John the Baptist Convent mittatiana wrote in February 26th, 2012
m. "Kitay-gorod", M. Ivanovsky per., 2
The monastery is located in a part of Moscow called the White City, which gave the name to the area itself - "Ivanovskaya Gora".
The monastery is considered one of the oldest in Moscow.
The time of the foundation of the Ivanovsky Monastery is not known with accuracy, but it already existed in the 16th century.
The foundation is attributed to John III, and Grand Duchess Elena Glinskaya, and Ivan the Terrible.
In 1737 the monastery suffered from the "Trinity" fire,
in 1748 it burned down again, but was renewed in 1761 at the expense of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna.
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Here they were imprisoned:
Tsarina Marya Petrovna, wife of Vasily Shuisky, forcibly tonsured a monk (1610);
the second wife of the eldest son of Ivan the Terrible, Tsarevich John, Pelagia Mikhailovna, in monasticism Paraskeva (died in 1620);
It happened that real criminals were sent here for eternal maintenance.
In 1768, D.N. Saltykova ("Saltychikha") was imprisoned in it.
Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova, nicknamed Saltychikha (nee - Ivanova; March 11, 1730 - November 27, 1801)
- Russian landowner, who went down in history as a sophisticated sadist and serial killer of several dozen serfs.
By the decision of the Senate and Empress Catherine II, she was deprived of the dignity of a columned noblewoman and sentenced to life imprisonment in a monastery prison.
She spent thirty-three years in prison and died on November 27, 1801.
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But not only criminals were sent to the monastery by decree.
The monastery received persons whose presence was undesirable in the world for those in power.
So, in the reign of Catherine the Great, in 1785, the nun Dosithea entered the monastery by Imperial decree,
in the world Princess Augusta Tarakanova, who was the daughter of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna from a secret but legal marriage with Alexei Grigoryevich Razumovsky.
She lived abroad, where she received an excellent education.
Because of the fears of Empress Catherine II, who saw in the princess, first of all, a contender for the throne
was fraudulently taken to Russia and tonsured as a nun with the name Dosithea.
The place of residence was determined by the Ivanovo Monastery, where she lived in a one-story house of two cells with an entrance hall,
which was located next to the gate church in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
The recluse had no right to go anywhere.
The slightest noise horrified her.
Nun Dosithea prayed a lot and read spiritual books.
Almost all the maintenance that was assigned to her, Dosithea spent on the poor.
After the death of Catherine II, the situation of the recluse was eased, people began to admit her.
Matushka Dosithea died on February 4, 1810 in the Ivanovo Monastery at the age of 64, having spent 25 years in the monastery.
The nun Dosifei was buried in the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Novospassky Monastery, where many ancestors of the royal house of the Romanovs are buried.
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Ivanovo Monastery, by decree of Empress Elizaveta Petrovna of June 20, 1761, was intended for the care of widows and orphans of noble and distinguished people.
Burnt in 1812 during the invasion of Napoleon, the Ivanovo Monastery was then abolished,
the church turned into a parish, and the cells housed the officials and workers of the Synodal Printing House.
At the request of His Eminence Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow, in 1859 the sovereign allowed the restoration of the monastery.
A large capital of 600 thousand rubles for the revival of the Ivanovsky Monastery in Moscow was bequeathed by Lieutenant Colonel Elizaveta Alekseevna Mazurina,
by husband Makarov-Zubachev (daughter of Alexei Alekseevich Mazurin, Moscow mayor in 1828-1831).
On March 31, 1858, Elizaveta Alekseevna died and was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.
And the daughter-in-law, the wife of her late brother Nikolai Alekseevich, Maria Alexandrovna Mazurina (d. October 21, 1878), became the executor and organizer of the monastery.
Thanks to her work, Moscow received a unique architectural ensemble.
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In 1861-1878. Ivanovo Monastery was rebuilt by the architect M.D. Bykovsky
in the spirit of Italian Renaissance architecture and resembles the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. 
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In 1877, the monastery had the only infirmary in Moscow for the wounded of the Russian-Turkish war.
The monastery was renovated in 1901.
The monastery was closed in 1918 and turned into a prison.
Closed at the beginning of 1927, converted into an archive.
The main courtyard of the monastery and the buildings surrounding it were later occupied by the Higher Law Correspondence School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also occupied the rector's building from the north-west of the cathedral (here, among other things, there was a laboratory of field forensics).
The main territory and most of the monastery buildings are still occupied by the institutions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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Aisles of the Kazan Mother of God and Nicholas the Wonderworker.
temples
Cathedral in honor of the Beheading of John the Baptist in the Ivanovo Monastery
Temple in the name of St. rights. Elizabeth (brownie)
Chapel in the name of John the Baptist (monastic)
shrines
Icon of the Mother of God "Smolensk"
The relics of St. Prophet and Forerunner John (particle)
Story
The history of the monastery tells about the ascetics of the monastery: St. blzh. schema nun Martha, for the sake of the holy fool, and the recluse nun Dosithea (Princess Tarakanova). The spiritual elder schema-nun Martha reposed on March 1/14, 1638 and was buried in the ancient cathedral of the monastery. The nun Dosifei asceticised for 25 years in the strictest seclusion, she reposed on February 4/17, 1810. AT Patriotic war In 1812 the monastery was ruined and abolished. The monastery was restored with the blessing of St. Philaret (Drozdov). In 1918 the monastery was turned into a concentration camp, in 1927 it was finally closed.
In 1992, the monastery was transferred to the Church and assigned to the church of St.. equal to ap. book. Vladimir in the Old Gardens. On August 11, 2000, the monastery was reopened, in 2002 the monastery was headed by Abbess Afanasia (Grosheva) from.
Currently, part of the buildings and territory of the monastery is occupied by the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
temples
The main cathedral in honor of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist with the chapels of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1879, architect M.D. Bykovsky) restored in 2010
Home church of St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker, Abbess of Constantinople (1879, restored April 28, 1995).
Chapel of St. Ionna the Baptist (1879, opened 1991).
shrines
Particle of the Life-Giving Cross of the Lord (in the altar), miraculous icon St. Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John with a particle of relics (mid-16th century), a revered list of the image of St. Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John with a particle of relics and a miraculous hoop (in the monastery chapel), revered image of St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker, Abbess of Constantinople (late 19th century), venerated myrrh-streaming Icon of the Mother of God "Smolensk" (in the Elisabeth Church).
Relics: St. app. and Evangelist Matthew (in the altar), St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, archbishop. Peace of the Lycians, St. Basil the Great, St. Philaret (Drozdov), Met. Moscow, schmch. Hilarion (Troitsky), archbishop. Vereisky, St. Luke (Voyno-Yasenetsky), archbishop. Simferopolsky, confessor (in the Elisabeth Church), martyr. and healer Panteleimon, vmts. Anastasia the Patterner, St. Sergius, Abbot of Radonezh, St. Seraphim of Sarov, St. Pimen Ugreshsky, St. Amphilochius of Pochaevsky (on the altar), St. Kuksha of Odessa (in the altar), St. Alexy, man of God, St. Ambrose, Isaac, Moses, Anatoly, Nectarius, the elders of Optina, St. wives of Diveevsky: Alexandra, Martha, Elena (in the altar), blessed Paraskeva, Pelagia, Mary, Christ for the holy fools, Diveevsky.
Ivanovsky Monastery, 2nd class, dormitory, in Moscow, near Solyanka Street. When the monastery was founded is not known with certainty. Some believe that it was founded by the Grand Duke John III, others - Grand Duchess Elena Glinskaya. There is no doubt that it existed in the 16th century. In 1812 he was ruined; restored in 1859. Here is an ancient miraculous icon of St. John the Baptist. The monastery has an icon-painting school.
From the book by S.V. Bulgakov "Russian monasteries in 1913"
Founded in the 15th century. It is considered one of the oldest monasteries in Moscow. Initially, it existed as a male and was located in Zamoskvorechye. Moved to Kulishki in the middle of the 16th century. At this place, the monastery became a women's monastery with the preservation of the old dedication - John the Baptist maiden monastery. Rebuilt in 1859-1879. according to the project of Mikhail Dormidontovich Bykovsky (1801-1885). A strict monastic charter operated in the monastery. In 1927 the monastery was closed. Its territory was occupied by various organizations: the NKVD-MVD, TsGAMO, the garment factory named after the Soviet Army. The monastery was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1992.
The first news about the Moscow Ivanovsky Monastery is contained in the chronicles of 1415. However, then the monastery existed in another place - in Chernigov Lane, where the Church of the Beheading of John the Baptist near Bor still stands. On Kulishki, a monastery already existed at the beginning of the 16th century. The monastery was highly revered by the kings and queens - Tsar John Vasilievich, Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, and Tsarina Evdokia Lukyanovna prayed here. The monastery was built on state funds and received rich gifts and support from the sovereigns. In addition to royal care, the monastery was also the ancestral home of many famous Moscow families - the princes Lobanovs, Khovanskys, Volkonskys, Golitsyns, Meshcherskys and many others were contributors.
