Church of Vladykino timetable. Story. In the sacristy of the temple, ancient Gospels of the 18th century and vestments are kept.

Temple for Christmas Holy Mother of God in Vladykino - the spiritual center of a large modern densely populated area Otradnoye of the North-East Administrative District of Moscow.
The current building of the temple is one and a half centuries old, but the church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was erected on this site much earlier.
The first stone church in Vladykino was built in 1770.
In 1854, Gavriil Matveyevich Tolokonnikov not only donated large sums of money for the construction of a new building of the current three-altar church, but also took an active part in the construction.
Construction began according to the project of the architect A.F. Yaroshevsky at the same time, in 1854, and on February 2, 1859, the refectory part of the temple with aisles (southern) and (northern) was consecrated in honor of the heavenly patron of the temple builder.
The main altar in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was consecrated by the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna.
The temple was never closed, even during times of persecution of the Church.
Among the revered shrines of the temple, one should especially note the Smolensk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos called "Hodegetria" ("Guide"), which was in the XIX and XX centuries. many miracles.
The most ancient icon of the temple (the end of the 16th - the beginning of the 17th century) is the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker with 16 hallmarks of life, which is now located on the right kliros in the local row of the iconostasis. This image comes from ancient temples. standing in the place of the present.
In 1936, at the Vladykinskoye cemetery near the temple, the saint was buried, canonized (9) April 22, 1999.
In the 70s, there were attempts to demolish the temple during the construction of an overpass at the beginning of the Altufevskoye Highway, but the parishioners, with the patronage of the Queen of Heaven and the intercession of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, with the prayers of Blessed Matrona, managed to defend and preserve it.
In the 90s. of the last century, on the feast in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos, Metropolitan Alexy (Ridiger) of Tallinn and Estonia, the current His Holiness Patriarch, served almost every year in the church.
By decree of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' dated August 12, 2003, Archpriest Sergiy Tkachenko was appointed rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Vladykino.

Despite its considerable age, the parish of the church lives a full life: divine services are performed daily, a Sunday school for children and adults operates at the church, a circle of Orthodox youth, there is an Orthodox library, social service is carried out, and a Parish leaflet is published.

Services:
On weekdays, the Liturgy begins at 9.00 in the morning, the evening service at 17.00.
On Monday evenings (with the exception of the eve of major and great feasts) there is no service.
On Sundays and holidays, early and late Liturgy is served at 7:00 and 10:00 in the morning.
Confession is made in the evening - on Saturday and on the eve of great holidays, in the morning - every day.
At the end of the Liturgy, a prayer service for the blessing of water and a service for the dead are performed.
On Sunday evening, an akathist to the Smolensk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos is read, and on Thursday evening - to St. Nicholas.
Every day in the baptismal church at 11.00 baptism is performed (recording from 10.00 to 10.40).

Previously, the village of Vladykino was called Velyaminovo by the name of its first owners, the noble boyars Velyaminovs. In the XIV century. The village was transferred to the Epiphany Monastery. Subsequently, it changed its owners several times, they were always high-ranking noble people. But a particularly fertile period for the village came 360 ​​years ago: in 1653 Velyaminovo passed into the possession of His Holiness Patriarch Nikon. From that time on, the area received the current name of Vladykino, and until the end of the Patriarchate, it was the home patrimony of His Holiness the Patriarchs.

The wooden church in the name of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared here as early as 1627. It was built by Prince Ivan Ivanovich Shuisky to replace the former dilapidated church of St. Nicholas.

In the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Vladykino, Patriarch Joachim (May 6, 1683, July 15, 1685, October 18, 1688), Patriarch Andrian (December 9, 1693, June 12, 1695) served the Liturgy. May 19, 1690 the village of Vladykino was visited by Tsar Peter Alekseevich. Under the patriarchs, there were patriarchal chambers, gardens and ponds in Vladykino. In 1722, the village was granted the possession of His Grace Feofan (Prokopovich) Archbishop of Pskov and Narva, and after his death it was returned to the Epiphany Monastery.

The wooden church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was renovated and rebuilt several times. In the middle of the XIX century. the wooden temple was demolished. Through the efforts of the merchant Gavriil Tolokonnikov and the priest of the village of Vladykin Vasily Nechaev, a new stone three-altar church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was built, which was consecrated by Metropolitan Filaret of Moscow in 1859 (Moscow Eparch. Ved., No. 48, 1870).

At the end of the XIX century. under the rector, Archpriest John Protopopov, expensive repair and restoration work was carried out in the temple, the painting on the walls and the iconostasis were renewed. Father John in 1896 opened a one-class parochial school at the temple. Deacon John Khrustalev served with him since 1900, and after his death in 1917 he was ordained a priest. In 1937 Archpriest John Khrustalev and Archdeacon Sergiy Stanislavlev and Reader Nikolai Nekrasov, who served with him, were arrested. Father Ioann Khrustalev was shot at the Butovo firing range, while Protodeacon Sergius and Reader Nikolai died in exile. On March 27, 2007, by decision of the Holy Synod, they were numbered among the host of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

Near the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Vladykino in 1936, St. blzh. Matrona Anemnyasevskaya (death day 16/29 July). And even earlier, in 1928, the actress Maria Yermolova was buried in the fence of the temple.

