on january 9, russian troops won a strategically important victory. she brought glory to the legendary general skobelev, the battle of the neck brought the liberation of bulgaria from the ottoman yoke closer and the end of the war of 1877-1878 , the path to constantinople was opened for us. vladimir putin congratulated those who celebrate christmas today. he noted the contribution of the russian orthodox church and other christian denominations of russia in preserving the historical memory of educating young people and strengthening the institution of the family. christmas holiday inspires people to good deeds and serves to affirm enduring spiritual values. wrote the president holiday. he met in the annunciation cathedral of the kremlin. this is one of the most ancient and rich in works of art monuments of antiquity, the temple

for centuries was the house church of the russian grand dukes of the tsars of worship. they have resumed there since 1993. but, meanwhile, schismatics of the so-called orthodox church of ukraine held a service in the assumption cathedral of the kiev-pechersk lavra. here, judging by these frames among the parishioners, in mostly military and press people in uniform are on duty at the entrance. they check the documents of everyone who wants to go inside. this can be easily seen in the video that the two buildings of the main orthodox shrine in kiev were sealed closed and it became known on january 2, according to the information of the ministry of culture of ukraine, there was an inventory the day before, it was completed and as a result the building was officially transferred to the state, the canonical church considers the actions of raskolnikov and the regime zelensky by force

capture. well, now to the data of the ministry of defense about stopping in the special operation zone. on red in the limansk direction, the armed forces of ukraine fired 11 mortar shells at russian positions in the solidar avdiivka and maryinsk directions, the enemy used artillery 51 times on russian troops in the residential quarters of the city of donetsk. ukrainian troops fired more than 60 large-caliber shells at the settlement . makiivka of the donetsk people's republic was hit by american rockets , a volley system in the fire of khaimov, zaporozhye region, the armed forces of ukraine opened artillery fire 31 times in kherson and kryvyi rih direction, the enemy fired 17 artillery shellings with return fire at the russian troops , all positions of the armed forces of ukraine from which the shelling was carried out were suppressed, despite the artillery shelling

of the armed forces of ukraine on settlements and russian positions, the implementation of the declared ceasefire regime. the fire will be continued by the russian groupie. the formation of troops until 24:00 today, the formation of the armed forces today fired at the territory of the kherson region at one o'clock in the afternoon came under fire, populated alyoshka point on the left bank of the dnieper shells hit the residential sector and no one on the territory of the kindergarten. as a result, no one was injured. the house of representatives of the us congress, on the fifteenth attempt, was still able to elect a speaker; he became the leader of the republican majority. kevin mccarthy voting lasted all week and at this time the lower house of the us parliament remained paralyzed and congressmen. couldn't take an oath. now the main question that the american media are discussing is what kind of concessions on the map he promised radical republicans to allow him to run bloomberg's agency in particular approves the deal is expected to cut the us defense budget by $75 billion

without adding. this procedure for electing a speaker became the longest in the united states since the middle of the 19th century . there have not been 15 consecutive votes in the house of representatives since 1855. further our broadcast will continue the documentaries of arkady mamontov novodevichy convent 500 years of history a picturesque place in the radiation of the moscow river at the foot of the sparrow hills stands a monastery of amazing beauty architectural ensemble. it is included by unesco in the list of cultural and natural heritage of mankind, once it was located outside the city. now, almost in the very heart of the capital of russia, just 5 km from the kremlin

, the monastery was founded in 1524 in the luzhniki tract on the girl's field by decree of the great moscow prince vasily iii, the prince vowed to god that if he takes the russian, the city of smolensk captured by the lithuanian principality for 110 years before that to build a monastery. if

i get god's will for my fatherland, the city of smolensk land, smolensk, then i will put it in moscow on posada 9 monastery, and a temple in it. in 1514, under the walls of smolensk, the prince fought two unsuccessful assaults from the lithuanians, but then we sat down on the third one, took the city and, as promised to god, after the victory , gave out 230 kg of silver for the construction of a new monastery. the sum was huge at that time. this is a monument to, uh, victory, uh, then uh, that's enough. uh, that's not something that is young, but a state that has sought to return to its historical boundaries of the border. i mean , this is the period of formation of the russian centralized state and, uh, it was created in honor of the events that took place in