One of the interesting pages in the history of the monastery is the stay here since 1785 of the nun Dosifei, who, as historians believe, was the daughter of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, who led a reclusive life in the monastery, and the height of her spiritual life was well known in Moscow. One of those instructed by her on the path of monasticism was Timofey Putilov, who was later tonsured a monk with the name Moses and became a well-known Optina elder and archimandrite. The heyday of the monastery falls on the second half of the 19th century, and it was associated with the name of St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow, who supported the restoration of the monastery according to the cenobitic charter. However, due to various reasons, the construction of the monastery complex was completed only in 1879.
The main shrines of the monastery are the icons of St. John the Baptist with a hoop and St. Elizabeth the Wonderworker, a holy abbess who lived in Constantinople in the 5th century. Icon of St. John the Baptist with a hoop is unique. Russian tsars prayed before this image and followed it in procession. Now the ancient image has been placed in a historical place in the Cathedral, and an exact copy with a particle of the holy relics of John the Baptist is in the monastery chapel. To the icon case of St. The prophet on the right on a metal chain is attached to a copper hoop. On it is a half-erased, but distinguishable inscription: "Holy Great Forerunner and Baptist of the Savior John, pray to God for us." This hoop, worn with faith and prayer to St. John the Baptist with pilgrims on his head, known since the second half of the 19th century.
Based on the materials of the book "Moscow St. John the Baptist Convent. Pages of History." M. 2005
Not many people notice that at the junction of Profsoyuznaya and Lenin (Kremlevskaya) streets there is a small monastery. Literally in front of the well-known square near the Spasskaya Tower of the Kazan Kremlin!
Indeed, these streets gradually converge, but they end in such an amazing way.
I have always wondered how a monastery can exist in the center of a huge metropolis, the noise, the bustle, the streams of cars and people, the eternal crush from wedding corteges, the mass of tourists who climb into all places, and there is a real monastery nearby. But life in the monastery is quite tough and strict, is it possible among big city truly forget about the world, and dedicate your life to God alone...
Another thing is when the monastery is located in a dense forest, as, for example, Sergius Hermitage in the Kilemar taiga, there no one and nothing interferes with the monk ...
John the Baptist Monastery 
In Kazan, it turns out, there is such a legend about the monastery of John, they say, John the Baptist himself, who was the founder of all monasticism, bequeathed that all monasteries named after him would always beg. That is, they will always lack the most necessary, and always these monasteries, like John the Baptist himself, will always use the smallest that can be taken from the world.
This is what happens with this monastery, located in the center of the capital of Tatarstan, it barely makes ends meet, however, as the Forerunner himself bequeathed to all the monks.
JOHN THE BAPTIST
An interesting fact is that in the center of the Tatar capital and in the center of Orthodox Kazan there is a monastery in honor of such a saint, who is revered not only by Christians, but also by Muslims - this is extremely symbolic!
Muslims revere John as a prophet under the name Yahya (Yahya). According to the Qur'an, he was the son of the Prophet Zakariya. In Sura 19 "Maryam" there is a story about the gospel of Zakariya, similar to that described by Luke: "O Zakariya, We gladden you with news about a boy whose name is Yahya!" (Quran. 19:7). Jabrail, who reported this news, gave Zakariya a sign: "not to speak with people for three nights [and days], without being deprived of the gift of speech" (Quran. 19:10).
Two years after the birth of Yahya, Allah blessed him: “O Yahya! Hold fast to the [establishment] of the Scriptures, and We gave him wisdom in infancy, as well as compassion [for people] from Us and purity, and he was pious, respectful to his parents and was neither proud nor disobedient. Prosperity to him [from Allah] and on the day when he was born, and on the day of death, and on the [Judgment] day, when he will be resurrected to life ”(Quran. 19: 12-15).
Similar short story about the birth of Yahya is contained in Sura 3 "The Family of Imran". The difference lies in the fact that Gabriel immediately speaks of the future son of Zakariya as "a temperate husband and a prophet from the righteous, who will confirm the truth of the word from Allah" (Quran. 3:39).
John's father - Zechariah appears in the Qur'an as "Zakariyya" - one of the prophets and righteous (salihun), the father of Yahya (John the Baptist) and the guardian of Maryam (Virgin Mary). After the death of his son, he hid from his pursuers in the hollow of a tree, but was betrayed by Iblis (Satan). The enemies cut down the tree and sawed it together with Zakariya. Some of the motifs got into the cycle of Zechariah from the Jewish legends about another Zechariah, the biblical prophet.
