Holy Dormition Kosmo Yakhroma Monastery. Kosmo-Yakhroma Monastery. Kosmin Assumption Monastery
Nebyloe village
The village of Nebyloe is located at the source of the Yakhroma River, which means “water” in Meryan.The village of Nebyloye before the beginning. XVII century was an independent parish, and there was a church in it in honor of the Resurrection of Christ. But at this time the church was destroyed by the Lithuanians and the parish was disturbed; the peasants were assigned to the Lykovsky parish, in which they remained until the last distribution of states and parishes in 1874, when they were assigned to the Kotluchinsky parish.
In 1889, fairs were approved at the Kuzmina Monastery: on the 9th and 10th Fridays of Holy Easter, on the day of the Dormition of the Mother of God (August 28, according to the New Style) and on October 14 - on the day of memory of St. Kozma of Yakhroma .
In 1891, the following were closed: a wine shop in the house of Pavel Sazanov, a peasant in the village of Nebyloe, Pavel Yakovlev Ignatiev; tavern establishment in the village of Nebyloye of the peasant Pavel Dmitriev Sazanov.
In 1896, the following shops were closed: Pavel Ignatiev’s small shop; petty shop of Efim Alekseevich Mokeev; windmill of Vasily Matveevich Runov; small shop of Alexander Maksimovich Bezerin.
Before the October Revolution, there were two mills on Yakhroma in the Nebyly area. One was located several miles from the village along the river. Traces of another - ownerless millstones - next to the monastery. Near this mill there once stood an ancient monastery house made of cast “unbreakable” brick. The walls of the house reached a meter thickness. Immediately after the Great Patriotic War, it housed a sawmill, then a local power plant, lighting the village from 19 to 24 hours, and in the 1960s lived several families.
Georgy Vitsin
On April 23, 1917, in the family of a native of the village. The incredible story of Mikhail Yegorovich Vitsin gave birth to a son, Georgy, who would become a famous Russian actor in the future. He died in 2001. He was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
By 1913, the Vladimir district was divided into 22 volosts: Andreevskaya volost - s. Unprecedented...
On January 25, 1935, the Nebylovsky district was separated from part of the district’s territory.
In 1918, cells of the Bolshevik Party were organized in the villages of Nebyloe, Andreevskoe, Lykovo and some others.
In February 1963, most of the territory of the abolished Nebylovsky district became part of the Yuryev-Polsky district.
Administration of the Nebylovskoye municipality. 
Agricultural production cooperative "Nebylovsky" 
Municipal budgetary educational institution of additional education for children "Yuryev-Polskaya Children's Art School", a separate structural unit "Children's Art School", p. Unprecedented. 
Nebyloe village school 
Kindergarten, s. Unprecedented 
Post office in the village of Nebyloe 
Monument to the villagers who died in the Second World War 
Lenin monument 
The building of the former recreation center 
"A hut on chicken legs". Bocharov Artem, Maharramov Rashid. With. Unprecedented. Wood, three-dimensional carving, 33x28x43
Holy Dormition Kosmo-Yakhroma Monastery
View of the Holy Dormition Kosmo-Yakhroma Monastery from the northeast 
View of the Holy Dormition Kosmo-Yakhroma Monastery from the east 
Holy gate of the monastery. Outside view. 
Holy Gate of the Monastery
The Holy Dormition Kosmo-Yakhromsky Monastery (Kosmin Yakhromsky Monastery) is an Orthodox male monastery located in the village of Nebyloy, Yuryev-Polsky district, Vladimir region.
The monastery was founded between 1483 and 1494. reverend Cosmoy(Yakhromskaya), a native of the village of Zernova, near the village of Rozhnova, Suzdal district, - in the place where he, as a child, found St. icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God. The Monk Cosmas, according to legend, originally built a wooden church here in the name of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where he placed this icon.
Kosma Yakhromsky
Kosma Yakhromsky 
St. Kosma Yakhromsky. 2nd half XVII - 1st quarter XVIII century From Kosmin Yakhroma Monastery.
The name of St. Cosmas is unknown to the world, as is the exact date of birth. Kosma was born in the village of Zernovo, near the village of Rozhnova, Suzdal district. In adolescence, he entered the service of a noble boyar family, where they tried to give him a good education for those times.
There is a legend that one day the boyar for whom Cosmas served became seriously ill. In search of a doctor, he moved from one city to another. One day the travelers stopped at a spring in Yakhroma; here the patient, tired from the long journey, fell asleep. At this time, the youth suddenly saw a light that illuminated the entire place, and heard a mysterious voice: “Listen, Cosmas, and understand the words of life, show a life pleasing to God, desire the joy of the righteous, and receive eternal blessings!”
Cosmas, who looked attentively, noticed that the rays of light that flashed at him came from the icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God. This icon appeared to him on a tree. The youth dared to approach and take the holy icon; then he applied it to the sore spot of his suffering master, and immediately the latter woke up from sleep completely healthy, as if he had never suffered from his serious illness.
Later, the same mysterious voice called him to leave the world to live and work for the Lord. Heeding the heavenly inspiration and taking with him the icon of the Mother of God, the monk left his master’s house, intending to devote all his service to the Lord in some monastic monastery. Guided and protected by the Providence of God, the Monk Cosmas soon came to the famous Kiev-Pechersk monastery, where the original of the icon that had been revealed to him was located. Having given the holy icon to the Lavra of Saints Anthony and Theodosius, the blessed youth asked the abbot to ordain him as a monk. The abbot hesitated somewhat, seeing his young age and not thinking that at such years the youth Cosmas would be able to endure all the difficulties and hardships of an ascetic life; however, due to the persistent desire of the youth, the abbot fulfilled his request.
