St. Michael's Monastery - one of the oldest monasteries in Kiev. Includes destroyed in 1930 and re- built in the mid -1990s, the cathedral church of the Archangel Michael in the style of Ukrainian ( mazepinskogo ) Baroque , as well as the refectory of St. John the Evangelist Church (1713) and bell tower ( 1716-1719 ).
It is assumed that Michael's Cathedral was the first temple with a gilded top, where Russia has gone on this tradition of originality .
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Tradition ascribes the first foundation of the monastery of Kiev , Metropolitan Michael.
The first church of the Archangel Michael was commissioned in 1108 by Prince Svyatopolk Izyaslavovichem place Demetrius Monastery , built by his father supposedly - Izyaslav I ( Demetrius in Baptism ).
Erected in 1108-1113 's St. Michael's cathedral was of particular importance to Kiev because he was dedicated to the Archangel Michael - the heavenly patron of Kiev. In the XII century the monastery was the burial place of princes.
It is assumed that the church was then established and the monastery.From the ancient church is known as pores Michael's probably because it was only at that time the church with a gilded top. At the time of legends, Svatopluk and transfer to Kiev from Constantinople in 1108 the main sanctuary of Michael's Monastery, the relics of Saint Barbara .
of time capture of Kiev and Baty during an attack on Kiev Crimean Khan Mengli I Giray in 1482, Michael's monastery was badly damaged . Polish kings give him the credentials to free choice of abbots and independence from the governor and the Metropolitan. In the XVI century the monastery was one of the richest monasteries in Kiev .In 1612, Sigismund III gave the Golden-domed Monastery Uniates , but actually take possession of any monastery, nor even , apparently , the monastic estates, Uniates failed. Perhaps this monastery is obliged to support the Cossacks, by which in 1620 mikhailovsky Superior Job Boretsky was ordained Metropolitan .Job remained in the gold-domed monastery , which gained importance during the metropolitan 's residence .
With the addition of Kiev to Muscovy , Michael's monastery lost much of their estates , which lay in the areas remaining for Rzeczpospolita , and on the other hand hetmans , and generously gave the Cossack monastery possessions in the levobepezhnoy Ukraine. Many were purchased by the monastery lands and purchase.In 1800, the Golden-domed Monastery of the bishops appointed to stay Chigirinsky, Vicar of the Kyiv epapxii .Ancient church Svatopluk is now the middle of the main monastery church , from her altar apse survived , the walls , to a certain height and the main dome , also preserved a few ancient mosaic image , and in 1888 opened the ancient frescoes.
In the XVII century in the vicinity of the male gold-domed monastery was Michael's and St. Michael's Women's , moved in 1712 to hem .
St. Michael's monastery belonged to the monastery of Theophany , which is based near Kiev in 1861.
Demolition of the cathedral took place in 1934-1936 , respectively; relics Barbara had moved to the St. Vladimir's Cathedral . In 1934-35 years preserved mosaics were removed on the new foundation and moved to St. Sophia Cathedral ( restovratorov group led by V. Frolov) .For the mosaic \Dlya mozaiki \u0026laquo;Yevharistiya\u0026raquo; v vystavochnom zale Sofiĭskogo sobora postroili spetsialʹnuyu stenu, po forme povtoryayushchuyu absidu Mihaĭlovskogo sobora.Takzhe byli snyaty i pereneseny v muzyei Leningrada (Ermitazh), Moskvy (Tretʹyakovskaya galeryeya) i Kieva (Sofiĭskiĭ sobor) nekotorye freski.
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