Holy Trinity Antonievo-Dymsky Monastery

Holy Trinity Antonievo-Dymsky Monastery is located in the village of Red Bronevik, which is located in Boksitogorsk district of the Leningrad region. This orthodox monastery belongs to the St. Petersburg Metropolitanate of the Russian Orthodox Church. Twenty kilometers from it is the city of Boksitogorsk, and in seventeen - Tikhvin. Antonievo-Dymsky monastery has a rich history of foundation and existence - this will be discussed later.

Traditions

The monastery, according to legend, was founded in 1242 on the lands of the Novgorod Republic by the Monk Anthony, who was a disciple of Varlaam Khutynsky. The institution was officially held when the diploma was awarded by Prince Alexander Nevsky.

June 24, 1273 (according to other sources - 1224) the Monk Anthony died, his body was taken from the choir in the church he had set up. The relics of the saint in 1370 were found incorruptible, they were placed in the same Antonievsky church open in cancer.

In 1409, the monastery allegedly was completely destroyed during the invasion of the Novgorod lands by Khan Yedigei (in fact, Yedigei did not reach the Novgorod land). Seeing the approach of the enemy, the monastery residents sang a prayer service at the crayfish with the relics of Antony and hid them under a bushel, sprinkling the earth and laying a stone slab. Church utensils, candles, an iron hat and the bells of a saint were lowered to the very bottom of the Dymsky Lake.

XVI-XVII century

Since 1585, after the Swedes destroyed the Valaam monastery in 1578, its monks moved to the Antonievo-Dymsky monastery. Valaam traditions have been preserved here. In 1618, the monks were transferred to the Vasilievsky monastery on the Volkhov.

In 1611, the monastery was ravaged by the Swedes. The troops of Yakov Delagardi could not capture the Tikhvin Assumption Monastery and attacked Dymskaya with their siege. The brothers of the unfortified monastery could not resist and dispersed around the surrounding forests. The cells and temples were burned.

With the blessing of Patriarch Filaret in 1626, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich ordered the Antony-Dymsky Monastery to be renewed. And during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, in 1655, the first temple of stone was built in the abode by the labor of Hegumen Filaret.

In 1687, the Dymsky Monastery burned down, and then was rebuilt.

In the reading and writing of the tsars Peter Alekseevich and John Alekseevich from June 21, 1692, the monastery was listed as attributable to the Sophia house.

Sources of the early history of the monastery

Information about the founding of the monastery contains the life of Antony of Dymsky, the earliest edition of it from the surviving ones dates back to the end of the seventeenth century. Most likely, in the Dymsky monastery, the life was made using local legends.

The second, later edition is dated to the end of the XVIII - the beginning of the XIX century, and is, in the opinion of the researchers, the processing of the first edition according to the pattern of the life of the Monk Theodosius of Totem.

What are the reasons for the scarcity of information about the early history of the Dymskaya monastery? In the first edition it is reported that the information has not been preserved "from the promise of oblivion and negligence ... and from all military people of the finds, and buoy, and from the former fires."

About the granted in 1243 by Alexander Nevsky for the creation of the monastery, the letter is mentioned in the late edition of the life of Antony. It also reports on the events of 1409, 1611, 1626, although many of them are considered legendary, because in other sources there is no indication of them.

1700-1919

In 1764, during the secularization of the monastic lands, the abode was again abolished, and the cathedral church was made a parish. Ignatius, an archimandrite of the Tikhvin Monastery, in 1794, addressed Metropolitan Gabriel of Novgorod and St. Petersburg and appealed for the resumption of the monastery. Antonievo-Dymsky Monastery by decree of 01.09.1794 was reopened with a civic charter, which the Metropolitan personally composed and sent on October 11, 1795.

April 9, 1799, the Emperor Paul the First of the treasury donated two thousand pine trees for the repair of the monastery.

In the nineteenth century the monastery was renewed. Most of the wooden buildings were replaced with stone ones. The labor of the prior of Amphilochius in 1839 around the monastery was built a stone fence with the Holy Gates and four towers in the corners. Under the hegumen of Hilary in 1840, a one-story fraternal building was erected, and in 1846 a two-storeyed parish corps was built, where a kitchen, a fraternal refectory and a prosphouse were located. In 1849, a two-story pilgrimage building was erected, and in 1850 - glaciers, farm buildings and kvassovarnu.