In the Pechersk Monastery, the youth amazed all the brethren with the exploits of his life as an angel; even the elders of the monastery, the most experienced in the labors of monastic life, marveled at the exploits of the young monk: his prayer to God was unceasing, just as his fasting labors were unceasing.
After many years of wondrous asceticism, when the saint had already partially achieved the union of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, into a perfect man, to the extent of the age of fulfillment of Christ, the Lord was pleased to choose His righteous one for the special service of His Most Pure Mother. In a new wonderful vision, a luminous young man appeared to the Monk Cosmas and, in the name of God, commanded him to go to the borders of Vladimir, to the Yakhroma River, where the holy icon once appeared to him, in order to build there a church in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God. Heeding his higher calling, the monk left the Kiev-Pechersk monastery and went to the place where the miraculous appearance of the holy icon took place to him.
As soon as the monk arrived at the place where the venerable icon of the Mother of God was found, an unearthly ray appeared to him a second time, illuminating the entire place. The monk decided to certainly imprint in the memory of future births the place where the discovery of the venerable icon of the Mother of God took place. For this purpose, in 1482 or 1483 the monk built a small wooden church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which served as the beginning of the founding of the Holy Dormition Monastery.
Over time, rumors about his exploits spread throughout the area and monks began to come to the monk who wanted to strive in prayer and fasting, forming a monastery. Later, Cosmas was elected abbot of the monastery and established the order of monastic life.
Cosmas diligently visited those sick with various ailments and those suffering, healing them with prayers to the Lord and His Most Pure Mother. He was engaged in preaching conversations with the laity.
According to the official version, Cosmas died at a ripe old age on February 18, 1492 and was buried in the monastery he founded.
Researchers are still arguing about the chronology of the life of Kosma Yakhromsky, the data on which are very contradictory. The official year of the saint’s death is 1492, but in all the first sources mentioning the name of Cosmas, including in the Life, this date is not indicated. According to other sources, he died between 1464 and 1473, or around 1430.
One of the historians suggested that the real date of death of the saint was the twenties or mid. XV century
The Orthodox Church also commemorates him on October 14, the day of the celebration of the icon revealed to the Orthodox saint.
The life of the Monk Cosmas was written by Gregory, a monk of the Suzdal Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery, in the first half. XVI century There are several lists of this chronicle monument: the Theological Academy of St. Petersburg, Pogodinsky, Uvarovsky and Volynsky, all of which date back to the seventeenth century and are several decades removed from the writing of the original text.
The saint’s relics were placed under cover in the monastery’s Assumption Church, in the monastery he founded. There is written evidence of two healings from the relics.
“One of the residents of the village of Zernevo suffered greatly from mental confusion; sometimes he reached such a frenzy that he could not recognize his close relatives. His illness developed more and more; Unclean spirits even began to appear to him in various terrible forms. The unfortunate man was in such a difficult situation for quite a long time and was already close to death. Then his relatives decided to turn to the saint for help. Cosmas and for this purpose they brought him to the relics of the saint of God. For four days they sent fervent prayers to him for the healing of the unfortunate sufferer. Their fervent prayer was heard. On the fifth day of his stay at the tomb of the monk, the sick man was completely healed of his illness and returned to his home completely healthy.
Another time it happened that the youth Stefan, the son of a worker who lived at the monastery, fell into a state of relaxation and lay motionless on his bed for so long that he was preparing for death. The sick man's parents, firmly believing in the power of the prayerful intercession of the Monk Cosmas, brought their son to his relics. After fervent prayer, the youth here received complete healing from his illness.”
Year of glorification of St. Cosmas is unknown, but no later than 1688, for in the loose book he is already called a miracle worker. The Orthodox Church commemorates him on October 14, the day of the celebration of the icon revealed to the Orthodox saint.
Our Lady of Yakhroma
The appearance of the icon of the Mother of God occurred on October 14, 1482.
Only a tentative list of the icon revealed to Cosmas has survived to this day, depicting the Mother of God according to one of the main types of image in Russian icon painting, Tenderness. The Child Christ is depicted on the right, sitting on the hand of the Mother of God and pressing against her cheek. With one hand he touches his chin. The legs of the infant Christ are crossed, the sole of one of them is turned towards the viewer.
In some sources the Yakhromskaya icon is called the Akhrenskaya icon.
In the 17th century, probably under Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, a “miraculous cast copper” image of the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken to Moscow from the Kosmin Monastery. The legend about him says: “The miraculous copper image of the Most Holy Theotokos of Yakhroma, cast in Shakhmatitsa, appeared in the summer of October 6990 (1482) on the 14th day of the Venerable Abbot Kozma of Yakhroma the Wonderworker near the city of Yuryev of Poland for 15 missions, on an elm tree. A copper image appeared, measuring a quarter of an arshin. The monk was then in his youth and was not tonsured...” According to the legend, the image was returned to the monastery in 1685, its further fate is unclear.
In the XVIII-XIX centuries. “Yakhromskaya” in the Kosminy Monastery they called two images of the Mother of God: the image of the Mother of God with the Child, according to the iconographic type “Tenderness,” and the ancient icon of the Dormition - and they solemnly celebrated the appearance of St. Cosme of the Yakhroma Icon (October 14/27) and the memory of the Assumption Icon (on the ninth Friday after Easter). Both of these shrines of the Cosmina monastery have not survived. Another revered monastery icon of the Yakhroma Mother of God, depicted on a silver relic-ark of the early 16th century, is now in the museum in Suzdal.
