Temple of the Epiphany in China City. History of monasteries. Prince Daniil Alekseevich

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The Novgorod Chronicle tells the following about the foundation of the monastery:

“From 1296 to 1304 there was a monastery of the wonderful Epiphany, and in the chapel of the Annunciation of the Most Pure Mother of God in Moscow for the bargain, God's blessing and the building of the blessed and pious Grand Duke Daniil Alexandrovich of Vladimir and Novgorod and Moscow and all Rus', this most honorable monastery of the Epiphany in the days of the state it's done<…>».

Church traditions tell that one of the abbots of the monastery was Stefan, the elder brother of St. Sergius, abbot of Radonezh, and that the future Metropolitan Alexy took monastic vows here and labored for a long time.

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Cultural heritage

Object of cultural heritage of the Russian Federation No. 7710079000

How to get there

From the metro station "Ploshchad Revolutsii"

(Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line):

There are two exits from the station. You need an exit marked with the following sign: “EXIT TO THE CITY: TO RED SQUARE, NIKOLSKAYA, ILYINKA STREETS, CHAMBER MUSICAL THEATER, STORES: GUM, “CHILDREN’S WORLD”, “GOSTINY Dvor”. You go up the escalator, get out of the metro - and right in front of you is a tall, beautiful temple.

From the Kitay-Gorod metro station

(Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya or Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines):

Two different lines converge at this station. Regardless of which line you arrived on, you need to turn to the exit with the stairs (as opposed to the opposite exit with the escalator) under the sign: “EXIT TO THE CITY: TO NEW SQUARE, STREETS: ILYINKA, MAROSEYKA, POLYTECHNIC MUSEUM, GOSTINY Dvor” . Go up the stairs, turn left and go to the escalator. Having climbed the escalator and exited the station, you find yourself in a long passage - you need to turn left and walk to the end, then go up the right exit to the street. Ilyinka Street begins right next to the metro exit. You need to follow it to Bogoyavlensky Lane. He will be second on the right side. Landmarks: Exchange Square, Gostiny Dvor (corner large blue building), apricot-colored building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. Turning right into Bogoyavlensky Lane, you will immediately see the golden dome of the temple.

From Lubyanka metro station

(Sokolnicheskaya line):

Having arrived at the station, go to the exit indicated by the sign: “EXIT TO THE CITY: AT THE SQUARE: LUBIANSKAYA, NOVAYA, TO THEATER PROJECT, TO THE STREETS: PUSHECHNAYA, ROZHDESTVENKA, NIKOLSKAYA, B. AND M. CHERKASSKY LANES, CHAMBER MUSICAL THEATER RU, HISTORY MUSEUM MOSCOW, POLYTECHNICAL MUSEUM, AIRLINE CASSES, PHARMACY No. 1, DEPARTMENT STORE "CHILDREN'S WORLD". After taking the escalator, turn left and walk until you exit to the street. When you go outside, you will see Lubyanka Square in front of you. Turn left again onto Nikolskaya Street, which starts right next to the metro station, and follow it to Bogoyavlensky Lane (second left turn). Soon you will see the Church of the Epiphany.

Abbots

• Prokhor (1456-1471)
• Nile (Safonov) (1506-1508)
• Cyprian
• Theodosius - his signature is, among others, on the permission to enter into a fourth marriage for Ivan the Terrible
• Ambrose - in 1613 he signed the act of electing Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov as king
• Elijah (1621-1631)
• Jonah (1638-1642)
• Paphnutius
• Ignatius (Resin) (1709-1712)
• Iakinthos - signed the Spiritual Regulations of the Holy Governing Synod in 1720
• Damascene (Semyonov-Rudnev) (from April 1778)
• Serapion (Alexandrovsky) (February 17, 1779-1799?)
• Victor (Antonsky-Prokopovich) (1800-1801)
• Augustin (Winogradsky) (July 1801-1801)
• Irakli (Evreinov) (1804-1811)
• Abraham (Shumilin) ​​(June 26, 1816-1817)
• Apollos (Alekseevsky) (1817-1820)
• Nikodim (Bystritsky) (June 16 - July 15, 1828)
• Filaret (Gumilevsky) (March 9, 1837-1841)
• Eusebius (Orlinsky) (April 9, 1842-1845)
• Ignatius (Rozhdestvensky) (October 25, 1863-1866)
• Nikodim (Belokurov) (from March 10, 1867)

