Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khoroshevo. Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khoroshevo: opening hours, schedule of services, address and photo Temple of the Life-Giving Trinity in mnevniki

Initially, the area beyond the Khodynia River, on the road from Moscow to Zvenigorod (Zvenigorodsky tract), was called “Khodynsky Meadow”; at the turn of the 16th century, the new name “Conversations” supplanted the previous one from the documents. Finally, this year the palace village of Khoroshevo is mentioned in documents for the first time. Presumably in the year, Tsar Feodor Ioannovich gave Khoroshevo to his brother-in-law, Boris Godunov, and he began to renovate the estate.

The construction of the temple not far from the royal traveling wooden palace supposedly began between and years.

The temple was robbed three times a year.

On August 5, the Moscow Regional Committee of the Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies decided to close the Trinity Church. The property of the temple was partly taken away, partly looted or destroyed. The temple building was first given to a children's clinic, and after the war - to a collective farm club.

In the 1950s and 60s, the church and the adjacent site received the “Isocombinat”, later the “Offset Printing Factory” of the publishing house “Detsky Mir”, after which a significant fenced economic territory of these enterprises with various buildings for administrative and production purposes was formed to the west of the temple. This also included two one-story wooden buildings preserved from the first half of the 20th century, one of which contained the white-stone vaulted storeroom of the disappeared palace complex, preserved from the 1590s

In the same year, the territory of the collective farm, and along with it the village of Khoroshevo, became part of Moscow. At the same time, the temple was placed under state protection, as evidenced by special resolution No. 1327 of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR dated August 30, 1960.

B – years specialists of the association “Soyuzrestavratsiya” under the leadership of architect B.L. Altshuller, based on careful field research and study of archival sources, the main, most ancient volumes of the temple were returned to their ancient appearance. The temple was again decorated with tiers of kokoshniks. The elegant window frames, dilapidated parts of the white stone plinth and cornices, and individual elements of decorative furniture were restored. According to the new rules of scientific restoration, the masters also preserved later layers of artistic value, reflecting the main stages of construction history. Some ancient parts of the building, for example, promising portals, previously cut down or hewn, could no longer be restored with sufficient convincing, so they were recorded in situ to the extent that they could be documented.

This year, Mosproekt-3, restoration workshop No. 7, developed the first project for the protection zone of the monument “Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the village of Khoroshevo.” The authors of the project were V.Ya. Libson and V. Khaslavskaya. The second project was developed in the year of the NIPI General Plan. The author is architect N. Kuzmina. During the next stage of restoration work in the 1970s and 80s, the side entrances to the quadrangle and the original basement of the building, window openings and upper arches in the gallery were restored. At the same time, the facade masonry and decorations of the refectory and bell tower facades were restored, and the whitewash of the ancient part was restored. The arches of the lower tier and the windows of the upper tier of the southern facade, framed by platbands with triangular sandriks, and the lower and upper arches of the northern facade were restored. Throughout the temples, flanked floors were laid out from slabs of different sizes. After the interfloor ceilings were removed, vaulted ceilings were revealed in the temple.

In the year it was returned to the Church. On Easter, April 30, 1989, the first service took place. For more than 10 years, the temple was restored and improved.

The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was built in 1596-98 in the village of Khoroshevo, which belonged to Tsar Boris Godunov at the end of the 16th century. Here, next to the temple, the royal wooden palace was located, because an important road, the Zvenigorodsky tract, passed through the village. Initially, the temple with two chapels was surrounded by a porch. The free-standing bell tower was built in 1745. In the 1840s, instead of the porch, which was dismantled, an extensive refectory was built, connecting the temple buildings and bell towers into a single complex. The temple belonged to the Palace Department, and therefore craftsmen from the Kremlin Armory worked on its decoration. In the 17th century, the temple gained great popularity: on June 13, 1619, Patriarch Philaret was met here on his way to the capital. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich repeatedly came to services in Khoroshevo. Several surrounding villages were assigned to the temple.

