Temple of the Prophet Elijah (Exaltation of the Holy Cross) in Cherkizovo. Temple of the Prophet Elijah (Exaltation of the Holy Cross) in Cherkizovo Temple on Cherkizovskaya schedule
The Moscow Church in the name of the Prophet Elijah, in Cherkizovo (Moscow region), is famous for the fact that it houses a rare icon of St. Alexis and the relics of Blessed Ivan Yakovlevich Koreishi rest next to it...
The handsome temple makes an extraordinary impression. You enter it, and it’s as if you are plunging into the mysterious depths of centuries. The temple is ancient and prayed for. The icons are extraordinary, old - each one looks like it comes from a museum of antiquities. Of course, this temple has been standing since 1690! And it was built on the site of a burnt wooden temple that stood here back in 1370!
The temple is directly connected with the name of many Russian Metropolitans - and above all with St. Alexy. The village of Cherkizovo takes its name from the name of its first owner, the Horde Tsarevich Serkiz (Cherkiz), who served with Grand Duke Dimitri Ivanovich Donskoy and received lands near Moscow for his service. Having been baptized, Tsarevich Serkiz began to bear a new name - Ivan Cherkizov. The Tsarevich of Russia served faithfully, to the point that his son Andrei on the Kulikovo Field was the governor of the Pereyaslavsky regiment and laid down his head there.
Soon Cherkizovo passed to the servant of St. Alexy, baptized Tatar Ilya Ozakov. It was he who built the first wooden church in Cherkizovo in the name of the Holy Prophet of God Elijah, and soon it, together with the church, was transferred by Ilya Ozakov to Metropolitan Alexy of Moscow, who made it a summer residence (the winter one was in the Chudov Monastery, which was also built by Saint Alexy in memory of miraculous healing through his prayers of the Tatar Khansha Taidula).
According to the spiritual will of Saint Alexy, Cherkizovo went to the Cathedral Chudov Monastery. So the village became the residence of the Moscow Metropolitans. Cherkizovo is a very large property, at least 2000 acres of land, ten villages, 36 wastelands. Over time, a “monastery courtyard” developed around the church of the Holy Prophet Elijah.
During the Time of Troubles of the Polish-Lithuanian attack on Rus', the temple was burned by the enemy, but was soon restored. And during the tenure of His Holiness Patriarch Cyrus Adrian in 1690, on the site of a wooden church, a stone one was built, with a chapel to St. Alexis, the Wonderworker of Moscow and All Russia.
Over time, especially under Saint Innocent (Veniaminov), the residence grew and was rebuilt.
The fate of the temple is unusual. During Soviet times, many churches in Moscow were barbarically razed to the ground. And the Ilyinsky Temple survived even when, during the construction of the metro, it was planned to build a line directly under it. Believing Muscovites stood up to defend the shrine with a wall. The authorities were forced to give in, although during this construction they were breaking down what they had not yet had time to destroy: not far from the temple of the Holy Prophet Elijah, four churches were demolished. The elder of the temple, Vladimir Grigorievich Kiselev, says:
- If you have noticed, when you ride the metro, the train near Cherkizovo slows down, goes quietly for a while, and then picks up speed again. At the request of believers, the line was moved away from the temple to a safe distance, but caution is still being observed. We have sensors installed that show the level of soil vibration. Thank God the church is standing. And this is providential! Here, in the temple and at the temple, there are invaluable spiritual treasures.
We enter the temple and look at the ancient icon “The Healing of Taidula” according to the prayers of St. Alexis. According to Vladimir Grigorievich, this icon is very rare, perhaps the only one in Russia. Believers approach her with trepidation and reverence.
But, of course, the main shrine of the temple is the grave of the famous Moscow blessed Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha (1783 - September 19, 1861). Many Orthodox Christians know him, but do not know where to go to worship him.
Ivan Yakovlevich is a man of God. Even among the blessed, he stands out for the unusualness of his feat, for his special, if we speak in secular language, romantic height. No wonder Ivan Yakovlevich signed himself mysteriously: “Student of cold waters.” And in general he spoke in a lofty, almost poetic style. On Holy Saturday 1861, having received the Holy Mysteries of Christ, he said, handing out prosphora: “I congratulate you on the new year, on the morning aurora.” This is how he spoke about his imminent death.
Favorite poems he sang:
Lord, who dwells
In a bright house above the stars?
Who lives with you
The top of sacred mountain places?
He who walks blamelessly
Always creates the truth
And with an unflattering heart for sure,
Like he says with his tongue...
Ivan Yakovlevich’s ascetic deeds were even higher than his poetic language. He was born into the family of a priest in Smolensk. But, having graduated from the Theological Academy, he did not become a priest, but, having apparently outlined the feat of foolishness for himself, he decided to become a teacher at the Theological School.
When the time came for Ivan Yakovlevich to set out on the path of his feat, he, while still a teacher, pretended to be crazy. True, he deceived few people, since the whole of Smolensk knew him as an unusual, Godly man, from childhood. Ivan Yakovlevich began to live in the garden, in an abandoned bathhouse. The enemy of the human race began to attack him with particular force, but only elevated Ivan Yakovlevich to an unusually high pedestal, even for a holy fool. By the evil will of those in power, in 1817 he was sent to an insane asylum in Moscow, on Preobrazhenka. He was thrown into the basement and chained to the wall. He himself talked about it this way: “When Ivan Yakovlevich was destined to cross to Moscow, he was provided with a horse, but only three legs, the fourth was broken. Of course, due to deprivation of strength, the unfortunate animal withstood universal condemnation, feeding on the coolness of its own tears, rather than grass. In such an exhausted position, we owed our gratitude to the beneficial zephyr, by God's permission, who took part in us. The weakened horse could barely move three legs, and the fourth was lifted by zephyr, and, continuing the way, we reached Moscow, and On October 17, we entered the hospital. This was the beginning of sorrows. My driver handed over the indictment against me, and on the same day, by order of the strictest orders, Ivan Yakovlevich was lowered into the basement located in the women's department. In accordance with the premises, he was also given a servant, who, out of her compassion, threw a damp bunch of straw, saying: “What else does he need? Darling didn’t even see that; but still feed him every day, give him water with bread, and he lived in the bathhouse, what did he eat?” Wait, I’ll be able to fatten you up - you’ll forget to prophesy with me!”
