There are quite a few monasteries in Russia that have an interesting history, but require serious restoration.One of them is located in the village of Goritsy, Vologda region. The monastery is based on the XVI century. Today there are many tourists at any time of the year, although there are no foreigners among them. Restoration work in the monastery is still underway, and it is unknown when they will be completed.
Hotels: Goritsy (Vologda Region)
It is quite small inhabited point, no more than six hundred people live here. Guest houses in Goritsy Vologda region is not. The nearest is located in the park "Russian north". In order to see the sights of the village, you can book one of the hotels in the Kirillov district. True, Goritsy usually visited by tourists traveling toKirillo-Belozersky monastery in the framework of the tourist program. Lovers of independent travel in the Russian outback can use the services of the following hotels:
- "Lumanskaya backwater".
- "Russia".
- "Have lakes".
- Zvozsky Bereg.
However, it would be wrong to attribute all these organizations to one category. "Lumanskaya backwater" - Mini Hotel. Goritsy Vologda region visited during a river cruise. If you plan to travel by car, you should book a room in a cheap hotel, for example in "Lumanskaya backwaters" or a hotel located in the territory "Russian north".
"Have lakes" - full guest house. Goritsy Вологодской области посещают прежде всего из-за monastery. There are no hotels within walking distance from him, but, as has already been said, they visit the village either during a tourist trip or on their own car. In the latter case, it will not be difficult to drive from the city of Kirillov, where there are about ten hotels of different levels, just seven kilometers. In addition, there are many interesting places in the area, which are also worth a visit. But our article about the village Goritsy Kirillov district of the Vologda region. That is why we will tell about the events that took place here several centuries ago.
Maiden's Mountain
Where did the name of the village Goritsy Vologda region? Most likely, from the word "mountain". Locals, by the way, pronouncing the name of the village, emphasize the second syllable. The first mention of this inhabited point refers to the XVI century. However, then he was called otherwise - Maiden's Mountain. And it is no coincidence, because the terrain here is quite hilly. In the vicinity of the village are several mountains: Nikitskaya, Maura, Sandyreva, Town, Old cemetery.
Goritskaya settlement
In the village Goritsy Vologda region monastery was founded in 1544. By that time a church already existed here. Populated point then yet современного названия не получил.It was called Goritsky settlement. It is noteworthy that the monastery was mentioned separately, that is, it was not part of the settlement. Until the beginning of the 20th century, there were only about 60 residential houses in which about 250 people lived. There was a shop, a wine shop, and a pier in the village. The composition of the Kirillov district, this small inhabited paragraph has entered in 1927, after which the name disappeared "Goritskaya settlement".
During the Soviet era
After the revolution, the monastery, of course, was abolished. There are many legends. One of them, for example, tells of a mysterious event that allegedly happened already in Soviet times.
The monastery was converted into a disabled home.In the warm summer days, patients were carried out on stretchers to the banks of the Sheksna River. Once one of them was forgotten, but the spirit immediately appeared the spirit of the abbess of the abolished monastery, still dead in the 20s, who shook a finger. In this way an unexpected ghost reminded a staff member of a Soviet institution that was scared to death of her responsibilities. They say that after the appearance of the severe superior, the nurses watched their wards more closely. But a guest from the past appeared here after the war. And what happened? in the village at the beginning forties?
The front line stopped two hundred kilometers to the north-west, not far from the mouth of the Svir River. Enemy aircraft quite often, especially at the beginning of the war,flew over the village and dropped propaganda leaflets. More than anything interesting, historians do not tell us about this period. Disabled House was opened in 1946. Churches on Nikitskaya woe to that no time It was. Her Bolsheviks blew it back in the twenties.
In Russia today, a lot sparsely populated villages. In the village Goritsy so few inhabitants also because at the beginningthe sixties, some houses were flooded. This happened as a result of filling the Sheksna reservoir. The hills, which are located in the vicinity of the monastery, then turned into small islands.
Goritsy village today
With city Kirillov inhabited point about which speech goes in today's article, connected by asphalt road. It was built in the early seventies. And before that, residents had to get to the district center along a dirt road that ran along another the side lakes Aristovo. Buses on this route go since 1965.
Marina built a long time - yet in the first decade of the reign of the last Russian emperor. In 1963 her dismantled and built a new one. Passenger shipping is currently discontinued. The marina accepts only tourist motor ships. In 2009 more than six hundred ships stopped here.
Cruises
Before visiting the monastery, the history of which is set out below, the weather in Goritsy Vologda region for two weeks forward learn optional. But it is advisable to inquire about how sunny the coming days will be. After all, here you can not only see the local sights, but also swim in Sheksne, enjoy the enchanting landscapes, the like of which can be seen only in Russian villages, remote from the long lost national flavor of large cities.
There is a wonderful way to get acquainted with the sights of the Vologda region and relax on the boat - go on a cruise along the Volga. One of these tourist routes ends in the village Goritsy. Local monastery The program, of course, is not limited. Tourists also visit the Museum of Flax and Bark, mountain Sandyreva, the chapel of Cyril and Ferapont Belozersky.
Goritsy Vologda region: attractions
In addition to the Resurrection Monastery, it is worth visiting the following historical and natural monuments:
- Mountain Maura.
