respect allowed to control the crossing over the river, protecting moscow from the south-western side. in case of danger, the sagittarius detachments were equipped here, which held the defense. by the end of the 16th century, moscow had created a good defense system for itself; the city had four lines, walls, including creams. and china city white city. the border ran from the monastery about 2.5 km to the north. there was a fourth line of defense, but in moscow roads and the most dangerous directions approached. you understand where the cream is. this is the south, so a kind of ring of monasteries was formed, guarding the guards, so the moscow watchmen said in this line, the defensive line included the old strong one at the monastery, daniilovsky donskoy and the new nine. they were at a distance practically from each other, a spectator of

invisibility, and therefore a signal of certain situations. it could be transferred.

the main buildings of the monastery were erected in the second half of the 17th century in the moscow baroque style under the reign of princess sofia alekseevna. the half- sister of peter i was his regent, an educated and ambitious woman. had a strong will character. and she wanted to have the royal throne so much that she was ready to do anything for this. since childhood, i feel my high appointment. i should be the queen and my queen in my native country, sophia declared, but

being the emperor of all russia, peter was growing up and was not going to. just give up, what is the age of majority in those days, married, then everything is adults, that's in 1689. peter themselves. remember, he comes to a meeting of the boyar duma. just reminds everyone of these old conditions. i've been married for a year now. why my sister still hasn't handed over the case. now this is what i need. i will not come to a government meeting to sign documents until this is done, and he retires to preobrazhenskoye sofya alekseevna begins the struggle for the throne. she spreads rumors around moscow that the parsley was replaced in the german sloboda, inciting streltsov to kill the young tsar

. there's a confrontation, so dry alekseevna sends the ambassador a cookie called it is necessary talk. what's happened? and the ambassador remains the patriarch there, she asks petra and the patriarch to go. it remains there. they understood that all people were faced with a choice of whom you are now supporting a legitimate sovereign or an already illegal ruler, and moscow, a huge city of 200,000, was deceived there, you will not confirm your loyalty. sovereign, you will fall into disgrace understood and the sufis remain alone complete no, very mercifully. he sends her here to novodevichy. the monastery, after some

time, the second attempt at rebellion, incited by supporters. sagittarians are rioting the famous streletsky but peter severely punishes the rebels. so they executed 100 people. well, the rest were hanged around the city with an order. do not shoot all winter. the lesson must be remembered while still being a temporary queen. sophia made large contributions to the arrangement of the monastery, she spared no funds for decorating the temples, when she appeared, the assumption church with a refectory. the temple was

built with six furious, 72-meter bell tower at that time the highest in moscow after the bell tower of ivan the great the monastery was rebuilt and acquired that surrounded appearance that has survived to this day. during the reconstruction, archaeologists found fragments of ancient buildings. we saw the original monastery as it existed in the first quarter of the 16th century, when it was created by basil after dinner. we searched for the walls of this monastery for a long time, because in general it seemed to everyone that the walls still coincide with the walls that are now standing along the line since the fifties of the twentieth century. these are the walls that restorers have been looking for all the time. but as it turned out, princess sophia's walls were not there at all. placed around the monastery. well, almost parallel to the ancient walls, which

i simultaneously dismantled, of course, because two such lines of walls were completely unnecessary to have for anything about this wall, which was partly reflected in the first wall in the documents of the 16th century. hmm, they forgot, of course, at the end of the 16th century. and after the appearance of the essence, everyone today imagines the monastery as it is , as beautiful as it is. ah, but the fact that we discovered the remains of the first wall gives a lot. firstly. we made sure that the monastery really had a stone fence. i would not call it, maybe today such a powerful fortress wall, but still the monastery had a stone fence, not a wooden one. she really had towers. in any case, we opened the two corner towers of their place in this way, the monastery received its original territory, which was a third less than the modern modern heritage. very big actually. here

was the original. here is one three somewhere at 20-25 m. in the depths of the thunderstorm of 1812 borodino leaving moscow by russian troops napoleon, all moscow churches and monasteries were occupied. with narrow occupiers, the conquerors hoped to find treasures and large food supplies there , but they were greatly disappointed in the value, they did not find it, and the food supplies did not last long. in the end, napoleon left moscow before leaving, the french desecrate, ruin and burn russian shrines, the emperor gives the order to bury the novodevichy. the monastery had gunpowder in large quantities in barrels in boxes and, leaving the monastery, lit the wicks. this noticed the rapist of the monastery and the senior at that