However, at the end of the 20s, thanks to the fact that Doctor Sabler was appointed to the Preobrazhenskaya Hospital, Ivan Yakovlevich was transferred to a bright and large room, but, looking for cramped conditions, he occupied only a corner of the large room. He settled down by the stove and never stretched his legs beyond the line he had once drawn. The entire room remained at the disposal of visitors, whose number was constantly growing. All of Moscow began to come to Ivan Yakovlevich. His fame was so great that his image was captured in the works of F.M. Dostoevsky, N.S. Leskova, A.N. Ostrovsky, L.N. Tolstoy. People asked a variety of questions - spiritual and everyday. With his answers, he constantly returned people from the everyday to the spiritual:
- Will I be welcome in St. Petersburg?
- God rejoices better over the salvation of a mortal person than over 9-10 righteous saved ones.
- What awaits the servant of God N?
- The world of incorruption. 
Ivan Yakovlevich restored health and life itself to many, and set many on the path of repentance and salvation.
His spiritual path in the insane asylum was not easy and was based primarily on voluntary confinement and the deprivation of peace from the body. Since the hospital took money for admission to Ivan Yakovlevich (thanks to this, the hospital began to come into order, they began to feed the patients well, to purchase everything they needed), a man “Mironka” was assigned to him, who carried cobblestones and bottles in buckets to Ivan Yakovlevich’s cell all day, and carried out stones and glass ground into powder. Ivan Yakovlevich spent whole days “crushing” other people’s sins, passions, and evil thoughts with a special stick. Prayerfully, without fear of getting hurt, he mixed broken stones and glass with his bare hands. 60 people a day came to him. And everyone found what they needed in communication with him. Ivan Yakovlevich was not devoid of humor when he encountered outright stupidity, which stemmed from a person’s too much attachment to vain earthly goods. He had amazing insight.
When Ivan Yakovlevich was asked to leave the insane asylum, he replied that “he didn’t want to go anywhere, much less to hell.” Such was his complete and final rejection of the world.
The death of the old man was also extraordinary. I have never encountered such cases in my life. Ivan Yakovlevich received people until the last minute and gave spiritual advice and instructions. Having released the last woman, he was silent for a while, raised his hand and said loudly: “Save yourself, save yourself, save the whole earth!” And he gave up the ghost.
The body of the servant of God John was not buried for five days, since several monasteries were zealous to bury him at home (Smolensk, the Moscow Intercession Monastery, where the relics of the holy blessed Matrona of Moscow now rest, the Alekseevsky Monastery). But Metropolitan of Moscow Philaret (Drozdov) gave his blessing to respect the request of the elder’s own niece, who was married to a deacon of the Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah in Cherkizovo (and he received the deacon’s place at the request of Ivan Yakovlevich). Was it not Ivan Yakovlevich who saved the famous temple in Cherkizovo from destruction?
To this day, people come to Ivan Yakovlevich’s grave and ask for consolation in sorrows, illnesses, admonition and intercession. There are always flowers on the grave, some people put small money, some leave candles.
You stand and feel not in Moscow, but in a rural churchyard: the whole situation at the grave of the famous old man is so simple and artless, so quiet and good next to him.
...And I, too, had a small miracle happen at the elder’s grave. On the way to the temple, I shared my doubts with my wife: should I drink milk thistle herb to improve my health? And when, having prayed at the grave of the blessed one, he went outside the temple fence, he heard one beggar at the gate loudly say to another: “I drink milk thistle. It helps.”
Ivan Yakovlevich can hear us now. And sends a response.
In the photographs: Portrait image of Blessed Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha on his grave; The grave of the blessed one.
Coordinates: 55°48′01″ n. w. 37°44′03″ E. d. / 55.80028° s. w. 37.73417° E. d. / 55.80028; 37.73417(G) (I)Temple of Elijah the Prophet (Exaltation of the Holy Cross) in Cherkizovo- Orthodox Church of the Resurrection Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese.
Elias Church was located in a picturesque place, on the banks of the Sosenka River. Sosenka is the right tributary of Khapilovka, its source is located in the Golyanov region, and the length of the entire river is almost nine kilometers. Currently, the main part of the Sosenka channel is enclosed in a pipe. Cherkizovsky Pond, on the banks of which the Ilyinskaya Church still stands, is one of the few places reminiscent of where the river previously flowed on the surface. The river itself flows in a collector along the eastern shore of the pond.
Together with his brother Sergei, Ilya was one of the close servants of Metropolitan Alexy. It was to the metropolitan that Cherkizovo passed from Ilya Ozakov. Metropolitan Alexy liked the picturesque location of the village, and he made the temple the summer residence of the Moscow patriarchs. Over time, especially under Saint Innocent (Veniaminov), the residence grew and was rebuilt.
