Images of the Kiev-Brotherly icon. Prayer to the Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God
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The miraculous image of the Mother of God "Kievo-Bratsk" has been celebrated since 1654.
Days of celebration - May 10 (23); June 02 (15) and September 06 (19).
History of the icon
This icon miraculously appeared in 1654 and was originally local to the Boris and Gleb Church in the city of Vyshgorod (Kyiv).
In 1662, during the war with Poland (1659–1667), the city suffered great damage from the Crimean Tatars who fought against Russia in alliance with the Poles. The temple of the holy passion-bearers Boris and Gleb was destroyed and desecrated by the enemy. But by the Providence of God, the miraculous icon of the Mother of God was preserved; it was promptly taken out of the temple and floated along the Dnieper, and the relics of the saints were hidden under a bushel. The river carried the holy icon to the bank of Podol in Kyiv, where it was received with great joy by the Orthodox and with due honors was transferred to the Bratsky Monastery, from which it received its name. The holy image remained there for a long time.
Tradition adds the following detail to this story.
One Tatar noticed an icon in the river and decided to use it to cross, but as soon as he touched it, the icon itself floated, and very quickly, and stopped opposite the Brotherhood Monastery. The Tatar, afraid of drowning, screamed desperately; in response to his cries, the brethren came out of the monastery and sent a boat towards him. Subsequently, the rescued Tatar was baptized and took monastic vows at the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery.
The inventory of the church property of the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery, made in 1807, contains a description of the miraculous icon.
There was a “Song about the miraculous Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God,” compiled shortly after 1692.
Unfortunately, the prototype of the icon has not survived. The list from the miraculous image “measure in moderation” is in Kiev Monastery Protection of the Mother of God.
Troparion of the Mother of God before the miraculous icon of Her Kiev-Bratskaya.
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Kontakion of the Mother of God before the miraculous icon of Her Kiev-Bratskaya.
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Akathist to Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos before Her icon, called the Kiev-Brotherly icon.
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Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos before Her miraculous Icon of Kiev-Bratskaya:
Oh, Most Holy Lady, Most Pure Lady Theotokos. Look with Your All-Merciful Eye on us standing before Your most pure image, called the Kiev-Brotherly Image, and praying to You before it.
May the ineffable light of Your Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, shine in our hearts. May His will be done through all our lives. May He grant us forgiveness and cleansing of all our sins and transgressions.
Imams have no other help, no other hope, except for You, Most Pure One.
Just as in ancient times you glorified the city of Vyshgorod and the land of Kyiv with signs and wonders from your wonderful icon, when you miraculously saved the infidel Hagarene from water drowning in the Dnieper River, and brought him to the Kiev-Bratsk monastery unharmed, and there you accepted his true repentance , and enlightening with the light of holy baptism, in Angelic rank in this monastery you have clothed yourself, and thus you have been a guide to salvation and the establishment of the true Orthodox faith.
For this reason, we, sinners and unworthy, boldly ask and pray: do not reject us, who pray to You, before this wondrous and miraculous icon of Yours. Strengthen the right faith in us, grant unfeigned love for each other. Be the Chosen Governor against all our visible and invisible enemies: convert the unfaithful to orthodoxy, and guide the faithful on the path of repentance and salvation.
Help, Lady the Lady, to erect a temple and monastery for Your wondrous and glorious, venerable name of Angels and men, in honor and memory of Your miraculous image of Kiev-Bratsk.
And in this temple and this monastery, and even more so in our souls and hearts, let us glorify Thee, the Intercessor and Prayer Lady for our race, and through Thee we will send glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Greatness miraculous icon Mother of God of Kiev-Bratskaya.
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Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God (prototype)
Church history and Tradition have preserved a description of miracles associated with the appearance and glorification of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon in the ancient city of Vyshgorod.
Vyshgorod is the ancient patrimony of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga (at the baptism of Helen, commemorated on July 11, Art.), and subsequently all Kyiv princes, has always been in a special position with his patrons. It was first mentioned in the chronicle in 946: “Be bo Vyshegorod the city of Volzin (Olzhin),” i.e., the inheritance of Saint Olga, her favorite place and city, to the organization of which she devoted a lot of care (“Description of Kyiv” by Berlinsky).
In 1131, an icon was sent from Constantinople as a gift to the holy noble prince of Kyiv Mstislav (baptized Theodore). Holy Mother of God, written by the Evangelist Luke on a board from the table at which the Lord Jesus Christ ate, known under the name Vyshgorodskaya (celebration takes place on May 21, June 23, August 26, Art.).
