The first mention of the need to create a Chuvash monastery in the Kazan province dates back to 1881. “BY THE HIGHEST command, which followed on the 9th day of May 1881 (Social Decree and Decree of the Rights of 1881 No. 82, Article 552), in gratitude to the Lord God for the miraculous salvation of the AUGUST IMPERIAL FAMILY from the threatening danger during the train crash on Kursk-Kharkovo-Azov railway. And also for the purpose of enlightening influence on the foreigners-Chuvash ”, it was decided to form a monastery in the Kazan province. But the HIGHEST command remained virtually unfulfilled until 1902.

In the late 80s of the XIX century, the first petition of the Chuvash rural communities of the Kozmodemyansky district was sent to the Kazan Diocesan Administration for the founding of a Chuvash monastery in the Kozmodemyansky district. Since ancient times, the Chuvash had a custom to worship different gods. It was believed that the gods, from whom disasters and misfortunes occur, live in a wooded area, and their habitats - Keremeti - are sacred. There people worshiped them and sacrificed animals. In the Kozmodemyansky district, such a place was the Karshlyk glade and a place called Sar-Tuvan near the village of Maxi-Kasy, Tatarkasinsky volost, located in the Sheshkar forest dacha (dachas were called forest areas). By that time, many Chuvashs, already established in Orthodox faith, did not want to put up with idolatry and sacrifices. And the inhabitants of the villages adjacent to the “Karshlyk” glade “recognized it as beneficial to intercede with whom it should be about the foundation of the monastery mentioned above at the main place of idolatry, namely in the Sheshkar forest dacha of the Kozmodemyansky district of the Kazan province.”

Several petitions were made to the Holy Synod, the Kazan diocesan authorities, the Kazan State Property Administration (in 1891, 1895, 1898, 1899). And a long correspondence began with the Kazan Office of State Property about the allocation of land for the monastery. But the monastery has already begun to emerge. The peasants of nearby villages donated 3 acres of land. The first buildings began to be erected - these were wooden huts. And in May 1902, the Holy Governing Synod determined: in the Kozmodemyansky district of the Kazan diocese, to establish a Chuvash male monastery with the name of Alexander Nevsky, with as many monastics as the monastery will be able to support at its own expense; to ask for an order from the Minister of Agriculture and State Property on the allotment of 80 acres of 500 sq. soot from Malo-Sheshkarskaya and Pikhtulinsky dachas.

In October 1902 hegumen Anthony (Razumov) was appointed abbot of the monastery. By this time, the inhabitants of the neighboring village of Bolshoi Sundyr had donated to the monastery an old prayer house, which was transported and installed on the mountain, completing the dome, altar and porch. It seems that it was he who became the temple of Alexander Nevsky. By an act of January 22, 1903, 10 acres of a forest plot from the Sheshkar dacha was finally transferred to the possession of the monastery, and in April of the same year another 70 dess. 500 fathoms of land in the Pikhtulinsky dacha, which was located 18 versts from the monastery. The monastery was consecrated on June 15, 1903 by Archbishop Dimitry of Kazan, and regular services began.

The monastery was founded as a cenobitic (a single table and common property) and provincial (not supported by a consistory). "In 1904, the monastery consisted of 2 people in the monastic rank and 48 people of novices." In 1904, the improvement of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was completed. The following year, a two-story fraternal building with 20 cells and a wooden school building were built. “THE EMPEROR, taking into account the educational tasks of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery among the Chuvash, on the 2nd day of May 1905, the HIGHEST command deigned to take him to an additional allotment of seventy acres from the Malo-Sheshkarskaya state dacha and add up the outstanding amount for the previously allotted monastery plot." But the monastery received this land by act only in July 1906. But for a long time, the Head of the Ilyinsky Forestry, Senior Forest Inspector, Collegiate Councilor Guzovsky, led a slanderous lawsuit with the monastery on land matters. Despite the fact that in September 1907 the Main Department of Land Management and Agriculture sent a document to the Kazan Department of Agriculture and State Property, which states, among other things, “that the forest plots allocated by the treasury to the monasteries, according to Art. 111 and paragraph 7 of Art. 462nd Const. Lesn., ed. 1905, are removed forever from the forest authorities and come to the full disposal and use of the monasteries. In 1905, Fr. Anthony addresses the council of the Brotherhood of St. Guria with a request to open a parish school at the monastery. In the same year, the monastery rented a water mill for a period of 24 years.