Stone Church
In the 1690s, a stone church was built on the site of a burnt wooden temple. The temple was consecrated on June 18, 1690, it already had a chapel of St. Alexis, a refectory and a belfry. In the 19th century, the Elias Church was rebuilt twice. After the first reconstruction in 1825, the temple became five-domed for some time. A more serious reconstruction was carried out at the end of the 19th century on the initiative of the rector of the church, Father Paul, and the church warden, merchant Alexander Zelenyaev, who wrote in an appeal to the diocesan authorities: “The Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah in the village of Cherkizovo does not correspond to a fairly significant number of parishioners...”. The plan for the reconstruction of the church and the construction of a new bell tower according to the design of the architect Egorov was approved in 1888. After the completion of the work at the end of the 1970s, the temple was re-consecrated.
Elias Church is surrounded by a cemetery, which is the oldest cemetery in Moscow. This is one of the rare domestic historical necropolises that was not destroyed during the Soviet era. In 1861, the famous Moscow holy fool Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha, who was revered as a saint for a long time, was buried here. His popularity is evidenced by the fact that the image of Koreyshi is captured in the works of N. S. Leskov (“Little Mistake”) and F. M. Dostoevsky (“Demons”). Ivan Yakovlevich is mentioned by A. N. Ostrovsky (“The Marriage of Balzaminov”).
During the Great Patriotic War, the believers and clergy of the temple collected 1 million rubles for the construction of airplanes and sent them to I.V. Stalin. Stalin sent a telegram of gratitude in response. And the temple survived all the difficult years of Soviet rule. In the middle of the 20th century, icons from neighboring churches that were to be destroyed were brought to the temple. The rector of the temple at that time was Pavel Ivanovich Tsvetkov.
Temple of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo Today
On December 30, 2011, he was appointed rector of the temple. Archimandrite Savva(in the world Sergey Andreevich Tutunov; February 19, 1978, Villecrins, France) - archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church, deputy administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate and head of the control and analytical service of the Moscow Patriarchate Administration, member of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Cherkizovskoe cemetery
Cherkizovskoye Cemetery is the smallest Moscow cemetery and one of the oldest cemeteries in Moscow. The Cherkizovskoe cemetery received its name from the village of Cherkizovo, near which the cemetery was founded in 1380. In 1960, the Cherkizovskoye cemetery became part of the Moscow cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the State Unitary Enterprise "Ritual". Since 1998, an archive has been maintained at the Cherkizovsky cemetery in which all burials are registered. At the cemetery there is a rental point for equipment for caring for graves. Currently, related burials are being carried out at the Cherkizovsky cemetery. Cherkizovskoye Cemetery is open to the public daily from May to September from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and from October to April from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Burials at the Cherkizovsky cemetery take place daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Buried in the cemetery:
- Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha (-) - famous Moscow holy fool
- Bragin Sergey Mikhailovich (-) - professor
- Zamyatin Nikolai Mikhailovich (-) - Major General
- Smirnov Pavel Dmitrievich (-) - priest
- Sokolov Alexey Pavlovich (-) - archpriest
- Ilyin Nikolai Ilyich (-) - rector of the temple
- Glushakov Alexey Vasilievich (-) - rector of the temple
- Koroleva Nadezhda Aleksandrovna (-) - labor veteran
- Elkin Ivan Vladimirovich (-) - military pilot
Photos
Church of Saint Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo 02.jpg
Elias Church and the surrounding cemetery
Church of Saint Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo 41.jpg
Elijah Temple
Write a review about the article "Church of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo"
Notes
Links
- Church of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo
Excerpt characterizing the Temple of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo
- We'll clean it up for you now. - And Timokhin, not yet dressed, ran to clean it.- The prince wants it.
- Which? Our prince? - voices spoke, and everyone hurried so much that Prince Andrey managed to calm them down. He came up with a better idea to take a shower in the barn.
“Meat, body, chair a canon [cannon fodder]! - he thought, looking at his naked body, and shuddering not so much from the cold as from an incomprehensible disgust and horror at the sight of this huge number of bodies rinsing in the dirty pond.
On August 7, Prince Bagration in his Mikhailovka camp on the Smolensk road wrote the following:
“Dear sir, Count Alexey Andreevich.
(He wrote to Arakcheev, but knew that his letter would be read by the sovereign, and therefore, as far as he was capable of this, he thought about his every word.)
I think that the minister has already reported on the abandonment of Smolensk to the enemy. It’s painful, sad, and the whole army is in despair that the most important place was abandoned in vain. I, for my part, asked him personally in the most convincing way, and finally wrote; but nothing agreed with him. I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a bag as never before, and he could have lost half the army, but not taken Smolensk. Our troops fought and are fighting like never before. I held 15 thousand for more than 35 hours and beat them; but he didn’t want to stay even 14 hours. This is shameful and a stain on our army; and it seems to me that he himself should not even live in the world. If he reports that the loss is great, it is not true; maybe about 4 thousand, no more, but not even that. Even if it’s ten, there’s war! But the enemy lost the abyss...
Why was it worth staying two more days? At least they would have left on their own; for they had no water to drink for the people and horses. He gave me his word that he would not back down, but suddenly he sent a disposition that he was leaving that night. It’s impossible to fight this way, and we can soon bring the enemy to Moscow...
The rumor is that you think about the world. To make peace, God forbid! After all the donations and after such extravagant retreats - put up with it: you will put all of Russia against you, and each of us will be forced to wear a uniform for shame. If things have already gone this way, we must fight while Russia can and while people are on their feet...