JOHN'S MONASTERY 
John the Baptist Monastery is located in front of the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. It was founded by St. Herman around 1564-1568 as a courtyard of the Sviyazhsky Bogoroditsky Monastery founded by him. Until 1595 the monastery was without an abbot. The monastery is dedicated to the Angel of Tsar Ivan the Terrible - John the Forerunner.
The first buildings were made of wood. In 1649 the monastery burned down completely. The Moscow merchant Gavrila Fedorovich Antipin, who had his own courtyard in Kazan, next to the monastery, restored it from brick at his own expense, and on September 7, 1652, on Christmas Day Holy Mother of God, Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsky Kornily solemnly consecrated it. Gavrila Antipin built a cold three-tented temple of the Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem with aisles in honor of St. Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John and Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian. The church also had a stone bell tower, which stood separately and was connected with it by stone tents. The second church, the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos, was lukewarm, with five chapters. Stone cells for the abbot and brethren were attached to it, it was considered a brownie and had three floors: the upper floor was the church and the abbot's cell, the fraternal cells were located on the second floor, and the kitchen, refectory and cellars were located on the lower floor. The monastery was surrounded by a stone fence, on which, from the side of the Kremlin, there was a gate church in the name of Anthony and Theodosius of the Caves. In 1756, by the imperial decree of Catherine II, an icon with a particle of the relics of St. Herman was transferred to the monastery from Sviyazhsk and placed in the warm Vvedenskaya Church. September 3, 1815 Kazan was on fire. During the day, the archives, 1179 houses were destroyed, including the John the Baptist Monastery. Only the interior of the warm church and the holy image were saved. In 1818 the monastery began to be restored. The old altar of the cold church was completely replaced with a more spacious one, a new sacristy was made, the bell tower was connected to the temple with cells. On June 24, 1819, the restored church was re-consecrated.
Because of the fires, the cold temple fell into disrepair, as the oak ties laid inside the walls burned out. In 1886, the old temple was demolished to the ground. On July 12, 1887, a new temple was laid according to the project of the architect G.B. Rush, and the construction was led by architects P.M. Tufilin, V.V. Suslov. The new cathedral, like the ancient one, had three tents, but was twice as high and more voluminous. The cathedral was consecrated on December 18, 1899 and stood until the 30s of the XX century. The construction of the temple cost 100,000 rubles. The main altar was consecrated in honor of the Beheading of John the Baptist. In 1897, a one hundred pound bell was hung on the bell tower. From May 26, 1896 to December 14, 1897, the construction of a new rectory and fraternal building was underway. In Soviet times, it housed the "Society for the Protection of Monuments" and various cooperative offices. There was a chapel in front of the monastery, probably built by the architect V.I. Kaftyrev in 1774, after the Pugachev region. It was assigned to the monastery in 1848. AT Soviet years she was demolished.
In 1918, the monastery became the seat of the diocesan administration (after its expulsion from the Kremlin), the Hieromartyr Metropolitan of Kazan Kirill (Smirnov), who was exiled in 1922 and died in exile, lived here.
In 1929 the monastery was closed and only in 1992 was again transferred to the Kazan diocese. The warm Vvedensky temple was restored, now consecrated in memory of the lost cathedral in honor of the prophet John the Baptist. There is a Sunday school at the monastery. Among the teachers are the abbot and hieromonks of the monastery. There is a library.
PRIEST'S BODY OF THE MONASTERY
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Shrines of the monastery:
part of the relics of St. German of Kazan, icons of the Mother of God "Tikhvinskaya" and "Inexhaustible Chalice", the image of John the Baptist.
Divine services in the monastery are performed daily. Evening service starts at 4:00 pm, morning service at 8:00 am holidays at 6:00 and 8:30.
Monastery brethren:
The abbot is hegumen Nektary (Demin). Inhabitants - Holy Monk Igor (Aseev), Priest Mikhail Ilkin, Priest Artemy Zavorokhin - Treasurer, Hieromonk Mitrofaniy (Neykov), Hierodeacon Sergius (Ibashaev), Deacon Monk Stefan (Karpov).
ICONOSTASIS IN THE TEMPLE OF THE MONASTERY
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DETAILED HISTORY OF THE MONASTERY
16th century
The monastery was founded around 1567 by the Kazan hierarch (1564-1566) Herman, originally as a farmstead founded earlier in 1555 by St. Herman of the Sviyazhsky Assumption Monastery, in which he was rector for 9 years. The courtyard is mentioned in the cadastral book of 1565.