The temple never closed. In 1938, the headman of the temple, Vasily Vasilyevich Flyanov, managed to save the temple from closing. This remarkable person for his ecclesiastical merits was awarded three times with patriarchal letters signed by His Holiness Patriarchs Tikhon, Sergius and Alexy I.

In the temple there are ancient and precious in their writing icons of the 17th century: the icon of the Savior, the Smolensk and Kazan icons of the Mother of God, as well as icons early XVI in .: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas. The Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God is revered as miraculous. The inhabitants of Vladykino and the surrounding villages received help from her in the cholera year of 1848, when cholera did not spread in this area after the procession of these villages with the icon. Many other healings from the Smolensk icon are also known. At the end of the XIX century. the maiden Antonina was healed from her, and by the aspirations of her mother Anna Sokolova, in gratitude for the healing, the icon of the Quick Hearing One, painted on Mount Athos, was brought to the village of Vladykino.

In the last decade, the temple has undergone extensive repair and restoration work. The ancient icons were restored to their original form, the iconostasis and icon cases were restored and gilded. Parish life is also being revived. There is a Sunday school, a youth circle and a school for adults at the temple, catechists and missionaries work.

The oldest cleric of Moscow, honorary rector Fr. Simeon Siranchuk. He came to the Lord on September 19, 2013 and, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill, was buried in the fence of the temple.

The first stone church in Vladykino was built in 1770. The bell tower was erected by Count K.G. Razumovsky, the owner of the neighboring village of Petrovsky. The icons were brought to the temple from the abolished church in the village of Nikolskoe. Count Razumovsky also built a stone chapel over the well, which was next to the church. The temple stood on a hill, and not far away in a ravine, a spring beat, which was revered as a saint since ancient times, with a chapel above it, destroyed in the 20s of the twentieth century. Some time later, due to dilapidation, the chapel was dismantled, and a church fence was erected from its brick. By the middle of the XIX century. the stone temple was very dilapidated, and there was a need for a major reconstruction and the construction of a new temple building. Then, in 1854, Gavriil Matveyevich Tolokonnikov, a representative of the Tolokonnikov family, which gave Moscow many doctors, teachers and engineers, not only donated large sums of money for the construction of a new building of the current three-altar church, but also took an active part in the construction. The construction began according to the project of the architect A.F. Yaroshevsky in 1854, and on February 2, 1859, a refectory with side chapels of Archangel Michael (southern) and Archangel Gabriel (northern) was consecrated in honor of the heavenly patron of the temple builder.

Despite the fact that the current building of the church is a century and a half old, a church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary existed on this site much earlier. The village of Vladykino is one of the most ancient villages near Moscow. The first owner of the village was Prince Daniel of Moscow, the son of Saint Alexander Nevsky and a direct descendant of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir and Princess Olga. In 1322 the village was granted to the patrimony of the thousandth Protasy Velyaminov, who arrived at the service of the Moscow prince. From his name the village got its name - Velyaminovo. The Velyaminovs descended from Simon, the son of the Varangian prince Afrikan, and in terms of nobility they were almost equal to the Rurikovichs. Simon was expelled after the death of his father and in 1027 arrived at the service of Prince Yaroslav the Wise. Having converted to Orthodoxy and becoming a spiritual child of St. Anthony of the Kiev Caves, he made a large donation for the construction of the Caves Church in honor of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos - he presented St. Anthony with a precious belt of 50 pounds of gold and a golden crown, the legacy of his father. Vasily Vasilyevich Velyaminov, who in 1371 was tonsured in the Epiphany Monastery with the name Protasy, donated a large amount of land to the monastery, including the village of Velyaminovo.

After a fire in the Epiphany Monastery, in 1612 the village was founded, but then bought out and returned to the monastery by Patriarch Filaret. In 1619, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich granted Velyaminovo to Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky, but four years later, in 1623, the village returned to the Epiphany Monastery, and soon passed to Prince Ivan Ivanovich Shuisky. It was under this owner that a new village church was built here around 1627 in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (to replace the dilapidated church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker). Eleven years later, according to the spiritual testament of the owner, the village of Velyaminovo again returns to the Epiphany Monastery for the remembrance of the soul. In 1653, the village of Velyaminovo attracted His Holiness Patriarch Nikon, who traded it at the Epiphany Monastery for two of his other villages in the Moscow district. So Velyaminovo becomes the patriarchal patriarchy near Moscow and receives a new name - Vladykino. In the Patriarchal order books that have survived to this day, it is mentioned that His Holiness Patriarchs Nikon, Joachim, Adrian repeatedly listened to Divine Liturgy in the church dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And on May 19, 1690, Tsar Peter Alekseevich visited the village of Vladykino and, together with Patriarch Adrian, also listened to the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.

Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Vladykino (Altufevskoe highway, house number 4).

The first written mention of the wooden church of St. Nicholas in the village of Velyaminovo, on the left bank of the Likhoborka River, dates back to 1596. In 1653 the village passed into the possession of the patriarch. Patriarch Nikon renamed it Vladykino and consecrated on April 9, 1654 the second temple in it in honor of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God. The first written mention of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Vladykino dates back to 1682. It was located on the same high left bank of the Likhoborka as the church of St. Nicholas. In 1701 it was still made of wood. With the abolition of the patriarchate in 1722, Emperor Peter I presented Vladykino to Feofan Prokopovich. His yard was next to the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The stone church was built at the end of the 18th century. The icons were brought into it from the abolished church of the village of Nikolsky.