We need to command one, not two. Your minister may be a good one in his ministry; but the general is not only bad, but trashy, and the fate of our entire Fatherland was given to him... I’m really going crazy with frustration; forgive me for writing impudently. Apparently, he does not like the sovereign and wishes death for all of us, who advises us to make peace and command the army to the minister. So, I write to you the truth: prepare your militia. For the minister most masterfully leads the guest to the capital with him. Mr. Adjutant Wolzogen casts great suspicion on the entire army. He, they say, is more Napoleon than ours, and he advises everything to the minister. I am not only polite against him, but I obey like a corporal, although older than him. It hurts; but, loving my benefactor and sovereign, I obey. It’s just a pity for the sovereign that he entrusts such a glorious army to such people. Imagine that during our retreat we lost more than 15 thousand people from fatigue and in hospitals; but if they had attacked, this would not have happened. Tell me for God's sake that our Russia - our mother - will say that we are so afraid and why we are giving such a good and diligent Fatherland to the bastards and instilling hatred and shame in every subject. Why be afraid and who to be afraid of? It is not my fault that the minister is indecisive, cowardly, stupid, slow and has all bad qualities. The whole army is completely crying and cursing him to death..."
Among the countless divisions that can be made in the phenomena of life, we can subdivide them all into those in which content predominates, others in which form predominates. Among these, in contrast to village, zemstvo, provincial, and even Moscow life, one can include St. Petersburg life, especially salon life. This life is unchanged.
Since 1805, we have made peace and quarreled with Bonaparte, we have made constitutions and divided them, and Anna Pavlovna’s salon and Helen’s salon were exactly the same as they were, one seven years, the other five years ago. In the same way, Anna Pavlovna spoke with bewilderment about Bonaparte’s successes and saw, both in his successes and in the indulgence of European sovereigns, a malicious conspiracy, with the sole purpose of causing trouble and anxiety to the court circle of which Anna Pavlovna was a representative. In the same way, with Helen, whom Rumyantsev himself honored with his visit and considered a remarkably intelligent woman, in the same way, both in 1808 and in 1812, they spoke with delight about a great nation and a great man and looked with regret at the break with France, which, according to the people who gathered in Helen's salon, it should have ended peacefully.
Recently, after the arrival of the sovereign from the army, there was some unrest in these opposing circles in the salons and some demonstrations were made against each other, but the direction of the circles remained the same. Only inveterate legitimists were accepted into Anna Pavlovna’s circle from the French, and here the patriotic idea was expressed that there was no need to go to the French theater and that maintaining a troupe costs the same as maintaining an entire corps. Military events were followed greedily, and the most beneficial rumors for our army were spread. In Helen's circle, Rumyantsev's, French, rumors about the cruelty of the enemy and the war were refuted and all Napoleon's attempts at reconciliation were discussed. In this circle, they reproached those who advised too hasty orders to prepare for the departure to Kazan to court and women's educational institutions under the patronage of the Empress Mother. In general, the whole matter of war was presented in Helen’s salon as empty demonstrations that would very soon end in peace, and the opinion of Bilibin, who was now in St. Petersburg and at Helen’s house (every intelligent person should have been with her), reigned that it was not gunpowder, but those who invented, they will solve the matter. In this circle, ironically and very cleverly, although very carefully, they ridiculed the Moscow delight, the news of which arrived with the sovereign in St. Petersburg.
In Anna Pavlovna's circle, on the contrary, they admired these delights and talked about them, as Plutarch says about the ancients. Prince Vasily, who occupied all the same important positions, formed the link between the two circles. He went to see ma bonne amie [his worthy friend] Anna Pavlovna and went dans le salon diplomatique de ma fille [to his daughter’s diplomatic salon] and often, during his constant transfers from one camp to another, he got confused and told Anna Pavlovna what it was necessary to talk to Helen, and vice versa.
Soon after the arrival of the sovereign, Prince Vasily talked with Anna Pavlovna about the affairs of the war, cruelly condemning Barclay de Tolly and being indecisive about who to appoint as commander-in-chief. One of the guests, known as un homme de beaucoup de merite [a man of great merit], having said that he had now seen Kutuzov, who had now been elected head of the St. Petersburg militia, sitting in the state chamber to receive warriors, allowed himself to cautiously express the assumption that that Kutuzov would be the person who would satisfy all the requirements.
Anna Pavlovna smiled sadly and noticed that Kutuzov, apart from troubles, gave nothing to the sovereign.
“I spoke and spoke in the Assembly of Nobles,” interrupted Prince Vasily, “but they did not listen to me.” I said that the sovereign would not like his election as commander of the militia. They didn't listen to me.
Temple of Elijah the Prophet (Exaltation of the Holy Cross) in Cherkizovo- Orthodox Church of the Resurrection Deanery of the Moscow City Diocese.
Elias Church was located in a picturesque place, on the banks of the Sosenka River. Sosenka is the right tributary of Khapilovka, its source is located in the Golyanov region, and the length of the entire river is almost nine kilometers. Currently, the main part of the Sosenka channel is enclosed in a pipe. Cherkizovsky Pond, on the banks of which the Ilyinskaya Church still stands, is one of the few places reminiscent of where the river previously flowed on the surface. The river itself flows in a collector along the eastern shore of the pond.
Together with his brother Sergei, Ilya was one of the close servants of Metropolitan Alexy. It was to the metropolitan that Cherkizovo passed from Ilya Ozakov. Metropolitan Alexy liked the picturesque location of the village, and he made the temple the summer residence of the Moscow patriarchs. Over time, especially under Saint Innocent (Veniaminov), the residence grew and was rebuilt.
Stone Church
In the 1690s, a stone church was built on the site of a burnt wooden temple. The temple was consecrated on June 18, 1690, it already had a chapel of St. Alexis, a refectory and a belfry. In the 19th century, the Elias Church was rebuilt twice. After the first reconstruction in 1825, the temple became five-domed for some time. A more serious reconstruction was carried out at the end of the 19th century on the initiative of the rector of the church, Father Paul, and the church warden, merchant Alexander Zelenyaev, who wrote in an appeal to the diocesan authorities: “The Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah in the village of Cherkizovo does not correspond to a fairly significant number of parishioners...”. The plan for the reconstruction of the church and the construction of a new bell tower according to the design of the architect Egorov was approved in 1888. After the completion of the work at the end of the 1970s, the temple was re-consecrated.