The icon was installed in the Maiden Monastery of Vyshgorod. Many healings and miracles came from the miraculous Vyshgorod Icon of the Mother of God. Both the ancient city of Vyshgorod and all the borders of Kyiv were henceforth under the protection of the Queen of Heaven.
The son of Yuri Dolgoruky, Saint Andrei Bogolyubsky, brought the icon to Vladimir in 1155 and placed it in the famous Assumption Cathedral, which he erected. From that time on, the icon received the name Vladimir.
Information about the Kiev-Brotherly Icon, which was also a shrine of Vyshgorod, dates back to the 17th century, when Kyiv and its borders were constantly attacked by Polish-Lithuanian and Crimean Tatar invaders.
“The Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God was formerly local to the Boris and Gleb Church in the city of Vyshgorod (Kiev), where it miraculously appeared in 1654,” this is how the story about the icon begins in the book “The Benefits of the Mother of God to the Christian Family through Her Holy Icons.”
The description of the miraculous appearance of the icon was preserved in Grushevsky’s work History of Ukraine-Rus. Lithuanian army under the leadership of his prince Radziwill, preparing to attack Kyiv in order to plunder it, stopped at a billet in Vyshgorod. Naturally, in Vyshgorod, Lithuanians - half-pagans, half-Catholics (as well as Calvinists) began to plunder the city, not stopping at the shrine. The line reached the cathedral church, where the icon of the Mother of God was located.
One of the warriors, wanting to insult all Orthodox Christians, hit the face of the Mother of God with a gun, this made a sign: blood flowed down her face as if from a wound. That same night, the Mother of God appeared to Radziwill and threatened that if he did not punish Her offender, he would not leave Vyshgorod alive. The next morning Radziwill ordered the atheist to be found and hanged, and he quickly left Vyshgorod without causing any destruction. "
And the icon, glorified by the grateful residents of Vyshgorod, became one of the revered shrines of the city.
The event took place during the war between Russia and Poland (1654 - 1667), the city suffered great damage from the Crimean Tatars who fought on the side of the Poles. The Church of the Holy Martyrs Boris and Gleb was devastated and desecrated. However, the Providence of God preserved the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, which was promptly taken out of the temple and floated along the Dnieper, and the relics of the saints were hidden under a bushel.
“One Tatar, as legend says, wanted to cross the Dnieper on an icon. The icon itself floated and stood in the middle of the Dnieper opposite the Bratsky Monastery. The Tatar sat on it and shouted; They sailed from the monastery and took the icon and the Tatar into the boat, who was then baptized and tonsured a monk... At this time, the icon of the Mother of God, brought by water to Kiev-Podil, was accepted and with due honor placed in the Bratsky Monastery, where it stands to this day.”
“Kievo-Brotherly Epiphany, second-class school monastery. This monastery is located in Kyiv on Podol and was founded in 1588 by the school Brotherhood at the school of the Epiphany parish church, located nearby; and when the Epiphany Church and school burned down, and in 1613 Anna Gugulevicheva, the wife of Marshal of Mozyrsk, gave her yard, located on the site of the current monastery, to schools, then, with the assignment of monastic teachers to them, a monastery was founded in some way. But already under Metropolitan Peter Mogila (1596-1646) in 1631, it was approved to be a perfect monastery and with it an Academy, or College. “The shrine of this temple (Church of the Epiphany) consists of: a) the miraculous icon of the Fraternal Mother of God, brought by the waves of the Dnieper from Vyshgorod, devastated by the Tatars in 1662; it is located on the right side of the temple near a pillar in a special icon case, on a raised platform; Every week on Saturdays an akathist to the Mother of God is read before the icon...”
In the book “Orthodox Russian Monastery” it is said about the Brotherly Monastery: “The Epiphany first-class non-dormitory school monastery occupies a vast space along Alexander Square, between Naberezhno-Nikolayevskaya, Volynskaya and Ilyinskaya streets, surrounded by a stone fence, crowned on the side of the square with a three-tiered bell tower... Cathedral Church Epiphany was built on the site of a wooden one by Hetman Ivan Mazepa in 1693.
This temple houses the shrines of the monastery - the miraculous icon of the Brotherly Mother of God, which sailed along the river. Dnieper in 1662 from the cathedral church destroyed by the Tatars in the city of Vyshgorod...”
