On the low bank of the Suzdal river Kamenka stretched elegant Pokrovsky women's monastery - a historical and architectural monument of the ancient city, which is included in the famous Golden Ring of Russia .
History of the Holy Intercession Monastery, Suzdal
The holy monastery was founded in 1364 by Andrey Konstantinovich, the prince of Suzdal-Nizhegorodsky. The first buildings were wooden, and they, of course, did not survive. Later, the road to Moscow passed past the walls of the monastery. The heyday of the monastery was due to the financial assistance of Prince Vasily III. The fact is that in 1525 in the monastery the wife of Basil III Solomoniya Saburova, who was accused by the spouse of infertility, was forcibly tonsured into a nun. Subsequently, Solomon, in the vow of Sofia, was canonized by Sofia Suzdal. Her relics are still kept in the Intercession Monastery of Suzdal in closed cancer. Here, forcibly kept and other representatives of the nobility - the wife of Prince Vladimir Staritsky Evpraksiya, wife and daughter-in-law of Ivan the Terrible, the wife of Peter I and others. In the 20 years of the XX century the monastery was closed. True, in the sixties restoration work was carried out here, a museum was opened. Later on the complex was placed hotel with a bar and a concert hall. In 1992, the monastic life here again resumed.
Features of architecture of the Holy Protection Convent of Suzdal
The central building of the monastery complex is the Intercession Cathedral of Suzdal, built in 1510-1514. It is a four-footed temple with a two-story open gallery, adjoining apses. Outside, the cathedral with white walls is decorated laconically: pilasters, frieze from arches and columns, keeled zakomars. The church crowns three chapters on drums with narrow windows.
Next to the cathedral stands a tent tower (XVI-XVII centuries) in the form of an octagon, connected to the cathedral by a covered gallery. On the north side of the Cathedral is the Zachatiev Refectory Church, built on the orders of Ivan the Terrible after the death of his daughter Anna. Nearby you can see and various auxiliary buildings: an orderly house, a kitchen, a cell building, warehouses of the end of the XVII century. Pokrovsky Women's Monastery in Suzdal is surrounded by a fence with octagonal towers with narrow loopholes. The entrance to the monastery complex was marked by the Holy Gates with the Blessed Resurrection Church (the beginning of the 16th century), which were used as a church and a fortress tower at the same time.
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