In the Kremlin Annunciation Cathedral, a 14th-century icon of the Virgin and Child has been preserved with exactly the same iconography as the “Yakhroma” one, but with the image of the Infant Jesus on the right rather than the left side. Modern researchers believe that this ancient image was a family shrine either of the Venerable Cosmas himself, or of a healed “boyar” from the noble Sekerin family. For two centuries it was kept in the Cosmina Monastery, and in the 17th century. together with the revealed “miraculous cast copper image” he was taken to Moscow and remained in the royal Church of the Annunciation.
Day of celebration: October 14/ 27th October
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Icon of the Mother of God of Yakhromskaya
140 fathoms from the monastery there is a well, dug, according to legend, by the Monk Cosmas.
In the XV - XVI centuries. The monastery buildings were wooden, quickly deteriorated and were rebuilt several times over the centuries.
In 1624, the monastery was granted the village of Nebyloye.
In 1688, Sergius arrived from the Vladimir Spassky Zolotovorotsky Monastery and became the abbot of the monastery.
Brick Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary construction began in 1657. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich donated 300 rubles for the construction of the temple. and 100 poods. gland.
In 1833, in the main altar, in the southern part of it, a chapel was built in the name of St. Cosmas.
The Cathedral Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary is made of stone with five chapters. The real church is 5 fathoms high on the vault, with domes 8 fathoms high. The entire church, together with the altar and the refectory, is 9 fathoms long and 5 fathoms wide. The altar and the table are 2 ½ fathoms high to the roof. In the cathedral church there are ordinary windows, 17 in number, with embedded frames and iron bars. The walls and vaults in the present, altar and refectory are plastered. The floor in the altar is cement, in the church it is made of Obzhelsky wood.
The bell tower is stone, 8 fathoms high, its lower tier is 4-corner square, flush with the porch, and the upper tier is 8-corner, the roof is domed iron, with a spire lined with iron sheets, on which there is an iron cross.
Altar apse of the Assumption Cathedral 
Assumption Cathedral
Inventory of ancient objects of the monastery in the beginning. XX century:
"Ancient icons:
The miraculous icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God, 9 vertex long, 6 vertex wide, 16th century; embedded in an icon with images of saints. Mitrofan and professor. Kosma Yakhromsky. Icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God in a silver-gilded frame.
Icon of the Yakhromskaya Mother of God, depicted on a silver, untrimmed, flat reliquary, length 2 ¾ versh., width 2 versh., with the relics of various saints, 16th century, the reliquary is inserted into the icon, length 6 ½ versh., width 5 versh. , with a mesh filigree chasuble, with the image of various saints on the icon.
Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God, base crown and frame, length 5 ¾ tops, width 4 ¾ tops. XVII century.
The icon of the Smolensk Mother of God is large in size, the crown on the icon is with simple stones. XVIII century.
Icon on the tomb of St. Cosmas, ancient letters, life-size, length 2 arsh. 4 tops, width 12 tops, under a robe embroidered with gold; the tomb itself and the canopy are new. XVI century.
Silk embroidered image of a teacher. Kosma Yakhromsky; no later than the 17th century.
Sixteen icons on gesso canvas, on one side there are calendars, and on the other there are images of the Lord's, the Mother of God and week-long triodional holidays; written in a skillful script of the Stroganov school, in an ancient silver-gilded icon case. XVII century.
Saint icon Nicholas the Wonderworker in a copper frame. XVIII century. This icon, as well as the silk-embroidered image of St. Cosmas and the calendar on canvas, are kept in the Ancient Repository of the Brotherhood of St. Alexander Nevsky".
Mitrofan Voronezhsky
A new warm stone was built temple in the name of the All-Merciful Savior, His Image Not Made by Hands(instead of the dilapidated wooden one), which was equipped with all the necessary church utensils, hegumen stone cells, the icon decoration of the monastery was completely updated. The lower floor of the building was built, which housed the rector's and fraternal cells.
In 1833, on the south side of the refectory, a chapel was built in the name of St. Mitrofan.
The Church of the Savior of the Image Not Made by Hands is warm, stone, about one chapter, on the 2nd floor there is a throne in the name of the Image Not Made by Hands, a storage room below. The height of the church is 5 fathoms, length is 8 fathoms, width is 4 fathoms. The windows in it are ordinary, two light, 17 in number, with embedded frames. The vault and walls are plastered. In the dining room the tabletop and walls are the same, the floor is wooden; 2 stoves - made of simple tiles and an iron one.
Closed in the 1920s, in the 1930s-1950s. occupied by the district executive committee of the Nebylovsky district. In the 1980s restored, used together with the cells as a music school. In the 1990s. returned to the believers.
In the Kozmina Monastery there was kept an altar Gospel with the following inscription by St. Mitrofan in his own hand: “In the summer of 7174 (1666) on the 25th day of March, this Gospel of the Volodymyr district of the Most Pure Mother of God and our Reverend Father Kozma of Yakhrinsky the Wonderworker was exchanged under Hegumen Mitrofan, which was taken from the Zolotnikovsky hermitage, and exchanged it for government money.” This Gospel, printed under Tsar Alexy Mikhailovich in 1663, is covered with red velvet. On the top board in the middle there is a depiction of Jesus Christ sitting on a throne, with Evangelists in the corners; They are all hammered copper, gilded.
