Tomsk Monastery. Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky Monastery. during the synodal period

The origin of the monastery

One of the oldest monasteries in Siberia. Founded in the year at the mouth of the Kirgizka River, 9 versts from the Tomsk prison, and was named among the people Ust-Kyrgyz or Bogoroditsky.

In the very first year, the newly built monastery buildings and the church were destroyed by ice during the spring ice drift, after which the monastery was moved a verst up the Bolshaya Kirghizka to an elevated and flood-protected place.

At a distance from the Tomsk fortress, the position of the monastery was dangerous: despite the fact that it was well fortified and surrounded by defensive ditches and embankments, it often suffered from raids by nomadic Kirghiz and Tatars.

The site of the original establishment of the monastery on the Kirgizka River was marked by Elder Isaiah with a large commemorative cross. The inscription on it read:

"In the summer of 7170 (1662), the life-giving cross of the Lord was built, on it the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ is imagined under the power of the faithful and pious Sovereign Tsar and Grand Duke Alexy Mikhailovich of All Great and Small and White Russia Autocrat by faith and promise of the Tomsk city of the monastery Mother of God of Kazan: the builder of Isiah, even in Christ with the brethren. Written in the Kuznetsk jail".

In the early 1660s, the builder of the monastery, Elder Isaiah, submitted a petition to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, in which he asked to welcome the monastery with money and an annual ruga. The tsar ordered that the servants of the monastery be given a salary of an annual rug, and also sent liturgical books, icons, bells, vestments and all the necessary church utensils from the tsar's sacristy.

Economic activity

Missionary activity

Since its foundation, the monastery has become a major missionary center.

The true decoration of the monastery was the bell tower of the temple, built in the year. In the year a “Solemn” 303-pood bell was raised on it. At first, in the second tier of the bell tower, they wanted to place an altar in the name of St. rights. Lazarus of the Four Days, but later an archive and a repository of antiquities of the monastery were built here.

After the closing of the monastery, the temple continued to act as a parish. On December 17, by the decision of the Siberian Regional Executive Committee in the city of Tomsk, the church was closed. Over time, it was partially dismantled.

In the early 1980s, the temple, according to correspondents of local newspapers, was "... a stump of an old building with the remains of a dome." By the time the reconstruction of the monastery began at the end of the century, the bell tower, apse, completions and coverings of the temple itself had not been preserved.

In the early 1990s, large-scale restoration work was carried out, as a result of which the temple was completely restored.

Temple at the gate

Built in the late XX - early XXI century.

shrines

during the synodal period

currently

• the relics of the holy righteous elder Theodore of Tomsk, in the Aleksievsky aisle of the monastery church
• Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, purchased from one of the Moscow collectors, transferred to the monastery in November 2004
• the icon of St. Alexis the Man of God with a particle of his relics, lies on the lectern in the right aisle of the monastery church. The icon was painted by the Tomsk icon painter Yuri Rodionov, a particle of the relics was transferred to the monastery by one of the Moscow churches
• ark with relics of 12 Optina elders
• an ark with particles of the relics of twenty saints: John the Baptist, Lazarus the Fourth Day, schmch. Ignatius the God-bearer, martyr. Euphemia the All-Praised, St. Theodosius of Chernigov, Nikita of Novgorod, Tikhon and Mitrofan of Voronezh, Dimitry of Rostov, Filaret of Moscow, Innokenty of Moscow, St. Job of Pochaevsky, Nil Stolobensky, blzhzh. Basil Christ for the sake of the holy fool and Matrona of Moscow, the right-believing Prince Oleg of Bryansk, the righteous Artemy Verkolsky and Simeon of Verkhoturye
• icon with the relics of St. Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom
• a newly-painted icon of the Life-Giving Trinity, which revealed the miracle of myrrh-streaming during Great Lent of the year