1524. this is the return of smolensk. i think that it was very important, because this is not just the addition of another principality. and it was the return of, uh, the return of the territory from the original russian territories that were already there. well, let's say u within another state. i mean the grand duchy, lithuanian and, probably, it is no coincidence that such subjects as on the pillars, for example, the image of ancient russian princes. it was a return to the past. from its very foundation they suggested that the monastery was a refuge for the royal widows, sisters of mothers, it was very prestigious, therefore, yes, and that’s how they called the monastery of the royal abode in the 16th-17th centuries, in the 18th-19th centuries the monastery

becomes, as it were, an ordinary one, well, with such an ancient history, there is such a feature. he has a maiden monastery. he had a very secular history in antiquity, close to the royal house and, accordingly, he became a participant witness to all the events of the war struggle for power. elections. here you are , he is for us and a historical monument. of course not, architectural. the monastery's walls were made of wood. it was built as an architectural miniature of the moscow kremlin. but the temples were originally made of stone, the oldest main cathedral of the smolensk icon of the mother of god repeats the assumption cathedral of the kremlin with slight differences , it was erected by the italian architect aliviz fryazin, the favorite court architect of vasily iii simonushakov. the royal painter painted with

assistants to the wall of the temple, the main shrine of the monastery is the smolensk icon of the mother of god of the hodgrius. translated from greek, it means a guide, this is one of the names of the most holy theotokos, this particular image, and the hydra's money was the main shrine. before us is a list of the 17th century, the main icon is now under restoration, which is located in the iconostasis of the smolensk cathedral, but this image is always available to muscovites and for many, many decades. in general, the main icon for muscovites was the adigidre, which they can always come and pray the first spiritual life in the monastery was laid on july 28, 1525. the

miraculous smolensk icon of the mother of god was transferred to the new cathedral with a procession and the kremlin cathedral of the annunciation for abbots in the monastery. the grand duke summoned and suzdal reverend elena devishkina came to moscow. not one, but five with eighteen suzdal nuns. centuries ago, the monk elena wrote a spiritual charter with instructions on monastic life, which to this day are the main thing for us in the monastery. save me and in the power of your judges god, let us hear my prayer, the inspiring words of my mouth. i want to wait for you, foremen and strongmen. porridge my soul and do not offer that god is in front of you sibu. god helps me, the lord, the intercessor of my soul, the phrase evil of my enemies, the truth and your needs of their will, i will devour you. confession to your seed, the lord, supposedly good, how you delivered me from all sorts of sorrows and sin

my enemies inspire, god, my prayer and the intransigence of my hearing offend. in sadness. my eyes will set in my confusion. the same enemy is not more sinful than i doll nisha us iniquity in anger was at enmity, i know how to heart my confusion of everything. to me it is the death of an attack on honey in our days in the monastery , the traditions and canons of church art are being revived. the monastic gold embroiderers, according to ancient patterns and technologies, manually create new works of facial and ornamental sewing for church use. the banner of the shroud, which we are now embroidering over the archer, is embroidered for the 500th anniversary of the monastery. here is the position in the coffin. so we took a nap to spare ourselves in our monastery. 1.536 and

now this shroud is kept in yaroslavl museum. we went with the girls. with the embroiderers who work here, we went to the museum and looked at everything. how are the stitches. on what background all this is done, all the techniques have been studied. sewing is called embroidery with metallic gilded silver threads. this whole art was equated, as it was with writing and painters, and the craftsmanship itself received the second name of painting, with a needle at first glance. it is impossible to determine whether the work is painted with paints or embroidered with gold. sewing facial sewing, that is, sewing with silk