In 1594, Metropolitan Hermogenes of Kazan, the future Patriarch of All Russia, glorified as a saint, asked Tsar Theodore Ioannovich to open the John the Baptist Monastery in Kazan on the basis of the courtyard of the Sviyazhsky Assumption Monastery. On January 28, Theodore Ioannovich issued a decree on the opening of the monastery.
17th century
Initially, all buildings were wooden. In 1649, a fire destroyed all the buildings, after which in 1649-1652. the monastery was rebuilt in stone at the expense of a wealthy Moscow merchant "trading man of the living hundred" (at that time it was the highest merchant title after the "guest", the merchants who belonged to the living hundred traded with the countries of the East and West along the waterways and were very wealthy people, had surnames, in the documents they were called by their full name) Gavriil Fedorova-Antipin.
Thus, the city center was decorated with a unique ensemble, all the buildings of which were erected not just in one era, but almost simultaneously in 1649-52. In three years, a magnificent cold 3-hipped St. John the Baptist Cathedral with two aisles, a 5-domed Vvedenskaya Church with hewn architraves and an octagonal bell tower with fire-shaped kokoshniks and a small dome were built (it is noteworthy that the top of the dome (under the metal) is completely made of brick) . Initially, the three-hipped temple was called, possibly, the Temple of Jerusalem (later it was renamed in honor of one of the chapels abolished in the 18th century (John the Baptist and John the Theologian) in honor of John the Baptist) and on September 7, 1652, it was consecrated by Metropolitan Kornily of Kazan and Sviyazhsk. This temple had three different-sized deaf tents on three octagonal bases, which rested on a vault that covered an elongated quadrangle. A refectory adjoined the temple, surrounded on three sides by an arched gallery.
Cathedral of the Baptist before reconstruction 1887 Lithograph by André Duran, 1839
Of the buildings of those years, the 5-domed pillarless Vvedenskaya Church with a typical 17th-century church has been preserved. decor (platbands made of figured bricks) and a low octagonal bell tower with one tier of ringing topped with 3 rows of elegant kokoshniks. Unfortunately, the main temple of the same years, the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, was not preserved, which was of significant architectural value due to its rare three-hipped shape (similar to the “Wonderful” Assumption Church in Uglich). In the 19th century it was dismantled due to dilapidation and in 1887-1894. replaced by a new, also three-hipped, cathedral (larger), but this cathedral was also demolished in the 1930s. Otherwise, the ensemble has remained almost unchanged as one of the valuable architectural complexes that determine the appearance of the center of Kazan.
CROSS IN THE COURTYARD OF THE MONASTERY
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18th century
The monastery has always remained small and not rich. On the eve of the reform of 1764, there were 90 peasant souls in his possessions. According to Catherine's reform of 1764, the monastery was subject to abolition, and Archbishop Veniamin Putsek-Grigorovich had to make great efforts to defend the John the Baptist Monastery, which, although it remained "out of state" - that is, without a state salary, but continued to operate.
19th century
A new fire in 1815 became the reason for a new large-scale construction in the Ivanovsky Monastery in the 19th century. Kazan citizens collected a huge amount - 53 thousand rubles to restore damaged buildings, 5 thousand rubles were personally donated by Emperor Alexander I. Under the leadership of a specially created commission, the Vvedensky Church and fraternal cells were thoroughly restored, the altar and sacristy were rebuilt at the Forerunner Cathedral, cells were built between the cathedral and the bell tower (preserved, adjacent to the bell tower from the south), the frescoes of the cathedral were updated. However, due to the damage received, by the end of the 19th century, the cathedral was completely dilapidated, moreover, the small building of the temple could no longer accommodate the increasing number of parishioners.
Archbishop of Kazan and Sviyazhsky Pallady Raev (1882 to 1887) decided to dismantle the ancient cathedral and build a copy of it. Despite the fact that this decision provoked protests from many architects, professors and the Kazan intelligentsia, who demanded that the monument of the 17th century be preserved, Archbishop Pallady brought his building initiative to life, and in 1887-1894. a new cathedral was built in honor of the Beheading of St. John the Baptist, repeating the appearance and layout of the church of the 17th century, but on a larger scale (36x26 m instead of 30x19 m).