abbots

• Ephraim (Berezovsky) (1605 - 1663) builder
• Varlaam (mentioned 1648)
• Isaiah (1660 - 1668) shiigum.
• Varlaam (1668 - 1698)
• Jonah (1698 -?) archim.
• Paul (1703 - 1705) builder
• Martinian (1705 - 1706) archim.
• Savvaty (1706 - 1711) archim.
• Joseph (1711) Hierom.
• Vasilides (1711 - 1722) Archim.
• Sylvester (1722) Archim.
• Dionysius (1723) Hierom.
• Porfiry (Borovsky) (June 12, 1723 - 1733)
• Raphael (1733 - 1738) Hierom.
• Lawrence (1738 - 1744) Archim.
• Auxentius (1744 - 1746) Hierom.
• Gerasim (1746 - 1750) Hierom.
• Theodosius (1760 - 1769) archim.
• Nathanael (1769 - 1774) hegum.
• Procopius Petrov (1774) prot.
• Philotheus (1775 - 1777) hegum.
• Victor (Kalinovsky) (1777 - 1780)
• Alexy Mikhailovsky (1780) prot.
• Innocent (1781 - 1786) hegum.
• Grigory Stefanovsky (1805 - 1807) prot.
• Theophylact (1807 - 1818) Archim.

Bogoroditse-Aleksievsky Monastery was founded in 1605. (a year after the construction of the Tomsk prison). Initially, the church and the buildings of the monastery were built of wood and were located 9 versts from the prison at the mouth of the Bolshaya Kirgizka River. It was called Ust-Kyrgyz or Bogoroditsky. In the very first year, the monastery was destroyed by ice during the spring flood, after which it was moved a verst upstream of the Bolshaya Kirghizka to an elevated place. However, a quiet life did not work out in the new place either. The monastery was subjected to regular attacks by nomadic Kirghiz and Tatars, and in 1656. The church was destroyed by fire. After that, it was decided to transfer the monastery under the protection of the Tomsk prison to Yurtochnaya Gora.

Construction on Yurtochnaya Hill was completed in 1663. Next to the Church of Alexei the Man of God, which has been standing on this site for more than 30 years, a temple was erected in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. From that moment on, it began to be called Bogoroditse-Aleksievsky. The new monastery was a fortress, which became part of the defensive structures of Tomsk. Together they survived more than one attack by nomads.

In 1776 a stone church was laid in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the construction of which was completed in 1789. In 1836-1839. according to the project of the first Tomsk bishop Agapit and according to the project of the Tomsk provincial and diocesan architect K.G. Tursky around the monastery a stone fence was erected with four corner towers and three holy gates. The bell tower of the stone cathedral, built in 1860, became a real decoration of the monastery. In 1863, a "Solemn" 303-pood bell was raised on it. In 1904 a stone chapel was built on the grave of Elder Theodore Kuzmich (Theodore of Tomsk), who is associated with Emperor Alexander I.

After the formation of Soviet power in the summer of 1923. the monastery was closed. Most of the monks were captured and shot on Mount Kashtak. The territory of the monastery was transferred to the Pedagogical School No. 2 and partially built up. The monastery was gradually destroyed despite the fact that in 1923. was taken into account by the museum department of Glavnauka as an ancient monument of national importance. The bell tower of the main temple, the chapel on the grave of Elder Theodore, the corner towers and gates were dismantled into bricks.

In the 80s of the XX century, a partial restoration of the monastery was carried out. The real revival began in 1991, when its territory was transferred to believers. In 1995, the restored Kazan Cathedral was opened with a newly built bell tower. In 1996 the former rectory building was returned, where monastic cells are now located. In 1998 the chapel of St. Rights was rebuilt. Theodore Tomsky.

Early 20th century photograph of the Kazan Cathedral and the courtyard of the monastery.

Below are 2 archival photographs of the monastery and Monastyrskaya Street (now Krylova). The first was taken in 1903, the second - in the period 1900-04.

Currently, only part of the fence and the corner tower can be seen from this angle. The temple is closed with a five-story building.

The newly rebuilt fortress wall now protects not from the attack of enemies, but from worldly fuss. There is a constant traffic jam in this place.

Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God with a restored bell tower.

Residential building.

Archival photograph of the beginning of the 20th century of the chapel above the burial place of St. Theodore Tomsky. Near it you can see the monastery cemetery.

Now there is no cemetery, and the chapel is under repair.

At the end of the post, another archival photograph of 1904. On it is a view from the bell tower of the Kazan Church towards Monastyrskaya (Krylova) Street and the Church of the Annunciation (now Batenkov Square is in its place). The photo is erroneously signed as Preobrazhenskaya (now Dzerzhinsky) street.

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Additionally:

The ensemble of the Tomsk Bogoroditse-Aleksievsky Monastery includes:

• Kazan temple
• Chapel of St. Theodore of Tomsk

The relics of the elder Theodore of Tomsk, which have healing powers, are kept in the monastery. There is a book in the temple, testifying to the repeated healings of parishioners.