Interesting information about the Fraternal Icon is in the book of the famous Kiev specialist and historian Konstantin Sherotsky “Kyiv. Guide." 1917 edition. It says: “In the middle of the temple, near the middle right pillar, there is a miraculous one, very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries. image of the Fraternal Mother of God. It is of Ukrainian writing from the 17th century. in the usual type of local icons and comes from the iconostasis of the Vyshgorod church, destroyed by Polish-Lithuanian troops in 1651. The story of the arrival of this icon from Vyshgorod is told in an interesting engraved image of it, made by a famous Kyiv engraver of the 17-18th century. Hilarion Migura, who considers the year of the appearance of the icon in the Brotherly Monastery to be 1654. The icon sailed along the Dnieper and was removed from there by monks who hastened to the call of the Tatar, who grabbed the icon to swim across the Dnieper. The icon has now been heavily rewritten, but old engravings make it clear that the features of the drawing are unchanged,” (Sherotsky K. Kyiv. Guide, 1917).
Every Saturday, after hours, before the liturgy, an akathist to the Mother of God was performed in front of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon.
Many monasteries of the Russian Empire ordered a copy of the miraculous Kiev-Bratsk Icon of the Mother of God, wanting to have this shrine within their walls.
So in the inventory of the shrines of the Lebedinsky Monastery of the Kyiv Diocese (now the Cherkassy Diocese) there is an indication: “There were also revered shrines in the monastery:
Icon of the Mother of God “Kievo-Bratskaya” in a silver-gold robe, with which Abbess Philareta was blessed in 1861 by the dean of the monasteries of the Kyiv Diocese, Archimandrite Ioannikios” (St. Nicholas Swan Monastery. P.8).
Lebedinsky Monastery.
The celebration of the Brotherly Icon takes place four times a year: May 10 (23 New Art), June 2 (15 New Art), September 6 (19 New Art) and the moving day of celebration in the fifth week of Great Lent on Saturday Akathist , Praise to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Since the 12th century, the veneration of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God was great among the common people, townspeople, artisans, residents of Podol, Kozhemyak and other craft districts of Kyiv.
The Podolyans did not begin any important work without prayer before the Brotherly Icon. Trade transactions (Brotherly Monastery was located on one of the busiest retail space Kyiv Alexandrovskaya, or known under the name “Kontraktova”), matchmaking and the conclusion of marriage contracts, controversial issues, litigation, all this was decided before the Fraternal Icon of the Mother of God.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, or more precisely after 1917, the Kiev-Brotherly Icon and the Monastery, as well as the entire Orthodox people, suffered severe trials.
In 1919, the Kiev Brotherhood Monastery and the Kiev Theological Academy were officially closed by the Soviet authorities. However, the academy functioned unofficially until the mid-1920s - some teachers gave lectures and took exams in private apartments.
In the monastery churches, services were held until the early 1930s, as parish ones.
After the liquidation of the Bratsky Monastery and the closure of the Kyiv Theological Academy, the icon disappeared without a trace. When an inventory of the monastery valuables and the sacristy was carried out, due to the nationalization of church property in the 1920s, the icon was no longer there. It is known that at the time of its disappearance, the icon was decorated with an expensive gilded chasuble with many precious cameos (an inventory of the icon is kept in the archives of the Vernadsky Library in Kiev). There are no documents confirming the removal of the shrine or its transfer to another place.
After the disappearance of the icon, the destruction of the Brotherly Monastery and other familiar historical events, a period of some kind of spiritual oblivion began. The memory of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon was preserved only in the church calendar and in those few icon lists that were in the surviving Orthodox churches.
Until recently, it was possible to honor the memory of the Brotherhood and venerate the image in three churches in Kyiv: the Ilna Church on Podol (in the chapel of St. John the Baptist), in the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (in the Kazan chapel) on the same Podol, and in the Kiev-Pokrovsky Convent.
In 2007, on the outskirts of Kyiv, in the village of Gorenka, Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district, with the blessing of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Vladimir His Beatitude, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, a community and parish is created in honor of the “Kievo-Bratskaya” Icon of the Mother of God, which begins work on building a church in honor of the great Kyiv shrine - the Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God.
In the fall of 2007, abbot Akhila (Shakhtarin) was appointed rector of the parish by decree of the Metropolitan.
The temple Kiev-Bratskaya icon of the Mother of God was painted, according to the historical description and surviving copies.
The iconography of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon, which in its composition goes back to the ancient Byzantine icon “Our Lady of Eleusa”, which translated from Greek means “Merciful”, or “Tenderness”.
“This iconographic type developed in late Byzantine art, but reached its peak precisely in Rus'. He turned out to be in tune with that special soulfulness that has always been characteristic of the Russian perception of Christianity. The character itself Old Russian icon painting- light, soft, melodious - perfectly suited just such an image of the Mother of God with the Child.