Elias Church is surrounded by a cemetery, which is the oldest cemetery in Moscow. This is one of the rare domestic historical necropolises that was not destroyed during the Soviet era. In 1861, the famous Moscow holy fool Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha, who was revered as a saint for a long time, was buried here. His popularity is evidenced by the fact that the image of Koreyshi is captured in the works of N. S. Leskov (“Little Mistake”) and F. M. Dostoevsky (“Demons”). Ivan Yakovlevich is mentioned by A. N. Ostrovsky (“The Marriage of Balzaminov”).
During the Great Patriotic War, the believers and clergy of the temple collected 1 million rubles for the construction of airplanes and sent them to I.V. Stalin. Stalin sent a telegram of gratitude in response. And the temple survived all the difficult years of Soviet rule. In the middle of the 20th century, icons from neighboring churches that were to be destroyed were brought to the temple. The rector of the temple at that time was Pavel Ivanovich Tsvetkov.
Temple of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo Today
On December 30, 2011, he was appointed rector of the temple. Archimandrite Savva(in the world Sergey Andreevich Tutunov; February 19, 1978, Villecrins, France) - archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church, deputy administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate and head of the control and analytical service of the Moscow Patriarchate Administration, member of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Cherkizovskoe cemetery
Cherkizovskoye Cemetery is the smallest Moscow cemetery and one of the oldest cemeteries in Moscow. The Cherkizovskoe cemetery received its name from the village of Cherkizovo, near which the cemetery was founded in 1380. In 1960, the Cherkizovskoye cemetery became part of the Moscow cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the State Unitary Enterprise "Ritual". Since 1998, an archive has been maintained at the Cherkizovsky cemetery in which all burials are registered. At the cemetery there is a rental point for equipment for caring for graves. Currently, related burials are being carried out at the Cherkizovsky cemetery. Cherkizovskoye Cemetery is open to the public daily from May to September from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and from October to April from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Burials at the Cherkizovsky cemetery take place daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Buried in the cemetery:
- Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha (-) - famous Moscow holy fool
- Bragin Sergey Mikhailovich (-) - professor
- Zamyatin Nikolai Mikhailovich (-) - Major General
- Smirnov Pavel Dmitrievich (-) - priest
- Sokolov Alexey Pavlovich (-) - archpriest
- Ilyin Nikolai Ilyich (-) - rector of the temple
- Glushakov Alexey Vasilievich (-) - rector of the temple
- Koroleva Nadezhda Aleksandrovna (-) - labor veteran
- Elkin Ivan Vladimirovich (-) - military pilot
Photos
Church of Saint Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo 02.jpg
Elias Church and the surrounding cemetery
Church of Saint Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo 41.jpg
Elijah Temple
Write a review about the article "Church of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo"
Notes
Links
- Church of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo
Excerpt characterizing the Temple of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo
I didn’t yet know whether I would be able to save her, but I swore to myself that I would do everything in my power to save her from the tenacious clutches of the cruel Pope.Karaffa returned a few days later, very upset and taciturn about something. He just showed me with his hand that I should follow him. I obeyed.
After walking through several long corridors, we found ourselves in a small office, which (as I found out later) was his private reception room, to which he very rarely invited guests.
Caraffa silently pointed to a chair and slowly sat down opposite me. His silence seemed ominous and, as I already knew from my own sad experience, never boded well. After the meeting with Anna and the unexpected arrival of Sever, I unforgivably relaxed, “putting to sleep” to some extent my usual vigilance, and missed the next blow...
– I don’t have time for pleasantries, Isidora. You will answer my questions or someone else will suffer greatly. So, I advise you to answer!
Caraffa was angry and irritated, and to contradict him at such a time would be real madness.
“I’ll try, Your Holiness.” What do you want to know?
– Your youth, Isidora? How did you get it? You are thirty-eight years old, but you look twenty and haven’t changed. Who gave you your youth? Answer!
I couldn’t understand what made Karaffa so angry?.. During our already quite long acquaintance, he never screamed and very rarely lost control of himself. Now an enraged, out-of-control man spoke to me, from whom one could expect anything.
- Answer, Madonna! Or another, very unpleasant surprise will await you.
Such a statement made my hair stand out... I understood that trying to evade the question would not be possible. Something made Karaffa very angry, and he did not try to hide it. He did not accept the game, and was not going to joke. All that was left was to answer, blindly hoping that he would accept the half-truth...
– I am a hereditary Witch, Holiness, and today I am the most powerful of them. Youth came to me by inheritance, I did not ask for it. Just like my mother, my grandmother, and the rest of the line of Witches in my family. You must be one of us, Your Holiness, to receive this. Moreover, to be the most worthy.
- Nonsense, Isidora! I knew people who themselves achieved immortality! And they weren't born with it. So there are ways. And you will open them to me. Believe me.
He was absolutely right... There were ways. But I was not going to open them to him under any circumstances. Not for any torture.
- Forgive me, Your Holiness, but I cannot give you what I did not receive myself. This is impossible - I don't know how. But your God, I think, would give you “eternal life” on our sinful earth if he thought that you deserved it, wouldn’t he?..
Karaffa turned purple and hissed angrily, like a poisonous snake ready to attack:
– I thought you were smarter, Isidora. Well, it won't take me long to break you when you see what I have in store for you...