Kazan Church in the Tomsk Bogoroditse-Aleksievsky Monastery

Story

Information about the time of the founding of the monastery differs - according to some sources, it was founded in, according to others - in year 1622. It is known that the monastery definitely existed in the 1630s. A. Latyshev explains such an early appearance of the monastery in the newly founded city by government decrees, and not by a large number of potential inhabitants who dream of escaping from the world. The original population of Tomsk consisted of riotous Cossacks, greedy industrialists, foreign seekers of wealth, exiled Poles, exiled convicts, local Tatars, "whose customs pleased the Russians, and polygamy found imitators." “The government saw how necessary in such a region a pious institution, setting an example of Christian virtues ...”

In the 1630s-1650s, the Bogoroditsky Monastery was located at the confluence of the Kirghizka River with the Tom (Ust-Kyrgyzsky Monastery). In 1658 moved to mountain_(Tomsk) Yurt mountain. During the construction, underground warehouses and passages to the Ushaika River were arranged (workers who were excavating in early November 1888 in the courtyard of the clerk of the Tomsk State Chamber, V. B. Orlov, who lived at the end of the street stretching from the monastery fence to the Ushaika River, came across a brick vault) .

In 1663 the church was consecrated in the name of St. Alexei, the man of God, the monastery began to be called Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky.

From the Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky Monastery, the management of the other eight Siberian monasteries, which were part of the Tomsk category, was carried out. monastery before year 1764 and was the only owner in the Tomsk province of 400 serfs, and also owned land on the Tom and Ob rivers. In the XVII century, at the monastery was opened hospital, and in 1746 at the first Tomsk school - Tomsk Russian Theological School (in 1762 y is converted into Russian-Latin). Also at the monastery with 1858 but acted theological Seminary with an extensive library.

The monastery, like other Siberian monasteries, was a place links violators monastic charters. It also contained secular persons.

The oldest in Siberia, the Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky Monastery was founded in 1605 at the mouth of the Bolshaya Kirgizka River. In 1658, for strategic reasons, the monastery was moved closer to the city, to Yurtochnaya Hill, where they cut down a wooden church in the name of Alexy the God-Man. In 1754, the church burned down from a lightning strike. In its place, in 1789, a stone church was built, consecrated in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Since 1746, the first school in Tomsk land, the Tomsk Russian Theological School, existed at the monastery.

In 1923, the entire territory of the monastery was given under the protection of the state, but nevertheless, in 1928-1930, the bell tower was demolished, the church was partially dismantled, and the territory was built up with new houses. Since 1979 Kazan Cathedral has been restored.

The stone castle of the monastery with four corner towers and three holy gates was built in 1836-1839. according to the project of the first Tomsk bishop Agapit and according to the project of the Tomsk provincial and diocesan architect K.G. Tursky. The stone two-storey fraternal building with the rector's quarters was built in 1884 according to the design of the diocesan architect V.V. Khabarova. The monastery was closed in 1923. In 1979-1995. work was carried out on the restoration of the Kazan temple of the monastery in its original form. In 1992, with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II, the opening of the monastery took place.

According to the site tomsk.gov.ru

V. Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky Monastery, 3rd grade, in Tomsk. It was founded no earlier than the beginning of the 17th century, 7 versts from Tomsk, at the mouth of the Kirghizka River, and was called Ust-Kyrgyzsky. On the occasion of frequent raids by the Kigiz and Kalmyks, it was moved to its present place in 1656-1662. The monastery keeps a wooden cross from 1662 and a manuscript synodic. Elder Fyodor Kuzmich was buried in the cemetery in the monastery fence.

From the book by S.V. Bulgakov "Russian monasteries in 1913"

One of the oldest monasteries in Siberia. It was founded in 1605 at the mouth of the Kirgizka River, 9 versts from the Tomsk prison, and was called by the people Ust-Kirghiz or Bogoroditsky. In the very first year, the newly built monastery buildings and the church were destroyed by ice during the spring ice drift, after which the monastery was moved a verst up the Bolshaya Kirghizka to an elevated and flood-protected place. At a distance from the Tomsk fortress, the position of the monastery was dangerous: despite the fact that it was well fortified and surrounded by defensive ditches and embankments, it often suffered from raids by nomadic Kirghiz and Tatars. A fire in 1656 destroyed the newly built church. Another construction stopped due to lack of funds.

