The Kiev-Florovskaya convent has been mentioned in documents since the 15th century. For some time, the mother of Hetman Ivan Mazepa was the abbess of the convent. In the Florovsky Monastery there is a refectory church in the name of Saints Florus and Laurus. During Soviet times, an industrial enterprise was located on the territory of the monastery. Now the monastery has been restored to its original form. A functioning source of holy water has been preserved on the territory of the monastery.
04070, Kyiv, st. Florovskaya, 6/8, tel. 416-01-81.
Directions: metro to the station. "Kontraktova Square.
Patronal holidays. Ascension Cathedral with the southern aisle in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The days of remembrance of the martyr are celebrated as patronal holidays. Flora and Laurel (August 18/31), St. Nicholas, as well as the Rudenskaya (July 13/26) and Tikhvin (July 27/August 9) icons of the Mother of God.
Shrines. In the Ascension Cathedral: locally revered icons of the Mother of God of Kazan (with a particle of the relics of the Great Martyr George), Tikhvin and Quick to Hear.
In the altar there is a reliquary with particles of the saint’s relics. Pechersky.
Icons with particles of the relics of St. Job Pochaevsky and VMC. Barbarians.
On the territory of the monastery there is the grave of the locally revered ascetic of piety nun Elena (Bakhteeva, †1834).
The abbess is Abbess Antonia (Filkina).
Worship is daily. The monastery does not switch to "summer time". Divine service: evening - 16.30 (in summer - 17.30), Liturgy - 7.00 (in summer - 8.00). On Sundays and holidays - 2 Liturgies: 7.00 and 9.30 (respectively, in the summer at 8.00 and 10.30).
At the monastery there is an “Orthodox Pilgrim” service, which carries out pilgrimages to the shrines of the East. Tel. 416-54-62.
It has been documented since 1566 as consecrated in the name of Sts. Flora and Laurel. In 1712, the nuns of the abolished Ascension Monastery, which stood opposite the Holy Gate of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, were among the local nuns. The Florov sisters also inherited the lands of the Ascension Monastery, which it received especially in abundance under Abbess Maria Magdalene Mazepina, the mother of Hetman of Ukraine Ivan Mazepa. In the XVIII-XIX centuries. outstanding ascetics of piety in Russian history lived in the Florovsky monastery. From 1758, Princess Natalia Dolgorukova (1714-1771; buried in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra), daughter of Peter I’s associate B. Sheremetev, worked here until her death, taking monastic vows with the name Nektaria. When Prince I.A., wooed and beloved by her, Dolgoruky found himself in disgrace from Bironov, she did not refuse to become his wife and went into exile with her husband. In 1739 I.A. Dolgoruky was executed. Having courageously endured all the suffering, the princess described them in “Handwritten Notes” (published in 1810) and thus became the first Russian memoirist whose life was an example of great humility. N. Dolgorukova, according to legend, threw her wedding ring into the Dnieper before her tonsure.
OK. 1760 In the monastery she accepted monasticism and in a vision received instructions from the Mother of God to found in Russia the fourth inheritance of the Most Pure One on earth - the Seraphim-Diveyevo monastery - ascetic Alexandra Melgunov. Blessed Irina Zelenogorskaya also began her monastic path at the Florovsky Monastery. An ascetic of piety was the Florovian tonsure (since 1856) and abbess (since 1865) Parthenia (Adabash; 1808-1881, buried in the monastery) - the spiritual daughter and first biographer of the Venerable. Hieroschemamonk Parthenius of Kyiv (d. 1855), spiritual poetess, author of the approved Holy. Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church for the Service of Sts. Cyril and Methodius.
Among the Florov ascetics is the nun Elena (Bakhteeva; +1834).
In 1929 the monastery was closed, and in 1941 it was revived. The first miracle occurred at the monastery (healing of a deaf-mute girl) from a cell kept here in 1961-1992. the great Kyiv shrine - the icon of the Mother of God "Look at Humility", which became famous in 1993 for transferring its negative imprint onto the glass of the icon case (see article about the Kiev Vvedensky Monastery).