time nun sarah nikolaeva organized the sisters and monastic servants, and indeed a fire was discovered, flaring up or burning, and the hall was quickly made with water. this is all thanks to the efforts of this nun sarah, which has been preserved in the anals of the monastery. e, as one of the historical heroines in 1917, the bolsheviks expelled the nuns from the monastery, the necropolis was almost completely destroyed by the nuns. those who survived during the arrests and persecutions settled around the monastery in small houses and from afar were baptized and prayed at the wall of this convent in the spring of 18 the monastery. settled

two hundred cadets from the people's commissariat of education a little later another 300 workers of petrograd. this is a women's monastery, and many lived near the monastery, stayed here and went to the monastery, as there is one church in the parish church. here, by the way, is precisely this brosyevskaya church. she stayed here, as with them from sky, for a long time, uh, until the end of the thirties, when everything was completely closed. the soviet government finally closed the monastery and created a museum there emancipation of women in the thirties the monastery became a branch of the state historical museum and remained so until 2010. this is what allowed the unique architectural ensemble of the monastery to remain almost untouched, but a holy place does not happen empty even during the great patriotic war and when joseph began to give indulgence to the church

to the owner. the monastery comes to life in the autumn of the forty- third year. church life begins to revive in it, and theological courses open here. and a year later bogoslovsky institute, then transformed into the moscow theological seminary and academy in the sixties , the novodevichy convent is the residence of the metropolitan of krutitsy and kolomna, but monastic life resumed here only in the mid-nineties. and only recently in 2010 it was decided to transfer the color. on may 6, 2019, the money of george the victorious, a significant event took place in the novodevichy convent, a religious procession took place, in which the elected president of russia vladimir putin took part he presented the oldest list of the iberian icon of the mother of god, which was brought to russia by the safon

in 1648, the icon was kept in the historical museum and after the revival of the cloisters it was transferred to the russian orthodox church did not accompany our ancestors for centuries and on peaceful campaigns, including during the liberation of smolensk in the middle of the 16th century . here are the foreign invaders. this icon of the russian orthodox church. let

it serve and help people. at the present time divine services are continuously going on in the temples of the novodevichy convent. now, of course, we all pray to our army and to these, of course, that peace in christ will be agreed as soon as possible, and all that we now have is from the fact that many people have turned away from god, we see that the heart of every person is really and the entire

human society. these forces are fighting between good and evil - this is understandable. the main commandments are all do not kill your neighbor first and main commandment. and to the extent that humanity does not observe these commandments, it gets carried away. here is a bloody confrontation. and if, for the most part, humanity would turn specifically to christ and make a sacrifice of thanksgiving, a bloodless sacrifice that is performed at the liturgy, then there would be no such terrible sacrifices. they wouldn't exist now in 2015. restoration work began here, but before that, archaeologists and artists explored all the buildings and the territory of the cloisters centimeter by centimeter and it was decided to restore its original appearance by

updating engineering communications, the last time such a global architectural restoration of the monastery took place for more than a century back. the oldest temple of the monastery of the smolensk cathedral, the walls were painted, the domes were updated and the crosses were repaired, the roofing of the window bars. the restorers have moved inside now the temple from the bottom to the top, in the scaffolding. millimeter by millimeter, with special tools, specialists clean from centuries of accretions and restore the seventeen-meter iconostasis, already reinforced with gilding, the gesso iconostasis is ground to recreated elements. threads. let's now we are at the ah-a final stage now gilding work is underway hmm, with the help of gold leaf, that is, initially the iconostasis was gilded with

gold leaf. now we are fragments of wear. we recreate by applying the created gold, that is, the arena gold, what is this same gold leaf, taken with leaves, rubbed with homers , there were faces, and then the iconostasis is already applied to the carving elements from the brush. this is our temporary fund storage, where icons from the great iconostasis of the smolensk cathedral are now placed during the restoration of the novodevichy convent, hoping that of the monastery, these are the contributions of the three royal houses of the russian rurikovich to the year of the new and romanovs