The temple was built in 1693-96. in Kitai-Gorod, on the banks of the Neglinnaya River, in one of the oldest Moscow monasteries - the Epiphany Monastery (founded in 1292 by the Venerable Prince Daniel). Its predecessor - the temple of 1624 (built on the site of a stone temple of 1342 and a wooden one - late XIII - early XIV centuries) was included in it as a lower temple with the throne of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (consecrated in December 1693). In 1697, the northern aisle of the lower church of St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow was consecrated (in memory of his tonsure in this monastery). In 1696, the main Epiphany throne was consecrated in the upper church. The temple was rebuilt in 1747; on the north side, under the porch of the upper church, a chapel of the Great Martyr George the Victorious was built. The southern aisle of the lower church of St. James the Apostle (1754) is turned into a sacristy. In 1904, the chapel of St. Theodosius of Chernigov was consecrated in its place. In 1869, the chapel of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God was consecrated in the upper church, in 1873 in the refectory - the Great Martyr Panteleimon, in 1910 in the north-eastern part of the upper gallery - the Nativity of John the Baptist (after the demolition of the northern gate church of the same name (1672), facing Nikolskaya Street). It was renovated in 1782. In 1876, the upper cold church was converted into a warm one. In the middle of the 18th century. A small bell tower with a spire is attached to the western façade of the porch.

The monastery was devastated during the Mongol-Tatar raid (XIII-XIV centuries) and the intervention of the Polish-Lithuanian (XVII century) troops, the invasion of the Napoleonic army (1812) and from frequent fires (the most severe in 1687, 1787).

One of the first abbots of the monastery was Stefan, brother of St. Sergius of Radonezh. In 1680-87, the monastery housed the school of theologians of the brothers Ioannikis and Sophronius Likhud, which was transformed, after being transferred to the Zaikonospassky Monastery, into the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy.

A tiered, quadrangular temple with an octagonal drum, in the Moscow Baroque style. On a high basement. The faceted poppy that crowns the temple has not survived. Wall cornices with double windows. The window frames of the octagonal drum of the chapter are decorated with several tiers of white stone details. Rich white stone decoration - torn pediments, hermetic pilasters, shells, lush cornices with hanging consoles in the form of a fringe, an abundance of decorative balusters inserted into the platbands, cornices and columns at the corners of the octagonal drum.

Strongly projecting altar with tripartite corbels. Refectory with a high roof and baroque pediment. The bell tower is two-tiered with a spire.

Inside, fragments of stucco sculptural alabaster decoration were preserved, executed by an artel of Italian masters under the leadership of D. M. Fontana (1704-05) - three reliefs: “Coronation of the Mother of God” (on the altar wall, above the arch, opposite the iconostasis), “Nativity” (on the south ) and “Baptism” (on the north wall). In the 1880s, the remains of paintings inside the upper church were restored.

After 1917 the monastery was closed. In the early 1920s, the bell tower of the monastery with the gate Church of the Savior of the Image Not Made by Hands (1739-42), the Athos Chapel, and the monastery premises overlooking Nikolskaya Street were demolished.

The cathedral was closed in July 1929 and was used as a dormitory, warehouse, production workshop, and printing house. Since the second half of the 1980s it has been restored. In the basement, 4 pillars of the oldest stone temple outside the Kremlin, 1342, were found.

The lower temple was the tomb of a number of noble princely families: the Dolgorukys, the Yusupovs, the Golitsyns, the Pleshcheev boyars, and the Sheremetev counts. There are tombstones in the walls. In the 1980s, the necropolis of the Vorontsov-Velyaminovs was opened. French sculptor J.-A. Gudon made the tombstones of A.D. and M.M. Golitsyn (1774). After the cathedral was closed, they, along with some other tombstones, were taken to the museum located in the St. Michael's Church of the Donskoy Monastery.

In 1991, the temple was returned to the Church, the lower church with the throne of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God and the chapel of St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow, was consecrated, in 1998 - the upper one with the main altar of the Epiphany and the side altar of the Hieromartyr Vladimir, Metropolitan of Kyiv.

The cathedral operates: a Sunday school, a Musical Pedagogical Lyceum, and the Moscow Regency Singing Seminary.