And abruptly grabbing me by the hand, he roughly dragged me down into his terrifying basement. I didn’t even have time to be properly frightened when we found ourselves at the same iron door behind which, just recently, my unfortunate tortured husband, my poor good Girolamo, so brutally died... And suddenly a terrible, chilling guess pierced my brain - my father !!! That is why he did not answer my repeated calls!.. He was probably captured and tortured in the same basement, standing in front of me, breathing rage, a monster who “purified” any target with someone else’s blood and pain!..
“No, not this! Please, not this!!!" – my wounded soul screamed like an animal. But I already knew that it was exactly like this... “Someone help me!!! Someone!”... But for some reason no one heard me... And no one helped...
The heavy door opened... Wide-open gray eyes looked straight at me, full of inhuman pain...
In the middle of the familiar, death-smelling room, on a spiky iron chair, sat, bleeding, my beloved father...
The blow was terrible!.. Screaming wildly “No!!!”, I lost consciousness...
* Note: please do not confuse (!!!) with the Greek complex of Meteora monasteries in Kalambaka, Greece. Meteora in Greek means “hanging in the air”, which fully corresponds to the stunning appearance of the monasteries, like pink mushrooms growing on the highest peaks of unusual mountains. The first monastery was built around 900. And between the 12th and 16th centuries there were already 24 of them. Only six monasteries have “survived” to this day, which still amaze the imagination of tourists.
True, tourists do not know one very funny detail... In Meteora there is another monastery, into which the “curious” are not allowed... It was built (and gave rise to the rest) by one gifted fanatic who once studied in the real Meteora and expelled from it. Angry at the whole world, he decided to build “his own Meteora” in order to gather those who were “offended” like him and lead his solitary life. How he managed this is unknown. But since then, Masons began to gather in his Meteor for secret meetings. What happens once a year to this day.
Monasteries: Grand Meteoron (big Meteoron); Russano; Agios Nikolas; Agia Trios; Agias Stefanos; Varlaam are located at a very close distance from each other.
37. Isidora-3. Meteora
I woke up in a creepy, cold basement, thickly saturated with the cloying smell of blood and death...
The numb body did not listen and ached, not wanting to “wake up” in any way... And the Soul, with the ease of a bird, soared in the bright world of memories, bringing back from memory beloved faces and days full of happiness, when sadness had not yet entered our lives, and when there was no a place of bitterness and pain in her... There, in that beautiful “bygone” world, my wonderful husband, Girolamo, still lived... there, little Anna’s cheerful laughter rang out like a bell... there, my sweet, gentle mother smiled tenderly at me in the morning ... there my kind and bright father patiently taught me the wisdom of Life... This world was happy and sunny, and my soul was yearning to return, flying further and further... never to return again...
But for some reason the evil reality did not let me go... It knocked mercilessly, forcibly awakening my inflamed brain, demanding a return “home.” The dear and imperfect Earthly world called for help... Caraffa lived... And while he was breathing, there could be no joy and light in our world.
It was time to return...
Taking a deep breath, I finally felt my physical body, frozen in solitude - life was reluctantly returning to it, bit by bit... All that was left was to take courage...
There was a dense, deafening, thick silence in the room I was in. I sat in a rough wooden chair, without moving or opening my eyes, trying not to show those “present” (if there were any) that I had woken up. Feeling and hearing everything perfectly, I tensely “looked around”, trying to determine what was happening around.
Slowly coming to my senses and starting to remember what had happened, I suddenly saw very clearly WHAT turned out to be the real reason for my sudden and deep fainting!..
Cold horror squeezed the dead heart with a sharp vice, not even allowing it to fully wake up!..
Father!.. My poor, kind father was HERE!!! In this terrible, bloody basement - a terrible lair of sophisticated death... He was next to Girolamo... He was dying. Caraffa's sinister trap slammed shut, swallowing his pure Soul...
The Temple of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo, also called the Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, is located on a hill. Small, indescribably beautiful, with a rich history, it attracts many people. Here it is - Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street with a noisy road and bustling life. But he turned a little, went up the hill, went behind the fence and found himself in another dimension. Centuries-old silence, the oldest cemetery in Moscow, grace...
By the way, once the street on which the monastery was located was called Shtatnaya Gorka. It started from Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya, which in the 19th century ran a little further south than it does now, and ran perpendicular to it to the north, along the eastern shore of the Cherkizovsky (Arkhiereysky) pond. It ended just near the church. Currently, due to anthropogenic changes in the relief, the street has disappeared. And the previously listed house 17 (the temple itself) on Shtatnaya Gorka is now listed on Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street with the same number.
It should be noted that at present, only the two-light quadrangle - the throne of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross - has survived from the original structure. Its three-part apse, side chapels - the thrones of Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus', the Wonderworker and Prophet Elijah, the refectory and the bell tower, forming a symmetrical composition, were erected in several stages - in 1856, 1883 and 1899 in forms imitating the architecture of the 17th century.
At the same time, the original five-domed completion of the temple was replaced by the current chapter on a cylindrical drum. Instead of a wide belt of kokoshniks running along the top of the walls, plaster archivolts appeared; The second-light windows received an arched configuration. The bell tower is a 3-tier tented structure, distinguished by its enlarged relief interpretation of architectural details. The dormer windows at the base of the tent, the corner pilasters and the keel-shaped frames of the openings give the bell tower a plastic, almost sculptural appearance.
Restructuring was carried out with extreme caution
In those ancient times, reconstruction was carried out with extreme caution; the fact that the church is the oldest monument of Russian architecture was always taken into account. This is particularly evidenced by the archival file from 1879 that has survived to this day.