Elder Ephraim, who at that time was the builder of the monastery, decided to transfer the monastery to the city with the advice of the governor and citizens of Tomsk "... according to their consenting choice of location." And they built the monastery anew on Yurtochnaya Hill, the most elevated in the whole neighborhood. In 1663, the construction of the monastery in a new place was completed by a new abbot, Sheikhumen Isaiah. The monastery was located next to the church in the name of Alexei the Man of God, which by that time had been standing on Yurtochnaya Hill for more than 30 years. After the unification of the monastery with the Alekseevsky Church, the Ust-Kyrgyz Bogoroditsky Monastery became known as the Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky. The new monastery was a fortress and became part of the defensive structures of Tomsk. For several years, the monastery withstood many sieges "by the Kalmatian [Kalmyk] parish", the most significant of which was in 1668.

The site of the original establishment of the monastery on the Kirgizka River was marked by Elder Isaiah with a large commemorative cross. The inscription on it read: “In the summer of 7170 (1662) the life-giving cross of the Lord was built, on it the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ is imagined under the power of the faithful and pious Sovereign Tsar and Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of All Great and Small and White Russia Autocrat by faith and the promise of the Tomsk city of the monastery of the Mother of God of Kazan: the builder Ishii, even in Christ with the brethren. Written in the Kuznetsk jail. "

In 1662, the first (there were four in total in the history of the monastery) wooden three-altar church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God with a northern chapel in the name of Sts. mchch. Flora and Lavra and the south in the name of Alexy the man of God. In the early 1660s, the builder of the monastery, Elder Isaiah, submitted a petition to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, in which he asked to welcome the monastery with money and an annual ruga. The tsar ordered that the servants of the monastery be given a salary of an annual rug, and also sent liturgical books, icons, bells, vestments and all the necessary church utensils from the tsar's sacristy.

By the beginning of the 18th century, the monastery owned significant land and fisheries. The increase in the monastic lands required many laborers. The monastery recruited peasants and sent them out to settle their land allotments in the Verkhotomsk camp, near the Ishtan channel and on the river. Shegarka. Already in the 1760s, more than 400 "male revision souls" lived on the monastery allotments.

At the time of its creation in 1605, the monastery, like the whole of Siberia, was part of the Vologda diocese. In 1620, with the appointment of the first Siberian archbishop, Cyprian (Starorusenkov), to Tobolsk, the monastery became part of the Siberian and Tobolsk archdiocese until the opening of an independent Tomsk diocese in 1834. In 1681 the monastery was taken under the personal patronage of Tsar Feodor Alekseevich.

Since its foundation, the monastery has become a major missionary center. Already at the beginning of the 17th century, on the island of Krestovoy (Baptized), at the confluence of the rivers Tom and Ob, missionary monks performed the first baptisms of foreigners in southern Siberia. And by the middle of the 17th century, one of the first missionary camps was set up on the monastery grounds in Nagorny Ishtan.

In 1698, a Russian school was founded in the monastery by the abbot Jonah the Greek, which served as the beginning of the entire future educational system of Tomsk. In 1744-1746, with the blessing of the diocesan authorities, the first Russian theological school in the south of Siberia was opened in the monastery. In 1818, the first Russian-Latin gymnasium in Tomsk was opened by the efforts of Archimandrite Jerome-"Gymnasiarch" (Kirillov). Two years later it was transformed into the Tomsk Theological School. In the 17th century, the first hospital in the region appeared at the monastery. In the historical materials of the 18th century, the monastery hospital is already described as "rather extensive" and well-equipped.

After the reform of 1764, significant land holdings of the monastery were lost, it was ranked among the third-class monasteries with state salaries, and archimandrite rule was abolished in it. Gradually, the brethren of the monastery began to consist of elderly monks.

Since 1807, the Bogoroditse-Aleksievsky Monastery, as the monastery of a provincial city, began to be again managed by an archimandrite. By decree of the Holy Synod of September 30, 1809, the monastery was converted from a full-time third-class monastery into a cenobitic one. Since 1835, the monastery has been the residence of the Tomsk bishops. A bishop's house was built on its territory.

In the 1830s, a stone fence with main and economic gates and corner towers was erected around the monastery for the first time, which gave the monastery a majestic appearance. In the southeast tower there was an anti-mince chapel where memorial services were held. Another ancient chapel was located in the monastery cemetery. The real attraction of the monastery was an unusual garden, arranged through the efforts of Bishop Athanasius (Sokolov) in the southern part of the monastery. With its lake, mountain, monastic cells and cemetery, it represented a symbolic image of the Holy Palestinian Land.