By 1907 the monastery continued to grow. There are new buildings, workshops (sewing, shoemaking, carpentry, etc.), a wooden fence around the monastery. At the same time, the construction of a new church, a new building for the brethren and a brick factory, a hotel for pilgrims was planned. In February 1908, "The Construction Department of the Kazan Provincial Board approved the project and estimate for the construction of a church in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Kozmodemyansky district." The laying of the temple was carried out in July 1908 by Bishop Mikhail of Cheboksary. And the consecration took place on October 8, 1909 by Bishop Andrei Mamadyshsky. Apparently, this was the temple of Seraphim of Sarov. By 1910, 71 people lived in the monastery. There was a forge, a brick factory, a canvas weaving workshop. Brick foundations are being built under old buildings, many buildings already have iron roofs. The farmstead economy was also well established in the Pikhtulinsky area, remote from the monastery, where several novices lived. There were two 2-storey hotels in the monastery for living in need.

With the outbreak of the First World War, life in the monastery changed. Some of the novices were mobilized into the army. They took part of the horses for the needs of the front. Despite the fact that the war was going on, the improvement of the monastery continues. In 1916, a new refectory building was built, and the apiary was enlarged. With the establishment of Soviet power, difficult days came for the monastery. Already in February 1918, the peasants of the Sundyr volost confiscated land in the Pikhtulinsky area. At the same time, buildings, cattle, sheep, firewood, hay, straw were selected. In March 1919 the monastery lost its mill. In May 1922 hegumen Anthony was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. Despite his illness, Archimandrite Anthony continues his service. Until the mid-1920s, life in the monastery was still glimmering. On August 12, 1926, the collegium of the NKVD of the Chuvash Republic issued a decision to close the monastery, and the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Chuvash ASSR approved it in October 1926. The reason was "non-observance of Soviet laws by members of the community, the decree on the separation of the church from the state and the school from the church." Also, the collegium of the NKVD, by its decision, transferred the monastery premises to the local school of peasant youth. Archimandrite Anthony died on December 24, 1928 and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Bolshoi Sundyr, Yadrinsky District. During the long years of oblivion on the territory of the monastery at different times there was a school for peasant youth, a hospital for patients with meningitis and tuberculosis. During this time, the surviving buildings were mercilessly destroyed and rebuilt.

Attention!!! To visit the monastery by the female half of the population, it is recommended to take a scarf with you, as well as the entrance to the territory of the monastery in shorts, skirts above the knees, trousers, jeans - you can’t!!! (Especially for the esteemed Starling!!!)

More than a century has passed since the foundation of the first Chuvash male Alexander Nevsky monastery, located in the village of Bolshoy Sundyr, Morgaush region. An interesting place filled with peace and quiet. There are two swimming pools with crystal clear water and very br... cold. There is a lake in which you can swim and have a picnic on the shore, you can drive up to it by car.

There is a legend that at the beginning of the last century, in a church on the territory of the monastery, a brother and sister got married (I don’t know what kind of fly bit them), but GOD did not allow sacrilege, and the church went to the ground with everyone who was in it and formed Hill. This place was not found, although the church really failed, whoever finds it, write, we will supplement the legend.

It stands in the forest, OAK - KEREMET, in general, the tract "Karashlakh" on the mountainous bank of the Sundyrka River is a place of worship. Pagan prayers and sacrifices have been performed here for a long time. But gradually Orthodoxy took root here as well. Appeared their ascetics. Although they speak oak, new ribbons periodically appear.

The future abbot of the monastery Alexei Petrovich Razumov was born on March 10, 1862 in the village. Setkasy of the Yadrinsky district in the family of a Chuvash peasant. After graduating from the Zemstvo school, he decided to become a monk. There was a reason for that. Even before graduation, Alex became seriously ill. Despite the efforts of the parents, the disease did not recede. Then he made a promise: if he recovers, he will go to serve in a monastery. And at the age of 22 he ended up in the Mikhailo-Arkhangelsk Cheremis Monastery. After a fairly long period of obedience (service), he took the veil as a monk. In a short time he went from hierodeacon to hieromonk. In 1898 he was appointed in the monastery as a confessor, that is, a priest of the church who takes confession.

Anthony received his first church award - a gaiter (a quad-coal plate with the image of a cross) in 1900. In February 1901, the Holy Synod appointed him rector of the Chuvash monastery in the Ufa province. In the same year he was elevated to the rank of abbot with the laying of a club (the second award).

As a patriot of his native land, Abbot Anthony appeals to the Kazan Spiritual Consistory with a request to transfer him to the newly opened monastery. Anthony took over the poor monastic economy. At the end of 1902, only 12 novices served here. The consecration of the monastery took place on June 15, 1903 with a large gathering of people. On this occasion, the bishop of the Kazan diocese, Archbishop Dmitry, arrived.

The beginning of the activity of the monastery coincided with Russo-Japanese War and the first Russian revolution, which created many difficulties. But they did not frighten the purposeful person, endowed with organizational skills and great responsibility for the task assigned.