In 1939, the temple was closed and until 1989, when it was returned to the Church, it was used for other purposes. On Easter, April 30, 1989, the first service took place. For more than 10 years, the temple was restored and improved. The temple was consecrated by Patriarch Alexy II on July 5, 1998. In the summer of 2002, the unique decor was restored - ceramic dishes in the central volume, made according to the model of Rhodian faience plates, once given to Boris Godunov by guests from the Ottoman Empire.

Source: stand at the temple gate

The village of Khoroshevo (Khoroshevo) with the stone church in the name of the Holy Trinity located in it at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries. consisted of the Moscow district, Goretov camp, among the estates of the nun Marfa Ivanovna, mother of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich. After this, the village entered the palace department.

In the scribe books of 1631-33. It reads: “the village of Khoroshovo, and in it there is a stone church of the Life-Giving Trinity, a quarter of a field of arable church lands, a quarter of a field, and one and a half dessiatines of hay under the village in Pupkovo.”

Upon his return, Rev. Filaret Nikitich, Metropolitan of Rostov and Yaroslavl from Polish-Lithuanian captivity, by decree of the sovereign, were appointed to meet the metropolitan “at the last camp, in the village of Khoroshov” 1619. On June 13, Rev. Jonah, Metropolitan of Sarsk and Podonsk, Prince Dmitry Timofeevich Trubetskoy and okolnichy Fyodor Leontievich Buturlin; the next day, June 14, Metropolitan Philaret “went from the village of Khoroshova to Moscow.”

At the Trinity Church there was a chapel in the name of St. Nicholas. “On December 5, 1650, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich celebrated St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Khoroshovo, the sovereign listened to vespers and all-night vigil, and the sovereign arrived in Moscow an hour before. On May 20, 1673, on the feast of Metropolitan Alexei, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich deigned to listen to all-night vigil and mass in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the village of Khoroshovo; On Thursday, May 21, the sovereign deigned to go from the village of Khoroshova to Moscow. On December 6, 1675, on the feast of the great saint and wonderworker St. Nicholas, the sovereign listened to the divine liturgy in the village of Khoroshov, and the table meal was in the same village, and after the table meal he deigned to go to the village of Preobrazhenskoye. On December 2, 1676, Emperor Fyodor Alekseevich deigned to go to the Savvin Monastery, the camp was in the village of Khoroshovo. On December 6, on the feast of the Wonderworker Nicholas, the sovereign deigned to listen to the all-night vigil and divine liturgy in the church of St. Nicholas, in the village of Khoroshovo; On December 7, the sovereign deigned to go from the village of Khoroshova to the village of Pavlovskoye and on December 8 to the Savvin Monastery.”

The Church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Khoroshov was subject to tribute; there is an entry about this in the parish book of the Patriarchal Treasury Order on December 14, 1676, by decree of St. patriarch and according to the mark on the discharge of clerk Perfiliy Semenikov, in the sovereign palace village of Khoroshov, tribute 7 altyn 4 money, arrival hryvnia.

The patrol books of 1680 indicate that: “the church land of the Life-Giving Trinity sexton is similar in inspection to the scribe books of 1631 - 33, and according to the tale of that church of priest Gregory, the sexton Petrushka Grigoriev owns the land, and he, priest Gregory, serves that church from the sovereign's salary, and the salary is given to him for a year of 8 rubles. Yes, there is 14 quarters of bread, but he doesn’t have more than the church land that the sexton has, and he doesn’t know of any other empty lands...”

The Trinity Church was among the district ones, the clergy was issued a ruba according to the salary book of 1699. On July 11, 1700, the sovereign, listening to the extracts, indicated: “not to give the priest of that village Khoroshova with the clerics cash and grain rugs and pay them out of the salary, but be content with the parish people, and divide the arable land and hay fields among themselves, which the sexton owned.” At the Trinity Church, in addition to the chapel of St. Nicholas, in 1710 there was a chapel in the name of Fyodor Stratilates.