In 1882-1899 the monastery housed a theological seminary. In 1898, a literacy school was opened in the monastery wing, in which, according to 1900 data, 16 boys studied.

The monastery was closed in the summer of 1923. The brethren of the monastery moved to the monastic estate, the so-called. "Archimandrite". Here, at the ancient location of the monastery at the mouth of the river. Kirghiz, there was a country house of archimandrites and there was a wooden Church of the Intercession. Until 1926, 26 inhabitants of the monastery labored here, earning their livelihood with their labor. In the mid-1920s, the complete destruction of the monastery began. In 1925-26, the monks, already doomed to death, lived in a fraternal building. They were forbidden to leave their cells on pain of death. The fate of all the inhabitants of the monastery is unknown, but most of the brethren were captured and shot on Mount Kashtak.

Over time, the territory of the monastery was transferred to the Pedagogical School No. 2 and built up with new houses, despite the fact that in 1923 the monastery was registered by the museum department of the Glavnauka as an ancient monument of national importance. During the Great Patriotic War, the monastery housed workshops for sewing military uniforms and a school for sanitary instructors. In the early 1960s, the corner towers and the holy gates of the monastery were dismantled.

In the 1980s, an attempt was made to restore the monastery complex as a museum, which was limited to only a partial restoration of the temple of the monastery.

In 1991, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II visited the territory of the monastery. In 1992, Bishop Tikhon (Emelyanov) of Novosibirsk and Berdsk made the grand opening of the monastery. Until 1994, the art museum remained the owner of the temple. In the same year, the full return of the temple to believers took place. In 1995, the restored Kazan Cathedral was transferred to the monastery. In the same year, the uncovering of the relics of St. rights. Theodora. In 1996, the former rectory building was returned, where monastic cells are now located.

Kazan temple. The stone church was founded in 1776 with the blessing of St. Varlaam (Petrov), Archbishop of Tobolsk and All Siberia. In 1779, the side aisles of the church were consecrated, dedicated to the holy martyrs Florus and Laurus (northern) and St. Alexis the Man of God (southern). And only in 1789 was the main throne consecrated in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The bell tower of the temple, built in 1860, became a real decoration of the monastery. In 1863, a "Solemn" 303-pood bell was raised on it. At first, in the second tier of the bell tower, they wanted to place an altar in the name of St. rights. Lazarus of the Four Days, but later an archive and a repository of antiquities of the monastery were built here. After the closing of the monastery, the temple continued to act as a parish. On December 17, 1929, by decision of the Siberian Regional Executive Committee, the church in Tomsk was closed. Over time, it was partially dismantled. In the early 1980s, the temple was "... a stump of an old building with the remains of a dome." By the time the reconstruction of the monastery began at the end of the 20th century, the bell tower, apse, completions and coverings of the temple itself had not been preserved. In the early 1990s, large-scale restoration work was carried out, as a result of which the temple was completely restored.

Chapel of St. Theodore Tomsky. In 1904, over the grave of the popularly revered elder St. Theodore, located according to his will in the fence of the monastery, a stone chapel was built. On the main chapel icon were depicted St. blgv. book. Alexander Nevsky is the heavenly patron of Emperor Alexander I and St. Theodore Stratelates is the patron saint of the elder Theodore Kuzmich. In Soviet times, it was dismantled into bricks for the construction of secular buildings. In 1997-1998, the memorial chapel was restored according to the original design on the same foundations.

Trinity Church.

Temple at the gate. Built in the late XX - early XXI century.

