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Epiphany Monastery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1680-1687, the Epiphany monastery was home to a school of the Likhud brothers, which would later be transferred to the Zaikonospassky monastery and transformed into the famous Slavic Greek Latin Academy. The now-existing Epiphany cathedral was consecrated in 1696. In 1788, the Epiphany monastery was proclaimed a residence of the vicarian bishop of the Moscow bishopric. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epiphany_Monastery   (528 words)

Zaikonospassky monastery - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Zaikonospassky monastery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The Zaikonospassky monastery (Заиконоспасский монастырь in Russian) is a male monastery in Moscow. Between the late 17th - early 19th centuries, the Zaikonospassky monastery was one of the enlightenment centers of Russia. Today's architectural ensemble of the monastery includes the Spassky Cathedral (built in 1660-1661; re-constructed in 1717-1720 and 1742), chambers of the 17th century and former school building (1822). www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Zaikonospassky-monastery.html   (183 words)

Churches in Moscow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) 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.venues.spb.ru /moscow/churches   (473 words)

Churches, Monasteries and Convents in Moscow, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) 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)

Donskoy Monastery Commanding a highway to the Crimea, the monastery was intended to defend southern approaches to the Moscow Kremlin. 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. www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Donskoy_Monastery   (1066 words)

St. Andronik Monastery - InformationBlast Andronik Monastery, often transliterated as Andronikov Monastery (Андроников монастырь, Спасо-Андроников монастырь, Андроников Нерукотворного Спаса монастырь in Russian) is a male monastery on the left bank of the Yauza River in Moscow, consecrated to the Holy Image of Saviour Not Made by Hands and containing the oldest extant cathedral in Moscow. The monastery was established in 1357 by Metropolitan Alexis as a thanksiving for his survival in a storm. In August of 1653, archpriest Avvakum was held under arrest at this monastery. www.informationblast.com /Andronikov_Monastery.html   (589 words)

Simonov Monastery, Russia (European)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) 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.odyssei.com /travel-tips/5929.html   (405 words)

Zaikonospassky Monastery in Moscow, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) In 1665 a school was opened in the monastery to educated clerks for government service, headed by the monastic scholar Simeon Polotsky. Today all that remains of the monastery is part of its main cathedral, including the restored red and white octagonal bell tower and the adjacent monks quarters. Although the cathedral was constructed in the last decade of the 17th century, the monastery was founded by Prince Daniil in the 13th century, making it the second oldest in Moscow. www.moscow-taxi.com /churches/zaikonospassky-monastery.html   (266 words)

ELIAN TRAVEL / Moscow Churches, Monasteries, Cathedrals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) 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)

Novospassky Monastery, Russia (European)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) 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. 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. 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.odyssei.com /travel-tips/5928.html   (795 words)

Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Zaikonospassky monastery The Zaikonospassky monastery (Заиконоспасский монастырь in Russian) is a male monastery in Kitai-gorod, Moscow, just one block away from the Kremlin. The Zaikonospassky monastery was closed after the October Revolution and later reopened as an institute of archives. There is a memorial plaque in honor of Mikhail Lomonosov, who was once a student at this cloister. www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Zaikonospassky_monastery   (186 words)

The Orthodox Monasteries Worldwide Directory - A comprehensive collection of orthodox monasteries around the world ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour, Valaam Island, Sortavala, Kareliya, 186756, Russia. It is similar to the Mount Athos, with the exception that all monastic communities belong to the same Monastery (Valaam Monastery). The Monastery is located in the very center of Moscow and just a few steps from Red Square. www.orthodox-monasteries.com /russia/index2.html   (144 words)

Moscow - History The monastery was built up by successive people over the years - the present fortifications and cathedral date from a building program which ended in 1733 - the monastery being intended to guard the Kaluga Gates. It was one of the few fortress monasteries to still have a functioning church in the 1980s. The Monastery of the Epiphany, behind GUM, was founded by Prince Daniel, and is the second oldest monastery in the city. bdaugherty.tripod.com /moscow.html   (19126 words)

Bogoyavlensky Monastery - Moscow, Russia Basil's Cathedral Archangel Cathedral Assumption Cathedral Annunciation Cathedral Christ the Savior Cathedral Andronik Monastery Bogyavlensky Monastery Novodevichy Convent Novospassky Monastery According to a legend, the Bogoyavlensky Monastery was founded by Daniil Aleksandrovich around 1296. Finally, in the 1980s, the Bogoyavlensky Monastery was restored. www.sacred-destinations.com /russia/bogoyavlensky-monastery-moscow.htm   (513 words)

The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. The Most Holy Patriarch Joachim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) After the death of his wife he left military business and went to the Mezhigorsky monastery in Kiev where he accepted monastic cut. In 1657 he went to the Iberian icon of the Holy Mother of God monastery in Novgorod, and was soon transferred to Moscow where he worked in the monastery of St. Andrew and then in the New – Savior one. On his blessing the theological school was established in the Zaikonospassky monastery in Moscow. www.patriarchalexii2.ru /en/history/untilSynodal/Joachim.html   (478 words)