The word “tenderness” is related to the Greek “Eleusa” - “Merciful”. This is how many icons of the Mother of God were called in Byzantium. The very type of “Tenderness” was called “Sweet Kiss” in the Byzantine icon painting of “Glycophilus”. The main meaning of such icons is mutual love and the tenderness of Mother and Son. In these images, their attention is drawn primarily to each other: Mary tenderly hugs the Child to her, and He hugs Her by the neck or gently touches Her cheek with His hand.
This touching tenderness also has a special, tragic shade. After all, Mary caresses not an ordinary child, but the Savior, Who is about to accept the agony of the Cross for the sins of the human race. It is not for nothing that on the icons dedicated to the mourning of Christ one can also see the Mother of God clinging to the cheek of the Son.
When this work was supplemented with new data about the Kiev-Brotherly Icon and was preparing for the second edition, it became known that in July 2009, in the storerooms of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, the miraculous Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God was FOUND, traces of which, as mentioned above, were lost in the 20s , 30s of the twentieth century.
This good news came from an article by Nina Parkhomenko, research fellow National Art Museum of Ukraine “The Finding of the Kiev-Bratsk Icon of the Mother of God”, placed on the last page of the Church Orthodox newspaper No. 21, November 2009.
From the article it became known that after the destruction of the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery, the icon entered the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Museum and from the Lavra Museum in the 30s it ended up in the storerooms of the National Art Museum: “In the post-revolutionary rocks, the traces of the icon disappear. U 1935 r. The Bratsky Monastery was desecrated and raised. Until recently, the Kiev-Brotherly Icon was considered lost. І from, at lipnі 2009 r. At the end of the day, this icon was found in the collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine, as well as in a carving with a gilded carburized frame. On the back of the plaque there is an old inventory number (which is confirmed to have been acquired from the funds of the Lavra Museum Town in 1934), which indicates that the icon was taken from the Brotherhood Monastery. The icon is large in size – 133×96...”, (Church Orthodox newspaper No. 21, 2009).
Archimandrite Akhila (Shakhtarin),
May-December 2009,
With. Gorenka.
1st History of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon
This icon was previously local to the Boris and Gleb Church in the city of Vyshgorod (Kiev), where it miraculously appeared in 1654.
In 1662, during the war between Russia and Poland (1659 - 1667), the city suffered great damage from the Crimean Tatars who fought on the side of the Poles. The Church of the Holy Passion-Bearers Boris and Gleb was devastated and desecrated.
However, the Providence of God preserved the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, which was timely; They took them out of the temple and floated them along the Dnieper, and the relics; the saints were hidden under a bushel. The river carried the icon to the banks of Podol in Kyiv, where it was joyfully received by the Orthodox and transferred with due honors to the Bratsky Monastery. There she remained for a long time. Tradition adds the following detail to this story. One Tatar noticed an icon in the river and decided to use it to cross, but as soon as he touched it, the icon itself floated, and very quickly, and stopped opposite the Brotherhood Monastery. The Tatar, afraid of drowning, screamed desperately; in response to his cries, the brethren came out of the monastery and sent a boat towards him. Subsequently, the rescued Tatar was baptized and took monastic vows at the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery. Celebrations of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God take place three times a year: September 6, May 10 and June 2. All of them are dedicated to the miraculous appearance of the holy icon in 1654. In the inventory of the church property of the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery, made in 1807, its description is given. There was a “Song about the miraculous Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God,” compiled shortly after 1692. The original icon has not survived to this day. exact list from it is now in the Kiev Monastery of the Intercession of the Mother of God.
2nd History of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon
Her appearance followed in 1654 in Vyshgorod of Kiev, where she was placed in the temple on the left side of the royal gates. In 1662, during the war with Poland (1659-1667), misfortune broke out over Vyshgorod: the Tatars, who were in conflict with the Poles, crossed the Dnieper, broke into the city and plundered the temple. Christians risked their lives trying to save the holy icon from unclean hands. , but they failed to do this unnoticed. Then they launched the icon along the Dnieper and it arrived in Kyiv and stopped at the foot of Podol. Here the icon was noticed and brought to the Kiev Brotherhood Monastery.
Tradition adds the following detail to this story. One Tatar noticed an icon in the river and decided to use it to cross, but as soon as he touched it, the icon itself floated, and very quickly, and stopped opposite the Brotherhood Monastery. The Tatar, afraid of drowning, screamed desperately; the brethren from the monastery responded to his cries and sent a boat towards him. Subsequently, the rescued Tatar was baptized and took monastic vows at the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery.