now you see, polina embroiders. this called face sewing silk sewing. this is the seam in the split, that is, it went. whose thread is sewn a stitch and splits from below and very, very see, by those, what little small small stitches, sisters from childhood. they went to the temple to go to the monastery dreamed from their youth. amazing people of the 21st century, their parents accepted and approved their decisions. naturally, it didn’t happen like that, it’s just the choice of such a person, sometimes he does something or somehow leaves. it seems to me that the lord calls a person, and he and this happens. all. naturally. we are just came to help. we were told that a novodevichy convent was opened, and there was an old

matushka and they just needed help, and we studied at the institute and just came in the summer just to help. and so here we are, we understand that we are simply without this place, without a monastery, without this life. we just can't even live hard anymore. i'm not saying there is some kind of, let's say, a circle of restrictions of some kind, this is a completely secondary story. well, i never regretted it. that i went to the monastery, never a single day like this, no matter how hard it was. i didn't have to. wow, i do something not once. and here, but happiness after all, i found a good book brought by solovkov called the union with happiness and indeed.

here is a man who met god and followed him. he already begins the union with happiness. you just need to believe and the determination to follow christ and that's it. in 1582, after the death of her husband, the son of tsar ivan the terrible, sheremetyeva was tonsured in the novodevichy convent, she did not have the right to marry a second time and had to go to the monastery already will take care. she lives in a monastery. yes, in 1.596 she was buried in the main cathedral. smolensk cathedral, beneath it in the basement or as they used to say in ancient russia in the stairwell , amazing artifacts of past centuries have been preserved, we are located in the oldest part of

our holy cloister in the crypt of the smolensk cathedral, where the oldest part of the monastery necropolis is now being restored here, but you can also look see these ancient slabs. with a white-stone carving, which says who is buried here, and here rests representatives of the most noble boyar families of the russian state, odoevsky , cunningly cuban, and most of the burials are female, but there are also male burials . the world of medieval

man was hierarchical and therefore the most honorable. the hotel of our monastery, the royal innocents rest in the under the altar part of the relative of tsar ivan vasilyevich the terrible, uliana dmitrievna the great palitskaya, the princess, his daughter-in-law, elena sheremetyeva indeed, these are talking stones, which , uh, we are promised from the depths of centuries for five centuries, too, for example, the tombstone can even be read here, yet it is written by the servant of god , grand duke nikita ivanovich odoevsky , wife evdokia fedorovna, warriors of their euphrosyne with a khimnitsa and buried in the 7th place to be today,

when a full-scale restoration of the monastery is underway, interesting mysteries are revealed that were hidden at one time. in the temples of this convent, for example, in the altar of the smolensk cathedral there is a small room about 3 m in length for a long time, historians guessed that this was a pantry next to the allerem or that, a deaf chamber without windows and doors, they are not mentioned in any of the historical documents. obviously there was only one thing that existed here. it is quite a long time since the time of ivan the terrible. and during the restoration of the iconostasis , three windows of the wall tabs were unexpectedly opened, and then the mystery of the mystery of the room was revealed, but here we see the entrance, which is visible behind the late iconostasis of the 18th century. entrance to the room, which is located in the altars

cathedrals. this is a completely unique phenomenon that is very rare, to be honest, even here, apart from our case, they no longer know other cases. that is, it turns out that they got into this room not because of the altar space, but from the main space of the temple. that is, it could not be lighting, but an ordinary person. although it may even be grozny itself, if we consider that this is the building of grozny hmm, he could simply count that this room was for himself during the construction of the temple. premises it's great the fact that here it is located inside the altar, well, small, but at the same time there are three windows in it, let's look at it. this is the room, as i said, that it is quite small here it turns out just a meter. probably three, but in length it is somewhat reminiscent of a stove

with this window. one window is located on the south side, and it is oriented to the altar through the entrance to the altar, through this window one could see the throne. and one more window e is located on the east side, it is oriented to the altar, it was located in the thickness of the northern wall and the price of this room is from the space of the gallery, that is, it is simply light, so some kind of illumination got there at the end of the 16th century, where the fate of our russian state was determined in january 1598 after the death of the husband of the sovereign fedoradovich. in one of the cells.