Kholmogorov V.I., Kholmogorov G.I. “Historical materials for compiling church chronicles of the Moscow diocese.” Issue 3, Zagorodskaya tithe. 1881

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Spring! Finally, real sunny days have arrived, unlike the gloomy winter that has gone away recently. It was unforgivable to miss a good time, and my friends and I went to the Moscow church in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khoroshev, where we had been planning for quite some time. On this day, Trinity-Lykovo was also visited, but now there will be a story about Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khoroshev on Karamyshevskaya embankment, 15. As you probably already noticed from the title photo, we had with us not only a faithful friend flying but also filming - a quadcopter. So there will be not only “earthly” photographs but also “heavenly ones”. And this temple is interesting primarily because it was built by Boris Godunov and arranged his estate in the same place. So, let's get started with inspections, reflections and flights)

The places here are simply amazing, and from a bird’s eye view they are also unusually interesting for the already sophisticated human perception with countless “earthly” photographs from the network. Of course, now all the former Godunov lands have already been built up with modern high-rise buildings.
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The early history of these places is inscribed in documents along with the names of two holy spouses - the holy blessed Grand Duke Demetrius of Donskoy and the holy righteous Euphrosyne (in the world Evdokia), Grand Duchess of Moscow. The first time the area, which was then called “Khodynsky Meadow,” was mentioned in the Spiritual Charter - the will of Grand Duke Dimitri Ioannovich in 1389. By the will of Dimitri Ioannovich Donskoy, the Zvenigorod inheritance “with all the volosts, and with the tamga, and with the land, and with the side, and with the village, and with all the duties” was received by his second son, Prince Yuri Dimitrievich. “Khodynsky meadow” also went to him from the Moscow villages.
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Decades and centuries later, the Grand Dukes and Tsars will stop in Khoroshev on their way to their favorite place of pilgrimage -. And this happened precisely thanks to Prince Yuri Dimitrievich - after all, it was at his request that the disciple of St. Sergius of Radonezh Savva founded the now so famous monastery on Mount Storozhe near Zvenigorod.

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At the turn of the 15th-16th centuries, the new name “Conversations” supplants the previous one from the documents. Researchers note that the Great Zvenigorod Road in those years was less busy and calmer than the nearby Smolensk Road, and it is very obvious that the Grand Dukes assigned their estate the role of a diplomatic residence in which they met and received foreign guests. And in 1572, under Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible, these places changed their name again. The documents mention the palace village of Khoroshevo for the first time.

Under Ivan the Terrible, Khoroshevo, together with Krylatskoye and the village of Tatarovo, the villages of Shchukino, Ostrogino, the Holy Fathers (Vsekhsviatskoye) and the forests stretching around, were included in the palace department. Perhaps even then a wooden palace and temple were built here for the royal needs. According to documents from 1572, Khoroshevo was to be inherited by Tsarevich John Ioannovich. But, as you know, he died tragically. His younger brother, Tsar Feodor Ioannovich, ascended the Moscow throne. Presumably in 1594, Tsar Feodor Ioannovich gave Khoroshevo to his brother-in-law, Boris Godunov, and he began to renovate the estate. Construction of the temple not far from the royal traveling wooden palace began possibly between 1596 and 1597.
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The Dutch merchant Isaac Massa in his book “Brief news about the beginning and origin of modern wars and unrest in Muscovy that occurred before 1610 during a short reign” writes about Boris Godunov: “He had wonderful estates everywhere, and, noticing a good one somewhere land, he tried to acquire it and so bought up many estates; in addition, he had many houses everywhere, including one very beautiful one, a mile from Moscow, called Khoroshevo (Gorossoya), which means beautiful. And it was built on a mountain. near the Moscow River; here he often had fun, often inviting foreign doctors and other similar people to his place, treated them excellently and treated them friendly, without in the least belittling his dignity... " Apparently, at this time the Khoroshevo estate served as a country residence where business and diplomatic meetings took place.
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Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov

The temple was built here in 1598 on the model of the Small Cathedral of the Donskoy Monastery, presumably by Fyodor Kon, and consecrated in the same year in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity. The Piskarevsky chronicler reports the following about the construction of the temple: “In the days of the pious Tsar and Grand Duke Feodor Ivanovich of All Russia ... according to the petition of the boyar Boris Fedorovich Godunov, a stone temple was built in his village in Khoroshovo.” Construction was supposedly completed in the year of Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov’s accession to the throne. In 1650 the chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was mentioned, and in 1710 the chapel of Theodore Stratilates was mentioned. It is known that the king loved his estate very much and spent a lot of time here. Leaving various aspects of the activities of this historical figure in the shadows, it is worth noting his contribution to the formation of the Russian Church, associated with the establishment of the Patriarchate (1589). Even under Tsar Theodore, this was preceded by a very difficult diplomatic mission, undertaken by Godunov.

The image of Boris Feodorovich Godunov can be seen on the western wall of the church, he bows before the throne of the Queen of Heaven, dedicating the temple to the Holy Trinity.
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Fresco by P. Anosov. 1989

The harmonious silhouette of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on the crest of a hill once reigned over the surrounding open space on both sides of the Moscow River. Recognized as a masterpiece of architecture, it belongs to a small but highly visible group of monuments created, perhaps by a single team, in the so-called “Godunov style.” These include the small cathedral of the Donskoy Monastery, the temple in Bolshie Vyazemy, etc.

Initially, the temple was more like three churches, standing close together, with separate entrances and united on the west by a covered walkway, above which a small belfry rose.

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In the 17th century the temple gained great popularity. On June 13, 1619, Patriarch Filaret, who was heading to the capital, was met here. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich repeatedly came to services in Khoroshevo. Several surrounding villages were assigned to the temple.
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Initially, the temple with two chapels was surrounded by a porch. In 1745, a separate bell tower was added.
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The main volume of the temple is single-domed, crowned with several tiers of magnificent kokoshniks. It is flanked on the sides by two symmetrical aisles with similar decor.
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The walls and apses are decorated with thin blades and cornices with complex profiles.
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Inside you can see how the walls are crowned with a complex stepped vault. Its development in Russian architecture can be traced back to the Pskov churches of the 14th century. Voice vessels embedded in the wall are noticeable. Their function is twofold: acoustic, as the name suggests, and structural - they lighten the arch.
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The plastic expressiveness of the building’s silhouette, characteristic of all monuments of the “Godunov” circle, is combined with the exquisite, sophisticated decoration of the facades. The head drums are decorated with light arcature.
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The use of painted dishes (dishes, bowls and jugs) in decorating facades is typical of Balkan and Italian architecture; in Moscow this is perhaps a unique case. The dishes were brought from the city of Iznik (Nicaea, the site of the I and VII Ecumenical Councils in Asia Minor) and were presented personally to Boris Godunov. The decision to use a set of plates as a “spontaneous” one is evidenced by the fact that there simply weren’t enough of them and they were supplemented with tin plates painted to look like ceramics. On the southern façade they are completely absent. By the 20th century, the roof covering was destroyed and covered with a hipped roof. All that has survived of the original ceramics is now kept in the Historical Museum.

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The original narrow windows of the temple were cut out in the 17th century, at which time the open porch was replaced with a bypass gallery. In the middle of the 18th century (1764-1768), the dilapidated belfry was dismantled and a separate bell tower was built, which has survived to this day. During the construction process, the design of the bell tower, carried out by Andreyan Afanasyev, changed greatly: it was made taller and more modest in decoration.