Father Anthony skillfully looked for ways to obtain benefits for the monastery. For example, turning to Tsar Nicholas II, he succeeded in writing off a large debt to the treasury for building timber in the amount of 1,800 rubles. In addition, the king instructed to allocate new land to the monastery. With the growth in the number of inhabitants, there was an urgent need for land. They were hard to come by, especially forest areas. At that time, the forest auditor, collegiate adviser B. Guzovsky, who prevented the monastery from acquiring forest plots, enjoyed great authority. But nothing could stop Antony from wanting to turn the only national monastery in the region into a center of spiritual and moral education for the Chuvash. The abbot understood that a good library was also needed for this. He took care of buying textbooks and furniture for the school, which apparently opened at the end of 1911. The monastery ordered books from Moscow, Kazan, Simbirsk and other cities. A lot of books began to arrive in the Chuvash language, especially religious content. The Chuvash educators I. Yakovlev and N. Nikolsky played an important role in supplying the monastery with literature. They carried on a lively correspondence with the abbot.

Through the efforts of Anthony, the monastery continued to be improved. Workshops were opened (carpentry, sewing, shoemaking, etc.). The rector thought about building a new church, a new building for the brethren, and his own brick factory. Soon, in 1909, the second church in the monastery was consecrated - in the name of St. Seraphim of Sarov. The abbot sought to build soundly, reliably and beautifully, inviting masters of their craft from different counties.

Improvement work did not stop. After the construction of the five-domed temple was completed, a new two-story building was completed with cells and rooms for "visiting lords and ruling persons." A forge appeared, a brick factory and a linen weaving workshop started operating. The number of livestock grew. The estate was surrounded by a solid fence.

The pre-war years (1910-1914) became the heyday of the monastery. The farm was making a lot of money. Bread, cattle, bricks, canvas, etc. were sold in large volumes. Divine services also brought profit. All this raised the standard of living of the inhabitants of the monastery, which had close trade ties with peasants and merchants (for example, with the trading houses of the Talantsev brothers, the Efremov brothers).

The abbot was distinguished by a calm, benevolent character. He loved justice and honesty, more than once stood up for novices and monks.

With the outbreak of World War I, life in the monastery changed. Some novices were sent to the army. Some of the horses were taken to the front, the monastery received monetary compensation for them. The pastor organized help active army- regularly collected donations in favor of the front, for the treatment of sick and wounded soldiers, the preparation of premises for the reception of the wounded began. In the autumn of 1914, a large group of children of fallen soldiers was admitted to the monastery for maintenance and education. The monastery became a shelter for refugees from the western regions of Russia.

By a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of January 23, 1918, the property of churches and monasteries was declared "public property".

In 1919, the lands of the monastery were taken away, except for 13 acres, which Anthony managed to defend with great difficulty so far for gardening.

In 1921, he wrote in the statements: "There are no horses, cattle and sheep at the monastery." A farm, a mill, an apiary, a brick factory were confiscated, workshops were closed. The looting of buildings continued. Seeing the outrages being committed, the abbot tried to appeal to conscience, but nothing helped. He was sad to see what happened to his brainchild.

For selfless activity, fidelity to his vocation, the 60-year-old hegumen Anthony was elevated to the rank of archimandrite (the highest monastic rank) on May 22, 1922.

The unequal struggle undermined his health, but he continued to lead the monastery until the mid-1920s. In October 1926, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Chuvash ASSR approved the decision of the board of the NKVD of the ChASSR to close the monastery.

The Alexander Nevsky Chuvash Monastery is located in the Morgaushsky district in the town of Karshlykhi. The monastery was founded in 1903, for missionary purposes, in the forest, now the 14th quarter of the Ilyinsky forestry, in a place where pagan Chuvashs used to gather and pray. First, in 1890, a chapel was built, and then in a short time a monastery was formed - a complex of two churches - in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky and St. Seraphim of Sarov, the rector's house, a private two-story building, a hotel for pilgrims, a bakery, a forge, a water mill, etc. outbuildings. All buildings were wooden, eclectic style with elements of classical and baroque architecture.

The first mention of the need to create a Chuvash monastery in the Kazan province dates back to 1881. “BY THE HIGHEST command, which followed on the 9th day of May 1881 (Social Decree and Decree of the Rights of 1881 No. 82, Article 552), in gratitude to the Lord God for the miraculous salvation of the AUGUST IMPERIAL FAMILY from the threatening danger during the train crash on Kursk-Kharkovo-Azov railway. And also for the purpose of enlightening influence on the foreigners-Chuvash ”, it was decided to form a monastery in the Kazan province.

But the HIGHEST command remained virtually unfulfilled until 1902. At the end of the 80s of the century, the first petition of the Chuvash rural communities of the Kozmodemyansky district was sent to the Kazan Diocesan Administration for the founding of a Chuvash monastery in the Kozmodemyansky district.

