DATE:
PLACE AND TIME OF DEPARTURE
— Chelyabinsk, Lenina avenue, 6 at 8:30
NUMBER OF DAYS/NIGHTS: 2 days / 1 night
NUTRITION: dinner and lunch at the monastery
RESIDENCE: convent hotel
PRICE:
Included in cost: Travel by comfortable bus,
guide, excursions, accommodation.
Additionally paid:
- food 250 rubles:

Convent of Praise of the Mother of God.

There is a heavenly intercessor at the Borovsky Monastery, who has already been glorified by the fullness of the Orthodox Church. This is Hieromartyr Arkady Garyaev, canonized in 2002 among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Father Arkady served in St. Nicholas Church from 1914 to 1918. On July 1 (according to the old style), 1918, he served the Divine Liturgy, after which he was seized right in the church by a revolutionary gang that unexpectedly burst into the village. They, under an unknown pretext, took the priest into the forest and hacked him to death with sabers. Now at the place of service of the Hieromartyr Arkady, since 2000, the convent of Praise of the Mother of God has been operating, the community was formed much earlier. The nuns of the monastery work hard in creating the monastery. The Mother of God Garden, dedicated to our Heavenly Intercessor, was erected on the territory, which is why it is called the Mother of God, where in the very center there is a wooden temple-chapel built in the Old Russian style, it figuratively connects the past and present of Holy Russia. Its iconostasis is unusual: it is woven from a vine. In the garden, the Mother of God rule is performed daily, which the inhabitants of the monastery do, passing, as if along Diveevskaya Kanavka, along a special path surrounding the Mother of God garden.

shrines: the relics of the holy martyr Arkady (Garyaev), the relics of the Monk Dalmat of Isetsky.

holy springs: source in honor of St. Dalmat.

Trip program 2 days / 1 night

Day 1
Departure to the village of Borovskoye, on the way, check in the city of Dalmatovo, visit the Holy Dormition Monastery, where the relics of St. fonts or just draw water, a visit to the museum dedicated to the Royal Family; transfer to the village of Borovskoye, accommodation in the convent of the Praise of the Mother of God, evening service.
Dinner at the convent.

2 day
Morning Liturgy, tour of the monastery.
Lunch, departure home.

Often, the Pokhvalsky convent is called the Orthodox pearl of the Katai district of the Kurgan region. Having started its journey in 1992 with a women's community, it has grown to the size of a monastery. The spirit of Orthodoxy hovers both in its temples and in the beautiful Mother of God garden, broken by the hands of the nuns. By the way, the main church, consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, did not close even during the years of Soviet power. Thus, this temple turned out to be the only one operating for many kilometers around.

St. Nicholas Church

The village of Borovskoye is very old. In the documents of the 2nd half of the XIX century. It was stated that “Residents in the village of m. p. 816, f. n. 790 souls. All of them are Russian, Orthodox; engaged in farming."

For quite a long time, Borovets were parishioners of the Katai Epiphany Church. But in 1863, its own parish was founded in the village. In the autumn of the same year (October 8), the solemn laying of the first stone in the foundation of the future temple took place.

The church was built for six long years. There were many problems - from lack of money to lack of labor. Residents of neighboring villages and villages often joked about Borovsky. Like, in the district, both churches and simple houses are being built in a fairly short period of time, "and you are all digging." As a result, the main work was completed only in 1869. Then, on May 10, the winter limit was consecrated, which received the name of the Holy Great Martyr Dmitry of Thessalonica. Thus, regular services began to be held in Borovskoye. The consecration of the main limit in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker took place on October 26, 1872.

Archival documents also stated that there were three houses at the temple, and a literacy school and a zemstvo school worked in the village.

Borovskoye in the Soviet years

After the revolution of 1917, the region was engulfed by the Civil War. Nearby, the soldiers of the Red Eagles were outrageous, engaged in either military operations or banal looting. In the summer of 1918 they ended up in Borovskoye. On July 1, on the feast of the holy unmercenaries Cosmas and Domian, the soldiers were awakened by the sound of the temple bell. The sleepy soldiers went to St. Nicholas Church to stop the noise. At this time, the rector of the temple, Father Arkady (Garyaev), performed the sacrament of the wedding. Not allowing him to finish the ceremony, the guards dragged the priest out of the church and, accusing him of counter-revolutionary activities, took him into the forest. There he was executed with extreme cruelty.