Epiphany Monastery in Moscow- a former monastery in Moscow, in Kitai-Gorod (Bogoyavlensky Lane).

Story

The Epiphany Monastery was traditionally considered the oldest in Moscow, on the suburb; Church tradition attributes its founding to the founder of the Moscow princely house, Daniel. In this regard, the Danilov Monastery competes with it, but in 1330 it was moved to the Kremlin to the Savior on Bor, after which it did not exist until 1560 and, generally speaking, was located outside the city until the 20th century.

Church traditions tell that one of the abbots of the Epiphany monastery was Stephen, the elder brother of St. Sergius, abbot of Radonezh, and that the future Metropolitan Alexy took monastic vows here and labored for a long time. The monastery had great weight in the life of medieval Moscow, and its abbot was one of the first to be called an archimandrite.

The first stone building of the monastery, the four-pillar Epiphany Cathedral, was built at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. made of white stone. The cathedral was badly damaged in 1451 during the invasion of the Horde prince Mazovsha, when most of the Moscow suburb burned down.

Restored under Vasily II and somewhat rebuilt under Ivan III (new refectory), the monastery was again badly damaged in 1547 during the Great Moscow Fire. And in 1571, Ivan the Terrible had to rebuild the Epiphany Monastery after the campaign of the Crimean Khan Devlet-Girey against Moscow.

During the Time of Troubles, the monastery again suffered disasters (it suffered especially in 1611-1612), and almost immediately after his accession to the throne, the new Tsar - Mikhail Fedorovich - began to rebuild the monastery. In 1624 a new stone cathedral was built.

Old view of the Shevaldyshevo courtyard. The monastery bell tower is visible on the left.

In 1685, a school appeared in the monastery, founded by the brothers Ioannikiy and Sophrony Likhud, which a couple of years later was merged with the school of Simeon of Polotsk and moved to the neighboring Zaikonospassky Monastery - thus the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy was born.

After the fire of 1686, a new ensemble of the Epiphany Monastery was created in the style of the so-called. "Naryshkin Baroque". After the construction of new cells in 1692, with the blessing of Patriarch Adrian, the construction of a new cathedral began, which has survived to this day. The construction work was financed, among other donors, by Tsarina Natalya Kirillovna, the families of princes M. Yu. Dolgorukov and M. A. Golitsyn.

The lower church of the Epiphany Church, dedicated to the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, was consecrated by the patriarch on December 29, 1693, and the upper one - in honor of the Epiphany - on January 26, 1696. In the lower (basement) part of the cathedral, part of the building from 1624 has been preserved. Later, the poklet arches were laid. In 1697, the chapel was consecrated in honor of Metropolitan Alexy of Moscow.

In 1737, the monastery was again seriously damaged by a city fire. The monastery buildings were restored under Archimandrite Gerasim, who by 1742 built, in addition, above the second gate, a new gate church of Boris and Gleb with a bell tower. The monastery was patronized by wealthy parishioners, primarily the princes Golitsyn and Dolgorukov. Their generous contributions made it possible to continue construction work and equip new aisles.

In 1747, the cathedral received a northern aisle in the name of St. George the Victorious, and in 1754 - a southern aisle in the name of the Apostle James Alfeev. A bell tower was also added. In 1764, all monastic lands were secularized. In 1782, the church was repaired and painted, and its new parts were decorated with stucco.

In 1788, the monastery became the seat of the suffragan bishop of the Moscow diocese. Since 1865, it was ruled by bishops - vicars of the Moscow Metropolis. The monastery began to flourish especially after 1866, when the partial relics of the martyrs Panteleimon, Tryphon and others, as well as the miraculous icon of the Mother of God, called the “Quick to Hear”, were brought from Mount Athos and placed in the cathedral church.

In 1873, a chapel was built in the cathedral in the name of St. Panteleimon, and another 30 years later the Feodosyevsky chapel was added to the cathedral according to the design of the architect N. N. Blagoveshchensky. The Athos Chapel on Nikolskaya Street was assigned to the monastery.

In 1905-1906, the monastery authorities, despite public protests, demolished the 17th-century gatehouse Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist in order to build an apartment building in its place (Nikolskaya Street, building 6; architect N. N. Blagoveshchensky).