Since ancient times, the Chuvash had a custom to worship different gods. It was believed that the gods, from whom disasters and misfortunes occur, live in a wooded area and their habitats - KEREMETI - are sacred. There people worshiped them and sacrificed animals. In the Kozmodemyansky district, such a place was the Karshlyk glade and a place called Sar-Tuvan near the village of Maxi-Kasy, Tatarkasinsky volost, located in the Sheshkar forest dacha (dachas were called forest areas).

By that time, many Chuvash already established in the Orthodox faith did not want to put up with idolatry and sacrifices. And the inhabitants of the villages adjacent to the “Karshlyk” glade “recognized it as beneficent to intercede with whom to establish the monastery mentioned above at the main place of idolatry, namely in the Sheshkar forest dacha of the Kozmodemyansky district of the Kazan province.” Several petitions were made to the Holy Synod, the Kazan diocesan authorities, the Kazan State Property Administration (in 1891, 1895, 1898, 1899). And a long correspondence began with the Kazan Office of State Property about the allocation of land for the monastery. But the monastery has already begun to emerge. The peasants of nearby villages donated 3 acres of land. The first buildings began to be erected - these were wooden huts. And in May 1902, the Holy Governing Synod determined:

  • - in the Kozmodemyansky district of the Kazan diocese, to establish a male Chuvash monastery with the name Alexander Nevsky, with as many monastics as the monastery will be able to support at its own expense;
  • - to ask for an order from the Minister of Agriculture and State Property on the allotment of 80 acres of 500 sq. soot From Malo-Sheshkarskaya and Pikhtulinsky dachas. In October 1902 hegumen Anthony (Razumov) was appointed abbot of the monastery.


By this time, the inhabitants of the neighboring village of Bolshoi Sundyr had donated to the monastery an old prayer house, which was transported and installed on the mountain, completing the dome, altar and porch. It seems that it was he who became the temple of Alexander Nevsky.

By an act of January 22, 1903, 10 acres of a forest plot from the Sheshkar dacha was finally transferred to the possession of the monastery, and in April of the same year another 70 dess. 500 fathoms of land in the Pikhtulinsky dacha, which was located 18 versts from the monastery.


The monastery was consecrated on June 15, 1903 by Archbishop Dimitry of Kazan, and regular services began. The monastery was established as a cenobitic (single table and common property) and supernumerary (not supported by a consistory).

"In 1904, the monastery consisted of 2 people in the monastic rank and 48 people of novices."


In 1904, the beautification of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was completed. The following year, a two-story fraternal building with 20 cells and a wooden school building were built. “THE EMPEROR, taking into account the educational tasks of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery among the Chuvash, on the 2nd day of May 1905, the HIGHEST command deigned to take him to an additional allotment of seventy acres from the Malo-Sheshkarskaya state dacha and add up the outstanding amount for the previously allotted monastery plot."
But the monastery received this land by act only in July 1906. But for a long time, the Head of the Ilyinsky Forestry, Senior Forest Inspector, Collegiate Councilor Guzovsky, led a slanderous lawsuit with the monastery on land matters. Despite the fact that in September 1907 the Main Department of Land Management and Agriculture sent a document to the Kazan Department of Agriculture and State Property, which states, among other things, “that the forest plots allocated by the treasury to the monasteries, according to Art. 111 and paragraph 7 of Art. 462nd Const. Lesn., ed. 1905, are removed forever from the forest authorities and enter into the full disposal and use of the monasteries.


In 1905, Fr. Anthony addresses the council of the Brotherhood of St. Guria with a request to open a parish school at the monastery. In the same year, the monastery rented a water mill for a period of 24 years. By 1907 the monastery continued to grow. There are new buildings, workshops (sewing, shoemaking, carpentry, etc.), a wooden fence around the monastery. At the same time, the construction of a new church, a new building for the brethren and a brick factory, a hotel for pilgrims was planned.

In February 1908, "The Construction Department of the Kazan Provincial Board approved the project and estimate for the construction of a church in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Kozmodemyansky district." The laying of the temple was carried out in July 1908 by Bishop Mikhail of Cheboksary. And the consecration took place on October 8, 1909 by Bishop Andrei Mamadyshsky. Apparently, this was the temple of Seraphim of Sarov.


In 1908, 22 monks and 12 novices lived in the monastery.

By 1910, 71 people lived in the monastery. There was a forge, a brick factory, a canvas weaving workshop. Brick foundations are being built under old buildings, many buildings already have iron roofs. The farmstead economy was also well established in the Pikhtulinsky area, remote from the monastery, where several novices lived. There were two 2-storey hotels in the monastery for living in need.