On the right is St. Nicholas Church, on the left is Spasskaya Church, in the center is the Holy Gate of the monastery. 
Spasskaya refectory church with cell building 
Spasskaya Refectory Church 
Altar apse of the Spasskaya Church 
Icon "Jesus Christ" above the entrance to the Church of the Savior 
On the right is the Spasskaya Church, on the left is the Assumption Cathedral
In 1684, the Cosmin Monastery was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchal House.
Brick Gate Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker built in 1694 over the northern gate of the monastery and later rebuilt. A single-domed quadrangle with baroque decor, with an altar and a body of cells adjoining it from the west. There was a storage room under the church.
Since the 1930s used for civilian purposes. Restored in the 1980-1990s.
Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker 
Icon “Our Lady of Vladimir” in a niche of the southern wall of St. Nicholas Church 
Icon "Sergius of Radonezh" above the entrance to St. Nicholas Church 
Temple mosaic icon on the apse of St. Nicholas Church
On the banks of the Yakhroma River, where springs flowed, a pond was dug and a bathhouse was equipped. A gangplank led to the bathhouse with wooden floors, and part of the bottom was covered with sand. The monks allowed both villagers and pilgrims to bathe in it. There was a cobblestone path from the monastery to the clean pond. Now the pond is shallow and overgrown.
After the revolution, in 1918, some of the novices left the monastery.
In 1923 the monastery was closed. The monastery fence was dismantled into bricks.
The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was closed no later than the 1930s and was used as a club and dining room.
After the formation of the Nebylovsky district in 1935, various organizations were located in the monastery. In the St. Nicholas Church there was a state bank, a savings bank, a police station and a bullpen. In Spassky there is a district executive committee. In the cell building there is a veterinary station, a maternity hospital, a hospital and a kindergarten, then a library. A club was opened in the Assumption Cathedral, and later a bakery and a canteen. The monastery cemetery was destroyed and houses with vegetable gardens and orchards were erected on this site. The bell tower was destroyed and the heads of the temples were destroyed.
By 1963, when the Nebylovsky district was abolished, the monastery complex had been reduced to such a civilian appearance that it seemed impossible to restore its original beauty. But the monastery complex attracted the attention of the authorities for the protection of cultural monuments, and in the early 1980s the Assumption Cathedral was restored.
Based on the Presidential Decree of February 20, 1995, the monastery received the status of a monument of federal significance.
In 1996, the churches and buildings of the former monastery were returned to the Church.
By order of the Ministry of Culture of June 9, 1997, the monastery was transferred to the Vladimir diocese of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church and is a functioning monastery.
A new bell tower was built.
Bell tower of the Assumption Cathedral
In 2004 - 2005 Major restoration work was carried out.
Monastery well 
Monastery fence of the monastery 
Dam on the Yakhroma River
Hieromonk SERAPHIM (Kotenev).
There are 12 inhabitants of the monastery, including 2 hieromonks and 1 hierodeacon. The brethren begin the day with morning prayers and divine services, work to improve the monastery, in their cells they read the Rules and Psalms for the living and the dead, and end the day with evening common prayer with the rite of forgiveness. There is a small subsidiary farm and a hotel for pilgrims.
Shrines of the monastery:
- icons of the 17th - 18th centuries,
- particles of the relics of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh,
- particles of the relics of the 12 Optina elders,
- Rev. Alexy, Zossimov's miracle worker,
- Rev. Herman Zosimovsky, Wonderworker of Vladimir.
In the XVII-XX centuries. The miraculous icon of the Dormition and the Yakhroma icon of the Mother of God and the relics of St. were kept in the temple. Kosma Yakhromsky (+1513).
Holidays:
14/27 Oct. - Yakhromskaya Icon of the Mother of God;
February 18/March 3 - St. Kosma Yakhromsky (February 18/March 2 - during a leap year).
There are 4 surrounding parish churches assigned to the monastery, at one of which, with the good will of Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal Evlogiy (Smirnov), it is proposed to establish an Orthodox rehabilitation center for people who find themselves in difficult life situations.
Spring "Source of St. Kosma of Yakhromsky"
Bath near the Kosmin Yakhromsky monastery in the village of Nebyloe 
The Nadkladeznaya chapel near the Kosmin Yakhroma monastery in the village of Nebyloe
Mother of God-Nativity Metochion of the Holy Dormition Kosmo-Yakhroma Monastery
View of the Mother of God-Rozhdestvenskoye Compound from the Yuryev-Polsky - Pereslavl-Zalessky highway 
Cell building
TEMPLES OF THE COMPOUND
Summer Church of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary
In the summer Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, internal work was limited to pouring the floor screed, building the altar: podium, solea and pulpit; installation of doors, windows and scaffolding throughout the entire volume of the temple.
Winter Church of the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael
Internal repair and restoration work in the winter church of the Cathedral of the Archangel Michael began in September 2007. The arched partition between the summer church and the winter chapel was completely completed, completely separating one church from the other. The internal surfaces of the walls and vaults were cleared and repaired. During the period from September to December 2007, plastering, painting, and electrical work were carried out. A wood stove was built. The floor of the temple is paved with ceramic-granite tiles. The first service, with the blessing of Bishop Evlogii, Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal, was celebrated on Christmas Day 2007-2008. In January 2008, construction of the temple altar and iconostasis began.
The iconostasis is painted by Vladimir icon painters Natalya and Alexander Dmitriev.
