saints, Cyril, Abbot of White Lake Monastery
		He was tonsured a monk in Simonov Monastery where he lived a life of asceticism to the amazement of the other monks.
		Against his wishes he was elected abbot of Simonov monastery.
		One night he saw a great light and heard a voice: "Cyril, depart from here and go to the White Lake!" And indeed, he departed from the Simonov Monastery with one companion and went to the vicinity of the White Lake and there, in the dense pine forest, began to live a life of asceticism.
	chattablogs.com /aionioszoe/archives/024379.html (370 words)

	Simyonov Monastery
		Founded in 1370 by the monk Fyodor, a nephew of Sergey of Radonezh, the Simyonov Monastery (Simyonovskiy monastyr) resisted many Sieges until it was sacked by the Poles during the Time of Troubles.
		Since regaining ownership of the Simonov in 1994, the Church has struck a deal with the firms on the premises: they are allowed to remain for a while but must contribute funds to its restoration.
		Today, the factory, on the far side of the park outside the monastery, has fallen on hard times and will soon be as decrepit as the monastery.
	www.talava.com /simyonov.html (539 words)

	DiscoverMoscow.Com - Moscow Churches & Cathedrals.
		Also known as St. Andronik Monastery, it is located on the banks of the Yauza River and served as a residence of the male monks in the olden times.
		The Danilov Monastery is situated on the banks of the River Moskva, and was a male monastery.
		Founded by the monk Fyodor in 1370, Fyodor Monastery was considered to be the richest in Moscow in the 15 th Century.
	www.discovermoscow.com /moscow_churches.asp (1136 words)

	Orthodox Saints for March
		She lived for fifty-six years in the monastery, and was granted the gift of raising the dead.
		The monastery's rule was simple and strict: During the five weekdays, the monks would stay in their cells, praying and weaving baskets and mats.
		The holy Monastery of St Sabbas is still in existence today, by the providence of God, though several times in its history it has been plundered and left empty.
	www.abbamoses.com /months/march.html (12476 words)

	Russian Monastery Chants (Inexplicit Monastic Attributions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Archimandrite Feofan of the Donskoi Monastery composed works that are heard in many churches today, and there is some reason to believe that at least some of the repertory known as compositions by Feofan are actually his renderings of the traditional church singing of his monastery.
		There were, of course, a number of other monasteries in and around Moscow, but traveling further abroad there are other possible candidates, such as the Riazan Monastery.
		There is the further complication that a skete may exist within a monastery; indeed, a "skitok" may exist within a skete (as at Maniava).
	www.synaxis.info /psalom/regional/3_EastSlavic/b_ModernRussian/info/monastic.html (356 words)

	Workcamps in Russland
		Monastery is situated in Vologodskaya Area, on the bank of the Borodaevskoe lake, near Passkoe lake, not far from the city of Kirillov.
		You’ll be surrounded by fantastic landscapes and unique Russian architecture!The founder of the monastery - Ferapont became monk at the age of 40 in Moscow Simonov monastery, where his friend Kirill Belozersky also lived.
		Monastery was a famous religious centre in the 16th century, In 1989 religious life here restarted and it is functioning as a men monastery again.
	www.yap-cfd.de /workcamps/1russland.html (2026 words)

	Isaac Levitan, realist painters, surrealism paintings, artists biography, famous art works, impressionism paintings, ...
		The landscape painter, deeply feeling both lyrical revealing unique charm and quiet greatness of Russian nature, Levitan practically did not paint urban landscapes, with the exception (currently lost) "View of Simonov monastery", mentioned by Nesterov, Moscow is present only in the painting "Illumination of the Kremlin".
		During work in Ostankino, he embodied fragments of mansion’s house and park, but basically he was fond of poetry chamber places in forest or modest countryside.
		In the summer of 1890 Levitan went to Yuryevets and among numerous landscapes and etudes he wrote "The View of Krivooserski monastery".
	www.reviewpainting.com /Isaac-Levitan.htm (810 words)

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		Born and educated in Moscow, the son of a great house, he was tonsured in the Simonov monastery, where he lived in an asceticism that was a marvel to the other monks.
		He was chosen against his will as abbot of his monastery, but constantly begged the Mother of God to show him how he could continue in his silent asceticism.
		One night he saw a great light and heard a voice: 'Kiril, leave here and go to the white lake!', so he left the Simonov monastery with one other monk and went to the shore of the lake (Byelozersk means 'white lake').
	pomog.org /prologue/June/22.htm (470 words)

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