With the outbreak of World War I, life in the monastery changed. Some of the novices were mobilized into the army. They took part of the horses for the needs of the front. But, despite the fact that there was a war, the improvement of the monastery continues. In 1916, a new refectory building was built, and the apiary was enlarged.

With the establishment of Soviet power, difficult days came for the monastery. Already in February 1918, the peasants of the Sundyr volost confiscated land in the Pikhtulinsky area. At the same time, buildings, cattle, sheep, firewood, hay, straw were selected. In March 1919 the monastery lost its mill.

Abbot Anthony (A.P. Razumov) was the rector of the monastery from the day of its foundation until its closing in 1926.

In May 1922 hegumen Anthony was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. Despite his illness, Archimandrite Anthony continues his service. Until the mid-20s, life in the monastery was still glimmering.

On August 12, 1926, the collegium of the NKVD of the Chuvash Republic issued a decision to close the monastery, and the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Chuvash ASSR approved it in October 1926. The reason was "non-observance of Soviet laws by members of the community, the decree on the separation of the church from the state and the school from the church." Also, the NKVD collegium, by its decision, transferred the monastery premises to the local school of peasant youth.

Archimandrite Anthony died on December 24, 1928 and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Bolshoi Sundyr, Yadrinsky District. During the long years of oblivion on the territory of the monastery at different times there was a school for peasant youth, a hospital for patients with meningitis and tuberculosis. During this time, the surviving buildings were mercilessly destroyed and rebuilt.

In 1940, a children's sanatorium was located in the monastery buildings.

In 1996, by the Order of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers Chuvash Republic Ablyakimova E.A. two buildings located on the territory of the Cheboksary diocese were transferred to the ownership of the former monastery: church and hegumen's house.

In 2001 the monastery resumed its activities. A wooden temple was built in the name of Seraphim of Sarov, a private two-story building, outbuildings.

Since 2001, a monastic deed of prayer for Holy Rus' has been performed again at this holy place. The monastery was partially returned to its original owner Orthodox Church, the church of St. Seraphim of Sarov was consecrated, but the main part of the work on the revival of the monastery is still in the future.

Now the complex of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery with. Karshlykhi of Morgaush district consists of:

Church of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky;
- Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov;
- Gate Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker;
- Chapel with a spring in honor of the Mother of God "Life-Giving Spring";
- Spring in the name of Alexander Nevsky;
- Poklonny Cross at the entrance to the monastery.

The Alexander Nevsky Chuvash Monastery is located in the Morgaushsky district in the town of Karshlykhi. The monastery was founded in 1903, for missionary purposes, in the forest, now the 14th quarter of the Ilyinsky forestry, in a place where pagan Chuvashs used to gather and pray. First, in 1890, a chapel was built, and then in a short time a monastery was formed - a complex of two churches - in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky and St. Seraphim of Sarov, the rector's house, a private two-story building, a hotel for pilgrims, a bakery, a forge, a water mill, etc. outbuildings. All buildings were wooden, eclectic style with elements of classical and baroque architecture.

The first mention of the need to create a Chuvash monastery in the Kazan province dates back to 1881. “BY THE HIGHEST command, which followed on the 9th day of May 1881 (Social Decree and Decree of the Rights of 1881 No. 82, Article 552), in gratitude to the Lord God for the miraculous salvation of the AUGUST IMPERIAL FAMILY from the threatening danger during the train crash on Kursk-Kharkovo-Azov railway. And also for the purpose of enlightening influence on the foreigners-Chuvash ”, it was decided to form a monastery in the Kazan province.

But the HIGHEST command remained virtually unfulfilled until 1902. At the end of the 80s of the century, the first petition of the Chuvash rural communities of the Kozmodemyansky district was sent to the Kazan Diocesan Administration for the founding of a Chuvash monastery in the Kozmodemyansky district.

The Chuvashs worship the god Tur. The spirits, from which disasters and misfortunes occur, live in a wooded area and their habitats - KEREMETI - are sacred. There, people sacrificed animals to appease them. In the Kozmodemyansky district, such a place was the Karshlyk glade and a place called Sar-Tuvan near the village of Maxi-Kasy, Tatarkasinsky volost, located in the Sheshkar forest dacha (dachas were called forest areas).