Dear brothers and sisters!
We ask you to remember us in your prayers and help our Compound and the Holy Temple as much as possible! Our needs are endless! The Summer Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God requires the construction of an iconostasis, the painting of holy icons, the acquisition of the most necessary temple items: lamps, brackets for lamps, etc. accessories. We have only one set of temple utensils, but it is also missing: the Calvary Cross-crucifix, the shrouds of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ and His Most Pure Mother, the altar and altar Crosses, the Tabernacle, altar vestments.
The newly built vestibule also needs cosmetic repairs and electrification. Our former home, a village house, is in urgent need of major repairs and reconstruction, in which we intend to make a hotel for pilgrims coming to the Compound.
Dear brothers and sisters, we invite you to visit our farmstead. Directions are given on our Contacts page.
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The brethren of the Holy Dormition Cosmin Monastery humbly asks you to provide all possible assistance in the restoration of the Church of the Nativity of Christ and the arrangement of an Orthodox Social Rehabilitation Center for people who find themselves in difficult life situations. The temple is located 20 kilometers from Yuryev-Polsky in the village of Bolshe-Luchinskoye, which was once the patrimony of Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky, a famous figure in the Time of Troubles, head of the people's militia, liberator of Moscow from the Polish-Lithuanian invasion in 1612.
On the site of a wooden church that remembered Prince Pozharsky, a stone five-domed church was built in 1861 at the expense of parishioners. The temple stood in this form until 1937, when its rector, Hieromonk Aaron (Koshkin), was arrested and shot in the Ivanovo prison. After the death of the rector, the Church of the Nativity of Christ was closed and destroyed. Now the brethren of the Holy Dormition Cosmin Monastery have received the blessing of Archbishop Evlogiy of Vladimir and Suzdal to restore the temple and equip it with an Orthodox Center for Social Rehabilitation for people who find themselves in difficult life situations.
The estimated cost of the first stage of restoration work is 5 million rubles.
We prayerfully ask you to provide the monastery with all possible financial or material assistance in restoring the once desecrated shrine and arranging a shelter for destitute compatriots. After all, restoring destroyed shrines and helping suffering fellow tribesmen is participation in the revival of our common monastery - Holy Rus'.
We believe that the Lord will reward you a hundredfold both in this life and in the future. Invoking God's blessing on you, we pray for the health and well-being of you and your loved ones.
From history: The Holy Dormition Cosmin Monastery is located in the village of Nebyloye, Yuryev-Polsky district, Vladimir region.
The monastery was founded in the 15th century. Venerable Cosmas at the site of the appearance of the icon of the Most Holy Theotokos to him. At the command of the Mother of God, he went to the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, and then returned back, founded a monastery and gathered the brethren. His life, entirely devoted to the Lord, was not marked by outwardly noticeable deeds. But after the death of the Saint, pilgrims began to flock to the monastery, receiving healing and consolation from the relics of Saint Cosmas. In 1665, Hieromonk Mitrofan, the future holy Bishop of Voronezh, became the abbot of the monastery.
It was in the Kosmin Monastery that the illustrious archpastor began to acquire spiritual maturity and experience in caring for the brethren, which makes the monastery attractive to admirers of the Voronezh miracle worker.
During Soviet times, the monastery did not escape the fate of many monasteries and churches. In the St. Nicholas Church there was a state bank, a savings bank, a police station, and KP3. In Spassky there is a district executive committee. There is a warehouse in Uspensky. In the cell building there is a veterinary station, a maternity hospital, a hospital, a kindergarten, then a canteen and a bakery.
According to local residents, the dining room turned into a tavern in the evenings. The old people remember how the bells were removed and broken in 1936: “... Nebylovo men broke them. The bell was ringing out loud, and people were standing and crying...”
Later, the bell tower itself was destroyed, and the domes that crowned the temples were demolished.
In 1992, St. Nicholas Church was the first to be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. At that time, there was no dome with a cross on the church, and in other monastery buildings a music school and library were celebrating housewarming.
In recent years, restoration work has been carried out at the monastery. The churches were crowned with holy crosses, and a bell tower was erected. But this is only the beginning of a big and difficult task, which can only be successfully accomplished with the support of good-hearted Russians who are not indifferent to their Fatherland and national shrines. Considerable funds are needed to restore the Assumption Church (17th century), erect a monastery fence, and improve the territory. Also assigned to the monastery are four surrounding parish churches, destroyed and disfigured, at one of which, with the blessing of Bishop Evlogiy of Vladimir and Suzdal, it is planned to establish an Orthodox Social Rehabilitation Center for people who find themselves in difficult life situations.
We prayerfully ask you, brothers and sisters, to provide the monastery with all possible financial or material assistance in restoring the once desecrated shrine and arranging a shelter for destitute compatriots. After all, restoring destroyed shrines and helping suffering fellow tribesmen is participation in the revival of our common monastery - Holy Rus'.
The Holy Dormition Kosmo-Yakhroma Monastery is located 40 km from Vladimir, in the ancient Russian village of Nebyloe. The foundation of the monastery is considered to be the end of the 15th century (between 1482/1483 and 1493/1494), although according to some sources the monastery existed already in the third quarter of the 15th century.