In the central part of the monastery on one axis are located (from northeast to southwest): the bell tower above the Holy Gate (entrance from Pritisko-Nikolskaya Street; erected in several stages in 1732-1821; classicism), the Ascension Church ( 1722-1732; three-domed, combines the features of a cross-domed church with the arrangement of domes along one longitudinal axis characteristic of wooden Ukrainian architecture) with the right side chapel in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (in the past - in the name of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary) and the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra (until 1857 - St. Flora and Laurus; the oldest surviving building of the monastery, rectangular in plan, with a single head on the apse protruding near the southwestern corner; the first tier is the 17th century, the second is 1818). West of the St. Nicholas Church is a single-domed rotunda church in the name of the Resurrection of Christ (1824, classicism; after the revival of the monastery, the throne inside was not restored). At the north-eastern wall, under a glazed canopy, is the grave of nun Elena (Bakhteeva). The coffin in which the ascetic rests was made for himself by Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk. When the festive bishop's vestments were placed on the body of the deceased hierarch, this coffin turned out to be too small and, replaced by another, when the saint's property was distributed to the poor, it went to the nun Elena.
From the Church of the Resurrection there is an ascent to Castle Hill. Having steep slopes on all sides, it is separated from neighboring heights by wide ravines and at one time was very convenient for building a fortress. There is reason to believe that it was on this mountain that Kyiv was founded. In the XIV century. she again becomes a city child - a Lithuanian wooden castle appears here. All R. XVII century The mountain received a second name - Kiselevka - after the head of the Polish administration of the city, A. Kisiel, who lived in the castle. Then the castle was burned and the mountain was deserted. Over time, it became the property of the monastery and began to be called Florovskaya. In 1854-1857 Here they built the stone Church of the Holy Trinity (only the foundations have survived) and founded a monastic cemetery with it (from the 19th century until 1960, there was also a civil cemetery on the mountain).
In the southeastern part of the monastery, a single-domed church in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (1841-1844), rebuilt in Soviet times as a factory, is being restored.
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Holy Ascension Florovsky Monastery(ukr. Holy Ascension Florivsky Monastery listen)) is a convent on Podol in Kyiv, probably founded at the beginning of the 16th century.
History of the monastery
Abbess Parthenia, in the world Apolinaria Alexandrovna Adabash, who came from a noble Moldavian family. The father of Abbess Parthenia A. A. Adabash served with the rank of brigadier in the Russian army and for his services received significant lands in the Novorossiysk region from Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. The nun is known for compiling the church service to Saints Cyril and Methodius and “The Legend of the Life and Deeds of the Elder of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Hieroschema Parthenius.”
Monastery architecture
The ensemble of the Florovsky Monastery was formed over two centuries; here you can see buildings dating back to different eras and different styles. The oldest building of the monastery is the Church of the Ascension, built in 1732. The church has three apses and is topped by three domes. The church is very similar to ancient Russian churches, but its central apse has the same height as the church, and the side ones are half as high, the domes are located along the same line, as in wooden Ukrainian churches.
The terrible fire of 1811 destroyed the entire Old Podol, all that was left of wooden houses, sidewalks, and fences was only coals, all the churches, including those in the Florovsky Monastery, were badly damaged. The restoration of the monastery was carried out by the architect Andrei Melensky, who built a rotunda church, the house of the abbess and a three-tiered bell tower at the entrance to the monastery in the classicist style.
Literature
- Historical and statistical description of the Kiev-Florovsky Ascension Convent. - Kyiv: printing house of S. V. Kulzhenko, 1894.
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Holy Ascension Florovsky Monastery(ukr. Holy Ascension Florivsky Monastery) - a convent on Podol in Kyiv, founded, presumably, at the beginning of the 16th century.
History of the monastery
Abbess Parthenia, in the world Apolinaria Alexandrovna Adabash, who came from a noble Moldavian family. The father of Abbess Parthenia A. A. Adabash served with the rank of brigadier in the Russian army and received significant lands in the Novorossiysk region for his services from Empress Elizaveta Petrovna. The nun is known for compiling the church service to Saints Cyril and Methodius and “The Legend of the Life and Deeds of the Elder of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Hieroschema Parthenius.”