- Vvedensky church.
- Resurrection Cathedral.
- Trinity Cathedral.
- Museum of flax and bark.
- Mountain Sandyreva.
- Church of the Intercession.
- Cyril's Chapel and Ferapont Belozerskikh.
Holy Resurrection Cathedral and Trinity Cathedral, as well as the Pokrovskaya Church are located on the territory of the monastery.
Efrosinya Staritskaya
Resurrection Monastery was founded by a relative of Ivan the Terrible. Namely, the widow of his uncle - Euphrosyne Staritskoy. In the middle of the XVI century, Kirillov already had its own monastery, and in the village Goritsy acted Resurrection Church. In 1544, a small wooden church with the assistance of Euphrosyne Staritskoy was replaced by stone. The history of the Goritsky monastery begins with this event.
The fate of Euphrosyne Staritskaya was not easy. After the husband passed away, her placed in a dungeon. Among the boyars were those who saw in the son of Euphrosyne a suitable candidate for the throne. Ivan the Terrible did not like it, but because he ordered his relative to send away - to the monastery, which she founded. True, she was tonsured as a nun. in the First Throne, and in the village Goritsy already sent after.
In the monastery Euphrosyne life was not so bad. The princess was allowed to take with him the servants and close advisers. AT Goritsky she also moved the gold-embroidery workshop. Some works, by the way, have survived to the present day and are located in the Russian Museum.
In 1569, on the orders of Ivan the Terrible, they killed all members of the Staritskys clan. And in October, the princess, along with several monks, drowned in Sheksne. After several days, the body of Euphrosyne Staritskaya was found and buried on the territory of the monastery.
Other nuns
The idea to send to the monastery uncomfortable relatives and former wives Ivan the Terrible really liked. In 1575 to the village Goritsy Anna arrived Koltovskaya - fourth wife of the king. Although, perhaps, she was here much later. It is known that in monasticism she spent most of her life. Her exiled to Moscow monasteries and to Vologda. She spent some period of her long-suffering life in the Resurrection Monastery, but how long it was, is unknown.
Later in Goritsy exiled Maria Nude - yet one wife of Ivan the Terrible. Here she was known as Marfa. In the Resurrection Cathedral, Maria Nagaya erected a side chapel in memory of her son who was killed. At the beginning of the 17th century, Boris Godunov’s daughter was listed among the nuns. Here she also turned out to be by no means free will.
Later more than a hundred years the great reformer sent in Goritsky monastery its former mistress - Barbara Arsenyev. There is an assumption that Ekaterina Dolgorukova, the wife of Emperor Alexander I, spent several years in the walls of this monastery.
It is known only about famous women who were brought here by force. Probably there were a lot of accidents. In the nineteenth century, forced nursing was out of fashion. Monastery in the village Goritsy headed abbess of Mauritius, who led it for about forty-five years.
In the vicinity of the monastery
Помимо соборов и церквей, названных выше, к the monastery includes water supply, several buildings and a cemetery. The first burials were made in the 80s of the XIX century. The pogost is located on a mountain that acquired the gloomy name “Old Cemetery” at the beginning of the 20th century.
The aqueduct in the monastery was built under the abbess of Mauritius. Outside the cloister, they found a spring, from there they led pipes into a stone chapel, built near the Resurrection Church.The old plumbing is still in effect today. Outside the monastery there are several buildings that are in poor condition. In 2015, one of the walls of the monastery collapsed. Restoration is carried out, but according to reviews of tourists who there have been in these places more than once, the restoration work is sluggish, slowly.
Vvedenskaya church
The temple does not belong to the oldest buildings of the village Goritsy Vologda region. Photo Vvedenskaya church is located below. It was built in the second half of the XIX century. Vvedenskaya Church arose yet before the foundation of the monastery, but it was another temple - wooden. It is located outside the monastery, for a long time remained parish. The stone church was erected in 1861. In Soviet times her closed after the rest of the temples of the village Goritsy. She acted until the beginning of World War II, and in the 40s in her The walls housed a tractor garage. Near the church until the fifties of the last century there was a small cemetery, but after the flooding of the graves went under water.
Mount Maura
There is such a legend. Once here came the monks Cyril and Ferapont. We looked around for a long time in search of a suitable place for a new monastery. And finally found. True, not in the village Goritsyand a little further. Ferapontov and Kirillo-Belozersky monastery laid the foundation a whole range monasteries among of which abode which described above.
Resurrection Cathedral
This is the temple that was founded beforestart building a monastery. At the beginning of the XVI century, the Resurrection Cathedral was a wooden building. Later, the founder of the monastery replaced it with a stone. The temple has reached our days without significant changes. It is made in a typical for the XVI century architectural style. In 1611, the church was attached a small bell tower, which was restored in the XVIII century. After another hundred years a refectory appeared here.
Museum of Flax and Birch Bark
Visiting this attraction will be interesting to lovers of antiquity. Among exhibits - guns production to create birch bark and flaxproducts. There are also quite unusual workshops in the museum building. Here you can learn the basics of birchwood, birch bark paintings, pottery and the basics of others craftsnot in demand in modern life, but extremely interesting.