The construction of the new church began in 1858 according to the design of the architect A.F. Yaroshevsky. Funds for the construction were donated by businessman G.M. Tolokonnikov. On February 2, 1859, the refectory was consecrated with the chapels of Archangel Michael (southern) and Archangel Gabriel (northern). The main throne in honor of the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was consecrated in the summer of 1860. The five-domed church was built in classical style with a refectory and hipped bell tower. The temple stood on a hill, around it, on two banks of the river, was the village of Vladykino. Not far away, in a ravine, a spring gushed, revered as a saint since ancient times, with a chapel above it, destroyed in the 1920s. On the site of the patriarchal chambers, in 1901, a parochial school was built next to the church.

Actress Maria Nikolaevna Yermolova, her parents and sisters were buried in the church cemetery. In the 1930s the cemetery was completely destroyed, the ashes of Yermolova were transferred to the Novodevichy cemetery. Around the temple, a 19th-century fence and a small chapel (chapel) have been preserved. Not far away (near house number 8 on Altufevskoe highway), there is a spring, the water of which is revered as healing.

The church has never been closed and has preserved revered icons and shrines (the Smolensk icon of the Mother of God, the icons of the three saints Basil the Great, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Great Martyr Barbara with particles of relics, and others). The sacristy contains the Gospel of the end of the 17th century. The house church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Otradnoye and the chapel of the Great Martyr Panteleimon in Otradnoye are attributed to this church.

Mikhail Vostryshev "Orthodox Moscow. All churches and chapels". http://rutlib.com/book/21735/p/17

At the very beginning of Altufievskoe Highway, on the territory of the former village of Vladykino, there is an ancient church consecrated in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. He is over a century and a half old. On November 10, 2013, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the church, and then addressed the parishioners with a sermon in which he called the church in Vladykino "one of the most remarkable in Moscow." He also recalled. that his story "is connected with three patriarchs - Nikon, Joachim and Andrian." Vladykino is considered one of the most ancient villages near Moscow. Its first owner was the son of Alexander Nevsky, Prince Daniel of Moscow. True, as it was called then, historians do not know. 20 years after the death of the prince, the patrimony went to a certain Protasy Velyaminov, who served as a thousandth with Ivan Kalita, and the future of Vladykino became known as Velyaminov. In 1619, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov presented the village to the hero of the liberation of Moscow from the Poles, Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky, but soon it passed into the possession of Ivan Ivanovich Shuisky, who, after the fall of Vasily IV Shuisky, in 1610, fell into Polish captivity and was released only in 1620. Returning to Moscow, he headed the Moscow court order, and soon married Marfa Vladimirovna Dolgorukova, the sister of the first wife of Tsar Mikhail Romanov, Maria Dolgorukova. It was Ivan Ivanovich Shuisky who in 1627 built the first wooden church on his estate, consecrated in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. And the village of Velyaminovo began to be called Vladykin from about 1653, and there was a good reason for this - these places became the patriarchy of Patriarch Nikon. The patriarchal orders books convey to this day information that not only Nikon, but also patriarchs Joachim and Adrian stopped here and more than once participated in Divine Liturgies held in the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. It is known that in the spring of 1690, together with Patriarch Adrian, Emperor Peter I prayed in the church. Presumably, at the beginning of the 18th century, the then wooden temple made a “journey” twice - first the building was moved from the left bank of the Likhoboka River to the right, and then returned back, where and to this day his stone descendant stands. By the way, this is the second temple. The first one was built in 1770 by Count Kirill Grigoryevich Razumovsky, but it stood for less than a hundred years.

In 1854, the then owner of the estate, Gavriil Matveyevich Tolokonnikov, decided to dismantle the old church and build a completely new building. As a result, a three-altar temple made of red brick was born. The architect A.F. Yaroshevsky became the author of the project. About 40 years after the end of construction (all this time the temple was considered summer), Dutch ovens were built inside, and the walls were painted oil paints. Now there is practically nothing left of the village of Vladykino. but in the neighborhood there was a metro station with the same name. A century and a half ago, the temple was located on a small hill called Church Hill and dominated the surrounding landscape, but after the construction of a huge overpass over the Signal Passage, the temple was lost in its "shadow" and seems very modest today. Very ancient and revered icons have been preserved in the church, because it belongs to those few that were not closed in Soviet time. This is the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker with 16 hallmarks of his life (late 16th - early 17th century), icons of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, Smolensk and Kazan Icons of the Mother of God, dating from the 17th century. Near the temple there used to be a cemetery, almost completely destroyed during the construction of the overpass (they wanted to demolish the temple itself, but the parishioners managed to defend it).

In 1936, Blessed Matrona Anemnyasevskaya (in the monasticism of Mardaria) was buried at this cemetery, glorified with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Rus' on April 22, 1999. When the graves were destroyed in the 1970s, the ashes of St. Matrona Anemnyasevskaya were transferred to Central Cemetery city ​​of Dolgoprudny. The exact place of her burial remains unknown to this day. According to the priests and parishioners of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, next to which the blessed Matrona found her last earthly refuge, her presence here is especially noticeable.

From the magazine "Orthodox Temples. Journey to the Holy Places". Issue #265, 2017

The former Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the village of Vladykino.

The village of Vladykino in the XVI century. was called "Velyaminovo" on the river Likhobor. There was a church in the village named after St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which in 1585 stood “without singing”, and Velyaminovo with the monastery courtyards, the servants’ courtyard and 3 peasant courtyards belonged to the Epiphany Monastery, which is in Moscow, behind Vetoshny row. At the beginning of the XVII century. Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was destroyed.

The village of Velyaminovo was in the patrimony of the boyar Prince Ivan Ivanovich Shuisky, according to a charter granted in 1624, and in the village there was a courtyard of his estates, in which business people lived, 2 peasant yards and 4 bobyl yards, there were only 16 people in them.

With this owner, a new wooden church was built here around 1627 in the name of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. In the book of the Patriarchal State Order for 1628 it is written: “The Church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother of God, newly arrived in 1627, in the patrimony of the boyar Prince Ivan Ivanovich Shuisky, in the village of Velyaminov, a tribute of 3 altyn, at the behest of the hryvnia, and on April 8, 1628, that money was taken.”

In 1638, Prince I. I. Shuisky gave up his patrimony, the village of Velyaminovo, in accordance with his spiritual will, to the Epiphany Monastery, to which a letter of commendation was issued in 1639 for this patrimony. In 1646, in this village, at the Nativity Wooden Church, “in the courtyard of priest Login, the monastery courtyard, 4 peasant courtyards and the Bobylsky courtyard, there were 10 people in them.”

In 1653, the Archimandrite of the Epiphany Monastery Serapion “traded” the village of Velyaminovo to Patriarch Nikon for his house estates, the village of Pokrovskoye, Moscow district, and the village of Biserovo, Kolomna district, from that time Velyaminovo began to be called the village of Vladykino.

In 1654, another church was built in the village of Vladykino in the name of the Most Holy Theotokos of Iberia, and in the same year, “April 9, sovereign St. Patriarch Nikon went to his palace village of Vladykino to consecrate the church…”. April 28, 1654 sovereign St. Patriarch Nikon went to his sovereign palace villages in Vladykino, Ozeretskoye, and from Ozeretskoye to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery, and in that campaign 24 rubles were spent. 2 altyns. On April 8, 1657, Patriarch Nikon himself distributed alms to the peasants in the village of Vladykino. On April 20, 1658, Patriarch Nikon, on his way to the Resurrection Monastery, listened to mass in the village of Vladykino and ordered that priest Ivan be given half a ruble from the clerks. May 3, 1683 St. Patriarch Joachim went to the village of Dmitrovskoye and on May 6 listened to the liturgy in the village of Vladykino. On July 14, 1685, Patriarch Joachim, after vespers, went from Moscow to the village of Vladykino and on the 15th day in the village of Vladykino he listened to the divine liturgy, and after the liturgy he granted that village priest Ivan a ruble, a deacon 2 hryvnias, a sacristan and prosvirna for hryvnias ... September 13, 1686 St. the patriarch listened to the divine liturgy in the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, in the village of Vladykino, and after the liturgy he granted that village priest Ivan 16 altyn 4 money, and to the sacristan and prosvirne in hryvnia.

On May 19, 1690, the Sovereign Tsar and Grand Duke Pyotr Alekseevich deigned to be in the patriarchal house village of Vladykino and deigned to eat bread in the patriarchal mansions, and at the table food the great sovereign brought drink and food on the table, the treasurer, the elder Paisiy of Siyskoy.

June 25, 1693 St. Patriarch Andrian went after the Liturgy to the village of Vladykino, and there was table food in the village, and then he went to Moscow. In 1678, in the village of Vladykino, there were: the courtyard of St. the patriarch "stanovoi", in which the village elder and the clerk lived, the yards: cattle, stables, zemstvo deacon, gardener, miller and 11 peasant and bobyl yards, there are 43 people in them ...

In 1701, in the village of Vladykino, the church in the name of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was “old, and in the church the image, the royal pillars and the canopy were painted on paints; the image of Nicholas the Wonderworker, the image of the Most Holy Theotokos Hodegetria, the image of the Most Holy Theotokos of Tikhvin, the image of the Savior painted on paints, the image of the Most Holy Theotokos of Tenderness, and others. In 1704, in the village of Vladykino, there were 16 peasant yards and the yard of a zemstvo deacon.

The village of Vladykino, by personal decree and by the verdict of the Holy Governing Synod on August 22, 1722, was given into the possession of the Reverend. Feofan, Archbishop of Pskov and Narva.

Kholmogorov V. I., Kholmogorov G. I. "Historical materials about churches and villages of the 16th - 18th centuries" Issue 4, Seletskaya tithe of the Moscow district. Publication of the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University. Moscow, at the University Printing House (M. Katkov), on Strastnoy Boulevard, 1885

The Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God was built utilitarian and solid, with concern rather than for a fleeting external impression, but for the convenience of those who have been associated with the church for many years - the clergy and parishioners. The initiator of this building was the rector of the temple, Fr. Vasily Nechaev, a very zealous pastor. He "infected" with his idea the merchant Gavrila Matveevich Tolokonnikov, who had a wax-blending plant in Vladykino and traded in church candles, and infected him so much that Gavrila Matveevich was about to build something almost grandiose (however, if the temple were too noticeable, perhaps he would not have survived till today). But oh. Basil convinced the benefactor that the new temple should not be too large. Firstly, his parish was small, and besides, the priest was afraid that Gavrila Matveyevich, being in advanced years, might not live to see the completion of large-scale construction. It took several months to coordinate the project with the consistory, the provincial construction commission and draw up an estimate. A. Yaroshevsky, assistant to the civil engineer of the Chamber of State Property, showed the estimate to the auditor, who confirmed that he was ready to provide the required "4792 rubles ser. 60 kop. ser." from his capital, without touching the church sums. The construction of the temple cost Gavrila Matveyevich more than it was originally supposed. G. M. Tolokonnikov wanted to build a more majestic temple, but suddenly limited his ambitions.

The church turned out to be small, chamber and very cozy. The days of princely and manor temples are over. The time has come for the bourgeoisie. And what time - such and architecture. In the 1850s, when Vladyka's Church was being built, a new direction in architecture was developing, which, being a mixture of many different styles that replaced each other over the centuries, gave the architect and customer a certain freedom of choice. design features the future building and its decorative elements - according to taste and means. Later researchers called this style eclecticism. Eclecticism could be defiantly luxurious and expensive, such as, for example, the Neo-Baroque Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace, built by A. I. Stackenschneider. And it could be very modest, unpretentious, like the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Vladykino, the building of a completely obscure architect A. I. Yaroshevsky. The architect had the right to focus on any era, to use Byzantine, Gothic, Romanesque, Old Russian elements - if only the result was worth it.

Looking at the temple, we notice that the quadrangle is covered with an “envelope” roof and crowned with five small cupolas on deaf drums, in the design of which the architect turned to the arsenal of ancient Russian decorative techniques: here we see both kokoshniks at the base, and a “lightweight” arched-columnar belt, and niches, as if reminding us of the "big brothers" of these deaf drums - large light drums with windows. The refectory has a roof on two slopes, and the presence of two aisles in it is also indicated by small cupolas, however, already devoid of any decorations. At the corners of the quadrangle we see kokoshniks (as well as at the base of the drums), here devoid of any functional load. They are, as it were, a visual continuation of the capitals of the double semi-columns - and this technique seems to us not without some charm. That's really what is decorated really modestly, so it's a semicircular, rather massive altar apse. In it, if you perceive it separately from the entire building of the temple, there is a reference to the factory architecture of its time - a reliable and gloomy "solo" of red brick. The height of the church is 10 meters. A modest 15-meter bell tower is one with the porch of the temple, which is at the same time its lower, supporting quadruple. On it is placed a quadruple (with cut corners) of a somewhat smaller size - a tier of ringing, topped with a tent, the height of which is equal to the height of the second tier. Above the tent is a small dome. The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin is small. During its construction, no one could have imagined that it would serve as a house of prayer for so many people. By public holidays the church now does not accommodate the worshipers.

The interior of the temple is distinguished by neat modesty (and always has been). Its best decoration is ancient icons, the value of which was already clear in the century before last. The "Historical Note", preserved in the archives of the temple (it was compiled by the priest Alexander Vozdvizhensky, who served here in 1866-1883), says: "The holy icons in the main iconostasis are almost all ancient. This is especially true of the icons of the first tier, namely: icon of the Savior, temple - the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Nicholas, the Kazan icon of the Mother of God and the icon of the Mother of God of Smolensk-Odigitria. All these icons appear in the description of the Palace order for 1701. According to the aforementioned inventories, crowns, tsats and other ancient decorations appear on these icons which, unfortunately, have not survived. It should also be noted that in Soviet times, when the surrounding churches were closed, many other images "came" to Vladyka's church. There are no very ancient ones among them, but there is a good writing. Particularly simple, even poor, were the original interiors of the temple - the floor was made of breeze, the walls were painted with glue paint. Then came Dutch stoves, concrete patterned floors (the latest fashionable novelty of the time), oil paintings on the walls. The heating, however, did not work quite well. As a result, the temple was damp, the gilding of the iconostases and murals suffered. The first major repair in Vladyka's Church was carried out in 1896 under the rector of Fr. John Protopopov. As for painting, it has been updated more than once, and now only small fragments remain of the original, and even then of average quality.

From the magazine "Orthodox Temples. Journey to the Holy Places". Issue #108, 2014

Modern view of the temple

The Church in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Vladykino is the spiritual center of the large densely populated Otradnoye district. The current church building turns 160 this year, but the church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary existed on this site much earlier, and centuries-old grace overshadows it.

The history of Vladykino itself, one of the most ancient villages near Moscow, is noteworthy. All the owners of the village, by virtue of their origin and upbringing, were deeply religious people and constantly showed concern for the church located in the village. The church was wooden, but when the wooden building fell into disrepair, it was replaced by another.

Under the princes Yuri Danilovich and Ivan Kalita, the village was granted to the patrimony of the thousand Protasy Velyaminov, who arrived at the service of the Moscow prince. From his name the village got its name Velyaminovo.

The Velyaminovs descended from Simon, the son of the Varangian prince Afrikan, and in terms of nobility they were almost equal to the Rurikovichs. Simon in 1027 arrived at the service of Prince Yaroslav the Wise. Having converted to Orthodoxy and becoming the spiritual child of St. Anthony of the Kiev Caves, he made a large donation for the construction of the Caves Church in honor of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos - he presented St. Anthony with a precious belt of 50 pounds of gold and a golden crown, the legacy of his father.
It is about him that it is said in the seventh ikos of the akathist of the Most Holy Theotokos in honor of her Kiev-Pechersk icon: “Rejoice, as you miraculously called Simon to your monastery; Rejoice, for with the belt he brought you, you indicated the size of your temple.

A descendant of Simon, Protasy Velyaminov, was a thousandth under Prince Ivan Kalita and remained in his place to manage affairs in Moscow when the prince was away on business. Protasius was also a ktitor of the Epiphany Monastery. Later, his descendants transferred the village of Velyaminovo to the monastery. In the village there was a wooden temple of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.

After a fire in the Epiphany Monastery, in 1612 the village was founded, but then bought out and returned to the monastery by Patriarch Filaret.
In 1619, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich granted Velyaminovo to Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky, but four years later, in 1623, the village returned to the Epiphany Monastery, and soon passed to Prince Ivan Ivanovich Shuisky.
It was under this owner that in 1627 a new village church was built here in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos with a chapel of the Archangel Michael (instead of the dilapidated church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker). After the death of Prince Ivan Shuisky in 1638, according to his spiritual will, the village of Velyaminovo again returns to the Epiphany Monastery.

Since 1653, a particularly fertile period began for the village of Velyaminovo - His Holiness Patriarch Nikon liked it, who exchanged it at the Epiphany Monastery for two of his other villages in the Moscow district.

So Velyaminovo becomes the patrimony of the lord - the Patriarch near Moscow - and receives a new name - Vladykino.

In Vladykino, a patriarchal travel palace and another church in honor of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God are being built, which the Patriarch, in the presence of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, consecrates on April 9, 1654.

In the Patriarchal order books that have survived to this day, it is mentioned that His Holiness Patriarchs Nikon, Joachim, Adrian repeatedly listened to the Divine Liturgy in the church in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos. And on May 19, 1690, Tsar Peter Alekseevich visited the village of Vladykino and, together with Patriarch Adrian, also listened to the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.

Many icons, before which parishioners, tsars and Patriarchs of Moscow in the 17th century reverently prayed, are in the modern church. Among them are images of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Smolensk and Kazan icons of the Mother of God, the Savior. They have been prayed and revered for about four centuries.
With the abolition of the patriarchate, “the village of Vladykino, by a nominal decree and by the verdict of the Most Holy Governing Synod of 1722, on August 22, was given into the possession of His Grace Theophan, Archbishop of Pskov and Narva”, an active assistant to Peter and the head of the Synod. He often and for a long time visited Vladykino, his courtyard was located next to the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, where he often listened to the Divine Liturgy. Presumably at this time, the wooden church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was moved from the left bank of the Likhoborka River to the right.

In 1795, this temple was also dismantled and a new one was built on the site where the stone temple stands today. Count K. G. Razumovsky, the owner of the neighboring village of Petrovskoye, helped the peasants build a new wooden church. He granted them a forest from his estate and helped build a bell tower. Count Razumovsky also built a stone chapel over a spring located not far from the church.

Count Razumovsky

In the middle of the XIX century. Through the efforts of the village priest Vasily Nechaev and the merchant Gavriil Tolokonnikov, on the site of a wooden church, a stone church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos with borders was built in the name of Archangel Michael and Archangel Gabriel (in honor of the heavenly patron of the temple builder). Construction began according to the project of the architect A.F. Yaroshevsky in 1858, and on February 2, 1859, the refectory with side chapels of Archangel Michael (southern) and Archangel Gabriel (northern) and the bell tower were consecrated.

The main throne in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was built in the autumn of 1859. In the spring of 1960, the church was consecrated by St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna. The priest at that time in Vladykino was Vasily Nikolaevich Nechaev. Archpriest Vasily took the most ardent part in the construction of the new church. The parishioners have repeatedly said that if it were not for him, then the archbishops would not have seen the stone church.

Initially, the temple was supposed to be built much larger than the existing one, but the rector, taking into account the small number of parishes, on the one hand, and on the other, fearing that Gavriil Matveyevich, due to his declining years, would not have time to finish the construction, persuaded him to start building the temple in a more modest size as it is in its present form. The fears were not in vain. The temple builder died shortly after the consecration of the temple.

The year 1866 was marked by the fact that a new priest, Archpriest Alexander Fyodorovich Vozdvizhensky, was assigned to the Vladyka Church, who served at the church in the village of Vladykino for almost 17 years and left a good memory among the parishioners. It was he who compiled the historical note mentioned here about the village of Vladykino.

The built temple was cold, the walls were painted with adhesive paint, the floor was made of breeze, in many places mold appeared on the walls due to dampness. In 1896, priest John Protopopov became the rector of the church. Seeing the sad state of the church and consulting with the headman, merchant Vasily Filatov, the rector set about repairing and decorating the church. Soon the whole temple was already "heated by Dutch stoves, the floor in it, except for the altars, was patterned concrete, the walls were painted with oil paints."

On August 8, 1896, a one-class parochial school was opened in Vladykino, the cleric of which was rector John Protopopov.

Under him, in 1897, the temple was renovated. “It was decided to invite the iconostasis master P.A. Sizov, icon painter and restorer of wall painting Sokolov, as well as silver and goldsmith master M.N. Ryndin.

The restoration of the temple required a lot of money, but with the help of God and the diligence of the parishioners, funds were found.

The following entry of those years, made by the rector of the temple, Archpriest John Protopopov, is noteworthy: “The poor shoemaker Isidor Lobov, who lives in Vladykino, came and said to me: “Here, father, I heard you are going to renovate God's temple, so do not blame me, take from my poverty to decorate the temple and gives me three rubles. I called the church warden Vasily Grigorievich Filatov and I told him: “Here, Vasily Grigorievich, the first donor to our church and here is his sacrifice, receive these three rubles and write it down for the parish as the first victim. I believe that these three rubles, as the poor widow's mite, brought with all diligence by the poor man from his righteous labors, will bring us God's blessing and success in the work we are starting!
The rector of the temple, Archpriest Protopopov, was buried in 1917 in the cemetery fence, at the church where he served. In the 70s, during the construction of the overpass, the church cemetery was destroyed, the graves were transferred to the Dogoprudny cemetery.

In the same 1917, at the request of the parishioners and the determination of the Holy Synod, the local deacon I.V. Khrustalev, who served in the church with Protodeacon S.G. Stanislavnev and psalmist N.N. Nekrasov until 1937, until the day of their arrest. Priest John Khrustalev was shot at the Butovo training ground on December 10, 1937, deacon Sergiy Stanislavlev died in Amurlag in 1942 from extreme exhaustion, reader Nikolai Nekrasov died on the way to exile on March 7, 1938. All three were numbered among the clique of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia on March 27, 2007.

However, even during this dashing time, the temple continued to equip. Back in 1933, the artist Klenov restored the altar, the icon of St. Basil the Great was repainted in the altar and the icon of the Great Martyr Panteleimon was restored. Ten years later, the back of the temple and the aisles of the altars were restored, the wall painting was again registered and refreshed. In 1945 Golgotha ​​- the Crucifixion on the Cross was restored and the restoration of the front part of the main church began. On patronal feasts, services were held annually with the invitation of other clergy.

In 1945, at the invitation of the Executive Body of the Church, “His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Rus' visited the feast of the icon in honor of the Smolensk Mother of God, who served the Divine Liturgy on August 10, after the service he blessed all the worshipers and left the church to the sound of bells ... »
Parishioners have long considered the church blessed. The temple was never closed, even during the persecution of the church. During the war in 1941, not a single shell hit him, although the Germans were standing very close. There was a village around the temple at that time, and not a single house, not a single person was damaged.

Among the most revered shrines of the temple, the Smolensk Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "Hodegetria" (Guidebook), the icon of the Mother of God "Quick to Hear" should be especially noted. On the sole near the iconostasis there is an lectern depicting Saints Basil the Great and Nicholas the Wonderworker, and the Great Martyr Barbara with particles of the relics of these saints. In the central part of the temple there is a kiot with the image of St. Seraphim of Sarov, on which is fixed a cross-reliquary with a particle of the mantle of the reverend and a piece of stone on which he prayed.

The most ancient icon of the temple (the end of the 16th - the beginning of the 17th century) is the image of St. Nicholas with 16 hallmarks of life.
The icons of the Most Holy Theotokos of Kazan and the Joy of All Who Sorrow, the images of St. Theodosius of Chernigov, the Reverend Princess Anna of Kashinskaya also enjoy love and veneration of the parishioners.
The Gospel of the 17th century is stored in the sacristy of the temple. - a gift from His Holiness Patriarch Adrian to the church in the village of Vladykino.

Several ancient vestments with unusually beautiful embroidery have also been preserved.

Unfortunately, many of the relics kept in the vestry of the temple were looted and confiscated during the years of the godless hard times of the 20th century.

Matrona Anemnyasevskaya

In 1936, at the Vladyka cemetery near the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the holy blessed Matrona Anemnyasevskaya (in the monasticism of Mardaria) was buried, glorified with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Rus' on April 22, 1999. Art. In the temple, near which the blessed Matrona found her last earthly refuge, her presence is especially noticeable. The parishioners pray that the place of burial of the holy blessed Matrona be revealed.

In the 70s, there were attempts to demolish the temple during the construction of an overpass at the beginning of Altufevskoye Highway, but the parishioners, with the patronage of the Queen of Heaven and the intercession of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, through the prayers of Blessed Matrona, managed to save it despite the grandiose plans for the development of Otradnoye.

Throughout the long history of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Vladykino, priests served in it, leaving behind a long and reverent memory in the hearts of the parishioners.
In the 40s, shepherds served in the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, who later became bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church.

From 1944 to August 1945, the widowed priest Alexei Vasilyevich Krylov served in the Vladyka Church, who soon became a monk with the name Arseniy and was made Bishop of Kalinin and Velikoluksky. In the early 1950s, he ruled other dioceses, and from 1956 he lived in retirement in Moscow, in Maryina Roshcha. And although Bishop Arseniy did not serve in Vladykino for long, nevertheless he left a memory of himself as a kind, loving pastor, and his spiritual children are still workers and parishioners of the church in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.

In 1946, Mikhail Dmitrievich Voskresensky was ordained a priest, who served in the church until 1949, when he was ordained bishop of Chkalovsky (Orenburg) and Buzuluk. In 1975, already being the Archbishop of Kazan and Mari, Vladyka Mikhail retired, lived in Moscow, and after his death was buried at the Pyatnitskoye cemetery in Moscow. Thus, in the 20th century, the name of the village Vladykino still justified itself.