The new cathedral had 5 altars: at the top side aisles: St. Innocent of Irkutsk and St. German Kazansky, on the lower floor there are two chapels: in the name of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" and in the name of Sts. Seven youths who suffered in Ephesus. The layout has changed, instead of the pillarless layout of the ancient temple, 4 powerful pillars were installed in the new one, the floor was paved with mosaics in the Byzantine style. The construction of the temple (2 million bricks) cost almost 100,000 rubles, of which the monastery was able to allocate only about 2 thousand rubles. (that is, only 14 thousand for 7 years of construction - about 14% of the amount). The remaining 86%, as usual, came from private individuals, so 7 thousand rubles were donated by the merchant M. I. Popov, 6 thousand rubles by the tradesman V. I. Shorin. A great merit in the collection of donations belongs to the outstanding administrator Abbot Excustodian. With the remaining funds, the monastery fence was rebuilt from the bricks left from the old cathedral and the spacious (23 by 15 m) Rector's building was built in stone.
In 1885-1909, Archimandrite Exakustodian (Eugene Kamensky) (1831-1909), a graduate of the Vologda Theological Seminary, appointed in 1867 to Kazan after a stay in the Spaso-Kamenny and Grigorievo-Pel'shemsky monasteries of the Vologda diocese, became rector. Under him, the monastery turned into a prosperous monastery, enjoying great prestige in the city.
Thus, before the 1917 coup, the monastic ensemble, in addition to two temples, consisted of: 1) A stone three-story abbot's building. 2) Adjoining the winter temple building, stone, three-story, occupied by the cells of the brethren. 3) A stone two-story building facing the front facade gostiny dvor. 4) Stone cellars.
The monastery owned: 1) Arable and hay land at the village. Tarlashakh, Kazan district, in the amount of 18 acres 1450 sazhens. 2) Arable and hay land in the same county with Kaymarakh in the amount of 11 acres 2054 soots. 3) Arable land at vil. Mryasovye Chelny, Spassky district, in the amount of 70 acres. 4) Fishing in the Laishevsky district near the village. Teteev. 5) Flour mill at vil. Wild Field, Laishevsky district. 6) Land, partly occupied by forest, in the amount of 76 acres 1656 sazhens. near Kazan, beyond Kizicheskaya Sloboda.
20th century
After 1918, the Cathedral of the Annunciation, the bishop's house and the consistory building in the Kremlin became inaccessible due to the announcement of the Kremlin as a closed military camp. The diocesan administration, by order of Bishop Anatoly, was located in the John the Baptist Monastery, and the role cathedral began to carry out the largest temple of Kazan - the Cathedral of the Bogoroditsky Monastery. Hegumen of the Ivanovo Monastery Efrem was appointed rector of the Sviyazhsky Assumption Monastery with the elevation to the rank of archimandrite, and in November 1922 of the same year he was arrested and exiled to Ust-Tsilma (after exile he lived in Ryazan).
The monastery housed the temporary administrator of the Kazan diocese, Archimandrite of the Transfiguration Monastery, Joasaph (Udalov), together with Fr. Barsanuphius and Fr. Benedict and miraculously survived during the execution by the hieromonk of the Dormition Zilantov monastery Joseph (Tyurin). On September 26, Bishop Anatoly (Grisyuk) of Chistopolsky returned from Moscow and took over the temporary administration of the diocese.
By January 1920, the Bolsheviks ousted the White Guards from all of Eastern Siberia to Lake Baikal, the connection of Patriarch Tikhon with the Kazan Metropolitan Jacob (Pyatnitsky), who refused to return to the Kazan cathedra, to the city occupied by the Bolsheviks, was restored. On April 8, 1920, Kirill (Smirnov) was appointed Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk, and despite the fact that the Bolsheviks did not give permission for the bishop to leave Moscow, on June 26 (July 9), on the day of the celebration of the Sedmiezernaya Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God. Vladyka arrived at about 12 o'clock in Kazan and managed to meet the procession with the icon in the Cathedral of the Bogoroditsky Monastery, which was then a cathedral, in full bishop's vestments. St. Cyril settled in the Bogoroditsky Monastery, daily, during his two-year stay in Kazan, going on foot to the John the Baptist Monastery, where the diocesan administration was located. Vladyka Kirill was shot in 1937.
At the end of November 1923, Archimandrite Pitirim (Krylov), rector of the Annunciation Cathedral, hieromonks of the John the Baptist Monastery John (Shirokov), Feofan (Elansky) and Hierodeacon Seraphim (Shamshev) were arrested and exiled to Solovki for three years.
