Vysokopetrovsky Monastery (Russian: Высокопетровский монастырь, English: ''High Monastery of St Peter'') is a

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in the Bely Gorod area of

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, commanding a hill whence Petrovka Street descends towards the Kremlin. The monastery is believed to have been founded around the 1320s by

Saint Peter of Moscow Peter, Metropolitan of Kiev and all Rus (russian: Пётр; c. 1260 – 20 December 1326) was the Russian metropolitan who moved his see from Vladimir to Moscow in 1325. Later he was proclaimed a patron saint of Moscow. In spite of the move, ...

, the first Russian metropolitan to have his see in Moscow.''Vysokopetrovsky Monastery, Russian Orthodox Church's Department of religious education and catehization, in Russian'' The cloister gave its name to adjacent Petrovka Street, one of the streets radiating from

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. In the late 17th century, the Naryshkin boyars, maternal relatives of

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

, turned the monastery into their family burial place. They had it reconstructed in the

Naryshkin Baroque Naryshkin Baroque, also referred to as Moscow Baroque or Muscovite Baroque, is a particular style of Baroque architecture and decoration that was fashionable in Moscow from the late 17th century into the early 18th century. In the late 17th century ...

style of architecture associated with their name. In the mid-18th century, several subsidiary structures were added, possibly based on designs by Dmitry Ukhtomsky or Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin. The katholikon, dedicated to St Peter of Moscow, was long regarded as a typical monument of the Naryshkin style and dated to 1692. In the 1970s, however, detailed studies of written sources and excavations of the site revealed that the katholikon actually had been built in 1514-1517 by Aloisio the New. After the monastery was closed down by the Soviet authorities in 1929,

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Bartholomew Remov Bartholomew Remov (3 October 1888 – 26 June 1935) was a Russian Orthodox archbishop who secretly converted to the Russian Greek Catholic Church in 1932. He was sentenced to death in 1935 by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Sovie ...

arranged for the monks and nuns to continue their monastic life in secret at the Nativity Church at Putinki, where he was the Rector. The spiritual life of the monastery continued at Putinki until the

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was informed and arrested everyone involved in 1935. I.I. Osipova (2003), ''Hide Me Within Thy Wounds: The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the USSR from Material in Criminal Investigation and Labor Camp Files'', Germans from Russia Heritage Collection.

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. Pages 43-45. In 1992 several buildings of the monastery were returned to the

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. As of 2005, the buildings are shared by the

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and the Moscow Literature Museum.

Structures

* Cathedral of St Peter (1517). * Church of Our Lady of Bogolyubovo (with a

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) (1687) * Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh (with a

) (1694) * Church of St. Pachomius the Great above the monastery gates (1755) * Church of the Tolga icon of the mother of God (1750) * Church of the Intercession above the monastery gates, with a belltower. (1694) * Church (former chapel) of

Our Lady of Kazan ''Our Lady of Kazan'', also called ''Mother-of-God of Kazan'' (russian: Казанская Богоматерь, translit=Kazanskaya Bogomater'), is a holy icon of the highest stature within the Russian Orthodox Church, representing the Virgin Ma ...

(inside the former gates under the belltower). File:Икона Казанской Божией Матери одноименной часовни.jpg, Icon of Kazan mother of God chapel of the same name File:Вход в храм Толгской иконы божией матери в Высоко-Петровском монастыре г.Москва.jpg, The entrance to the Church of the Tolga icon of the Mother of God File:Фрагмент керамического иконостаса храма Толгской иконы божией матери.jpg, A portion of the ceramic iconostasis of the Church of the Tolga icon of the Mother of God

References

External links

Vysokopetrovsky Monastery official web-site, in Russian
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