In the early 1920s, the monastery was closed, and the noble burial vault in the lower church was destroyed. The bell tower, the tower of the monastery fence of the 17th century, the Alexievsky chapel and other buildings were dismantled. During the Great Patriotic War, a shot down German fighter plane destroyed the head of the temple when it fell. The chapter was restored only in the 1990s.

List of abbots

• Prokhor (1456-1471)
• Nile (Safonov) (1506-1508)
• Cyprian
• Theodosius - his signature is, among others, on the permission to enter into a fourth marriage for Ivan the Terrible
• Ambrose - in 1613 he signed the act of electing Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov as king
• Elijah (1621-1631)
• Jonah (1638-1642)
• Paphnutius
• Ignatius (Resin) (1709-1712)
• Iakinthos - signed the Spiritual Regulations of the Holy Governing Synod in 1720
• Damascene (Rudnev) (from April 1778)
• Serapion (Alexandrovsky) (February 17, 1779-1799?)
• Victor (Antonsky-Prokopovich) (1800-1801)
• Augustin (Winogradsky) (July 1801-1801)
• Irakli (Evreinov) (1804-1811)
• Abraham (Shumilin) ​​(June 26, 1816-1817)
• Apollos (Alekseevsky) (1817-1820)
• Nikodim (Bystritsky) (June 16 - July 15, 1828)
• Filaret (Gumilevsky) (March 9, 1837-1841)
• Eusebius (Orlinsky) (April 9, 1842-1845)
• Ignatius (Rozhdestvensky) (October 25, 1863-1866)
• Nikodim (Belokurov) (from March 10, 1867)

The monastery in pre-revolutionary photographs

Necropolis

Before the ban on burying the dead in cities was issued in 1771, an aristocratic necropolis with about 150 tombstones managed to form in the lower Kazan church. Of high artistic value were the monuments over the graves of Field Marshal M. M. Golitsyn, his brother Admiral General, Chief Generals G. D. Yusupov and A. A. Menshikov, and Senator A. D. Golitsyn. Other high-profile surnames are also visible on the gravestones - Sheremetevs, Saltykovs, Dolgorukovs, Romodanovskys, Repnins. Most of the monuments of the 18th century are wall tombstones in the Baroque style, made in a planar manner. Intricate compositions included ribbons, garlands, bouquets, complex drapery of fabrics and personification figures. In pre-revolutionary publications they were attributed to leading French masters, even Houdon.

In the 1930s, the burial sites were looted. Only the most valuable monuments for historians were transported (with losses) to the Donskoy Monastery (such as the tombstone of the boyar Fyodor Byakont of the 14th century). But even the surviving monumental sculpture is now closed for inspection, having been “dumped” in disarray in the basements of the museum named after. Shchusev on Vozdvizhenka.

Modernity

Little has been preserved from the monastery ensemble - the two-story Cathedral of the Epiphany from 1693-96. buildings, abbot and fraternal buildings. Compared to the 18th century, its territory was reduced by three quarters.

The cathedral was transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate in May 1991, and by the end of the year, services were resumed there. During a long restoration, the cathedral was returned to its previous appearance. The Alexievsky chapel, rebuilt beyond recognition in the 19th century and then demolished, has been recreated in the form that, according to the hypothesis of the restorers, it could have originally appeared.

On May 31, 2007, a bronze monument to the enlightenment monks, the Likhud brothers, was erected next to the cathedral. The Greek government allocated money for the monument.

The temple may be good, but when I enter, there is no God. Can anyone explain when it will appear?

I was here for confession! It is very well preserved from the inside! The Church of the Epiphany is indeed a very old monastery, it is located in a very crowded place, it really looks very beautiful!

A famous historical temple with many stories and legends associated with it. They say that there were many holy people here who had healing powers. Outwardly it looks quite friendly and blends harmoniously into the surrounding area.

A very interesting ancient temple, it is small, two-story, considered one of the oldest in Moscow. After restoration it is very beautiful. Tombstones are installed within the walls of the temple, since the temple was the tomb of the Dolgorukys, Golitsyns, and Sheremetevs.

The Temple of the Epiphany was a little disappointing. I was upset by the behavior of God's people - the grannies who keep order in the church. They behaved very aggressively: they demanded something, they forced me to do something. This kind of behavior is not for the church.