According to legend, the monastery was founded by the Monk Cosmas of Yakhroma on the site of the appearance of the icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God to him in 1482. Cosmas was a monk of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra when one day he was sent a vision in which he was commanded to go to his homeland and create a community of monks there. He heeded the voice of revelation and, coming to the Vladimir region, settled in an uninhabited place. Later, Cosmas accepted the abbess, established the order of monastic life, and founded the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In the 15th - 16th centuries, the churches and other buildings of the monastery were wooden; they quickly deteriorated and were rebuilt several times over the centuries.
Temples of the monastery: Assumption Cathedral, refectory Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands, gateway St. Nicholas Church.
Shrines of the monastery: icons of the 17th-18th centuries, particles of the relics of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh, particles of the relics of the 12 Optina elders, St. Alexy, the Wonderworker of Zossimov, St. Herman Zosimovsky, Wonderworker of Vladimir.
There are 12 inhabitants of the monastery, including 2 hieromonks and 1 hierodeacon.
The brethren begin the day with morning prayers and divine services, work to improve the monastery, in their cells they read the Rules and Psalms for the living and the dead, and end the day with evening common prayer with the rite of forgiveness. There is a small subsidiary farm and a hotel for pilgrims.
According to the later list of the Life of St. Cosmas, the time of the foundation of the monastery is considered to be the end of the 15th century (between 1482/1483 and 1493/1494). However, the first surviving historical document relating to the Kosmina Monastery reports that between 1464 and 1473, the Great Prince of Moscow Ivan Vasilyevich exchanged with Metropolitan Philip “his village at the Kuzmina Monastery, the Unbelievable Village.” In the charter of 1477, Abbot Pachomius (and not Cosmas) is named, in the charter of 1500 - Abbot Protasius. It follows from this that in 1477 the Monk Cosmas, if he was still alive then, was not the abbot of the monastery he founded. Perhaps, seeking silence and prayer, he either moved to a deserted forest cell, or remained in the monastery as a simple monk. Such examples are not isolated in the lives of the founders of monasteries. However, another assumption cannot be ruled out: Cosmas, who became the first abbot of his monastery, reposed before 1477. The monk, apparently, was no longer alive at the time when the Grand Duke exchanged his “Unprecedented Village at the Kuzmin Monastery” with the Metropolitan. The monastery, which arose on the land of the Moscow Metropolitan, could initially have been a metropolitan monastery, and then was under the patronage of the Great Prince of Moscow.
According to legend, set out in the printed Life, compiled in the 19th century, the monk Cosmas (his worldly name is unknown) was the son of a certain boyar who lived within the “boundaries of Vladimir.” For an unknown reason, perhaps due to the impoverishment of the father of the future Saint (a boyar or nobleman - as he is called in the later copies of the Life), the youth was given to be raised by one gentleman - a “neighbor-landowner”. According to legend, the gentleman was born “from the Sekerin boyars” and lived near the village of Rozhnov in the village of Zernov (modern Zernevo, which is located seven miles from the monastery subsequently founded by Cosmos). The Life tells that the future monk traveled with his master, who was seeking healing from an illness. One summer day, the travelers stopped to rest on the banks of the Yakhreni River, and here an icon of the Most Holy Theotokos appeared to God’s chosen youth on a tree. Thanks to this miraculous phenomenon, the gentleman received healing. The youth went to the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, where he took monastic vows. After a period known only to the Lord, he returned to his native land and at the site of the appearance of the icon of the Mother of God to him, he founded a monastery in the name of Her Dormition.
For several centuries, the monastery of Cosmas Yakhrensky was the center of the spiritual and economic life of a large area. On monastic holidays - the ninth Friday after Easter (in memory of the appearance of the Icon of the Dormition to St. Cosmas), October 14/27 (on the day of the celebration of the revealed “Yakhrenskaya” Icon of the Mother of God) and February 18/March 3 (commemoration of the blessed death and burial of St. Cosmas) – Numerous visitors flocked to the monastery. Behind the monastery walls, in the square, crowded fairs were held dedicated to these holidays. The monastery attracted pilgrims to itself with the holy tomb of the Monk Cosmas, from which healings occurred for those who came to him with faith. The printed edition of the Life of St. Cosmas records two cases of healing through prayers at his tomb: a man from the village of Zernevo who suffered from “frenzy of mind” and the paralytic youth Stefan, the son of a monastery worker. The monastery was famous for its two miraculous icons of the Mother of God “Yakhrenskaya” and other revered shrines, as well as for the sparse, but soul-satisfying comfort and prayerful silence of its churches, which in the spring were buried in a delicate white-pink cloud of blooming cherry and apple orchards, in winter shrouded in the frosty haze of snow-covered trees.
In 1665, at the request of the brethren and peasants of the monastery estates, the hieromonk of the Zolotnikovskaya Assumption Hermitage, Mitrofan, the future holy Bishop of Voronezh, became hegumen. In the Life of the Voronezh Wonderworker there is only the most general information about his abbess at the Kosmin Monastery. Meanwhile, the monastery inventories compiled in 1665/1666 upon the appointment of hegumen Mitrofan and in 1671 upon the transfer of monastic property for storage to the “black priest” Sergius, are remarkable evidence of his zealous spiritual and tireless improvement activities. It was in the Kosmin Monastery that Mitrofan began to acquire spiritual maturity, experience in caring for the brethren and in construction activities, which distinguishes this little-known monastery from others and makes it especially attractive for admirers of the Voronezh Wonderworker.