By that time, many Chuvash already established in the Orthodox faith did not want to put up with idolatry and sacrifices. And the inhabitants of the villages adjacent to the “Karshlyk” glade “recognized it as beneficent to intercede with whom to establish the monastery mentioned above at the main place of idolatry, namely in the Sheshkar forest dacha of the Kozmodemyansky district of the Kazan province.” Several petitions were made to the Holy Synod, the Kazan diocesan authorities, the Kazan State Property Administration (in 1891, 1895, 1898, 1899). And a long correspondence began with the Kazan Office of State Property about the allocation of land for the monastery. But the monastery has already begun to emerge. The peasants of nearby villages donated 3 acres of land. The first buildings began to be erected - these were wooden huts. And in May 1902, the Holy Governing Synod determined:
- in the Kozmodemyansky district of the Kazan diocese, to establish a male Chuvash monastery with the name Alexander Nevsky, with as many monastics as the monastery will be able to support at its own expense;
- to ask for an order from the Minister of Agriculture and State Property on the allotment of 80 acres of 500 sq. soot From Malo-Sheshkarskaya and Pikhtulinsky dachas. In October 1902 hegumen Anthony (Razumov) was appointed abbot of the monastery.

By this time, the inhabitants of the neighboring village of Bolshoi Sundyr had donated to the monastery an old prayer house, which was transported and installed on the mountain, completing the dome, altar and porch. It seems that it was he who became the temple of Alexander Nevsky.

By an act of January 22, 1903, 10 acres of a forest plot from the Sheshkar dacha was finally transferred to the possession of the monastery, and in April of the same year another 70 dess. 500 fathoms of land in the Pikhtulinsky dacha, which was located 18 versts from the monastery.

The monastery was consecrated on June 15, 1903 by Archbishop Dimitry of Kazan, and regular services began. The monastery was established as a cenobitic (single table and common property) and supernumerary (not supported by a consistory).

"In 1904, the monastery consisted of 2 people in the monastic rank and 48 people of novices."

In 1904, the improvement of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was completed. The following year, a two-story fraternal building with 20 cells and a wooden school building were built. “THE EMPEROR, taking into account the educational tasks of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery among the Chuvash, on the 2nd day of May 1905, the HIGHEST command deigned to take him to an additional allotment of seventy acres from the Malo-Sheshkarskaya state dacha and add up the outstanding amount for the previously allotted monastery plot." But the monastery received this land by act only in July 1906. But for a long time, the Head of the Ilyinsky Forestry, Senior Forest Inspector, Collegiate Councilor Guzovsky, led a slanderous lawsuit with the monastery on land matters. Despite the fact that in September 1907 the Main Department of Land Management and Agriculture sent a document to the Kazan Department of Agriculture and State Property, which states, among other things, “that the forest plots allocated by the treasury to the monasteries, according to Art. 111 and paragraph 7 of Art. 462nd Const. Lesn., ed. 1905, are removed forever from the forest authorities and enter into the full disposal and use of the monasteries.

In 1905, Fr. Anthony addresses the council of the Brotherhood of St. Guria with a request to open a parish school at the monastery. In the same year, the monastery rented a water mill for a period of 24 years. By 1907 the monastery continued to grow. There are new buildings, workshops (sewing, shoemaking, carpentry, etc.), a wooden fence around the monastery. At the same time, the construction of a new church, a new building for the brethren and a brick factory, a hotel for pilgrims was planned.

In February 1908, "The Construction Department of the Kazan Provincial Board approved the project and estimate for the construction of a church in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Kozmodemyansky district." The laying of the temple was carried out in July 1908 by Bishop Mikhail of Cheboksary. And the consecration took place on October 8, 1909 by Bishop Andrei Mamadyshsky. Apparently, this was the temple of Seraphim of Sarov.

In 1908, 22 monks and 12 novices lived in the monastery.

By 1910, 71 people lived in the monastery. There was a forge, a brick factory, a canvas weaving workshop. Brick foundations are being built under old buildings, many buildings already have iron roofs. The farmstead economy was also well established in the Pikhtulinsky area, remote from the monastery, where several novices lived. There were two 2-storey hotels in the monastery for living in need.

With the outbreak of World War I, life in the monastery changed. Some of the novices were mobilized into the army. They took part of the horses for the needs of the front. But, despite the fact that there was a war, the improvement of the monastery continues. In 1916, a new refectory building was built, and the apiary was enlarged.

With the establishment of Soviet power, difficult days came for the monastery. Already in February 1918, the peasants of the Sundyr volost confiscated land in the Pikhtulinsky area. At the same time, buildings, cattle, sheep, firewood, hay, straw were selected. In March 1919 the monastery lost its mill.

Abbot Anthony (A.P. Razumov) was the rector of the monastery from the day of its foundation until its closing in 1926.

In May 1922 hegumen Anthony was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. Despite his illness, Archimandrite Anthony continues his service. Until the mid-20s, life in the monastery was still glimmering.

On August 12, 1926, the collegium of the NKVD of the Chuvash Republic issued a decision to close the monastery, and the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Chuvash ASSR approved it in October 1926. The reason was "non-observance of Soviet laws by members of the community, the decree on the separation of the church from the state and the school from the church." Also, the NKVD collegium, by its decision, transferred the monastery premises to the local school of peasant youth.