We will walk around the temple clockwise, and also sometimes look at it from a bird's eye view.
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During the Patriotic War of 1812, the village occupied by the French, along with the temple, was plundered. However, church life in the church “with the help of parish people and willing donors” resumed quite soon. On January 27, 1813, the restored St. Nicholas chapel was consecrated, and on June 7 of the same year the main altar was consecrated.
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The decaying buildings of the palace complex were finally eliminated in the 1820s and 30s. According to the general plan, dated from the second half of the 1840s, the site included a fenced territory of the temple, to the west - a compact complex of the Volost Administration with one-story wooden buildings: the main building and outbuildings. To the north-west of the temple, along the red line of the road, there were double one-story wooden peasant houses. The land surveyor, collegiate assessor and gentleman Krasnov took pictures from nature and drew up a plan.
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The Stud Farm complex, located to the northwest of it, apparently should have continued to remain in this place, since in 1835-36 E.D. Tyurin developed the project for the Khoroshevsky horse yard. However, quite soon the territory of the Stud Farm was given over to accommodate artillery warehouses for the summer military camp, located on Khodynskoye Field. From the previous buildings, only the lower part of the tower with the main entrance gate remained.
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The composition of the inhabitants in Konyushennaya Sloboda changed, and it began to be called Soldatskaya, however, as we will see, it did not lose its former name, which periodically appeared in later documents. In 1844, part of Khoroshev was devastated by fire. The half located on the northern side of the Zvenigorod road burned out. Of the three clergy houses that stood across the road opposite the temple, only one has survived, and out of a total of 34 courtyards, 16 have survived.

In the 1840s, instead of the porch, which was dismantled, an extensive refectory was built, connecting the temple buildings and bell towers into a single complex.

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The refectory was extended to the bell tower, for which it was necessary to dismantle the old western part of the temple. In addition, the window openings were increased. The entrance to the temple was now located in the bell tower, to which two porches were added. In the expanded refectory they also built a chapel in honor of the prophet Elijah, apparently in memory of the recent fire.
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By the middle of the 19th century, there were already more than 900 people in the parish of the temple. In 1855, priest Nikanor Andreevich Rumyantsev turned to his superiors with a request to increase the area of ​​the cemetery, which could no longer accommodate all the deceased. The improvement of the temple also continued. In April 1857, a new altar, altar, and iconostasis with icons were installed in the Trinity Church.
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The facade of Trinity Church from the west.
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Some architectural details of the facade of the refectory of the Trinity Church.
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Bell tower of Trinity Church.
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Until 1918, the temple owned 2 acres of 575 square fathoms of estate land, on which there were wooden houses of clergy and a graveyard. The staff of the clergy consisted of a priest, two psalm-readers and a malt-mealer.

The territory of today's Trinity Church.
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And this is an ordinary sandstone bumper, which was usually placed to the right and left of the gate, so that carts and carriages would not run into the side posts and damage them. Apparently he miraculously survived the demolition of buildings on this land.
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By the way, in the tiny Nikolsky chapel of the church, Tsar Boris Godunov attended the winter patronal holiday for several years in a row, coming to the all-night vigil. It is known that the sleigh journey of the royal train from the Kremlin took only an hour. This chapel was constantly decorated during his time. It was the only warm part of the temple: in the corner of the porch, at the level of the current pillars (see Fig. 31), a tiled stove was heated. It must be said that since the middle of the 17th century, all churches, in whole or in part, have already been divided into winter (warm) and summer. Before this, they were practically not heated, including the huge Kremlin cathedrals. Cooling down during the winter, the stone walls remained cool in the summer. The source of heat was breathing and large quantities of burning candles. The most festive clothing was a fur coat.
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There is a reasonable assumption that the windows and semi-arches on the far right at ground level repeat the shape of the 17th century walkways, or that these walkways were partially used in the construction of the refectory (photo above).

The basement of the refectory used to hide the filled-up basement rooms. There was a stove there that heated the floors using an oven system installed in 1886. Its chimney is visible in this old photograph next to the bell tower from the side of the northern aisle of the refectory (see layout in Fig. 31).