Like all temples, this temple amazes with its spiritual orientation, its coziness, its friendliness and simply the most beautiful design. I advise people to visit places like this as often as possible, places where the soul simply calms down and all problems go away in an instant.

I walked past this temple for two years until I finally got around to going in. This is a very nice place. I don’t think it’s worth going there on purpose, but if you suddenly find yourself nearby, stop by and you won’t regret it.

A very good monastery, it was often changed, rebuilt, even the architecture changed. Located in a very convenient location, close to a recreation park. A bright place with positive energy. The monastery is old and has gone through a lot.

2011-10-23

I really liked the atmosphere, the architecture is a real decoration. I remember the history of the temple. At first it was a stone monastery cathedral, now it is two-story, in my opinion in the Baroque style. It was destroyed many times, but it looks very beautiful. Wonderfully restored.
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This is a continuation of my story about the former Epiphany Monastery in Kitai-gorod... Part 1. In the second part we will examine the surviving architectural monuments of the Epiphany Monastery, dwell a little on the results of archaeological excavations under the temple, visit the basement of the temple and pay some attention to the almost destroyed necropolis of the Temple Epiphany of the Lord of the former Epiphany Monastery...

Continuation. After the revolution in 1919, the monastery was closed, the inhabitants were expelled, but church life still glimmered in it, since its cathedral and the Church of the Savior in the bell tower were turned into parish ones. In 1922, pounds of silver were taken away from the monastery, and seven years later the Epiphany Cathedral was closed. Its building passed from one new owner to another more than once. The lower church was first given to a flour warehouse, then to Metrostroy, then to a metalworking workshop. The Ukrainian Club laid claim to the top one, but in the end it was given to a dormitory for students of the Mining Academy, and then to the Giproniapolygraph enterprise.

Holy altars, icons, ancient tombstones, a dome with a cross - everything was destroyed and desecrated, and some of the most valuable items were distributed to museums. Extensions and reconstructions disfigured the building, the stone walls were cracked by rain and snow, and trees began to grow on the roof. The cathedral suffered even more damage in 1941, when a downed fascist bomber fell nearby and the blast wave destroyed the upper part of the temple. After the war, an administrative building for the NKVD was built on the monastery territory. All the temples, walls, towers and gates of the Epiphany Monastery were demolished by the Soviet authorities; to date, only the Epiphany Cathedral, the abbot and fraternal buildings have survived. The temple was transferred to the State Russian Choir. A.V. Sveshnikov, and a rehearsal and concert hall were set up in it. In the 1980s, a slow restoration began with simultaneous archaeological excavations at the Temple of the Epiphany.

The temple was returned to believers in 1991. For the first services, the chapel of St. Alexius was prepared - the reconstruction of the temple during the restoration began from there, which was perceived as a very good sign.
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A slow, painstaking restoration of the shrine began, and what was damaged under Napoleon was also corrected. In the upper church, the carved, gilded, multi-tiered iconostasis, stucco molding, paintings and snow-white sculptures from the time of Peter the Great were restored. The royal doors are very unusual: they are made in the shape of a cross. In its center is the canonical image of the Annunciation, and the evangelist apostles are depicted at the ends of the cross. The upper church - spacious, bright, shining with gilding - was consecrated by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II in 1998.