Monastery architecture
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Church of the Ascension, 1732
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Church of the Resurrection, 1824
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Monastery territory
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Bell tower, 1821
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Church of the Kazan Mother of God
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Monastery territory
The ensemble of the Florovsky Monastery was formed over two centuries; here you can see buildings dating back to different eras and different styles. The oldest building of the monastery is the Church of the Ascension, built in 1732. The church has three apses and is topped by three domes. The church is very similar to ancient Russian churches, but its central apse has the same height as the church, and the side apses are half as high, the domes are located along the same line, as in wooden Ukrainian churches.
The terrible fire of 1811 destroyed the entire Old Podol, all that was left of wooden houses, sidewalks, and fences was only coals, all the churches, including those in the Florovsky Monastery, were badly damaged. The restoration of the monastery was carried out by the architect Andrei Melensky, who built a rotunda church, the house of the abbess and a three-tiered bell tower at the entrance to the monastery in the classicist style.
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- Historical and statistical description of the Kiev-Florovsky Ascension Convent. - Kyiv: printing house of S. V. Kulzhenko, 1894.
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An excerpt characterizing the Florovsky Monastery
After Petya joined Obolensky’s Cossack regiment and his departure to Belaya Tserkov, where this regiment was being formed, fear came over the countess. The thought that both of her sons are at war, that both of them have left under her wing, that today or tomorrow each of them, and maybe both together, like the three sons of one of her friends, could be killed, for the first time just now, this summer, it came to her mind with cruel clarity. She tried to get Nikolai to come to her, she wanted to go to Petya herself, to place him somewhere in St. Petersburg, but both of them turned out to be impossible. Petya could not be returned except with the regiment or through transfer to another active regiment. Nicholas was somewhere in the army and after his last letter, in which he described in detail his meeting with Princess Marya, he did not give any news about himself. The Countess did not sleep at night and, when she fell asleep, she saw her murdered sons in her dreams. After much advice and negotiations, the count finally came up with a means to calm the countess. He transferred Petya from Obolensky’s regiment to Bezukhov’s regiment, which was being formed near Moscow. Although Petya remained in military service, with this transfer the countess had the consolation of seeing at least one son under her wing and hoped to arrange for her Petya in such a way that she would no longer let him out and would always enroll him in places of service where he could not possibly end up. into battle. While only Nicolas was in danger, it seemed to the countess (and she even repented of it) that she loved the eldest more than all the other children; but when the youngest, the naughty one, who was a bad student, who broke everything in the house and who was boring everyone, Petya, this snub-nosed Petya, with his cheerful black eyes, a fresh blush and a little fluff on his cheeks, ended up there, with these big, scary, cruel men who they fight something there and find something joyful in it - then it seemed to the mother that she loved him more, much more than all her children. The closer the time approached when the expected Petya was supposed to return to Moscow, the more the countess’s anxiety increased. She already thought that she would never see this happiness. The presence of not only Sonya, but also her beloved Natasha, even her husband, irritated the countess. “What do I care about them, I don’t need anyone except Petya!” - she thought.In the last days of August, the Rostovs received a second letter from Nikolai. He wrote from the Voronezh province, where he was sent for horses. This letter did not reassure the countess. Knowing that one son was out of danger, she began to worry even more about Petya.
Despite the fact that already on the 20th of August almost all of the Rostovs’ acquaintances left Moscow, despite the fact that everyone tried to persuade the countess to leave as soon as possible, she did not want to hear anything about leaving until her treasure, her beloved, returned. Peter. On August 28, Petya arrived. The sixteen-year-old officer did not like the painfully passionate tenderness with which his mother greeted him. Despite the fact that his mother hid from him her intention not to let him out from under her wing, Petya understood her intentions and, instinctively fearing that he would become soft with his mother, that he would not be fooled (as he thought to himself), he treated him coldly with her, avoided her and during his stay in Moscow exclusively stuck to the company of Natasha, for whom he always had a special, almost loving brotherly tenderness.
Due to the count's usual carelessness, on August 28 nothing was ready for departure, and the carts expected from the Ryazan and Moscow villages to lift all the property from the house arrived only on the 30th.