3rd History of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon
The Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God was previously local to the Boris and Gleb Church in the city of Vyshgorod (Kiev), where it miraculously appeared in 1654. In 1662, during the war between Russia and Poland (1659 - 1667), the city suffered great damage from the Crimean Tatars who fought on the side of the Poles. The Church of the Holy Passion-Bearers Boris and Gleb was devastated and desecrated. However, the Providence of God preserved the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, which was promptly taken out of the temple and floated along the Dnieper, and the relics of the saints were hidden under a bushel. The river carried the icon to the banks of the Podol in Kyiv, where it was joyfully received by the Orthodox and transferred with appropriate honors to the Bratsky Monastery. There she remained for a long time. In the inventory of the church property of the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery, made in 1807, its description is given. There was a “Song about the miraculous Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God,” compiled shortly after 1692. Celebrations of the Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God take place three times a year: September 6, May 10 and June 2. All of them are dedicated to the miraculous appearance of the holy icon in 1654. The original icon has not survived. The “measure in measure” icon painted from it is now in the Kiev Monastery of the Intercession of the Mother of God.
Days of celebration
Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God
Days of Her memory:
- Continuous celebration on Saturday of the Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lent.
- May 10 according to the old style and May 23 according to the new style.
- June 2 according to the old style and June 15 according to the new style.
- September 6 according to the old style and September 19 according to the new style.
Brotherly Epiphany Monastery
The “school” monastery, founded by the Kyiv Brotherhood in 1615 to provide everything necessary for the Brotherhood School (later the Kiev-Mohyla Academy, since 1819 the Kiev Theological Academy). The monastery was liquidated in the early 1930s, after which the ensemble of historical buildings suffered great damage. Since 1992, the university "Kiev-Mohyla Academy" has been operating here.
Based on individual documentary evidence, most researchers of the 19th century. argued that the Brotherly Monastery with the Epiphany Church and school existed already in the 1590s. They usually refer to the blessing of Patriarch Jeremiah in 1589 and the deed of sale of Andrei Obukhov in 1594, who sold the Sverschovskoye courtyard site on Podol to the Bratsky Monastery. It is as if the original monastery burned down in 1614 and was only rebuilt the following year. However, later historians are distrustful of the mentioned documents and believe that the Brotherhood Epiphany Monastery was founded only after 1615.
According to Galshka Gulevichevna’s deed of gift dated October 15, 1615, the Kiev brotherhood received a large plot of land in Podol, where a school, a “shpital” (almshouse) and a monastery with them were founded - in the future this institution was transformed into the famous Kyiv Academy. Around 1618, the parish school founded by Job Boretsky at the Resurrection Church became part of the Brotherhood School. Isaiah Kopynsky became the first abbot of the monastery and at the same time the rector of the school.
An outstanding ktitor of the Bratsky Monastery was Hetman Peter Sagaidachny, who in 1622 was buried next to the wooden Epiphany Church, built at his expense. It was Sagaidachny who invited the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophan to Kyiv, who blessed the Brotherhood in 1620. At that time, the monastery also had the Church of St. Righteous Anne on the pilgrimage courtyard. Later, under Saint Peter Mogila, the stone Boris and Gleb Church was added to them at the refectory chamber. At the request of the brothers, Saint Peter Mogila in 1632 annexed the school, which he had originally founded in Pechersk Lavra, and converted it into a collegium. The institution received academy status from Peter I in 1701.
IN late XVII V. Through the efforts of Hetman Ivan Mazepa, large stone construction began in the monastery: on the site of a wooden church, a stone Epiphany Cathedral was erected; the refectory Boris and Gleb Church was built on a second tier, in which the Church of the Holy Spirit was built; at the beginning of the 18th century. The construction of a stone academic building with the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary began. The second floor of this building was built in 1732-40, by order of Rafail Zaborovsky, by architect Johann Schedel. He is also credited with extremely beautiful porch Epiphany Cathedral.
Since 1731, the monastery received the status of archimandrite. The archimandrite of the monastery was also the rector of the academy. The highest administrative positions were occupied by monks of the monastery (teachers could also be secular persons). In the second half of the 18th century. a bell tower, a stone tavern next to it and the archimandrite's house were built (after the fire of 1781). In the 1790s there appeared sundial, preserved to this day. During the secularization of 1786, the monastery was closed. But already in 1799 it was restored and staffed by the Chernigov Gamaleevsky Monastery, which had previously burned down.
The ensemble of the monastery was finally formed after the fire of 1811, under the leadership of Andrei Melensky. In the 1820-30s, on the monastery courtyard, he erected several buildings of cells, a prosphora, a new academic building and a building of shops, and reconstructed the bell tower. These buildings are made in the Empire style. At the same time, while restoring the Epiphany Cathedral and the Old Academic Building, Melensky preserved the Baroque forms of architecture.