Here's the story. Let us, slowly, examine everything that remains in the Epiphany Monastery after the “revolutionary fires” and the human passions that raged here.
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The Church of the Epiphany has been qualitatively restored, is extremely beautiful, sublime and evokes many enthusiastic feelings.
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The fraternal building of the Epiphany Monastery. The buildings that remain today were built mainly in the second half of the 19th century, some of them in the 18th century.
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Hegumensky building of the Epiphany Monastery (XVIII-XIX centuries). To be more precise, the building was built between 1296 and 1304, then rebuilt in the 1879-80s.
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Let's come closer... There is practically no detailed information about this building anywhere, so I have nothing to comment other than my own feelings. My impressions of these same sensations are surprisingly similar to the Main House of the Moscow Patriarchal Metochion of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra - unusually light pacification and peace... Time seems to stop here!...
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Northern part of the Fraternal Corps. Located opposite the western wing of the abbot's building.
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Bell tower of the Epiphany Church
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Is it possible that this is a miraculously preserved source from the fraternal corps!? I don't know this today.
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Now we are going around the Epiphany Church from the south. The slabs of some wall tombstones in the walls and niches of the temple façade are still preserved here.
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As we remember, the necropolis of the Epiphany Cathedral was very prestigious. Similar wall slabs were installed both in the lower Kazan Church of the Epiphany Church and on the external walls of its facades. Such wall tombstones usually, by tradition, duplicate (as honorary memorial plates) real tombstones, located, for example, already in the Lower Kazan Church at ground level and those burials that may have been in the basement at the level of the temple foundation.
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As they explained to me, in the northern part of the apse, next to the chapel of St. Alexius, there is a white stone slab, which is the tombstone of a locally significant saint, of which I have no information yet.
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Now we will go to carefully explore the basement of the Epiphany Church...
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In time, before the construction of the existing church, archaeologists discovered two necropolises - the necropolis of the first wooden church of the monastery and the necropolis of the first stone church. Moreover, the first stone temple was built in a different place and with a different orientation than the wooden one. The wooden temple was located closer to Epiphany Lane to the northeast. The first burials in this place began in the middle of the 13th century. The necropolis was initially prestigious, since already in this cultural layer a large number of white stone ornamented slabs and their fragments were found.

Complex archaeological work was carried out in four excavation zones - under the quadrangle, the apse, the refectory and under the bell tower. We will now find ourselves in the basement under the refectory. You will see everything "live".

Axonometry of the excavation - refectory. View from the southeast.
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After the archaeological work was carried out, almost nothing of the real burials in nature remained here. And some tombstones, their fragments and empty white stone sarcophagi remained specific shape. The bulk of the white stone “fossil” artifacts were taken to the Shchusev Museum and they are still there in the basements, undisassembled.

In the foreground is the foundation pillar of the “new” church from the 1690s.
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The basement under the refectory has undergone a modern, fairly high-quality overhaul. These two tombstones (pictured below) are given a special elevation in the basement of the temple with a staircase. Since I quite spontaneously ended up in this holy place, by chance I was only able to photograph what you see, and even then only with a smartphone camera; it was not possible to take a closer look at these two slabs. In my opinion, as far as I remember, these are tombstones of either the Yusupovs or the Golitsyns. I remember that I was able to briefly read the military rank of the general... Whether they are in the right place is unclear. It seems that these tombstones are located on the site of another old staircase that once led to the basement.

On the right is a stove built into the old brick foundation.
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These are so-called anthropoid sarcophagi, both in the spirit of Western and Russian medieval tombs with “shoulders” and a semicircular protrusion at the head. A tribute to the style of ancient Egyptian sarcophagi is clearly visible. Quite a lot of such sarcophagi and their fragments were found during archaeological excavations under the temple and around it, especially in the area “under the bell tower”. Sarcophagi of this form began to be used around the 15th century.
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By the way, “sarcophagi” was originally the name of a special type of limestone, which, according to Pliny, was mined near Assos, in Troas, and had the ability to completely destroy the body contained in it within no more than forty days...

Behind the sarcophagi in the background you can see the old foundations of the first stone Church of the Epiphany and its brick foundations (pylons), and a wall niche, among other things. To the right of the niche is the eastern wall of the basement, to the left and below is the foundation of the furnace. Two old foundations juxtapose here - white stone and brick.
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However, let's go out into the light of God... It's good like here!)
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Well, that’s probably all I wanted to tell you about the Epiphany Monastery as the oldest monastic monastery in Old Moscow...
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See you again in the vast expanses of Old Moscow!

One more note. The photos were taken using a moderate wide-angle prime lens Carl Zeiss Loxia 2/35 in order to test it for review. It is this fact that explains the absence in this material of the usual wide-angle angles of shooting objects, at 16 mm, say. At the same time, you can think about whether it is enough for a comprehensive photograph of architecture focal length in35mm, which is considered universal urban by definition among most photographers.

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L.A. Belyaev. Ancient monasteries of Moscow according to archaeological data. RAS. Institute of Archeology. Moscow. 1995.
M.P. Kudryavtsev. MOSCOW-THIRD ROME. Moscow.1994.
Elena Lebedeva. THE EPHOGY MONASTERY IN MOSCOW "Monument to Piety". Portal "Orthodoxy.Ru". 18.01.2008