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Chronicle of the monastery

1605 - Foundation of the Ust-Kyrgyz (Bogorodsky) monastery, 9 miles from Tomsk on the river. Big Kyrgyzstan.
1606 - the church and monastery buildings are demolished by floods. The monastery is moved to a higher and safer place up the river.
1620 - with the appointment of the first Siberian archbishop Kiprian to Tobolsk, the monastery became part of the Siberian and Tobolsk archdiocese (before that it was part of the Vologda diocese).
1656 - there was a fire that destroyed the new wooden temple of the monastery. The monastery is transferred to Tomsk on Yurtochnaya Hill.
1656 - Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich granted the monastery the first allotment of land holdings outside of Tomsk.
1662 - the first wooden three-altar church was erected in the monastery in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God with chapels in honor of St. Alexis the Man of God and the martyrs Florus and Laurus.
1663 - completion of the construction of the monastery in a new location.
1681 - the monastery, among the three oldest Siberian monasteries, was taken under the personal patronage of Tsar Feodor Alekseevich.
1695 - Abbots of the Bogoroditse-Aleksievsky Monastery receive the rank of archimandrite.
1698 - the first school in Tomsk was opened in the monastery.
Since the 17th century, the first hospital and almshouse in the city has been organized at the monastery.
1746 - A Russian theological school opens in the monastery.
1750s - Archim. Isaiah established a "leading monastic evangelism": city churches had to start and end the bell ringing according to the ringing of the monastery church.
1764 - the monastery becomes a full-time one and is ranked as the 3rd class. His abbots again become abbots.
1769 - The Kuznetsk Monastery of the Nativity of Christ was attached to the Tomsk monastery.
1776 - the first stone temple of the monastery is laid.
1779 - the side aisles of the new church are consecrated in honor of St. Alexis the Man of God and the martyrs Florus and Laurus.
1789 - the main aisle of the temple is consecrated in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
1807 - restoration of the archimandrite in the monastery.
1818 - a Russian-Latin gymnasium was established at the monastery.
1820 - the gymnasium was transformed into the Tomsk Theological School.
1834 - opening of the Tomsk diocese.
1835 - The Bogoroditse-Aleksievsky Monastery becomes the residence of the Tomsk bishops, a bishop's house was built on the territory of the monastery.
1836 - construction of a stone monastery fence began.
1860 - the bell tower of the stone cathedral is being built.
1863 - a "Solemn" 303-pood bell was installed in the monastery.
1864 - the death of the elder Theodore Kuzmich (St. Right. Theodore of Tomsk).
1884 - a stone rector's building was built in the monastery.
1891 - Tsesarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, the future Tsar Nicholas II, visits the monastery.
1904 - over the crypt of St. Theodore of Tomsk, a stone chapel is being erected.
1908 - vicar bishops with the title of "Barnaul" become abbots of the Bogoroditse-Aleksievsky Monastery.
1923 - closing of the monastery; the last rector of the monastery was Archimandrite Irakli (Popov), who, later becoming a bishop in the Urals, was shot in the 30s.
1923 - Numerous apparitions to St. rights. Elder Theodore of Tomsk at the chapel and over the walls of the monastery.
1936 - the building of the Bishop's house and the house church burned down, was rebuilt and alienated from the monastery.
1936 - the chapel of St. rights. Theodore Tomsky.
1937 - the suburban church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos was set on fire.
1941-45 - in the monastery there is a military hospital.
1960s - the stone fence and gates of the monastery are dismantled.
1991 - His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II visited the territory of the monastery.
1992 - Bishop Tikhon of Novosibirsk and Berdsk made a grand opening of the Tomsk Bogoroditse-Aleksievsky Monastery.
1995 - the restored Kazan Cathedral was transferred to the monastery.
1995 - the acquisition of the relics of St. rights. Theodora.
1996 - the former abbot's building was returned, where monastic cells are now located.
1996-1998 - restored chapel of St. rights. Theodore Tomsky.
1999 - the current abbot Siluan (Vyurov) was appointed the abbot of the monastery.

http://tbam.ru/O_monastire/Istoriya_i_sovremennost/

Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky Monastery- Orthodox monastery in Tomsk, is under the jurisdiction of the Tomsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Story

Information about the time of the founding of the monastery differs - according to some sources, it was founded in 1605, according to others - in 1622. It is known that the monastery definitely existed in the 1630s. A. Latyshev explains such an early appearance of the monastery in the newly founded city by government decrees, and not by a large number of potential inhabitants who dream of escaping from the world. The original population of Tomsk consisted of riotous Cossacks, greedy industrialists, foreign seekers of wealth, exiled Poles, exiled convicts, local Tatars, "whose customs pleased the Russians, and polygamy found imitators." “The government saw how necessary in such a region a pious institution, setting an example of Christian virtues ...”

In the 1630s-1650s, the Bogoroditsky Monastery was located at the confluence of the Kirghizka River with the Tom (Ust-Kyrgyzsky Monastery). In 1658 it was moved to Yurtochnaya Hill. During the construction, underground warehouses and passages to the Ushaika River were arranged (workers who were excavating in early November 1888 in the courtyard of the clerk of the Tomsk State Chamber, V. B. Orlov, who lived at the end of the street stretching from the monastery fence to the Ushaika River, came across a brick vault) .