Before “raising the bell tower by two fathoms,” it was necessary to collect all the necessary papers for such an alteration. The Moscow Archaeological Society was then responsible for this issue, to which the letter was addressed to the Moscow Ecclesiastical Consistory. It was written on behalf of the clergy, the church elder and parishioners of the Iliinskaya Church in the village of Cherkizovo near Moscow, which officially belonged to the Moscow district.
A few months later, a response was received signed by two architects (unfortunately, the signatures are illegible). We quote: “On behalf of the Moscow Archaeological Society, we examined the Church of the Prophet Elijah in the village of Cherkizovo near Moscow and found that its main middle part belongs to the most ancient monuments of Moscow architecture and that the church was rebuilt at least two times, during which the last rebuilding should be called distortion.”
The original construction, as follows from the inspection report, includes four walls of the church square. But the so-called distortion affected its northern side. “This church, by the time of its construction, dates back to the 16th century and the remains of it that have survived to this day must be protected from further distortion,” the architects wrote, believing that at the end of the 17th century a chapel was added to the ancient church on the north side and a refectory of the entire width this chapel and the ancient church. At the same time, the altar was rebuilt into the current three-part one, with two semicircles making up the altar of the ancient church, and one, the northern one, making up the altar of the chapel. On the high place of the main altar, in the pier between two semicircles, there is a depression for the bishop’s seat.”
The first owners of the village of Cherkizovo
Interestingly, the history of the temple begins long before the appearance of the walls themselves and is closely connected with the history of the Golden Horde. Let's turn the clock back to the distant 14th century.
It was at that time that the first mention of Cherkizov dates back to that time. There lived then the Tatar prince Serkiz Bey. A real miracle happened, there is no other way to put it. Serkiz voluntarily accepted baptism with the name Ivan. And he became the Kolomna governor. Likewise, his son Andrei Ivanovich served Rus' faithfully. He was already boyar Serkizov. He owned a village, which was named after him. Being the governor of the Pereyaslavsky regiment, he died in 1380 on the Kulikovo field.
Apparently, this area did not belong to the Serkizovs for long. In the 1895 book by Moscow scholar Pyotr Sinitsyn, “Preobrazhenskoe and the surrounding places, their past and present,” another person is named as the first owner of the ancient village of Cherkizovo near Moscow in the 14th century - Ilya Ozakov (Azakov). And he, too, came from the Golden Horde, a Tatar who converted to Orthodoxy. Being a devout man, it was he who built the first wooden church on a hill in Cherkizovo in honor of his heavenly patron Elijah the prophet.
The village was given according to a spiritual will
Somewhere in the 60s of the 14th century, Ilya Ozakov sold his villages near Moscow to St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow. Among them, Cherkizovskoe is mentioned, given, in turn, according to the spiritual will of the metropolitan “to the monastery of the Holy Archangel Chud” in 1378. Thus, the village becomes one of the main estates of the Moscow Cathedral Chudov Monastery with an extensive monastic (lord's) courtyard and a developed monastic economy.
Cherkizovo was a very distant outskirts from the noisy Moscow. Here everything was conducive to solitude and relaxation in nature, surrounded by oak forests located along the picturesque Sosenka River, a tributary of the Yauza. A bishop's dacha was built for Metropolitan Alexy, where he usually came in the warm season. This place served as a summer residence both for himself and subsequently for his successors. “Tsar John Vasilyevich and his princes went hunting to Cherkizovo in 1564,” Pyotr Sinitsyn mentions in his book.
Construction of a stone church
During the Time of Troubles of the Polish-Lithuanian attack on Rus', the Elijah Church was burned by the enemy, but was soon restored. The construction of the stone Cherkizovsky church dates back to the reign of the ever-memorable Patriarch Adrian, the last patriarch of the pre-Petrine era.
Under his wise leadership, all the monastery buildings were rebuilt and several churches were erected. Since Cherkizovo in those years was considered the patrimony of this Moscow monastery, it must be assumed that appropriate attention was paid to it. In all likelihood, the construction of the Eliinsky Temple took place in 1689–1690. Thus, according to the testimony of the famous Russian writer of the 17th–18th centuries Karion Istomin, on June 18, 1690, the newly built Church of the Holy Prophet Elijah in Cherkizovo was consecrated by the abbot of the Chudov monastery, Archimandrite Joasaph, and cellarer German Lutokhin, and “decorated with all kinds of ornaments.” Chronicles of this period also report a parish cemetery where a wooden chapel stood.
It must be said that from the end of the 17th – beginning of the 18th centuries, there has been an increase in the population of Cherkizovo, due to which the number of parishioners increases, and the temple itself becomes more magnificent. According to the inventory of 1701: “... stone in the name of the Prophet Elijah, and in the chapel of Metropolitan Alexei with a refectory... in the altar there are two windows, and in the church there is one glass window... and in the refectory there are three glass windows in the windows, a mural stove, and on the refectory wall there is a bell tower stone, and there are five bells on it.”
By decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna and by decision of the Holy Governing Synod, the Monastery of the Miracle of St. Archangel Michael in Kolosy from a stauropegial metropolitan monastery with the establishment of the Moscow Metropolitan Department in it is transformed into the Moscow Cathedral Miracle Monastery with the residence of the Metropolitan of Moscow. In this regard, the importance of the village of Cherkizova is increasing.
Since 1764, the church in the name of the Holy Prophet of God Elijah leaves the compound and becomes a parish church.
New time
In the first decade after the October Revolution, everything was as before. A rope from one of the middle bells was lowered into the vestibule of the temple under the bell tower. Until 1929, when bell ringing was banned, during services the bell ringer struck this bell directly from the vestibule at the moments required by church regulations. On one of the Easter celebrations, the tongue of the largest bell, which occupied almost the entire space of the central part of the belfry, broke and fell; with its weight it broke the floor and got stuck there.