At the monastery the parish school functioned, where children from the surrounding villages were trained.

Income

The monastery was three-class and received every year a maintenance in the amount of 85.71 rubles. His annual income in total did not exceed 110 rubles. Corners, meadow land, arable land, woodland forest had an Antonievo-Dymsky monastery in use. And the lake, on the banks of which the Monk Anthony once came in search of prayerful solitude, also belonged to him. Each year, the four-day Antony Fair was held in the commemoration of the day of the memory of John the Baptist.

The number of inhabitants, beginning with thirty monks of the Tikhvin monastery, who settled here in 1794, increased to fifty-five by 1917. In the report of Archimandrite Anthony (Demyanskii) of 1913 it is reported that the whole of the brethren, with the exception of a few people, behaved badly. Most of the hieromonks had families, and the abbot set the surrounding population against themselves, and people threatened to set on fire.

The last abbot of the monastery, who was urgently replaced by Father Methodius, mentioned in the report, was hegumen Theoktist.

Closing period

In 1919, the monastery was abolished. As the locals told, in order to disperse the monks, an armored car was docked. The settlement in place of the monastery in memory of that event was renamed the Red Armored Vehicle.

In the premises of the monastery in 1921 there was a shelter for the elderly and disabled. In 1929, a commune for the production of bricks was formed here, whose activities consisted in dismantling the monastery towers and walls with bricks for sale.

Until the late 1930's. The Trinity Cathedral acted as a parish church. In the same period, the monastery cemetery was destroyed.

At the end of WWII, a tractor school was organized in the hotel and the remaining cell building, and then a psychiatric hospital was set up in these buildings.

In the last decades of the twentieth century, the remnants of the monastery were handed over to the boksitogorsk combine "Alumina". In the monastic hospice house the sanatorium-dispensary of the plant was placed. The main cathedral was used as a warehouse, and in 1956-1961. It was finally dismantled.

By the early 1990s. From the complex remained only the cell two-story building, the skeleton of the four-tiered bell tower of the cathedral, the building of the parish school, several economic wooden buildings, the building of the hospice house.

Resumption of the monastery

On Dymskoe lake near the stone, where, according to the legend, Saint Anthony prayed, in 1994 a wooden four meter cross was installed. Such an event was timed to coincide with the 770th anniversary of the reign of Antony and the bicentennial of the second resumption of the monastery in 1794.

Antonievo-Dymsky Monastery October 30, 1997 was transferred to the ROC and as a monastery attributed to the Tikhvin monastery.

In 2000, they began to restore the main cathedral, the work continues to the present day. Through the efforts of the Hegumen Evfimiy, rector of the Tikhvin Monastery, in 2001 the second discovery of the relics of Antony took place in the monastery. Until 2008, they were in the Assumption Cathedral of the Tikhvin Monastery, and then were returned to the Troitsky Antonievo-Dymsky Monastery.

On Dymskoe lake in the late nineties of the twentieth century a wooden chapel of the Monk Anthony was erected, in 2011 it was replaced with a stone chapel. In addition, a bathhouse was built and the beach was arranged.

October 6, 2008 Antonievo-Dymsky Monastery was granted the status of an independent monastery, hegumen Ignatius was appointed as his rector.

Compound in St. Petersburg

In 1893, according to the project of architect N. Nikonov, the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos was built for the St. Petersburg Diocesan Brotherhood. She has two thrones: beneath - the martyr of Bonifatius, and above - the Protection of the Holy Virgin. On June 19, 2012, the church received the status of a dormitory of the Dymskaya monastery. The first service in the temple of the martyr of Vonifatia was held on August 11, 2012.

Antonievo-Dymsky Monastery: how to get there

The monastery is in the Boksitogorsk district of the Leningrad region, in the village of Krasny Bronevik, in Galichno. You can reach it from the bus station of St. Petersburg on the Obvodny Canal. It is necessary to take a regular bus to Pikalevo or Boksitogorsk, get off at the Galichno stop, then walk three kilometers.