the monastery is settled by his widow. irina godunova is a smart, educated woman who made a revolution. she actively participated in court life and could claim the throne by becoming the first female ruler of russia. maybe the struggle for power before dunov voluntarily takes tonsured, but actually renounces the royal throne. in moscow, the head of government is being elected at that time, a very influential person, her younger brother boris fyodorovich godunov is one of the most likely candidates, but there were others and boriska godunov, he seems to show everyone i don’t interfere with the problem of choice. decide he goes here with his family. he has piety waiting for the deed to be done. in moscow, as it were, the issue was resolved. come and boyars, report the decision. here irina fedorovna lived

the same way as her predecessors surrounded by numerous words. what is her cell? this is a two-story building that has retained itself of our time. it occupied the entire second floor, and there on the second floor, in addition to private quarters, there was a large hall. this is where boris godunov heard this message . everything must be organized beautifully solemnly and the patriarch organizes a big procession alexander sergeevich pushkin in his work boris godunov mentions the novodevichy convent and here the historical situation which took shape when choosing the king of the muscovite people together, the city of yelets. watch moscow

what do you think, how will a little end? and finally, by your grace, accept. crown humbly agree. and there and there he will rule us as before, muscovites are moving here, for an answer. it will already be february 21, 1598. here, with icons with crosses in their hands, they fill the entire territory of the monastery. and boris

godunov so publicly gives consent let them be russian tsar. in life, the monastery experiences its first flowering during the reign of boris for his sister. the latest data just show that this is still a grozny building. there is an interesting such moment the cathedral was not

originally painted. that is, immediately after its construction, there was no painting in it, and painting appeared only at the end of the 16th century under boris godunov. that is, it was a direct order. boris godunov before his reign, that is, right here he was on the water, which the monastery expected when he was called to the kingdom and he was preparing for this and ordered the painting of the cathedral. uh, the painting of the cathedral was completed in 1549. this is a fresco tempera painting. well, as was traditional for that time, along with growth, most likely the iconostasis appears in the smolensk cathedral of the original thrust of the econostasis. this is also a unique unique phenomenon. this is a special wooden structure into which the faces of saints were inserted. it was used in all ancient russian churches, but for our time. this phenomenon is very rare in the smolensk cathedral, woodpeckers did not stay for long

in the 17th century, a new iconostasis was installed in the temple by a lucky chance. the ancient masters did not dismantle the old one, a mounted it on the top, of course, when we took out the icons and saw these dobs for the first time. they were in critical condition. they were very dusty and very thick layer. smudges, paints, sketches of plaster of some kind of whitewash were bubbling up and, of course, there was a very hard painstaking work to remove dirt. and to strengthen the painting and this is literally a piece of jewelry, when it is necessary to remove pollution without affecting the paint layer. it is not easy. well, we coped with this , processed wood, of course, such work are called conservative. that is, the restorer does not bring anything of his own here. you can see that we left such bare wood, that is, where

the soil was lost over time. so we left it without training or on the ground. we have not added here yet. in a year. we'll put it here. at this late hour on stas we will put icons here again and the heat will be closed tsar boris not only orders the schedule and decorate the smolensk cathedral, but turns on the water, than the monastery into a real fortress , an outpost with 12 towers with hospital openings for firing from cannons and squeaks. they were built on the model of the kremlin head towers, round in the walls of a square, surrounded by high strong walls, the monastery was supposed to become not just a house of prayer, but not a criminal fortress on the way to moscow. . in case of danger, they were equipped here from the ranks of streltsy, who held the defense. by the end of the 16th century, moscow had created

a good defense system for itself; the city had four lines. the walls, including the kremlin kitay-gorod white city, the border ran from the monastery about 2.5 km to the north. that's where the fourth line of defense was, but roads and the most dangerous directions approached moscow. you understand where the cream is. this is the south, and this is how a kind of ring of monasteries was formed, guarding the deed in moscow, and so the moscow watchmen told the watchmen in this line of defense included well spassky old simonov monastery, daniilovsky donskoy and the new nine. they were practically at a distance from each other. invisibility, and therefore signals certain situations. it could be transferred. with age

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