In terms of its material well-being, the Kosmin Monastery in the middle of the 19th century belonged to the poor and even poor monasteries of Russia and for this reason was called a “monastery” among the surrounding residents. But again, through the prayers of the Mother of God, the Lord sent a wonderful abbot - Abbot Naum, thanks to whose “efforts, experience and even personal donations” the monastery was updated and landscaped. In 1863, Abbot Naum opened a school at the monastery for peasant boys from neighboring villages, who studied the law of God, reading in Russian and Slavic, writing, literacy and arithmetic; There was a good library at the school.
In the 15th–16th centuries, its churches and other buildings were wooden. They quickly deteriorated and were rebuilt many times over the centuries. During the years of the Polish-Lithuanian intervention at the beginning of the 17th century, all surrounding villages suffered greatly. The parish church of the Resurrection of the Lord in the village of Nebyly then “deserted”, and subsequently disappeared without a trace. At that time, the Cosmin Monastery was probably also destroyed. Stone construction began in the monastery only in the second half of the 17th century. During the construction of the new cathedral church of the Assumption (instead of the dilapidated wooden one), the wooden church in the name of the Great Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, mentioned in the inventories of the first half of the 17th century, disappeared in the monastery. In this church, according to information from the inventories of 1619 and 1635, the holy relics of the founder of the monastery rested under cover; in the church itself there was a shrine of the wonderworker Cosmas, covered with his image. It can be assumed that the new church was erected on the site of the two wooden ones mentioned above, that is, Assumption and Paraskeva Pyatnitsa. Through the labors of Abbot Mitrofan (the future saint of Voronezh), a refectory stone church was built in the name of the Savior, His Image Not Made by Hands - replacing the dilapidated wooden one, the abbot's stone cells, and the icon decoration of the monastery was completely renewed. Begun in the middle of the 17th century thanks to royal donations and continued a few years later by Abbot Mitrofan using funds raised by him, the construction of stone churches in the monastery was completed at the end of the century. In 1690, a gate church was erected in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which formed the main northern entrance to the monastery - from the village side. Later, St. Nicholas Church was connected to the building of fraternal cells and, thanks to this, to the refectory Church of the Image of the Savior Not Made by Hands. This is how a solid monastery complex, convenient for prayer and work, was formed, surrounded first by a wooden and then a brick fence. Construction work resumed here only in the 19th century. In connection with the glorification of St. Mitrophan of Voronezh as a saint in 1832, a chapel named after him was built over the refectory of the Church of the Image Not Made by Hands. In the southern part of the main altar of the Assumption Church, a chapel was restored in the name of the founder of the monastery - St. Cosmas of Yakhrensky. A second floor was built over the building of the abbot's and fraternal cells; St. Nicholas Gate Church was rebuilt again.
During the years of the revolution and Soviet power, the fate of the Cosmina Monastery was not much different from the fate of hundreds of other closed and disfigured monasteries and churches. According to the recollections of local residents, some of the novices left the monastery back in 1918, apparently due to the lack of means of subsistence in the monastery. Some of them remained in the surrounding area and returned to secular life. Residents of nearby villages remember them as people of high morality, non-drinkers, and hard workers. The monastery was closed in 1923. The monastery complex, like other closed monasteries, was actively adapted to the needs of the new government. The “possession” was “nationalized” and transferred to the Vladimir Gubernia Museum, which removed all items of any value.
After the formation of the Nebylovsky district in 1935, various organizations were located in the monastery. In the St. Nicholas Church there was a state bank, a savings bank, a police station and a pre-trial detention cell (KPZ). In the Church of the Savior there is a district executive committee with all its departments. In the cell building there is a veterinary station, a maternity hospital, a hospital and a kindergarten, then a library. A club was opened in the Assumption Cathedral, and in subsequent years a canteen and bakery were opened. According to the stories of local residents, the dining room turned into a real tavern in the evening. The old people remember how the bells were removed and broken in 1936: “The Nebylovo men broke them... the bell made a big clang, and people stood and cried.” Later, the bell tower itself was destroyed, and the domes that crowned the temples of the monastery were also demolished.
In the Assumption Cathedral, the relics of St. Cosmas. The monastery also contains particles of the relics of the venerable elders of Optina, St. Arseny of Elasson, an ark with 20 particles of the relics of various saints, a copy of the Yakhrenskaya Icon of the Mother of God, icons with particles of the relics of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh, St. Afanasy Kovrovsky, St. Ambrose, right. Peter Velikodvorsky, St. Leonty Mikhailovsky and others.
In 1992, the St. Nicholas Church of the Cosmina Monastery, after a completed, but not completed restoration due to the cessation of funding, was the first to be transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church. At that time, the church did not yet have a dome with a cross, and in other monastery buildings the Nebylovsky children's music school and library were celebrating their housewarming.
The years that followed can be called, without exaggeration, a time of revival of the spiritual life of the village. Old-time parishioners remember the works of Archimandrite German (Moralin, now Metropolitan of Kursk and Rylsk) and the priests of the newly opened St. Nicholas Church, Fathers Vladimir (Kopanev), Nikolai (Kukin) and Alexei (Demyanchuk). Monastic life in the Cosmina monastery began in 1994, under the next abbot, Hieromonk Alexander (Petrov, + 2002), when the monastery received the status of a metochion of the Vladimir Nativity Monastery.
In 1995, the monastery received the status of a monastery, approved by a resolution of the Holy Synod of December 27, 1996. In November of the same year, the entire monastery complex was returned to the Vladimir diocese. The successors of Hieromonk Alexander, abbots Hieromonks Afanasy (Selichev) and Alexey (Yatsurin) made their contribution to the restoration of the monastery. The Temple of the Image of the Savior Not Made by Hands, in which the service was held, was filled with ancient and newly painted icons.