Peter (Ekaterinovsky) of Novoarkhangelsk - OrthodoxWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Peter was appointed to the staff of the Holy Synod in Moscow and as administrator of the Holy Resurrection Monastery. After a leave of absence residing at the Optima Pustyn Monastery from July 9, 1883, he was appointed head of the Zaikonospassky Monastery in Moscow on February 11, 1885. These writings he left to the Optima Pustyn Monastery and now are being rediscovered and are highly regarded in post-communist Russia. www2.orthodoxwiki.org /Peter_(Ekaterinovsky)_of_Novoarkhangelsk   (504 words)

[Donskoy Monastery] | [All the best Donskoy Monastery resources at breast-augmentation.entremanure.biz]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) The former church of St. Seraphim, situated at this cemetery, was reconstructed into the first crematorium in Moscow in 1927. Looking For donskoy monastery Find donskoy monastery and more at Lycos Search. Search for donskoy monastery Find results for donskoy monastery and anything else you are looking for instantly! breast-augmentation.entremanure.biz /pages1/Donskoy_Monastery   (1147 words)

The rise of Moscow as capital (from Moscow) --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) As an outermost line of defense, a chain of strongly fortified monasteries was established beyond the ramparts to the south and east, principally the Novodevichy Convent and Donskoy (Don), Danilovsky, Simonov, Novospassky, and Andronikov monasteries, most of which now house museums. The revolts were put down by the hereditary militia, the streltsy, who in 1698, early in the reign of Peter I the Great, themselves revolted and were suppressed only with great slaughter. Russia's first higher educational institution, the Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy attached to the Zaikonospassky Monastery in the Kitay-gorod, dates from 1687. www.britannica.com /ebc/article-12567   (1733 words)

Magazine 'DIPLOMAT' :: 2005'8   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) It did not get its name from the Kremlin gate, however, but from the Nikolo-Grechesky (Nicholas-Greek) Monastery founded by natives of the Greek city of Athos on some land given to them by Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The building with two wings and the remains of a bell tower in the pseudo-Byzantine style were built by C. Bousse in the early 20th century. In the fall of 1941, a gunned-down Nazi bomber fell on the three-storied house that used to be there. www.diplomatrus.ru /200508/uk/11-01.php   (1359 words)

ELIAN TRAVEL / Zaikonospassky Monastery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Just around the corner from the Zaikonospassky visitors will find the imposing facade and intricate ornamentation of the Epiphany Cathedral, part of the monastery of the same name. Services are still held in the cathedral and its gift shop helps to fund the ongoing restoration of the building's interiors. The adjacent monks' quarters now serve as offices. loverussianwife.com /travel/moscow/sights/churches/zaikonospassky.htm   (255 words)

The Kandinskys' Family Tree (8th Generation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) As an interpreter he worked at the summit level with VIPs in politics, economy, culture, etc. He was the creator of a unique system of phonetics, interpreting and translation teaching. Since 1996 together with his job at the Academy, he started teaching at the Sunday School of the Spassky Sobor (Saviour Cathedral) of the Zaikonospassky Monastery in the centre of Moscow (200 metres from the Kremlin). In 1999 he became a priest and served at the same cathedral til his death. www.kandinsky.ru /english/tree08.shtml   (521 words)

MERRSU Consistency List monastery (lavra) of Pochaev (founded 1240); monastery of Khutyn; monastery of Saint George (Yurev); monastery of the Dormition (Uspenskii); monastery of the Transfiguration in Yaroslavl, the; monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Murom, the; monastery of the Miracle (Chudov), 1094) abbot of caves monastery of Kiev, 1074-1078 Upper Lavra, of the caves monastery in Kiev www.stetson.edu /~psteeves/merre/merrsu_consistency.html   (2583 words)

Moscow 2006 :: About Moscow The Arbat - once a bohemian quarter of the city, littered with cafes crammed full of the capital's intellectual elite, the Arbat is today Moscow's liveliest pedestrian street and offers a great choice of street cafes, restaurants, bars, clubs, souvenir stalls, art markets and street entertainers. Andrey Rublyov Museum of Early Russian Culture and Art - extensive exhibitions exploring the life and works of the legendary 14th century Russian icon painter, housed in the Andronikov Monastery, where Rublyov was a monk. Chekhov House Museum - details the life and works of the prolific and highly regarded Russian dramatist and master of the modern short story, Anton Chekhov, through a series of exhibits housed in one of the writer's former residences. www.moscow2006.com /eng/general_information/about_moscow   (4290 words)

UrbanPlanet.org > Moscow kaleidoscope: past, present & future The monastery was founded by Metropolitan Alexei to fulfill his promise to do so if saved from a storm on the Black Sea during his visit to Constantinople in 1356. The monastery is most famous cause the master Icon artist, AndrEi RublÅv was a monk here. survived (escaped dectruction) section of the wall with fortress tower in front of the upper part of the BogoyavlEnski (Epiphany) monastery (1693-96).The gold dome of the ZaikonospAssky monastery (1661) is to the left urbanplanet.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/lofiversion/t12012.html   (2131 words)

the trough Enjoy a Russian feast of everything from honey liquor to cedar vodka, from roast, stuffed piglet to wild boar in cranberry sauce at Godunov. Here "long and bitter," "full body" and "fruity flavors" refer to the complexities of Belgium’s indigenous art: beer making, developed over centuries at the tiny country’s Catholic monasteries. Monks is the place for beer-drinking gourmets looking to stick it to The Man to enjoy Belgian beers unregulated by government. www.geo.arizona.edu /~eflesch/the_trough.html   (4404 words)

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