Conversations Church of the Nativity schedule. Church of the Nativity of Christ. village of Besedy. Moscow region

Chapels: prophet. Elijah, the Protection of the Mother of God, the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow.”

After the victory in the Battle of Kulikovo, Prince Dimitry Donskoy ordered to build a church in honor of the Nativity of Christ on the site of the “conversation” (the military council at which the battle plan was drawn up). The stone church in honor of the Nativity of Christ was built in Besedy in 1598-1599. Godunov. The temple is similar to the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye. Its brick hipped roof, decorated with towers and barrels, is crowned with a small dome and an eight-pointed gilded cross on a crescent. The white stone for the construction was delivered from the nearby Myachkovskaya quarry. Initially, the base of the temple building was surrounded by a stone open porch with one rear entrance, above which a hipped belfry rose. This extensive porch connected the small attached two chapels, which were consecrated in the name of the Great Martyr Theodore Stratilates, the heavenly patron of Tsar Theodore, and the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica, the patron saint of Dmitry Godunov, the owner of the Conversations. The third chapel, in the basement of the church, was consecrated in the name of St. Theodosia.

In 1646 Besedy became a palace village. In 1765, Catherine II granted it to Count Alexei Grigorievich Orlov-Chesmensky. In 1815, the old stone porch around the temple was dismantled, and a small chapel was built on the south side in the name of the holy prophet Elijah. In 1820, a more extensive northern chapel was built in honor of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary and a three-tiered tented bell tower was erected.

In the 1930s the temple was closed and its lower room, where the church and the vast area adjacent to it were located, was turned into a vegetable storehouse.

In 1943, the Church of the Nativity of Christ was transferred to the use of believers. Recently, by the efforts of the parishioners, the church was restored, and in the lower part of the church a throne was consecrated in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow.” At the same time, a training class was created at the Sorrow Church. A chapel was built at the healing spring in the name of the prophet Elijah.

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More than six centuries have passed since the construction of the wooden church on Besedino Hill and more than four hundred years since the completion of the stone temple consecrated in honor of the Nativity of Christ. After the death of Boris Godunov and the subsequent disgrace of his entire family, Besedy languished without an owner for several years. Only with the end of the Time of Troubles and the accession of the Romanovs to the Russian throne, namely in 1623, a record appears in the scribe books of the Moscow district that the Besedskaya estate was granted to Prince Dmitry Timofeevich Trubetskoy. The same Trubetskoy who, together with Dmitry Pozharsky, led the militia army that liberated Moscow from the Poles. In the scribe book from 1623 it is written: “... the boyar Prince Dmitry Timofeevich Trubetskoy for Princess Anna Vasilievna,” who live “in the patrimony, the village of Besedy on the river in Moscow, and in the village there is a stone church of the Nativity of Christ and the chapel of Demetrius of Thessaloniki, and Fyodor Stratelates, and the Venerable Theodosius..." The clerk also mentions the "patrimonial building" in which people live - "his servants and grooms", there is also a "cattle yard, and a shepherd lives in it, in the yard is the clerk Nagai Smagin." Two years later, Conversations in another scribe’s book are already mentioned as “the patrimony of Princess Anna Vasilievna, the wife of the boyar Prince Dmitry Timofeevich Trubetskoy.” And this means that by that time the prince himself had passed on to another world - he died in the summer of 1625 in Tobolsk. History, alas, is silent about the contribution of the honored commander to the arrangement of the Beseda estate and the temple.