The death of Father Arkady did not put an end to the fate of the temple. It still remained active, while churches and monasteries were closed in nearby towns and villages, and the buildings were adapted for the purposes necessary for the Bolsheviks. Closed monks, nuns from devastated and monasteries began to settle near Borovsky. Old-timers recalled that the sisters continued to fulfill their obediences. Basically, they sang in the kliros.

One way or another, but for a long time the St. Nicholas Church in Borovskoye was the only functioning church in the territory from Yekaterinburg to Shadrinsk. Pilgrims came to the village from Kamensk-Uralsky, Sukhoi Log, Kamyshlov, Bogdanovich, Dalmatovo, as well as nearby villages and villages. Only in 1987 was it rediscovered in Kamensk-Uralsky. She took over part of the flow of believers, but interest in Borovsky did not subside for a long time (it does not subside even today).

Women's community

In 1989 Priest Alexander (Nikulin) became rector of the St. Nicholas Church. It was he who put forward the idea of ​​creating a monastic monastery in Borovskoye. The idea received support both among the villagers and among the clergy. Orthodox Valaam and Diveevo were set as a model for the future monastery.

In 1992, an Orthodox women's community with a monastic charter was finally founded. The sisters, on their own basis, began to ennoble the allocated territory, pray, and perform other obediences. They were helped both by the spiritual father of the community, Father Alexander, and by Elder Pavel (Chazov). Those who wanted to praise the Lord for the rest of their lives began to flock to Borovskoye. Such people were welcome.

Mother of God garden

One of the first obediences that the sisters began to perform was the laying out of the garden. This had not so much an aesthetic as a spiritual meaning, because it is the garden that is a symbol of the patronage of the Mother of God; human souls grow like flowers.

Borovskoye Garden was immediately dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is why it became known as the Theotokos. First things first, the swamps, located next to the Nicholas Church, were manually filled up. Then the land was cleared of debris and weeds. The peculiarity of the garden was that flowers and trees for planting were brought from all over the Urals and some regions of the Trans-Urals.

Over time, a wooden church-chapel was built in the center of the Mother of God garden, consecrated in the name of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity.
On the territory of the garden, the Theotokos rule is performed daily, which the nuns do, passing both along the Diveevskaya Kanavka and along a special path surrounding the Theotokos Garden.

And it is in the Bogorodichny Garden that the monastery churchyard is located. The first to find peace on this earth was nun Anthony, a martyr for the faith in Christ. She was killed in the St. Nicholas Church in 1999 while reading the Vigilant Psalter. To date, in one of the towers of the monastery Kremlin, next to the grave of the mother, there is a small chapel. There is the first tomb cross from the burial of nun Anthony and the icon of the Mother of God "Passionate".

Pokhvalsky monastery

In 2000, the Borovskoye monastery was given the status of a monastery with the name of Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos. Senior nun Vassa was appointed abbess and elevated to the rank of abbess.

Two aisles appeared in the main temple: the right one - in honor of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers and the left one - in honor of the Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos. A wooden baptismal church in the name of St. John of Kronstadt grew up next to the stone one. Thus, the number of altars in the monastery reached six: three in the main church, the Trinity Church-chapel, a baptismal church in honor of St. John of Kronstadt, and a house church in memory of St. Empress Alexandra.

In 2002, Father Arkady (Garyaev), who was killed in 1918, was canonized in the host of Holy Martyrs. And in the spring of 2008, his honest, incorruptible remains were found. Today, the relics of Arkady Borovsky are in the Nicholas Church to the right of the altar. At the place of acquisition, a wooden church was erected, which began to bear the name of the holy martyr.

There are about 40 sisters in the monastery: two schemes, a nun, seventeen nuns, fourteen novices and laborers. Every day, the general monastic rules are performed: the Mother of God, the daily procession around the monastery, the midnight office, which begins at 3 o'clock in the morning (the time of the murder of Mother Anthony), after which there is a visit to the graves of the deceased sisters.

There are three priests and a hierodeacon in the clergy of the monastery. Divine Liturgy is served daily. On Sunday it is preceded by the singing of the prayer canon of the Mother of God.

The monastery has a large farm: there are cattle and horse yards, several gardens, a refectory, a hotel for pilgrims, an icon-painting and sewing workshop.