From August 28 to 31, all of Moscow was in trouble and movement. Every day, thousands of wounded in the Battle of Borodino were brought to the Dorogomilovskaya outpost and transported around Moscow, and thousands of carts, with residents and property, went to other outposts. Despite Rastopchin's posters, or independently of them, or as a result of them, the most contradictory and strange news was transmitted throughout the city. Who said that no one was ordered to leave; who, on the contrary, said that they had lifted all the icons from the churches and that everyone was being expelled by force; who said that there was another battle after Borodino, in which the French were defeated; who said, on the contrary, that the entire Russian army was destroyed; who spoke about the Moscow militia, which would go with the clergy ahead to the Three Mountains; who quietly told that Augustine was not ordered to travel, that traitors had been caught, that the peasants were rioting and robbing those who were leaving, etc., etc. But that was only what they said, and in essence, those who were traveling and those who remained (despite the fact that there had not yet been a council in Fili, at which it was decided to leave Moscow) - everyone felt, although they did not show it, that Moscow would certainly be surrendered and that they had to get out themselves as soon as possible and save your property. It was felt that everything should suddenly break apart and change, but until the 1st, nothing had changed yet. Just as a criminal who is being led to execution knows that he is about to die, but still looks around him and straightens his poorly worn hat, so Moscow involuntarily continued its ordinary life, although it knew that the time of destruction was near, when everything would be torn apart. those conditional relations of life to which we are accustomed to submit.
During these three days preceding the capture of Moscow, the entire Rostov family was in various everyday troubles. The head of the family, Count Ilya Andreich, constantly traveled around the city, collecting rumors circulating from all sides, and at home he made general superficial and hasty orders about preparations for departure.
The Countess watched over the cleaning of things, was dissatisfied with everything and followed Petya, who was constantly running away from her, jealous of him for Natasha, with whom he spent all his time. Sonya alone managed the practical side of the matter: packing things. But Sonya has been especially sad and silent all this time. Nicolas's letter, in which he mentioned Princess Marya, evoked in her presence the countess's joyful reasoning about how she saw God's providence in Princess Marya's meeting with Nicolas.
“I was never happy then,” said the countess, “when Bolkonsky was Natasha’s fiancé, but I always wanted, and I have a presentiment, that Nikolinka would marry the princess.” And how good that would be!
Sonya felt that this was true, that the only way to improve the Rostovs’ affairs was to marry a rich woman and that the princess was a good match. But she was very sad about it. Despite her grief, or perhaps precisely as a result of her grief, she took upon herself all the difficult worries of cleaning and packing orders and was busy all day long. The Count and Countess turned to her when they needed to be ordered something. Petya and Natasha, on the contrary, not only did not help their parents, but for the most part they bothered and disturbed everyone in the house. And all day long you could almost hear their running, screaming and causeless laughter in the house. They laughed and rejoiced not at all because there was a reason for their laughter; but their souls were joyful and cheerful, and therefore everything that happened was a reason for joy and laughter for them. Petya was happy because, having left home as a boy, he returned (as everyone told him) a fine man; It was fun because he was at home, because he had left Belaya Tserkov, where there was no hope of getting into battle soon, and ended up in Moscow, where one of these days they would fight; and most importantly, it was cheerful because Natasha, whose mood he always obeyed, was cheerful. Natasha was cheerful because she had been sad for too long, and now nothing reminded her of the reason for her sadness, and she was healthy. She was also cheerful because there was a person who admired her (the admiration of others was the ointment of the wheels that was necessary for her car to move completely freely), and Petya admired her. The main thing is that they were cheerful because the war was near Moscow, that they would fight at the outpost, that they were distributing weapons, that everyone was running, leaving somewhere, that in general something extraordinary was happening, which is always joyful for a person, especially for a young person.
Holy Ascension Florovsky Monastery (Ukraine) - description, history, location. Exact address and website. Tourist reviews, photos and videos.
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The Holy Ascension Florovsky Monastery is the oldest convent in the city of Kyiv and is located at the foot of Kiselevskaya (Castle) Mountain, in Podol. Famous women in Rus' lived and took monastic vows here - Princess Shakhovskaya, Princess Ekaterina Miloslavskaya, Countess Apraksina and Alexandra Melgunova, who later founded the Seraphim-Diveevsky Monastery.
