Vysokopetrovsky Monastery (), also translated as High Monastery of St. Peter, is a
Russian Orthodox
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monastery
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in the
Bely Gorod area of
Moscow
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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, 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
Red Square.
In the late 17th century, the
Naryshkin boyars, maternal relatives of
Peter the Great, turned the monastery into their family burial place. They had it reconstructed in the
Naryshkin Baroque 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,
Archimandrite Bartholomew Remov 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
NKVD was informed and arrested everyone involved in 1935.
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In 1992 several buildings of the monastery were returned to the
Russian Orthodox Church.
As of 2005, the buildings are shared by the
Russian Orthodox Church and the Moscow Literature Museum.
Structures
*
Cathedral of St Peter (1517).
* Church of
Our Lady of Bogolyubovo (with a
refectory) (1687)
* Church of
St. Sergius of Radonezh (with a
refectory) (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 (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
{{Monasteries of Moscow
Monasteries in Moscow
Russian Orthodox monasteries in Russia
Christian monasteries established in the 1320s
14th-century establishments in Russia
Tverskoy District
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow