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• The abbess is Abbess Vassa (Lyapina).
• 641709, Kurgan region, Katai district, s. Borovskoe.
• (35251) 2-81-43
• Email: [email protected] mail.ru

The Convent of the Praise of the Mother of God is located five kilometers from the city of Kataysk, one of the regional centers of the Kurgan region. The history of the monastery dates back to the construction in the 19th century of a parish church in honor of the transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, around whom the current monastery subsequently grew.

Temple

In 1863, on October 8, a church was laid in the village of Borovskoye, in which, since 1869. regular services began. This six-year construction unexpectedly became the subject of ridicule of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages - they say that everything around was rebuilt long and quickly, and you are still digging. However, God judged in his own way: the revolutionary hard times had come, and out of the whole multitude of churches in several nearby regions, only Borovsky St. Nicholas was destined to survive it. Who knows, maybe it was precisely for this solidity of the Borovets that the Lord prepared their temple to remain the only island of Orthodoxy in the entire space from Sverdlovsk to Shadrinsk (in which there were still functioning churches) during the Soviet period.

On holidays, from the bell tower, from where there is a good view of the railway embankment, one could observe entire rivers of people walking from the arriving electric train to the temple. The first parishioners were already entering the church, and the “tail” of the people stretched from the station itself for one and a half kilometers. Believers flocked from everywhere: from Kamensk-Uralsky, Sukhoi Log, Kamyshlov, Bogdanovich, Dalmatovo - all the surrounding cities and villages. The providence of God is amazing - a simple rural church not only was not destroyed or closed, but worship continued in it even in the most difficult years. Nuns from ruined monasteries sang in the kliros: Kolchedan, Verkhtechensky and other monasteries.

Community

But now the time of persecution is over - temples began to be restored everywhere, believers regained parishes in their native towns and villages, and the number of parishioners of the Borovskaya church was significantly reduced. When in 1989 the parish was headed by a new rector, Priest Alexander Nikulin, the question arose of reviving a full-fledged spiritual life. Father Alexander saw the need to create a strong church community. By that time, the discovery of many all-Russian shrines and ancient spiritual strongholds of Orthodoxy had already taken place: Diveevo, Valaam, Optina Hermitage and others. This inspired the future organizers of the Borovskaya monastery to imitate. Since 1992, the dispensation of a church women's community began in the image of a large family, "with one mouth and one heart" glorifying the Lord. Everything becomes common - sorrows, joys, worries and needs.

The main thing that united the first inhabitants was the salvation of the soul through the acquisition of a prayerful, monastic dispensation. They were helped in this by the spiritual experience and precepts of the elder - hieromonk Pavel (Chazov) (1924 - 1997), confessor Fr. Alexandra. Those who wanted to devote themselves entirely to the service of the Lord flowed into the newly created community; those who, leaving cares for the temporal, desired eternal, true joys in God. These aspirations and prayerful spirit became the basis on which the monastery grew.

Mother of God garden

In the spiritual sense, any monastery is a garden. A garden where, like fragrant flowers, under the Protection of the Mother of God, the souls of people are nurtured for the Lord. Perhaps that is why many monasteries have their own garden - as a visible image of the path that the soul goes through, purifying and growing in God. In order to have before us a picture of the spiritual world, we take a likeness from nature itself - the temple of God not made by hands. Weeds are pulled out, forever withered branches are pruned, each flower or tree is selected exactly the place where they will grow in all their glory. The same happens with the human soul, which wants to free itself from passions and grow spiritually. This is the icon of spiritual life - the garden - that the Monastery of Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos also has.

It is dedicated to our Heavenly Intercessor, which is why it is called the Theotokos. Its arrangement began simultaneously with the creation of the monastery. The swamps were filled in by hand, the land was cleared of debris and weeds. The peculiarity of the garden is that flowers and trees for planting in it were brought from all over the Urals, so that the entire Ural land would make its silent offering to the Queen of Heaven here.

In the very center of the Mother of God garden there is a wooden chapel. Built in the Old Russian style, it figuratively connects the past and present of Holy Russia. Its iconostasis is unusual: it is woven from a vine.

In the garden, the Mother of God rule is performed daily, which the inhabitants of the monastery do, passing, as if along Diveevskaya Kanavka, along a special path surrounding the Mother of God garden.

Many spiritual threads are tied together here: the ancient Russian chapel in time, the Ural flowers and trees in space, the Kanavka and the Mother of God rule in the spiritual Sky connect us with Holy Russia, therefore it is in the Mother of God garden that those mothers - the inhabitants of the monastery, whose earthly path is already finished. And the first of them was the martyr for the faith of Christ, nun Anthony.

Father Arkady

The Borovsky Monastery also has such a heavenly intercessor, who has already been glorified by the entire fullness of the Orthodox Church. This is Hieromartyr Arkady Garyaev, canonized in 2002 among the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

Father Arkady served in St. Nicholas Church from 1914 to 1918. On July 1 (old style), 1918, he served the Divine Liturgy on the feast day of Sts. unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, married two couples, one of whom arrived from Central Russia, after which he was captured right in the temple by a revolutionary gang that unexpectedly burst into the village, consisting of Hungarians and representatives of the regiment of the so-called "Red Eagles". They, under an unknown pretext, took the priest to Kataysk and on the way, in the forest, they hacked to death with sabers (according to other sources, they shot him). Until some time, nothing more was known about his life and death, but this was quite enough to glorify Fr. Arcadia, since it is obvious that he suffered precisely as a clergyman of the Church of Christ, on which the malice of the enemy of God and the human race fell. His body was thrown into the forest, and only ten days later, after the White Army units arrived in the village, was it possible to find Fr. Arcadia and bury in a Christian way. The beginning of the acquisition of the holy relics of Father Arcadia was laid long before our days. In 1986, the rector of the temple, Father Nikolai, with his parishioners, decided to dig a well (the so-called "untrampled place") and, at a depth of about two meters, they stumbled upon the brickwork of the crypt. The burial was again covered with earth, placing a memorial cross. From the stories of the old-timers of the village it appeared that it was here that Fr. Arkady. When, a few years later, a new rector, Father Alexander Nikulin, appeared in Borovskoye, veneration of Father Arkady began. Thanks to the data of the Church Abroad, the date of his martyrdom became known - July 14. Since that time, on the day of remembrance of Fr. Arcadia began to serve a great memorial service and sing hymns to the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. The place of death was found in the forest, and a large cross was erected. In 2000, a nunnery was formed in Borovsky, and the veneration of the schmch. Arcadia became part of the spiritual life of the monastery. In 2002, a passage was again dug to the grave of Father Arcadia. One brick was taken out of the wall of the crypt, and everyone saw a perfectly preserved coffin. Many felt a subtle fragrance. With the blessing of His Grace Michael, the tomb of the Hieromartyr was again covered with earth, and historical materials began to be collected to determine the exact place of burial.

In the same year, Hieromartyr Arkady was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. Through the work of the archivist of the Yekaterinburg Theological Seminary Galina Alexandrovna Krotova and the seminarian Andrei Pecherin, a native of the village. Borovsky, a serious historical study was carried out and all the necessary materials were collected. The work continued for over three years. With the blessing of Bishop Michael, the uncovering of the relics was scheduled for June 10 - the day of all the saints who shone in the Russian land.

On this day in the monastery of the Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos with. Borovsky, a lot of pilgrims from all the surrounding dioceses gathered. The sky shone as if washed; a joyful summer sun shone among the light clouds, and after all, almost a week before that it had been continuously drizzling. For the sake of such a holiday, the Lord granted us this joy as well. Priests arrived from the cities where Father Arkady served. The Divine Liturgy was led by Bishop Mikhail of Kurgan and Shadrinsky. After the Liturgy, 12 priests, the sisters of the monastery, and about seven hundred pilgrims headed by Vladyka went to the tomb of the Hieromartyr, which had been opened the day before. A well-preserved coffin was solemnly raised from the depths, and the priests performed the ablution of the honest relics. The forensic expert, who was a member of the commission, pointed out to those present at the terrible fracture of the holy martyr's hand, which could only be done by ruthless twisting, and at the mark of a blow with a sharp object on the other hand. A priestly cross, an altar cross and a Gospel were found, with which Fr Arcady was buried. After the washing, the relics of the saint were anointed with myrrh and dressed in new priestly clothes, specially made for this celebration. Continuing the procession, the relics were brought into the temple and placed in a shrine. In his address to the flock, Vladyka Michael proclaimed June 10 as yet another holiday in honor of Hieromartyr Arcadius - the day of finding the relics. Hundreds of parishioners and pilgrims reverently venerated the newly acquired shrine. Despite the long service, which lasted almost the whole day, everyone was inspired and joyful.