In the thirties, the entire previously existing selection of bells was removed. But in 2006, the bells cast at the ZIL plant were donated to the Cherkizov church, so today the Orthodox residents of the Eastern District of Moscow are again called to church services by the ringing of bells. During the Soviet years, the Cherkizovsky temple was repeatedly going to be closed; one of these threats loomed already in the second half of the last century, when a metro line was pulled to the eastern outskirts of Moscow. But by a miracle of God the temple survived this time too.
Million for a plane
I would like to mention a very important and significant fact. During the Great Patriotic War, the parishioners and clergy of the temple collected one million rubles for the construction of the aircraft and sent it directly to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Joseph Stalin. In response, we received a telegram of gratitude from the leader. Maybe that’s why, although they were going to close the parish several times, services here never stopped.
But the church remained without repair for a long time. But when its condition reached almost critical levels, the authorities finally remembered this ancient architectural monument, which, as can be seen from the sign attached to the facade of the building, is protected by the state. In 1982, the efforts of the parish community under the leadership of the rector of the church, mitred archpriest Alexei Glushakov, began the internal restoration of the Cherkizov church, its paintings and icons, as well as the construction of a clergy house next to the church.
Instead of the dilapidated wooden buildings of 1912, a new brick building was rebuilt. Since 1996, it has housed a baptistery with a baptistery for adults. Part of the temple area was paved with granite paving stones. By the way, during the dismantling of old buildings, a previously lost icon of the holy prophet of God Elijah was found.
Healing of Khansha Taidula
The temple contains a very rare icon - “Healing of Khansha Taidula by Metropolitan Alexy, the Wonderworker of All Rus'.” Believers flock to her and pray for the healing of eye diseases. There are many versions of historians, legends and traditions about Alexy’s trip to the Horde. Khan Janibek's mother, Queen Taidula, suffered from blindness and other illnesses for three years.
He, hearing about Alexy, sent (in August 1357) a letter to the Grand Duke, in which he asked him to send a man of God to him so that he would pray for the granting of insight to his mother. “If,” the khan wrote, “he is healed through his prayers, then you will be in peace with me; If you don’t send him to me, then I will walk through your land with fire and sword.” Such a message from the khan put the Saint in difficulty. He, naturally, was aware of his weakness for such an extraordinary undertaking, and at the same time, he was afraid of the khan’s threats.
At the urgent requests of the Grand Duke, the Saint decided to go to the Horde. Getting ready for the journey, first of all, with the entire clergy, we served a prayer service in the Cathedral Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God. When he prayed, the candle at the tomb of St. Peter lit up by itself in the sight of everyone. This phenomenon served as an omen for him that the Lord would arrange his path to salvation. Having molded a small candle from the wax of a candle that miraculously lit up, St. Alexy set off on his journey with complete trust in the mercy of God. Before he reached the place where the khan lived, Taidula saw in a dream Saint Alexy in bishop's vestments along with the priests.
Historians are still deciding whether this was so...
Waking up, she immediately ordered that a precious vestment be made for the Saint and the priests according to the cut she had seen in her dream. When St. Alexy entered the city, he was greeted by the khan with great honor, as a man of God; takes him into his room. The saint, starting to sing a prayer service, ordered to light the candle that he had blinded. After the prayer service, he sprinkled the queen with holy water; she immediately regained her sight. This miracle struck everyone with surprise and filled them with joy. Taidula, in memory of her healing through the prayers of St. Alexis, gave him a ring, which is kept in Moscow in the patriarchal sacristy. Khan, showering him with gifts, released him in peace to Russia.
How reliable this fact is, how embellished it is, is not for us to judge. Even learned historians have been debating this for centuries. What makes it difficult to come to a common denominator is that in a fire in 1812, many archives were burned, including chronicles of those times. But people believe in miracles, pray and by faith receive healing.
Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha
As mentioned above, the cemetery near the Elias Church is the oldest in Moscow, and the smallest. The flow of people here never stops. One of the reasons for this is the grave of the famous Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha. This is a Russian holy fool, revered by many contemporaries as a clairvoyant, soothsayer and blessed one. He spent over 47 years in hospitals as a mentally ill patient, almost 44 of them in the Moscow Preobrazhenskaya Hospital.
After death, the elder’s body could not be buried for five days, since several monasteries simultaneously claimed the right to bury him. It was proposed to do this at home in Smolensk or in the Alekseevsky convent. A certain Colonel Zalivkin intervened in the matter, who managed to persuade Filaret to allow the body of Ivan Yakovlevich to be buried in the village of Cherkizovo, while the colonel fully assumed all the costs of the burial. The reason for the colonel’s zeal was that Koreysha, a former zealous Catholic, appeared to him three times in visions, after which Zalivkin (Zalivsky) accepted the Orthodox faith and was subsequently anointed by Metropolitan Philaret himself.
Another significant reason for the Metropolitan’s decision was the request of the blessed one’s niece, Maria, who was married to the deacon of the Church of Elijah the Prophet in Cherkizovo. The coffin with the body of the late holy fool from the hospital was carried out from the back staircase, accompanied by staff, in order to avoid complications from the mentally ill, who considered Koreisha their benefactor. Many carriages saw off the deceased, despite the long and dirty path, a large number of followers of the blessed one followed in the procession. He was buried on the right side of the main entrance.
Happy Temple
The Temple of Elijah the Prophet has one peculiarity. Historians, journalists, and believers often use the epithet “happy” in their reviews. That's what they say - a happy temple. With a happy story. With a happy atmosphere. With happy parishioners. Let it be so!