The Theological Academy finally ceased its activities at the beginning of 1920. The monastic community was liquidated in the early 1930s, and the monastery buildings were transferred to the industrial state artel. In 1935, the Epiphany Cathedral was destroyed, and in 1953, the bell tower. For a long time on the site of the monastery the Kiev Higher Military-Political Naval School, a branch of the Central scientific library Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, hospital. New buildings were erected on the territory.
In 1991, by decision Verkhovna Rada The activity of the Kiev-Mohyla Academy was resumed on its historical territory as a secular independent university.
In the territory ancient monastery Now there are two active churches: the Church of the Holy Spirit and the Church of the Annunciation, belonging to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate.
Address: st. Grigory Skovoroda, 2.
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Brotherly Epiphany Monastery in Kyiv (pre-revolutionary photography)
http://kiev-brat.kiev.ua/ Page of the Church in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God "Kievo-Bratskaya" in the village. Gorenka, Kievosvyatoshinsky district, Kyiv region.
Where did the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery disappear from Podol?
At the end of the 16th century, the Bratsky Monastery arose in Kyiv on Podol. In 1662, a miraculous icon of the Mother of God was miraculously found there - it sailed along the Dnieper and stopped just opposite the monastery. This is how the “Kievo-Bratskaya” Mother of God appeared.
This icon was very popular among the people of Kiev. Since the monastery was located on one of the busiest shopping areas in Kyiv - “Kontraktova”, all important and controversial issues were resolved before the Fraternal Icon of the Mother of God.
Several days of veneration of the icon were established, and all of them were dedicated to the miraculous appearance of the icon in 1654. One of them is September 19.
In 1919, the Bratsky Monastery on Podol was closed, and the image of Kiev Fraternal Mother of God was considered lost.
However, in 2009, the miraculous original was found in the depositories of the National Art Museum of Ukraine.
Now there is no monastery in Kyiv on Podil, but it is being revived in another place. And recently, in the summer of 2015, an exact copy of the miraculous Kievo-Brotherly Mother of God was painted from the original for the monastery.
Where and how is the revival of the monastery taking place, how did this idea arise, as they wrote exact copy Fraternal Mother of God - the portal "Orthodoxy in Ukraine" was told by the builder of the monastery in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God "Kievo-Bratskaya", Archimandrite AKHILA (SHAKHTARIN).
By the way, his book dedicated to the history of the Kiev-Brotherly miraculous image of the Mother of God will be published very soon.
Monastery on credit
― Father Akhil, in 2007, near Kiev, in the village of Gorenka, Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district, with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir, a community and parish was created in honor of the “Kievo-Bratskaya” Icon of the Mother of God. You have been appointed rector. Tell us how it all started?
- In 2008, after I was appointed rector of the parish, I took out a bank loan secured by my parents’ house and bought three adjacent plots in Gorenka with total area 15 acres. That was the beginning.
Then - long-term loan repayment. And then he donated it all to the monastery. This is how the monastery was born.
- Why in Gorenka, because before the monastery was in Kyiv, on Podol?
- In Gorenka - because it was here that the church in the name of the Fraternal Icon of the Mother of God was built and consecrated. And the idea of reviving the monastery came due to the fact that those who wanted it appeared from among the parishioners, and they became the first nuns.
“We don’t chase our sisters”
- Tell us about the monastery: what is there now, are there many inhabitants, what are the charter and what are the plans?
- Women's monastery. The abbess is Abbess Glafira. There are few sisters yet, but there is no pursuit of them. Today there are three nuns in the monastery: an abbess, a treasurer and one schema-nun.
I was the rector of the parish, and at the opening of the monastery I was appointed to the position of confessor of the monastery.
The monastery charter is strict: the beginning morning services at 2 o'clock after midnight: Midnight Office, at 3 o'clock Matins, at 9 o'clock and, if there is one, Liturgy (and it is not served every day). At 15:00 Vespers and at 18:00 Compline.
The monastery is small, only 15 acres. In addition to the church, there is a small sister's building with cells and a refectory. Everything else is in the plans.
There was a Sunday school at the parish. There were no thoughts of creating something like the Brotherhood College Monastery. Moreover, the Bratsky Monastery was for men, in honor of the Epiphany of the Lord, and ours was for women, in honor of the “Brotherly” Icon of the Mother of God.
Since when have icons been painted in museums?
- By the way, about the icon. The Kiev-Brotherly temple icon was painted for the parish based on surviving copies and historical descriptions of the original. This was before miraculous acquisition original in 2009. How different are the temple images and the original?