Archimandrite Anthony died on December 24, 1928 and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Bolshoi Sundyr, Yadrinsky District. During the long years of oblivion on the territory of the monastery at different times there was a school for peasant youth, a hospital for patients with meningitis and tuberculosis. During this time, the surviving buildings were mercilessly destroyed and rebuilt.

In 1940, a children's sanatorium was located in the monastery buildings.

In 1996, by the Order of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic, Ablyakimov E.A. Two buildings located on the territory of the former monastery were transferred to the ownership of the Cheboksary diocese: the church and the abbot's house.

In 2001 the monastery resumed its activities. A wooden church was built in the name of Seraphim of Sarov, a private two-story building, outbuildings.

Since 2001, a monastic deed of prayer for Holy Rus' has been performed again at this holy place. The monastery was partially returned to its original owner of the Orthodox Church, the church of St. Seraphim of Sarov was consecrated, but the main part of the work on the revival of the monastery is still in the future.

Now the complex of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery with. Karshlykhi of Morgaush district consists of:

Church of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky;
- Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov;
- Gate Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker;
- Chapel - with a source in honor of the Mother of God "Life-giving source";
- Spring in the name of Alexander Nevsky;
- Poklonny Cross at the entrance to the monastery.

The Alexander Nevsky Chuvash Monastery is located in the Morgaushsky district in the town of Karshlykhi. The monastery was founded in 1903, for missionary purposes, in the forest, now the 14th quarter of the Ilyinsky forestry, in a place where pagan Chuvashs used to gather and pray. First, in 1890, a chapel was built, and then in a short time a monastery was formed - a complex of two churches - in the name of St. Alexander Nevsky and St. Seraphim of Sarov, the rector's house, a private two-story building, a hotel for pilgrims, a bakery, a forge, a water mill, etc. outbuildings. All buildings were wooden, eclectic style with elements of classical and baroque architecture.

The first mention of the need to create a Chuvash monastery in the Kazan province dates back to 1881. “BY THE HIGHEST command, which followed on the 9th day of May 1881 (Social Decree and Decree of the Rights of 1881 No. 82, Article 552), in gratitude to the Lord God for the miraculous salvation of the AUGUST IMPERIAL FAMILY from the threatening danger during the train crash on Kursk-Kharkovo-Azov railway. And also for the purpose of enlightening influence on the foreigners-Chuvash ”, it was decided to form a monastery in the Kazan province.

But the HIGHEST command remained virtually unfulfilled until 1902. At the end of the 80s of the century, the first petition of the Chuvash rural communities of the Kozmodemyansky district was sent to the Kazan Diocesan Administration for the founding of a Chuvash monastery in the Kozmodemyansky district.

Since ancient times, the Chuvash had a custom to worship different gods. It was believed that the gods, from whom disasters and misfortunes occur, live in a wooded area and their habitats - KEREMETI - are sacred. There people worshiped them and sacrificed animals. In the Kozmodemyansky district, such a place was the Karshlyk glade and a place called Sar-Tuvan near the village of Maxi-Kasy, Tatarkasinsky volost, located in the Sheshkar forest dacha (dachas were called forest areas).

By that time, many Chuvash already established in the Orthodox faith did not want to put up with idolatry and sacrifices. And the inhabitants of the villages adjacent to the “Karshlyk” glade “recognized it as beneficent to intercede with whom to establish the monastery mentioned above at the main place of idolatry, namely in the Sheshkar forest dacha of the Kozmodemyansky district of the Kazan province.” Several petitions were made to the Holy Synod, the Kazan diocesan authorities, the Kazan State Property Administration (in 1891, 1895, 1898, 1899). And a long correspondence began with the Kazan Office of State Property about the allocation of land for the monastery. But the monastery has already begun to emerge. The peasants of nearby villages donated 3 acres of land. The first buildings began to be erected - these were wooden huts. And in May 1902, the Holy Governing Synod determined:

In the Kozmodemyansk district of the Kazan diocese, establish a male Chuvash monastery with the name Alexander Nevsky, with as many monastics as the monastery will be able to support at its own expense;

To ask for an order from the Minister of Agriculture and State Property on the allotment of 80 acres of 500 sq. soot From Malo-Sheshkarskaya and Pikhtulinsky dachas. In October 1902 hegumen Anthony (Razumov) was appointed abbot of the monastery.

By this time, the inhabitants of the neighboring village of Bolshoi Sundyr had donated to the monastery an old prayer house, which was transported and installed on the mountain, completing the dome, altar and porch. It seems that it was he who became the temple of Alexander Nevsky.