In 1646, in one of the documents, the Besedskaya estate was mentioned among the palace estates, that is, it already belonged to the court of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov. And a famous researcher of antiquity, who lived in the first half of the 19th century, writes about that period as follows: “Once upon a time there was a Tsar’s place here. Judging by the previous structure of this village and by the contributions to this temple of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, this Sovereign, his ancestors and descendants loved and visited Conversations, which provided them with freedom for recreation and hunting...” This quote is taken from the book of the famous historian, ethnographer and art critic Ivan Snegirev “Russian Antiquity in the Monuments of Church and Civil Architecture.” One of the chapters of the book is entirely devoted to the temple in Besedy. What are these contributions of the king that the author is talking about? “Two service books testify to the zeal for this temple of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich,” Snegirev tells us. “This is: “The Altar Gospel, printed in Moscow in 1658.” Snegirev also reports much more, for example, this detail: “On the altar cross , there is the following inscription: The Church of the Nativity of Christ was consecrated in the summer of 7161 (1653 according to the modern calendar) under the power of the Blessed and Christ-loving Sovereign of our Tsar and Grand Duke Alexei Mikhailovich of All Russia Autocrat, under His Holiness Patriarch Nikon of Moscow and All Rus', the church was consecrated by Archpriest Makei of the village of Kolomenskoye May on the 8th day..." On two large boards, icon painters painted the faces of the namesake saints of the family of Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov: "St. Alexius, man of God and Mary of Egypt, St. Theodore Stratelates and St. martyrs Irina and Sofia." These faces, according to Snegirev, resembled the tsar and his first wife Maria Miloslavskaya, as well as their children - Tsarevich Fyodor, Princess Sophia and Grand Duchess Irina Mikhailovna and were painted in an "old-fashioned manner." Further, Ivan Snegirev writes: " Time and fires destroyed the Tsar's economic establishment; The only monument left from the previous way of life is an ancient stone church..."

An imperial decree dated February 23, 1767 has survived to this day. According to him, Count Alexey Grigorievich Orlov becomes the owner of these places. Orlov, however, preferred St. Petersburg to Moscow and practically never visited Besedy. In 1807, Count Orlov-Chesmensky died, and the Bedinsky estates were inherited by his daughter Anna, “the maid of honor of the Court of His Imperial Majesty.” After the Patriotic War of 1812, 3 years later, in 1815, a small chapel in the name of the Prophet Elijah was added to the southern side of the temple, and in 1820 - a northern chapel in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and a three-tiered bell tower, crowned with the same temple, octagonal tent. Anna Alekseevna sells the estate in Besedy to the state for 1,400,000 rubles. According to the observations of Ivan Snegirev, by the middle of the 19th century, traces of antiquities were still preserved inside the temple. But the walls whitened with lime had already hidden the former paintings, and from above the temple was illuminated by three windows “which previously had mica windows.” The windows facing north and south are “now blocked up.” Snegirev further reports that “the altar iconostasis is not older than the 18th century, with four belts,” although “before there were only two.” The icons in the iconostasis are old, “of which there are ancient local Greek-style icons, in copper frames, but not excellent in art: the Savior, Hodegetria the Mother of God, the temple Nativity of Christ and St. Nicholas of Mozhaisk with miracles...” At the end of the 19th century, the church was painted in themes of gospel history in a classical style. Actually, during these years the temple acquired the appearance that we see today. To this day, ancient icons of the 18th century in gilded frames have been preserved in the temple: this is the icon of the Nativity of Christ, as well as St. Nicholas the Wonderworker with the Life.

In the 1930s, the Soviet authorities closed the Church of the Nativity of Christ to parishioners and equipped it with a vegetable storage facility. But unlike most other Russian churches, Besedinsky was lucky - at the height of the Great Patriotic War, namely, in 1943, it was returned to the believers. Since then, liturgical life here has not stopped. The current appearance of the Church of the Nativity of Christ was formed at the beginning of the 19th century, when two large chapels and a bell tower were added to the main volume of the building, which was a pillarless quadrangle on a high round basement, on which stood a brick octagon with a hipped roof. Even earlier, around the 18th century, three apses were added to the quadrangle. In the 1980s, a church with a throne was built in the basement, consecrated in the name of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow,” which has a separate entrance.