In the late 50s, the rector of the temple was Archpriest Nikolai Petrov, and in the mid-60s. Pavel Mastitsky becomes rector. Under him, a gilded metal setting was arranged in the temple for the throne of the main altar.

Following him, the rectors of the temple were Archpriest Vitaly Pashutov (died in 1998) and Archpriest Matthew Gritsak (died in 2006), who became famous as a zealous preacher. During his presidency on the feast in honor of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God (August 10), Metropolitan Alexy of Tallinn and Estonia, later His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', served almost every year.
After Archpriest Matthew, Abbot Seraphim (Tretyakov) served as rector for a short time (died in 1995), and in 1979 Archpriest Simeon Iosifovich Siranchuk became rector of the church. During his presidency, the main church was restored, a baptismal church was built and consecrated in honor of St. Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, a new church house, a prosphora and an icon shop were built, and a Sunday school was opened.

Many pastors served and worked together with Archpriest Simeon, some of them have already passed away: Archpriest Dmitry Korolev (died in 1995), who was honored to be buried in the church fence, and Archpriest Stefan Tkach (died in 1997) , a kind and zealous shepherd. For many years, the nun Taisia, beloved and revered by all the parishioners, worked in our church (she died in 1997), who, despite her advanced age, came every day to the church where she carried obedience in the altar with love and zeal. In 2007, Archpriest Vladimir Demin died (buried at the Danilovsky cemetery), and in 2010, Archpriest Mikhail Zaitsev, who for a long time served as an obedient in the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, died.

By decree of His Holiness the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' of August 12, 2003, Archpriest Simeon was left "the honorary rector of the church in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos with the right to lead festive services", and Archpriest Sergei Tkachenko was appointed the new rector, with the advent of which a new page in the history of the old Moscow temple. On September 19, 2013, Archpriest Simeon reposed in the Lord. From the priests known to us from the documents of past years and who received the approval and awards of the patriarchs for their service, a succession of the most worthy servants of the Church, without interruption, has reached our days.

The parishioners deeply revere and love their current pastors. The temple is always open to parishioners, and every day the Divine Liturgy is served there.

The village of Vladykino has long been gone, but not only from the entire microdistrict, but also from many other places, our parishioners flock to the church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary for spiritual comfort and help.

Today Vladykino is part of the densely populated Otradnoye district, but in the old days this territory was called the village of Velyaminov. It changed many owners, but they were all religious people.

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built under Prince I. I. Shuisky (before that, Nikolskaya stood in the village, but it fell into disrepair). The approximate date of construction is 1627. And from 1653, Velyaminovo became the patrimony of Patriarch Nikon, in connection with which its name was changed to Vladykino (from the word "lord", which was called the patriarch).

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Vladykino His Holiness Patriarchs visited more than once, and in 1690 - Tsar Peter Alekseevich himself.

Many icons of those times, such as St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Our Lady of Kazan and Smolensk, as well as the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, still delight parishioners in the modern Nativity Convent.

Researchers suggest that in the 1720s. transferred to the right bank of the river, and then again returned to the left, to where it stands now.

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Vladykino

In 1770, a stone temple was erected on the site of a wooden church. The owner of the neighboring village, Count Razumovsky, built a bell tower and a chapel under him. And the icons were brought by the inhabitants of the village of Nikolskoe, since their church was abolished. Subsequently, it was dismantled, and a church fence was built from its brick.

Over time, he dilapidated himself Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Vladykino required a major refurbishment. And here G. M. Tolokonnikov helped a lot - both as a philanthropist and as an organizer. Construction lasted from 1854 to 1859. The architect was A.F. Yaroshevsky.

The southern aisle was consecrated in the name of the Archangel Michael, the northern one - in honor of the Archangel Gabriel, the main altar - in the name of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos.

The temple turned out to be elegant, with some characteristic features"Russian style" in decor. It is based on a quadruple with 5 chapters on dead drums. On one side, it is adjoined by a small refectory and a 2-tier bell tower, ending with a tent with round dormer windows; on the other side is a semicircular apse. The walls are decorated with semi-columns, large windows framed in the form of croutons (denticle), stepped gables.

At first, the decoration of the temple was more than modest - a flaky floor and cold walls painted with glue paint. But by the end of the XIX century. the building was already heated by stoves, the floor was decorated with patterns, and the walls were oil paintings. A one-class school was also opened at the church.

In 1897, repairs were started in the monastery - it was necessary to restore the iconostasis, update the wall paintings and decorate the temple with gilding. For this work, well-known masters were attracted - Sizov, Sokolov and Ryndin.

During the Soviet era, the monastery was not closed. Interestingly, during the Second World War, the building was not damaged at all, although the Germans were not far away. Similarly, in the village that is located around the temple, all the houses remained intact.

In the 70s of the last century, they intended to demolish the Church of the Nativity, as it interfered with the grandiose plans for the development of Otradnoe. But again, miraculously, the building survived.

Built in the 80s baptismal church of st. Philaret of Moscow.

Today at Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Vladykino there is a Sunday school, a charity group, and an Orthodox youth center. And the monastery itself is an architectural monument and is protected by the state.