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As we can see now, a ventilation pipe most likely comes out of the basement volume next to the northern aisle along the façade.
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In 1922, church valuables were confiscated from the temple, and in 1925 it was robbed three times. On August 5, 1939, the Moscow Regional Committee of the Soviets of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies decided to close the Trinity Church. The property of the temple was partly taken away, partly looted or destroyed. The temple building was first given to a children's clinic, and after the war - to a collective farm club.
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In the 1950s-60s, the church and the adjacent site received the Isocombinat, later the Offset Printing Factory of the Detsky Mir publishing house, after which a significant fenced economic territory of these enterprises with various buildings for administrative and production purposes was formed to the west of the temple. This also included two one-story wooden buildings that survived from the first half of the 20th century.

Research has revealed that building No. 6 (marked with a red arrow in the photo below), a residential building of the turn of the 19th-20th centuries, which includes at the basement level a white-stone vaulted storage room from the late 1590s (the remains of a disappeared palace complex), which has signs of a cultural object heritage. Godunov's Palace was obviously located to the north of this house and was located where the townhouses of the elite residential complex "Godunovo" residential complex are now illegally erected in the protected zone of the river.
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In 1960, the territory of the collective farm, and with it the village of Khoroshevo, became part of Moscow. At the same time, the temple was placed under state protection, as evidenced by special resolution No. 1327 of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR dated August 30, 1960.
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B 1963-1964 odah by specialists of the association “Soyuzrestavratsiya” under the leadership of architect B.L. Altshuller, based on careful field research and study of archival sources, the main, most ancient volumes of the temple were returned to their former appearance. The temple was again decorated with tiers of kokoshniks. The elegant window frames, dilapidated parts of the white stone plinth and cornices, and individual elements of decorative furniture were restored.
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According to the new rules of scientific restoration, the masters also preserved later layers of artistic value, reflecting the main stages of construction history. Some ancient parts of the building, for example, promising portals, previously cut down or hewn, could no longer be restored with sufficient convincing, so they were recorded in situ to the extent that they could be documented.
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In 2005, according to a project developed by architect E.N. Gurova at Alt Project LLC, a two-story stone clergy house with a basement and attic was built.

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The building resembles residential chambers of the 17th century (pictured below), since the compositional design of its facades is based on the stylization of individual forms and decorative details characteristic of pre-Petrine civil architecture. Thus, the southern façade includes a steep external stone staircase. On the ground floor there is now a church shop, which has an independent entrance from the eastern facade, in the basement there is a church sacristy and a warehouse for the church shop.

The floors on which the premises intended for administration and economic services are located are connected by several staircases located in different parts of the building. Representative rooms, such as the front refectory, are distinguished by special decoration. The two adjacent rooms of the Baptismal Church are especially exquisitely decorated, designed in the form of a miniature temple with a large number of wall paintings.

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In 1967, Mosproekt-3 restoration workshop No. 7 developed the first project for the protection zone of the monument “Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the village of Khoroshevo”. The authors of the project were V.Ya. Libson and V. Khaslavskaya. The second project was developed in 1977 by NIPI General Plan. The author is architect N. Kuzmina. During the next stage of restoration work in the 1970s and 80s, the side entrance to the quadrangle and the original basement of the building, window openings and upper arches in the gallery were restored. At the same time, the facade masonry and decorations of the refectory and bell tower facades were restored, and the whitewash of the ancient part was restored. The arches of the lower tier and the windows of the upper tier of the southern facade, framed by platbands with triangular sandriks, and the lower and upper arches of the northern facade were also restored. Throughout the temple, flanked floors were laid out from slabs of different sizes. After the interfloor ceilings were removed, vaulted ceilings were revealed in the temple.
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By the time the temple was returned to believers in 1989, of all the interior paintings, only a fragment of the oil composition “Crucifixion” in the altar part of the left side chapel had survived. It was decided to re-paint the vaults and walls, which was done by the monumental artist P. Anosov in the traditions of ancient Russian fresco painting. The temple was returned to the Church on Easter, and on April 30, 1989, the first service took place. For more than 10 years, the temple was restored and improved.
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In 1993, several dozen old and new icons, collected with great difficulty, were stolen from the temple.
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The weather was absolutely perfect this weekend. Warm almost summer light breeze, blue sky, this amazingly exquisite “living” church. The peace and enjoyment of the coming spring was complete and comprehensive. We didn’t want to leave, but Trinity-Lykovo was waiting for us.
I recommend everyone to visit here, where, as V. Dal once said, “It’s good, it’s good, but it’s not ours, it’s Tsarevo”)

I thank my friend archaeologist Igor Boytsov durasik for organizing this research and an easy but eventful sunny spring trip.