The church building is elongated along an east-west axis and appears to be two-story due to the basement windows. The northern part, where the refectory and the chapel of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos are located, is larger than the southern part with the chapel in the name of the Prophet Elijah, so there is a slight asymmetry in the plan. The octagon of the central part ends with a tent topped with a small octagonal blind drum, decorated with a row of semicircular kokoshniks, and an onion with an eight-pointed gilded cross on a crescent. The transition from the quadruple to the octagon is decorated with two rows of semicircular kokoshniks, above the level of which trumpets are raised. Smaller kokoshniks cover the edges of the octagon. The walls of the octagon are decorated with square panels, three of them have windows. The northern and southern aisles have their own miniature domes, installed directly on the roof and made in the style of the dome on the hipped end of an octagon, only they are painted blue and decorated with golden stars. The three-tier bell tower was built in the style of late classicism. The tent that completes it is made similarly to the completion of the temple, only in a smaller form, this creates an overall harmonious, slender silhouette. The transition from the third tier of the bell tower to the hipped roof is marked by pinnacles - decorative turrets, often crowned with a decoration in the form of a stylized flower, the so-called vial. A very common detail in Romanesque and Gothic architecture, pinnacles were placed mainly at the top of buttresses, also on the ledges of buttresses and towers, on ridges and pillars of walls. The first and second tiers of the bell tower are completed with classic triangular pediments on all four sides. On the second tier there is a belfry, three new bells of which were cast with donations from church parishioners. The ceremonial consecration of the bells took place on July 9, 2006. The rite of consecration was performed by Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsky and Kolomna. One of the main architectural elements of the church is kokoshniks. Two rows of large semicircular kokoshniks serve as a kind of border between the four and eight. Smaller kokoshniks hide the edges of the octagon, making it round. The snow-white apses are decorated with semi-columns and blue window cornices. The original stone church had one apse; it seems that it was dismantled along with the old aisles and porch.

In the early 2000s, next to the temple in a ravine, on the site of a holy spring, a brick overhang chapel, consecrated in the name of the holy prophet Elijah, and a bathhouse were built. Entering the church and climbing the steep stairs, you find yourself in a spacious refectory. On its vaults there is a luxurious multi-figure composition dedicated to the Holy Trinity: against the background of the blue sky there are clouds on which sits God the Father, Host Jesus Christ, and above them a dove - the Holy Spirit. Around, also on the clouds, saints are depicted. Here is the Mother of God with the apostles and evangelists, the archangels, the prophet and baptist St. John the Baptist surrounded by prophets, saints, saints, cherubs... Numerous icons and wall frescoes depict the faces of saints, as well as scenes from biblical scenes. The paintings on the walls complement the ornaments and friezes. In the central part of the temple there is the same quadrangle, built several centuries ago. If you stand in the center, you will find yourself directly under the dome and “face to face” with the main iconostasis. In 1988, as a result of a fire, the chapels in honor of the Intercession of the Mother of God and in the name of the Prophet Elijah were seriously damaged. After a major overhaul, the artists updated the paintings on the walls and ceilings, and built a new iconostasis in the Ilyinsky chapel. Even earlier, the basement of the temple was completely renovated. During the Great Patriotic War, a vegetable storage facility was located here, and only in 1979, with the help of parishioners and the rector, Archpriest Vasily (Izyumsky), the premises were cleaned and a church was built here in honor of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow.” Today the Besedsky Church has four altars, and in the main altar there still stands an ancient stone altar, which is more than four hundred years old.

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At this place, where the village is located. Conversations, according to legend, the Grand Duke. Dimitri Donskoy gathered his army and held a military council before going to battle with Mamai. This explains the name of the village - Besedy. In the XVI-XVII centuries. Besedye was the “sovereign palace village”, where there was a palace and a number of outbuildings. Only the church, built at the beginning of the 16th century, has survived from the ancient buildings. under Ivan the Terrible (according to other sources - in 1599 under the Godunovs).