By an act of January 22, 1903, 10 acres of a forest plot from the Sheshkar dacha was finally transferred to the possession of the monastery, and in April of the same year another 70 dess. 500 fathoms of land in the Pikhtulinsky dacha, which was located 18 versts from the monastery.

The monastery was consecrated on June 15, 1903 by Archbishop Dimitry of Kazan, and regular services began. The monastery was established as a cenobitic (single table and common property) and supernumerary (not supported by a consistory).

"In 1904, the monastery consisted of 2 people in the monastic rank and 48 people of novices."

In 1904, the improvement of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was completed. The following year, a two-story fraternal building with 20 cells and a wooden school building were built. “THE EMPEROR, taking into account the educational tasks of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery among the Chuvash, on the 2nd day of May 1905, the HIGHEST command deigned to take him to an additional allotment of seventy acres from the Malo-Sheshkarskaya state dacha and add up the outstanding amount for the previously allotted monastery plot." But the monastery received this land by act only in July 1906. But for a long time, the Head of the Ilyinsky Forestry, Senior Forest Inspector, Collegiate Councilor Guzovsky, led a slanderous lawsuit with the monastery on land matters. Despite the fact that in September 1907 the Main Department of Land Management and Agriculture sent a document to the Kazan Department of Agriculture and State Property, which states, among other things, “that the forest plots allocated by the treasury to the monasteries, according to Art. 111 and paragraph 7 of Art. 462nd Const. Lesn., ed. 1905, are removed forever from the forest authorities and enter into the full disposal and use of the monasteries.

In 1905, Fr. Anthony addresses the council of the Brotherhood of St. Guria with a request to open a parish school at the monastery. In the same year, the monastery rented a water mill for a period of 24 years. By 1907 the monastery continued to grow. There are new buildings, workshops (sewing, shoemaking, carpentry, etc.), a wooden fence around the monastery. At the same time, the construction of a new church, a new building for the brethren and a brick factory, a hotel for pilgrims was planned.

In February 1908, "The Construction Department of the Kazan Provincial Board approved the project and estimate for the construction of a church in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, Kozmodemyansky district." The laying of the temple was carried out in July 1908 by Bishop Mikhail of Cheboksary. And the consecration took place on October 8, 1909 by Bishop Andrei Mamadyshsky. Apparently, this was the temple of Seraphim of Sarov.

In 1908, 22 monks and 12 novices lived in the monastery.

By 1910, 71 people lived in the monastery. There was a forge, a brick factory, a canvas weaving workshop. Brick foundations are being built under old buildings, many buildings already have iron roofs. The farmstead economy was also well established in the Pikhtulinsky area, remote from the monastery, where several novices lived. There were two 2-storey hotels in the monastery for living in need.

With the outbreak of World War I, life in the monastery changed. Some of the novices were mobilized into the army. They took part of the horses for the needs of the front. But, despite the fact that there was a war, the improvement of the monastery continues. In 1916, a new refectory building was built, and the apiary was enlarged.

With the establishment of Soviet power, difficult days came for the monastery. Already in February 1918, the peasants of the Sundyr volost confiscated land in the Pikhtulinsky area. At the same time, buildings, cattle, sheep, firewood, hay, straw were selected. In March 1919 the monastery lost its mill.

Abbot Anthony (A.P. Razumov) was the rector of the monastery from the day of its foundation until its closing in 1926.

In May 1922 hegumen Anthony was elevated to the rank of archimandrite. Despite his illness, Archimandrite Anthony continues his service. Until the mid-20s, life in the monastery was still glimmering.

On August 12, 1926, the collegium of the NKVD of the Chuvash Republic issued a decision to close the monastery, and the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Chuvash ASSR approved it in October 1926. The reason was "non-observance of Soviet laws by members of the community, the decree on the separation of the church from the state and the school from the church." Also, the NKVD collegium, by its decision, transferred the monastery premises to the local school of peasant youth.

Archimandrite Anthony died on December 24, 1928 and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Bolshoi Sundyr, Yadrinsky District. During the long years of oblivion on the territory of the monastery at different times there was a school for peasant youth, a hospital for patients with meningitis and tuberculosis. During this time, the surviving buildings were mercilessly destroyed and rebuilt.

In 1940, a children's sanatorium was located in the monastery buildings.

In 1996, by the Order of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Chuvash Republic, Ablyakimov E.A. Two buildings located on the territory of the former monastery were transferred to the ownership of the Cheboksary diocese: the church and the abbot's house.

In 2001 the monastery resumed its activities. A wooden church was built in the name of Seraphim of Sarov, a private two-story building, outbuildings.

Since 2001, a monastic deed of prayer for Holy Rus' has been performed again at this holy place. The monastery was partially returned to its original owner of the Orthodox Church, the church of St. Seraphim of Sarov was consecrated, but the main part of the work on the revival of the monastery is still in the future.


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