On June 6, 2001, by the determination of Archbishop Evlogy, approved at a meeting of the Holy Synod, Hieromonk Seraphim (Kotenev), who served as a priest at the St. Nicholas Convent in the village of Novy, was appointed rector of the monastery. On May 5, 2003, Father Seraphim was elevated to the rank of abbot.
The monastery lives according to the schedule approved by the Ruling Bishop. The brethren bear constant obedience. Obediences are replaced with the blessing of the abbot. Those entering the monastery undergo the usual probation within the time frame established by the bishop (up to three years).
Divine services are held daily. Beginning at 6 o'clock in the morning - Midnight Office, Matins, hours 1, 3, 6, Divine Liturgy or pictorial. At 5 p.m. - 9 o'clock, Vespers and Little Compline. On the twelve, great and temple holidays, an all-night vigil is held (beginning at 17:00 or 21:00). On Saturday, at the end of Vespers, a fraternal prayer service is held for St. Kosma Yakhromsky. St. Nicholas Church of the monastery is open daily from 6 to 19 hours. There is a novice on duty at the temple.
With the blessing of Archbishop Eustathius, a mandatory daily procession of the cross was established in the monastery after the evening rule.
In assigned churches, the schedule of services takes into account the capabilities of parishioners.
On the twelve, great and temple holidays, an all-night vigil is held (beginning at 17:00 or 21:00). On Saturday, at the end of Vespers, a fraternal prayer service is held for St. Kosma Yakhromsky. With the blessing of Archbishop Eustathius, a mandatory daily procession of the cross was established in the monastery after the evening rule.
The monastery provides care for the Mercy Department in the village. Unprecedented at the State Regional Social Service Institution (GOUSO). Integrated center for social services for the population of the Yuryev-Polsky district - 36 sick people and 24 service personnel. Every year the sacraments of unction and communion are performed 6-7 times. Congratulations on the great Christian holidays with the presentation of gifts. As well as the society of disabled people of the Nebylovo district, which includes the villages of Nebyloe, Lykovo, Goryanovo, Andreevskoye, Zventsovo and Chekovo (about 90 adults and 17 disabled children). Help consists of performing the Church Sacraments: confession, blessing of oil and communion; congratulations and giving gifts on the church holidays of the Nativity of Christ and Easter. Responsible - Lyubov Vladimirovna Mitaeva - labor education teacher, higher pedagogical education.
Help for the poor in the village of Nebyloe is carried out by the monastery housekeeper, monk Mitrofan, on an individual basis with the blessing of the abbot (about 12 families). There are no charitable organizations at the monastery.
Six Sunday schools have been established at the monastery. In the Kazan parish of the Luchki borough, a Sunday school opened at the beginning of 2012. Up to ten children come to it. On September 1, 2013, Sunday schools were opened at the monastery in the village. Unprecedented and in the village. Opole. The number of students is about 20-30 people each. On September 1, 2014, Sunday schools opened in the village. Enthusiast and in the village. Maloluchinskoye (for children from the nearby village of Shipilovo). In November 2015, a Sunday school was opened in the village. Fedorovskoe. In total - 6 Sunday schools, in which about 135 children study. All Sunday schools passed diocesan certification on July 28, 2016, according to the results of which they were all assigned the type of Sunday teaching and educational group.
10 teachers with higher pedagogical education, more than 20 years of work experience and teaching defense education in secondary schools were recruited for training.
Founded at the end of the 15th century: between 1482–94, although according to some sources the monastery existed already in the third quarter of the 15th century.
According to legend, the monastery was founded by the Monk Cosmas of Yakhroma, a monk of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, on the site of the appearance of the icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God in 1482. Later, Cosmas was elected abbot, established the order of monastic life, and founded the Church of the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In the XV-XVI centuries. The monastery buildings were wooden, quickly deteriorated and were rebuilt several times over the centuries.
In 1624, the monastery was granted the village of Nebyloye.
In 1657, a Stone Church was built in honor of the icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God.
In the middle of the 17th century. The Assumption Cathedral was erected - the oldest and most architecturally significant of all the monastery buildings.
In 1665, at the request of the brethren, the hieromonk of the Zolotnikov Hermitage, Mitrofan, the future Bishop of Voronezh, became hegumen. During the nine years of his abbess, the Cosmin Monastery turned into a thriving spiritual center. A new stone church was built in the name of the Savior Not Made by Hands (instead of the dilapidated wooden one), hegumen stone cells were built, and the icon decoration of the monastery was completely renewed.
In 1690, the last monastery brick church was erected - the gate church in the name of St. Nicholas.
In 1684, the Cosmin Monastery was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Patriarchal House.
After the revolution, in 1918, some of the novices left the monastery. In 1923 the monastery was closed. The monastery fence was dismantled into bricks.
After the formation of the Nebylovsky district in 1935, various organizations were located in the monastery.
After the abolition of the district, the monastery complex attracted the attention of the authorities for the protection of cultural monuments, and in the early 1980s the Assumption Cathedral was restored.
Currently
Based on the Presidential Decree of February 20, 1995, the monastery received the status of a monument of federal significance.
In 1996, the monastery was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church.
In 2004–05 Major restoration work was carried out.
There are 4 surrounding parish churches assigned to the monastery, at one of which, with the good will of Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal Evlogiy (Smirnov), it is proposed to establish an Orthodox rehabilitation center for people who find themselves in difficult life situations.