- From the moment the temple was built, and then the monastery was founded, a temple icon was painted, but then the icon painter did not see the original. Therefore, this first icon is different. We plan to use it, for example, to participate in religious processions.
- How did the idea come about to create a list of miraculous icons for the parish?
― The idea of creating a list came after I met professor of art history Lyudmila Milyaeva. She is already 90 years old, but she still teaches. When writing a book about the icon, I quoted Lyudmila Milyaeva and then decided to find her and meet her in person.
I saw an amazing person - a scientist who has done a lot to save and preserve the most famous Ukrainian icons, which are today in the National Art Museum of Ukraine. Gradually I came to the conclusion that, taking advantage of the opportunity of such an acquaintance, it was necessary to make a copy of the icon.
The museum complied and gave the go-ahead for copying without taking a penny from us.
- Thanks to the participation of the same Lyudmila Semyonovna Milyaeva, the museum recommended a restoration artist to me. This is how I met Ekaterina Kasyanenko, quite famous in the circles of contemporary artists. In addition, she had already made one copy of the Brotherly Icon for the Spiritual Church of the former Brotherhood Monastery.
- Where did you write the copy?
- The icon was painted in the museum, right before the miraculous one.
It is not yet possible to venerate the miraculous icon anywhere
- How long did it take to write the copy, and how did the consecration take place? Was it necessary to rededicate the original?
― The work on producing the list lasted from December 2014 to July 2015. And on July 28 of this year, the museum proposed to consecrate the copy of the miraculous icon, which took place on time. July 28 was a day off at the museum, and the miraculous icon was taken out into the hall.
The original was not consecrated because it is miraculous. But with the original, the list was consecrated, which, in fact, is traditional for our Church.
- As for the original, the frame was removed from the icon and stored in another department of the museum. The icon itself, restored, should be put on display in the museum, and people can always come to it.
- Will you eventually decorate your icon with a chasuble?
- We haven’t thought about it yet. Now we are collecting funds for the icon case. The list is in the altar of our monastery church, and without the icon case we will not take out the icon for veneration for now.
The main miracle from the icon has already happened in our days
- You mentioned working on a book about the icon. When is it coming out, and what materials did you use when writing it?
- The book is already ready. The edition is currently being stitched together, and it will be published very soon. It is called “Kievo-Bratskaya Icon of the Mother of God”. It contains almost all pre-revolutionary, as well as modern information about the icon.
The museum is really looking forward to the release of my book, since it includes the research of museum researcher Galina Belikova and professor Lyudmila Milyaeva.
- In books about miraculous icons there is always a section not only about previous, but also about current miraculous manifestations of God’s mercy. Will yours have a section like this too?
- Almost everything about miracles from the past has been collected, but about modern ones there will be a publication later. And the main miracle is that the icon was found after all!
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Descriptions of the icon
Description of the Kiev-Bratsk icon
Source: Disc "Orthodox church calendar 2011" publishing house of the Moscow Patriarchate
The miraculous Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God was revealed in 1654 and was originally local to the Boris and Gleb Church in the city of Vyshgorod (Kyiv). In 1662, during the war with Poland (1659–1667), the city suffered great damage from the Crimean Tatars who fought against Russia in alliance with the Poles. The temple of the holy passion-bearers Boris and Gleb was destroyed and desecrated by the enemy. But by the Providence of God, the miraculous icon of the Mother of God was preserved; it was promptly taken out of the temple and floated along the Dnieper, and the relics of the saints were hidden under a bushel. The river carried the holy icon to the bank of Podol in Kyiv, where it was received with great joy by the Orthodox and with due honors was transferred to the Bratsky Monastery, from which it received its name. The holy image remained there for a long time. The inventory of the church property of the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery, made in 1807, contains a description of the miraculous icon. There was a “Song about the miraculous Kiev-Brotherly Icon of God[...]
Icon of Kiev-Bratsk - description
Source: Website "Miracle-Working Icons of the Blessed Virgin Mary", author - Valery Melnikov
The icon appeared in 1654 in the city of Vyshgorod in Kiev and was located in the Boris and Gleb Church. In 1662, during the war with Poland (1659–1667), the Tatars, who were allied with the Poles, broke into the city and destroyed the church, but the believers managed to take the miraculous icon of the Mother of God from the temple and let it go along the Dnieper to the will of God . The river carried the shrine to the shore of Podol in Kyiv, where it was taken from the water and placed in the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery. The original of the icon has not survived to this day; an exact copy of it is in the Kiev Intercession Monastery.