Telephone:(499) 197-30-29, (916) 158-40-62 Address: Moscow, Karamyshevskaya embankment, 15 Nearest metro: Polezhaevskaya, Shchukinskaya, Oktyabrskoye Pole, Sokol Directions: metro station "Polezhaevskaya", bus. 48, 155, troll. 20, 21, 35, 44, 59, 65, rest. to the stop st. Picturesque, crossing to the opposite side of the highway via an UNDERGROUND PASSAGE(!). Art. metro station "Shchukinskaya", tr. 28, 28 to the final stop. Art. metro station "Oktyabrskoe Pole", station. Sokol metro station, troll. 59 to the final stop Clergy: The rector of the church is Archbishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, Archpriest Sergiy Zvonarev, Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk, Priest Igor Nerodyuk, Priest Mikhail Prokopenko, Priest Alexander Vasyutin, Priest Vitaly Bespalko, priests Georgy Sergeev, Priest Oleg Yanshin, Deacon Konstantin Stepanov, Deacon Andrey Shumkin , Deacon Sergius Kalashnikov.

Built in 1598 by order of Boris Godunov in his estate, the village of Khoroshevo, based on the model of the Small Cathedral of the Donskoy Monastery, presumably by Fyodor Kon. The refectory and bell tower are from the 19th century.

Located in the Khoroshevo-Mnevniki area (Karamyshevskaya embankment, 15).

The external decor of the temple combines the splendor of kokoshniks under the central and side domes and the apparent modesty of the facades and apses. But if you look closely, you can see how elegantly and skillfully this simplicity is achieved: the apses are divided by pilasters, and the cornices are stepped, in several tiers.

Initially, the windows were much narrower: they were cleared out in the 17th century, at the same time that the open porch was replaced with a gallery. In the middle of the 18th century (1764-1768), the dilapidated belfry was dismantled and a separate bell tower was built, which has survived to this day. During the construction process, the design of the bell tower, carried out by Andreyan Afanasyev, changed greatly: it was made taller and more modest in decoration. A little less than a hundred years later, in 1845, the western part of the gallery was dismantled and a new refectory was built, connecting the church with the bell tower. According to some evidence, by that time the kokoshniks had already been hidden under a simple hipped iron roof, which was more practical, but could not be compared with the “fiery” hat of the kokoshniks.

In August 1939 it was closed and given over to a collective farm club, then to a children's clinic. In 1963-1964. under the leadership of the architect B.L. Altshuller, it was examined and restored, returning at least partially its original appearance, with some exceptions, such as perspective portals cut off during reconstruction, which were not possible to restore in their previous form. The refectory and bell tower were not affected by the restoration. They housed the workshop of an offset printing factory. Only in the 1990s. the church was completely handed over to the believers.

Since January 26, 2000, the rector is Mark (Golovkov), now Archbishop of Yegoryevsk, vicar of the Moscow diocese.

Temple clergy - Employees of the synodal departments of the Russian Orthodox Church in holy orders.

The shrine of the temple is a particularly revered icon of the Mother of God Georgian.

Church of the Life-Giving Trinity located in one of the districts of the capital, in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki. It was built by order of Boris Godunov, who has an estate here, and Fyodor Kon is considered the architect of the church. In Soviet times, the temple was closed, but today it has been restored - the building has been returned to its original austere beauty. It is worth visiting here not only for believers, but also for those who are interested in Russian church architecture.