So another saint, who became famous in our trans-Ural land, now abides with us with his honest relics.

The Convent of the Praise of the Mother of God is located five kilometers from the city of Kataysk, one of the regional centers of the Kurgan region. The history of the monastery dates back to the construction in the 19th century of a parish church in honor of the transfer of the relics of the saint. Nicholas the Wonderworker, around whom the current monastery subsequently grew. In the spiritual sense, any monastery is a garden. A garden where, like fragrant flowers, under the Protection of the Mother of God, the souls of people are nurtured for the Lord. Perhaps that is why many monasteries have their own garden - as a visible image of the path that the soul goes through, purifying and growing in God. In order to have before us a picture of the spiritual world, we take a likeness from nature itself - the temple of God not made by hands. Weeds are pulled out, forever withered branches are cut off, each flower or tree is selected exactly the place where they will grow in all their glory. The same happens with the human soul, which wants to free itself from passions and grow spiritually. This icon of spiritual life - the garden - is also in the possession of the Monastery of the Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos. From history: In 1863, on October 8, a church was laid in the village of Borovskoye, in which, since 1869. regular services began. This six-year construction unexpectedly became the subject of ridicule of the inhabitants of the surrounding villages - they say that everything around was rebuilt long and quickly, and you are still digging. However, God judged in his own way: the revolutionary hard times had come, and out of the whole multitude of churches in several nearby regions, only Borovsky St. Nicholas was destined to survive it. Who knows, maybe it was precisely for this solidity of the Borovets that the Lord prepared their temple to remain the only island of Orthodoxy in the entire space from Sverdlovsk to Shadrinsk (in which there were still functioning churches) during the Soviet period. But now the time of persecution is over - churches began to be restored everywhere, believers regained parishes in their native towns and villages, and the number of parishioners of the Borovskaya church was significantly reduced. When in 1989 the parish was headed by a new rector, Priest Alexander Nikulin, the question arose of reviving a full-fledged spiritual life. Father Alexander saw the need to create a strong church community. By that time, many all-Russian shrines and ancient spiritual strongholds of Orthodoxy had already been opened: Diveevo, Valaam, Optina Hermitage and others. This inspired the future organizers of the Borovskaya monastery to imitate. Since 1992, the dispensation of a church women's community began in the image of a large family, "with one mouth and one heart" glorifying the Lord. Everything becomes common - sorrows, joys, worries and needs. In 2000, the Borovskoye monastery was given the status of a monastery. The senior nun (now abbess) Vassa became the abbess. Two aisles appeared in the main temple: the right one - in honor of the Holy Royal Passion-Bearers and the left one - in honor of the Praise of the Most Holy Theotokos. Saturday of the fifth week of Great Lent, when the whole Church sings the Akathist to the Chosen Governor, is both a monastic and patronal feast. A wooden church, a baptismal one, grew up next to the stone one. Baptism in it is performed by full immersion in a specially equipped cruciform font. Thus, the number of altars in the monastery reached six: three in the main church, the Trinity Church-chapel, a baptismal church in honor of St. rights. John of Kronstadt and the house church in memory of Empress Alexandra. In the very center of the Mother of God garden there is a wooden chapel. Built in the Old Russian style, it figuratively connects the past and present of Holy Russia. Its iconostasis is unusual: it is woven from a vine. There are about forty sisters in the monastery: two schemes, a nun, seventeen nuns, fourteen novices and laborers. The monastery has a large farm: there are cattle and horse yards, several gardens, a refectory, a hotel for pilgrims, an icon-painting and sewing workshop. On holidays, from the bell tower, from where a good view opens, one could observe entire rivers of people walking from the arriving electric train to the temple. The first parishioners were already entering the church, and the “tail” of the people stretched from the station itself for one and a half kilometers. Believers flocked from everywhere: from Kamensk-Uralsky, Sukhoi Log, Kamyshlov, Bogdanovich, Dalmatovo - all the surrounding cities and villages. The providence of God is amazing - a simple rural church not only was not destroyed or closed, but worship continued in it even in the most difficult years. Nuns from ruined monasteries sang in the kliros: Kolchedan, Verkhtechensky and other monasteries. The path to the monastery is simple: from Kurgan or from Yekaterinburg by train to the Kataysk station, then five kilometers of the forest road on foot or by car.