The Nikolo-Ugresh Monastery is a Stavropol monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church, founded at the end of the XIV century. It is located on St. Nicholas Square in the city of Dzerzhinsky near Moscow.
History of the monastery
The monastery was founded in 1380 by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy on the site of the appearance of the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. According to legend, it was at this place that the Grand Duke's army stopped to rest on the way to Kulikov field. The appearance of the icon strengthened Dmitry Donskoy with faith and hope, which is why the Holy Prince pronounced "This is all my heart" ("It all warmed my heart"). Since then, this place is called Ugresha, and the monastery of Nikolo-Ugresh.
The monastery repeatedly burned and was ruined, but was quickly restored. In 1521, the monastery was burned to the ground during a raid on Moscow by the Crimean Khan Mehmed I Giray, but, as in previous cases, it was quickly restored. Then the soldiers of kalga Bahadyr-Giray burned not only the "manastyr of Nikola Chyutvorets on Ugresh", but also the "Grand Duke of the village of lyubimoe Ostrov" on the opposite bank of the Moskva River.
In the spring of 1546, having gone to war with the Crimean Tatars, Ivan IV (the Terrible) turned "to Nikola on Ugresha" on Easter days, where he attended a festive service, after which he continued the campaign.
Regular royal visits to the pilgrimage ("Ugresh campaigns") of the sovereign Mikhail Fedorovich, and then Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov, contributed to the significant development and welfare of the monastery in the XVII century. During one "Ugresh campaign" of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich on July 11, 1668, three Patriarchs visited Ugresha at once: Paisius of Alexandria, Macarius III of Antioch and Joasaph of Moscow.
Nikolo-Ugresh Monastery (1674)
In the 1680s, the monastery was repeatedly visited by the young tsar Peter I. After the suppression of the Streltsy revolt, the Ugresh monastery became one of the places of detention for rebellious Streltsy who opposed Tsar Peter.
In 1721, the abbot of the Nikolo-Ugresh Monastery, Feofan, signed the Spiritual Regulations
In 1812, the monastery was attacked by the French, one of whose detachments stayed for some time on the territory of the monastery. In 1841-1843 , the Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was rebuilt by architect Dmitry Borisov
In 1833, only six people remained in the monastery, and there was talk of the abolition of the monastery. At this time, Metropolitan Filaret of Moscow decided to make Abbot Ignatius Bryanchaninov the rector of this third-grade monastery and through the Synod summoned him to St. Petersburg, where he was. Officially, the appointment of the 82nd abbot of the Ugreshsky monastery took place, but when presented to Emperor Nicholas I, he decided to give Ignatius another monastery to manage - the Trinity-Sergius Desert near St. Petersburg - and his friend monk Hilary was appointed to the Ugreshsky monastery on Ignatius' recommendation, who, despite some of his peculiarities and a constant desire to resign, He accepted the monastery on March 15, 1834 and was abbess there for 18 years. Metropolitan Filaret , who visited the monastery in October 1837 , said: "I have no poorer or worse churches in the whole diocese." Hilary complained to Ignatius about his difficulties in restoring the monastery, to which he received an answer: "You are drinking the cup that I would have had to drink if God's Providence had not turned me away from the Ugresh monastery... In your conscience, you feel that you did not ruin the monastery, but on the contrary, how much your strength and skills were corrected. Vladyka may have found it really hard to look at the ruins of the monastery, but he, as a prudent person, can very well understand..."
In November 1874 Konstantin Leontiev became a novice of the Nikolo-Ugresh monastery, but in the spring of 1875 he left the monastery due to disagreements with Abbot Pimen. After his dismissal from the Moscow department on March 20, 1917, Metropolitan Makarii (Nevsky) lived here in retirement for several years.
On July 1, 1919, the monastery was transformed into a labor artel of monks, called the "Nikolo-Ugresh labor community", headed by the rector, Archimandrite Makarii. Patriarch Tikhon visited the monastery several times; the last time was in 1924.
In 1917, a children's colony of the People's Commissariat of Finance was organized in the monastery building, which included: a shelter for mothers with young children, an institute of noble maidens, a boarding school for boys. Later, the colony was transformed on the initiative of Felix Dzerzhinsky into a labor commune.
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