In 1926 the community of John the Baptist religious society, adhering to the old church, Tikhonov direction was 100 people. Since 1926, Bishop Andronik (Bogoslovsky) of Mamadyshsky performed the duties of the rectory and chairmanship of the parish council, and Hieromonk Pallady (Sherstennikov) was later transferred to the Kizichesky Monastery with the elevation to the rank of archimandrite. All of Kazan knew and respected the elder bishop, and during his tenure no one dared to raise a hand against the monastery.
In 1927, the Ivanovo Monastery passed to the Renovationists (“naglentsy,” as they were called in Kazan), whose community consisted of 27 people. The old church community of the Ivanovsky Monastery joined the community of the Nikolo-Veshnyakovskaya Church.
In the spring of 1929, the community of St. George's Church, trying to save their temple from demolition, pointed to the closed churches of Kazan, among which was the Forerunner Cathedral of the Ivanovo Monastery. As a result, the Church of St. George could not be saved from destruction, however, the city authorities began active work to eliminate the Predtechensky Cathedral. The Renovationists, who now occupied the Ivanovo Monastery, were allowed to take the iconostasis and the Image of the Savior to the Intercession Church, also occupied by the “living churchmen”. On June 8, 1930, the Department of Museum Affairs in the TCIK requested building material to repair the walls of the Kremlin, for which it was decided to use the monastery fence, the three-hipped Forerunner Cathedral and the chapel.
In the late 1920s, during the first years of managing the diocese, Bishop Athanasius of Kazan lived in the Ivanovsky Monastery (then he managed the diocese while living in the house at the Church of the Epiphany, after his confiscation at house number 6 on Kirpichnozavodskaya Street).
By 1935, the renovationists received the Tikhvin and Varlaam churches. The renovation movement in Kazan initially had few supporters, in connection with which the Vvedensky Church of the Ivanovsky Monastery became little visited, which the authorized bodies did not fail to take advantage of. skills for homeless and neglected children”.
PRETCHENSKY MONASTERY, KAZAN CITY 
Revival of the monastery
In 1992 the monastery was returned to the Kazan diocese. Abbot David (Korablev), who was tonsured the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, became the first abbot. In the monastery, the shrine of St. Herman was restored, in which a particle of his relics was invested. During the construction of the Kazan metro, despite numerous letters and appeals from the communities of the Ivanovsky Monastery and Nikolsky Cathedral, a huge pit was dug between the monastery and the Cathedral of St. Nicholas Cathedral, almost right next to each other, as a result of which large cracks began to appear in the walls of the Vvedensky Church built in the middle of the 17th century. Despite cosmetic repairs, the monuments suffered serious damage.
Since 1994, services have resumed in the restored Vvedensky Church. By the time of restoration, the monastery is the second in the Kazan diocese after Raifa. He is known for his charitable activities (the only free canteen in Kazan for the poor, providing temporary work for the homeless, etc.).
The architectural ensemble of the monastery
Bell tower
Archimandrite Corps
Fraternal Corps
Church of the Entry of the Blessed Virgin into the Temple
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THE LIFE OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
The Prophet John the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord is the most revered saint of people after the Mother of God. About him, the Lord Jesus Christ said: "From those born of women, no greater (prophet) than John the Baptist has risen." John the Baptist is glorified by the Church as "an angel, and an apostle, and a martyr, and a prophet, and a candlestick, and a friend of Christ, and a seal of the prophets, and an intercessor for old and new grace, and in those who are born, the most honorable and bright voice of the Word."
John the Baptist was a maternal relative of the Lord Jesus Christ and was born six months before the Lord for his important mission. According to the teaching of the Old Testament Church, before the coming of the Messiah, his predecessor, the forerunner, must appear in order to prepare people for the acceptance of the Messiah and point to Him. The prophet John, who grew up in fasting and prayer as a severe ascetic hermit, became such a forerunner. He wore a garment made of camel's hair, girded with a leather belt, and his food was locusts and wild honey (Mark 1:10-16).
When John was thirty years old, he began to preach in the Judean wilderness, and then in the vicinity of the Jordan River. He severely denounced the vices of Jewish society and fervently called for repentance, announcing the imminent coming of the Messiah.
An external sign of repentance and spiritual renewal, John performed baptism - washing in the water of the Jordan by immersion as a symbol and sacrament of cleansing from sins by descending on the baptized Holy Spirit (hence the name - Baptist). Since the prophet Malachi predicted that His Forerunner would appear before the Messiah, who would indicate His coming, the Jews who were expecting the Messiah recognized the Forerunner in the ascetic ascetic John, many were baptized in the Jordan. The sacrament of Baptism was also the first sacrament Christian Church, the condition of entering into it, this sacrament was received from John the Baptist by the very founder of the Church - Christ the Son of God.