In 1663, the church was consecrated in the name of St. Alexei, the man of God, the monastery began to be called Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky.

From the Bogoroditse-Alekseevsky Monastery, the management of the other eight Siberian monasteries, which were part of the Tomsk category, was carried out. Until 1764, the monastery was the only owner of 400 serfs in the Tomsk province, and also owned land on the Tom and Ob rivers. In the 17th century, a hospital was opened at the monastery, and in 1746 the first Tomsk school - the Tomsk Russian Theological School (in 1762 it was transformed into Russian-Latin). Also at the monastery since 1858 there was a theological seminary with an extensive library.

The monastery, like other Siberian monasteries, was a place of exile for violators of monastic charters. It also contained secular persons.

The main monastic temple is the Kazan Church, which also has side chapels in honor of Alexy, the man of God and Saints Florus and Laurus. Initially, the building was wooden, burned down several times. In 1789, a modern stone church building was built in the Siberian Baroque style. In the church there was a particularly revered image of the Mother of God "The Burning Bush".

In the 1830s, the monastery was surrounded by stone walls and chapel towers (designed by the Tomsk architect K. G. Tursky). On the territory there was a garden, a lake, summer cells and a cemetery, and to the south of the monastery there was a monastery grove, which was preserved until the beginning of the 20th century.

New story

In 1922, the monastery itself was closed, but the community of believers at the Kazan Church existed until 1929. The monks during this period lived under arrest in the fraternal building, and after the closure of the temple, together with the archimandrite, they were executed on Mount Kashtak.

In 1930, the Industrial and Pedagogical Institute was located in the premises of the monastery.

The decision of the Tomsk Regional Executive Committee of February 17, 1978, the complex of monastic buildings was taken under state protection.

Modernity

In 1992, the Kazan Church and the cell building of the monastery were returned to believers. Regular worship began. On July 5, 1995, in a cesspool on the site of the destroyed chapel of Fyodor Kuzmich, his relics were found, which became the main monastic relic. In 1997, the chapel of the saint was restored.

In 2010, in the cell building of the monastery (the former building of the bishop's house, built in 1835 near the southern side of the monastery fence), the house church of the Three Hierarchs was consecrated. It houses a marble iconostasis, the decor of the church itself is made in the Byzantine style.

In 2012, 15 million rubles were allocated from the federal budget under the program "Culture of Russia" for the restoration of the Kazan Church.

abbots

• 1605-1663 Ephraim (Berezovsky) the first builder
• 1660-1668 Schemagumen Isaiah
• 1698 Iona the Greek
• 1901-1908 Archimandrite Jonah (Izosimov)
• 1999-2013 hegumen Siluan (Vyurov)
• since 2013 hegumen Kirill (Umrilov)

Famous personalities

In 1729, Abram Petrovich Hannibal spent several months in prison in the monastery.

In 1991 Patriarch Alexy II visited the territory of the monastery.

Monastery necropolis

The grave of Fyodor Kuzmich (photo of the beginning of the 20th century)

It most likely existed from the first years of the founding of the monastery on Yurtochnaya Hill, that is, from 1663. On the maps of Tomsk, the necropolis in the monastery is indicated only from the end of the 19th century. On the map of 1898, it occupies a significant area to the north and east of the church. It is no longer marked on the maps of the 1930s.

In 1864, Elder Fyodor Kuzmich, identified in legends with Emperor Alexander I, was buried at the monastery cemetery. In 1904, a chapel was built over his grave according to the design of the architect Vikenty Orzheshko.

Well-known residents of Tomsk were buried at the monastery cemetery, there were also graves of “those pious persons” who made contributions during their lifetime for the benefit of the monastery - gold miner I. D. Astashev, governor N. V. Rodzianko, a fighter against the abuses of local officials there was a legend according to which a heart-rending cry was heard from the grave for a long time: “I am you, rascals, on the 3rd point”), the governors I.I. A. I. Laks (also reburied from Tomsk), State Councilor A. V. Durov, historian and local historian K. N. Evtropov, and others.

In Soviet times, the necropolis was destroyed, the last burial here was made in 1925, in 1929 it was decided to liquidate the necropolis and arrange a park in its place.

Now the necropolis is being restored, excavations have been carried out, which made it possible to attribute some burials.