The Holy Ascension Florovsky Monastery in Kyiv existed back in 1482, but the first documentary mention of the holy monastery dates back to 1566 and is found in a charter written by the King of Poland Sigismund II Augustus to the Kyiv prince K.K. Ostrozhsky. The document states that the rights to manage the monastery, located at the Church of Saints Florus and Laurus, should be transferred to Archpriest Yakov Gulkevich, and subsequently, to his clergy descendants. Divine services, according to this charter, should be conducted according to Greek custom.
The oldest building in the monastery is the Church of Saints Florus and Laurus, and the most interesting from an architectural point of view is the Ascension Church. The uniqueness of the cathedral is that it harmoniously combines the features of a cross-domed church with the arrangement of domes along one longitudinal axis, characteristic of wooden Ukrainian architecture.
History of the monastery
The Florovsky Monastery existed even before the devastation of Kyiv by Mengli-Girey. Thus, the official painting of Kyiv, compiled in 1682, speaks of the existence of a nunnery in Podol with two wooden churches. One is in the name of the holy martyr Florus.
Soon after the monastery was transferred to the jurisdiction of Gulkevich, it fell into a pitiful state and the heirs renounced their rights to the Florovsky monastery on the condition that the monastery would belong to the Orthodox Church.
Over time, the monastery became a significant center not only of the religious life of Kyiv, but also a center of education and culture. So, in 1870, a school for girls from low-income families was opened on the territory of the monastery, and until the end of the 19th century, an almshouse was organized.
The monastery still lives according to the charter of Basil the Great, which is confirmed in the deed of gift of Iakov Gulkevich, and old traditions are honored in it: the rite of tonsure takes place at night, the ancient monastic form is preserved.
Shrines of the monastery
The monastery houses the second (and last) copy of the icon of the Mother of God “Look at Humility,” which also has healing properties.
How to get there
You can get to the monastery from the Kontraktovaya Ploshchad metro station, then along Konstantanovskaya Street towards the Samson fountain, past the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin.
The Florovsky monastery existed even before the devastation of Kyiv by Mengli-Girey (1482). The first documentary evidence of the monastery is a letter dated 1566 from the Polish king Sigismund II Augustus to the Kyiv governor, Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich Ostrozhsky. It talks about assigning to Archpriest Yakov Gulkevich and his priestly descendants the right to hold the long-existing monastery at the Church of Sts. Flora and Lavra and perform services there according to Greek custom and law, i.e. perform Orthodox services.
In 1632, under Peter Mogila, Metropolitan of Kiev, the grandson of Father Yakov, John Bogush-Gulkevich, who became a monk of the Lavra, renounced his hereditary rights to the Florovsky monastery in favor of Abbess Agathia. In 1711, by the will of Emperor Peter I, the Ascension Convent (founded at the beginning of the 17th century), located opposite the Holy Gates of the Lavra (now on this site - the former arsenal of the Kiev-Pechersk Fortress), was annexed to Florovsky.
In 1870, at the monastery, using its own funds, a school was opened for girls from poor families of various classes. In addition, from the end of the 19th century, there was an almshouse here (by 1918 there were 100 people on full monastic support) and a hospital (with 10 beds).
Until 1918, there were 5 stone churches in the monastery. The three-tiered bell tower with the Holy Gates in the lower tier appeared in the first half of the 18th century. Originally, the upper two tiers were wooden. They burned down in the fire of 1811; the fire was so strong that the bells melted. In 1821, during the reconstruction of the bell tower, it was made entirely of stone.
By 1918 there were 38 buildings (both stone and wooden).
In 1929 the monastery was closed. In 1934, the Church of the Holy Trinity in the monastery cemetery was destroyed. In 1942, the monastery opened and never closed. But in 1960, the Kazan Church (rebuilt into a sewing workshop), the Resurrection and Refectory Churches (for the workshop for the restoration of icons of the Ukrrestavratsiya association) and many cell buildings were selected.
Now all services in the monastery are held in the Ascension Cathedral. All churches (except for the destroyed Holy Trinity) were returned to the monastery. The Kazan Church is being restored. As in the old days, the Holy Ascension Florovsky Monastery is self-sufficient (non-communal).