Description of the Kiev-Bratskaya icon from the book of E. Poselyanin
Source: Book "E. Villager. Mother of God. Description of Her earthly life and miraculous icons"
Her appearance followed in 1654, in the city of Vyshgorod-Kiev, where she was placed in the local church, on the left side of the royal gates. In 1662, during the war with Poland (1659-1667), misfortune broke out over Vyshgorod: the Tatars, who were allied with the Poles, crossed the Dnieper, broke into the city and robbed the temple, taking all the jewelry and icons from it. Christians, at the risk of their lives, saved the holy image of the Mother of God from their unclean hands, but could not hide it and therefore let it go along the Dnieper, betraying it to the will of God. With the flow of the Dnieper, the icon of the Mother of God was brought to the shores of Kyiv, to the place called Podol. Here the icon was noticed, taken out of the water, transferred and placed in the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery, where it is kept to this day. A pious legend adds that the Tatar, who noticed the icon in the water, wanted to use it to cross the Dnieper on it; but as soon as he grabbed hold of it, the icon quickly floated on its own and stopped motionless opposite Bratsko[...]
Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God
The miraculous image of the Mother of God "Kievo-Bratsk" has been celebrated since 1654.
Days of celebration - May 10 (23); June 02 (15) and September 06 (19).
History of the icon
This icon miraculously appeared in 1654 and was originally local to the Boris and Gleb Church in the city of Vyshgorod (Kyiv).
In 1662, during the war with Poland (1659-1667), the city suffered great damage from the Crimean Tatars who fought against Russia in alliance with the Poles. The temple of the holy passion-bearers Boris and Gleb was destroyed and desecrated by the enemy. But by the Providence of God, the miraculous icon of the Mother of God was preserved; it was promptly taken out of the temple and floated along the Dnieper, and the relics of the saints were hidden under a bushel. The river carried the holy icon to the bank of Podol in Kyiv, where it was received with great joy by the Orthodox and with due honors was transferred to the Bratsky Monastery, from which it received its name. The holy image remained there for a long time.
Tradition adds the following detail to this story.
One Tatar noticed an icon in the river and decided to use it to cross, but as soon as he touched it, the icon itself floated, and very quickly, and stopped opposite the Brotherhood Monastery. The Tatar, afraid of drowning, screamed desperately; in response to his cries, the brethren came out of the monastery and sent a boat towards him. Subsequently, the rescued Tatar was baptized and took monastic vows at the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery.
The inventory of the church property of the Kiev-Brotherly Monastery, made in 1807, contains a description of the miraculous icon.
There was a “Song about the miraculous Kiev-Brotherly Icon of the Mother of God,” compiled shortly after 1692.
Unfortunately, the prototype of the icon has not survived. The copy of the miraculous image “measure in measure” is in the Kiev Monastery of the Intercession of the Mother of God.
Troparion of the Mother of God before the miraculous icon of Her Kiev-Bratskaya.
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Kontakion of the Mother of God before the miraculous icon of Her Kiev-Bratskaya.
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Akathist to Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos before Her icon, called the Kiev-Brotherly icon.
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Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos before Her miraculous Icon of Kiev-Bratskaya:
Oh, Most Holy Lady, Most Pure Lady Theotokos. Look with Your All-Merciful Eye on us standing before Your most pure image, called the Kiev-Brotherly Image, and praying to You before it.
May the ineffable light of Your Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, shine in our hearts. May His will be done through all our lives. May He grant us forgiveness and cleansing of all our sins and transgressions.
Imams have no other help, no other hope, except for You, Most Pure One.
Just as in ancient times you glorified the city of Vyshgorod and the land of Kyiv with signs and wonders from your wonderful icon, when you miraculously saved the infidel Hagarene from water drowning in the Dnieper River, and brought him to the Kiev-Bratsk monastery unharmed, and there you accepted his true repentance , and having enlightened you with the light of holy baptism, you have clothed yourself in the rank of Angels in this monastery, and thus you have been a guide to salvation and the establishment of the true Orthodox faith.
For this reason, we, sinners and unworthy, boldly ask and pray: do not reject us, who pray to You, before this wondrous and miraculous icon of Yours. Strengthen the right faith in us, grant unfeigned love for each other. Be the Chosen Governor against all our visible and invisible enemies: convert the unfaithful to orthodoxy, and guide the faithful on the path of repentance and salvation.
Help, Lady the Lady, to erect a temple and monastery for Your wondrous and glorious, venerable name of Angels and men, in honor and memory of Your miraculous image of Kiev-Bratsk.
And in this temple and this monastery, and even more so in our souls and hearts, let us glorify Thee, the Intercessor and Prayer Lady for our race, and through Thee we will send glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Glorification of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Kiev-Bratsk.
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