The birth of John the Baptist was a miracle of God. As the Gospel of Luke tells (Luke 1:24-25, 57-68, 76, 80), the righteous parents of St. John the Baptist and the Baptist of Christ - the priest Zechariah and Elizabeth - reached old age, but did not have children. Once Zechariah, performing a service in the Jerusalem temple, saw the Archangel Gabriel, who predicted that he would have a son - a herald of the Savior expected by people. Zechariah doubted this and was punished: until the time of the fulfillment of the words of the Archangel, he was stricken with dumbness.
The boy was born six months before the birth of Jesus Christ, his parents named him John, as they were predicted.
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One of the most amazing men's cloisters, the Tregulyaevsky John the Baptist Monastery, was founded in the 17th century by St. On the banks of the full-flowing Tsna, among the centuries-old pines and oaks of the Tregulyaevsky forest, the monastery spread freely.
Quite a few amazing stories connected both with the monastery itself and with its founder, St. Pitirim. Here is just one of them, still living in the hearts of the inhabitants of the monastery, connected directly with the founding of a male monastery in these places.
... It happened in the September days of 1688. Very fond of walking alone under the canopy of centuries-old trees during the occasional free hours that fell to him, indulging in thoughts about the greatness of the Creator, Saint Pitirim this time went to the banks of Tsna not alone, but with Saint Mitrofan of Voronezh and Pitirim’s cell-attendant, monk Innokenty, who visited him. It was on the second day after the Exaltation of the Cross of the Lord. Saint Pitirim recalled his young years spent in the Vyazemsky monastery, which touched the most intimate strings of the soul. He shared with his brothers in Christ his dreams of building a monastery here, on the banks of the Tsna, in which the monks could praise the Lord, and which would always remind him of the Vyazemsky monastery. Saint Pitirim pointed out the place where he would like to see the future male monastery.
After reading the words of prayer coming from the very heart, the spiritual brothers agreed with the saint that one could not even dream of a better place for the monastery. In memory of the monastery of the youth of St. Pitirim, the new monastery received the name of John the Baptist. At first, however, this place was usually called the Forerunner Hermitage, and only after almost half a century the hermitages began to be called a monastery.
But even earlier, in 1691, over the banks of Tsna, the first temple of the Forerunner Desert, consecrated by Pitirim himself, stood in all its glory. It was erected from strong pine logs, and it would have stood for a century, but trouble happened, and an unprecedented fire in 1717 destroyed the temple, and at the same time most of the monastery buildings. Voluntary donations from the townspeople helped to erect a new, even more beautiful temple in the monastery. Half a century later, next to the Forerunner Church, another temple grew up - the Vvedenskaya Church. Fears of a new fire caused only stone buildings to be built in the monastery. Already at the end of the eighteenth century, the monastery was surrounded by a stone wall.
Bishop Theophilos of Tambov did many good deeds for the monks of the Predtechensky Monastery. It was he who contributed to the construction of the main church of the Nativity of John the Baptist in the monastery. Nathanael, a former novice from Sarov, was placed at the head of the construction. Therefore, the built church was similar in many details to the Assumption Church of the Sarov Desert known to the entire Orthodox world. Surprisingly, it is a fact: for a whole century, both the temple and the nearby bell tower have never been rebuilt.
The true adornment of the Forerunner Monastery was the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands, built at the end of the 19th century. The construction of the church, however, was carried out for several years, and the reason for this was the lack of funds. The brethren of the monastery were small in number. The basis of its existence was the interest from the main accumulated capital, as well as the proceeds from the economic activities of the monks - gardening, beekeeping, timber trade.
The monastery has always attracted numerous pilgrims with its excellent location and strong spiritual dispensation. It has become a tradition for many residents of Tambov and the surrounding villages to come to the monastery on the holy days of Great Lent, to fast with the monks.
When battles broke out in the vicinity of Tambov civil war, the new authorities decided to place a colony within the walls of the monastery. Many tragic events were inscribed in the history of the monastery walls in the twenties. Despite the fact that the monastery churches were declared architectural monuments in 1929, the militant atheists forced the authorities to take a decision to destroy the churches. The crosses above Tsna disappeared, and the former monastery was occupied by a military unit.
And only at the end of the last century, through the incredible efforts of Archbishop Eugene, the restoration of the monastery began. On the site of this, the temple of finding the relics of St. Pitirim was again erected - the man, through whose efforts the monastery grew on the banks of Tsna.
