Of Anastasov monastery Photo: Anastasov monastery

Of Anastasov the monastery is located in the eponymous village of Anastasova Odoevsky area. About time the basis of preserved information in the monastery "Feed" the book that was given to the princes Alexander and Michael Vorotynsky the Abbot of the monastery Herman in 1558 Under the instrument builders of the monastery was Prince Ivan vorotynsky and his wife Anastasia.

The monastery was built in 1550-ies after their Ivan Vorotynsky victory near Tula over the Tatars, in 1517, and, most likely, in gratitude for this victory. Many historians believe that the name of the monastery has been named after its constructors, Princess Anastasia. But in this case it would be called Anastasis. Another group of researchers are inclined to the version that the monastery is called "Anastasov" named its first Abbot – Abbot Anastasia; hence in many documents it is called simply "Anastasov".

At the base of the monastery Vorotynsky he was given into the possession of the village: martinovski, Runnino, Filimonovo Podromanijo.

The original Church was wooden, in 1673, was built a stone Church. It was built by the Abbot of Iona. According to the "Chronicle" of the convent in 1674 was built a stone tower. The construction was matched with high artistic taste. The massive volume of the building of the Church as if they grew on the sloping hill and seamlessly into the picturesque landscape of the river Bank. The temple architecture is an austere and concentrated cautious, characteristic of the mid-17th century, when the Tula land still remembered the days of Tatar raids. The alien temple cheerfulness and festivity.

The temple was in the form of a rectangle, above the main altar rose a square with five domes. The bottom floor was made from the raw Platja. Perhaps he was destined for the monastic pantries, and, perhaps, for monastic cells of monks in two rooms on the ground floor traces of human habitation. The Church walls are fairly thick, one of them was arranged passage, which connected the kitchen with the chapel of the Holy Martyr Catherine, another move was made from the vaults of the Church of the exaltation of the heads of the Church.

The bell tower stands on the North side of the Church and connected by a gallery. At the second stage of the tower is a room with a strange name "kazanci". Perhaps it was something like a watchtower or served as categrories monastery.

About the history of the monastery tell Synodic and "Deposit Book". Here are mentioned donors, builders and the abbots of the monastery. Especially notable is the Synodic Kolupaeva. This 1691 manuscript bound in leather. Instead of the usual "introductions" in the Synodikon set out only a General commemoration of the "accidents" that require special Church prayers, and who have no one to pray for them.

Near the temple, slightly below it, there is an ancient monastery cemetery, where a monument to the citizen Odoev, Kolupaeva, who in 1612 never swore allegiance to the false Dmitry, and threw him off the tower Odoevskii fortress. In 1716 monastery peasants were 244 yard, most lived in "scarcity".

In 1722, in the monastery there was not a single monk, except the Abbot. The poverty of the monastery's peasants, together with the cessation of large deposits in the time of Peter the reflected and memorialized in abundance. The monastery was close to collapse. In 1764 the monastery was abolished and turned into the village of Anastasova. The village, which was patrimonial possessions of the monastery and being near him made a ward of the village. All of the members were farmers, tilling the soil and producing pottery.

The temple during the period of its existence, has undergone several changes. In the 1840s the Church was painted. One old trick was patched, instead of in the wall punched a new move, with wooden stairs and porch replaced in 1883 by a stone.

The architect who built the Church Anastasova monastery, glorified the beauty and originality of Russian architecture. In the architectural composition of the Church used characteristic of ancient Russian architecture: a complex plan, picturesque asymmetry of the volumes, the freedom of decision of the architecture of the temple.

The temple related interesting events. In ancient manuscripts, which belonged to the merchant Polikarpov, says that in Believe in 1805 was a large fire, when melted many bells. At the time of Belevsky monastery in Anastasova monk came to take a few bells. The parishioners refused and on the advice of the priest Gabriel avksentiev drove stakes, who wanted to usurp the property of their Church. This priest was suspended from Church Affairs and was sent to Kolomna.

With 2012 in the monastery under construction.

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