in front of you, the earliest ones. and most importantly, the image of the large iconostasis of the smolensk cathedral is the temples in the icon of the smolensk mother of god of asia, which, according to its climate, is exactly dated as the treasure of tsar ivan vasilyevich the terrible divich. it is very delicate and completely different work and a variety of jewelry techniques that retain such a solemn meaningful style. that is, this is his first shrine, the foundation, in general, for the sake of which the next one is also an icon, which still belongs to the end of the xvi century. this is an icon of the russian saints boris and gleb, which is considered to be the contribution of boris fyodorovich godunov a to the novodevichy convent, and finally the icon that you can see here, this icon is associated with the third and brightest period in the history of the melody than the monastery. this period

is associated with the end of the 17th century. the beginning of the reign of peter the great, the triple triple reign of his brother ivan alekseevich and tsarevna alekseevna, these icons are contributions in the eighties of the 17th century, associated with home of the romanovs, artists from the latest inclinations cleans the frescoes of the 16th-17th centuries. this is a very delicate work, complex and the result is sometimes unpredictable. we are in the central skufje. uh, the smolensk cathedral of the novodevichy convent, apparently, you have with you the image of god the father jesus christ and the holy spirit for the restoration of this volume. we spent more than 3 years, that is 2 years. we dealt with what we disclosed. this is already

from under many layers with under recordings, then there were technical ones. e. operations such as strengthening to the colorful layer removing old restoration rates in the performance of the loss of the plaster base. and uh, now we have the same final process. this toning is bringing it into an expositional form. yes, in this complex we have, uh, most of the preservation of the author's crash of the 16th century, and we imagined, as if here, uh, after all, everything is whining for the 16th century. we did not expect that there would be such a sugar content, because during, uh, the first rises to this volume, as everything was under the layer. oil painting and late tinting turned out that we will not find the sixteenth century here. it is possible that in cuv. i'm all re-plastered, but no, we're very lucky. and now we can see with you all the painting of the 16th century, the cathedral painting was updated more than once, plastered over

, then the water was painted anew, sometimes with a change in the plot, the architecture of the temple was transferred, the limits were laid and windows were cut through, and nevertheless in a miraculous way. now the artist manages to discover an ancient painting from the time of tsar boris godunov, untouched by time . and often we come to church there, and we can not distinguish. where is the ancient painting and where are the restoration tints and here in our task is just so that specialists and a simple person who is interesting, who looks carefully can immediately see where the training is. and where is the author's painting and very important. our task is not to turn the author's painting into painting into a postcard with our training. e, into something that you no longer exist, namely , to express it and show all the centuries that it has lived and the air that has all the color in it, so that it continues to tell us. all the same

history and all his life, despite our work in the process of toning, it is very important to avoid direct reconstruction, because here you can see very well here, but there are a lot of lost eyebrows, there are some parts of the chin, some folds and, of course, their formations. we all have. higher education is artistically often we, of course, we know where this fold or this turn of a-a hair could be, but if we draw here draw here we will write letters. this will be the painting of the xxi century, and not at all the sixteenth, as we i would like to and very often just the most difficult task. it is to completely destroy the artist in oneself, it is to force oneself not to finish drawing, not to invent, not to make the appearance that it has been preserved, because , uh, when i can draw, and then who will distinguish it. and this, uh, author's curl or not? and here it is very important not to finish drawing,

because i drew in one place. i want to draw a halo. then i’ll want to draw parts of the cross here for him, we already get quite an ancient living one for me. and that's because, in general, in a certain sense, maybe from the outside it sounds, but it's all good, even with her losses, even with the very life she lived. and here is the fact that it has been preserved in the form in which this great happiness exists. but the main thing, of course, is not these legendary stones, the main thing is the spirit of the monastery, which is created by its rapist nuns today in the monastery, only 30 sisters get into the monastery. it is not as easy as before that sisters can remain novices for years, testing the firmness of their intentions before they receive the tonsure. little has changed in hundreds of years

here everyone also lives according to the canons of spiritual writings compiled by the first abbess of the reverend or at the moscow world order, leading the monastery, prayer is still work and obedience, i can’t say that we live in a museum. we still live in a holy place by the sea. this is what it looks like more. today we talked about happiness. look

for the union with happiness. the most important thing, it seems to me, all the more so in our time, our life is difficult and you just need to find it to see it, and we often bypass this union and do not notice any obvious things we need for both the fuss and some internal problems from everything nearby. just take everything. today, in these ancient temples, continuous prayer sounds gratifying that people come here not only to enjoy the beauties of this amazing architectural ensemble, but to pray to turn to god with an ardent request or gratitude. and this is probably the main thing that determines the life of the monastery today.

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