Where is the temple

How to get to the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity

This can be done either by taxi or your own car, or using public transport.

• The most convenient way is to get to the Shchukinskaya metro station, then take tram No. 30 or 28. You should get off at the final tram stop.
• Trolleybus No. 59, which can be boarded at the Sokol or Oktyabrskoye Pole metro stations, also needs to get to the terminus.
• If it is more convenient for you to get there from the Polezhaevskaya metro station, then take trolleybuses No. 86, 20, 65, 21, 35 or buses No. 155, 48. You need to get off at the Zhivopisnaya Street stop, then cross the underground passage to the other side of the highway.

Visiting the temple, its opening hours

You can visit this church every day, since services are held here every day. Please note that the temple is active, so you should remain quiet here and turn off your mobile phones while inside.

Important! Filming and photographing the temple is not permitted. Women must visit the temple in skirts or dresses that cover the knees, with covered shoulders, in hats, and without makeup (especially lipstick). Men should remove their hats. You cannot enter the temple bare-chested or wearing shorts.

If you decide to visit this temple, be sure to pay attention to its iconostasis, in which there are many images dating from the 18th-19th centuries: several icons of the Savior Pantocrator, the Savior Not Made by Hands, lists of the Kazan, Tikhvin, Vladimir icons of the Mother of God, the Three-Handed One, the Burning Bush. Also preserved here are relics from Jerusalem - a cross made of mother-of-pearl, part of a Moorish oak. There are also several silver crucifixes dating back to the 19th century.
It is worth paying attention to the elegant temple architecture, which combines the luxury of kokoshniks and rather modest apses and facades.

Did you know? Some researchers are sure that initially the three churches stood separately from each other, connected by a closed walkway.

Schedule of services at the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khoroshevo

If you decide to visit the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khoroshevo-Mnevniki during Lent, please note that the schedule of services is shifted - the morning service begins not at 8.30, but at 8.00 (on weekdays).

History of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity

1. The history of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity began at the end of the 16th century, when in the village of Khoroshevo (previously this area was called Khodynka Meadow), which was donated to Boris Godunov by his brother, Fyodor Ioannovich, they began to build a stone cathedral. Its architect is considered to be Fyodor Kon (a master famous for the construction of the White Wall in Moscow and the fortress in Smolensk), but there is no exact documentary data confirming this fact. It is noteworthy that the temple is very similar to the small (“old”) cathedral of the Donskoy Monastery, the authorship of which is also attributed to Kon.
2. The village itself attracted many Russian rulers - in addition to the temple, a palace and a stud farm were built here in the 18th century. However, today the church is one of the attractions of this area (later Khoroshevo merged with the capital). They placed it on the river bank, on a high slope - it is believed that the previous temple, which was wooden, was located in the same place.
3. Initially, the building was brick, had two aisles, and galleries were added to it later. The head of the temple is installed on a five-row pyramid of kokoshniks (such buildings were called “fiery”), and the two lower rows were decorated with round inserts - researchers believe that these were dishes that ambassadors and foreign merchants gave to Boris Godunov. In Soviet times, these dishes were transferred to the capital's Historical Museum.
4. Like many other churches, Trinity Church was closed with the advent of Soviet power - there were factory workshops, a children's clinic, and a club, which could not but affect the appearance of the building. It was partially restored only in the sixties, and three decades later it was returned to believers.

Photo of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity

• The church looks very cozy and picturesque.
  
• From above, the five rows of kokoshniks on which the head is installed are especially clearly visible.
  
• During restoration work, the temple was returned to its historical appearance.
  
• The bell tower next to the church was also restored.
  
• At night, the temple looks mysterious and majestic.
  
• Today, services are held daily in the renovated church.
  
• Many residents of Khoroshevo became parishioners of this church.
  

Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khoroshevo in an interesting video story

The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, which was built at the behest of Boris Godunov, survived many troubled years, looting, and fires, but today its beauty has been restored, restoring its historical appearance. Enjoy watching!