The stone church in honor of the Nativity of Christ with a hipped roof, decorated with towers and barrels, is very close in architecture to the Church of the Ascension in Kolomenskoye. Initially, the church was surrounded by a stone open porch with one rear entrance, above which a hipped belfry rose. This porch was connected to two chapels: in the name of the Great Martyr. Theodore Stratelates and the Great Martyr. Demetrius of Thessalonica. The third chapel, in the basement of the church, was consecrated in the name of St. Feodosia.

In 1765, Catherine II granted the village to gr. Alexey Grigorievich Orlov-Chesmensky. In 1815, the old stone porch around the temple was dismantled, and a chapel in the name of the prophet Elijah was built on the south side. In 1820, an extensive northern chapel was added to the temple in honor of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary and a three-tier bell tower was built.

In the 1930s The temple was closed and converted into a vegetable storehouse. In 1943 it was handed over to believers.

Currently, the temple has been restored at the expense of parishioners, and a throne in its lower part has been consecrated in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow.” At the temple there is the holy Elijah spring, over which a chapel was built in the name of the prophet Elijah.

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The village of Besedy, turn to the temple

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The village of Besedy stands on the right bank of the Moscow River at the intersection of Lyublinskaya Street and the Moscow Ring Road and is part of the Razvilkovsky rural settlement of the Leninsky district of the Moscow region. The Pearl of Conversations is the ancient Church of the Nativity of Christ.
The village of Besedy, located on the right bank of the river. Moscow, known since the 14th century. The Church of the Nativity was built in the 1590s, when the village belonged to D.I. Godunov, at his expense. For many years the village was a palace property, and in 1765, by decree of Catherine II, it was granted to Count Alexei Orlov. The reconstruction of the church was carried out at the expense of A.A. Orlova.
According to legend, before the Battle of Kulikovo, Prince Dmitry Donskoy received news that a huge army of Khan Mamai was approaching Moscow, after which he decided to gather a military council on the banks of the Moscow River, as they said then - “gather a conversation.” On that day, the princes and governors who gathered here chose a plan for the upcoming battle, and in the fall of 1380 they inflicted a complete defeat on the enemy, defeating the khan's hordes. Returning to Moscow, Dmitry Donskoy ordered, in the place where he held a “conversation” in the spring, to erect, in thanksgiving to God for the victory, the Church of the Nativity of Christ with the chapels of Demetrius of Thessalonica, Fyodor Stratelates and St. Feodosia. And it was from then on that the name “Conversations” stuck to the village.
The church was built at the expense of the boyar Dmitry Godunov, and there were later reconstructions and additions to it. The tented temple was originally built in the form of a pillarless white-stone quadrangle on a high basement in which a chapel was located. On the quadrangle there is a brick octagon, topped with an octagonal tent with a small dome. An open porch surrounded him. The transition from four to eight is hidden by rows of kokoshniks. Only the central part has survived from the original building. In the 19th century, the church was extensively rebuilt, the porch was dismantled, and in its place the current refectory with a large chapel and a two-tier hipped bell tower was built. During the reconstruction, the portals of the temple were cut down and the narrow windows were widened.
The temple was closed by the Bolsheviks in the 1930s, after which a vegetable storehouse was built in the lower room. Reopened in 1943. and was no longer closed, thanks to which two ancient iconostases were preserved. The side chapels are Pokrovsky and Ilyinsky, in the basement there is the Skorbyashchensky chapel. On the territory of the temple in 2004, a small red-brick water-blessed chapel was built in the name of the prophet of God Elijah. Next to the temple there is an old overgrown pond with St. source on the shore.

View of the Church of the Nativity from the Moscow River





An old pond with a holy spring not far from the temple

View of the temple from the sand embankment Viko-S LLC

View of the Church of the Nativity from afar, from the bridge over the Moscow River. The palace on the right is a new hotel for migrants

The village of Besedy, turn to the temple


Next to the temple, at the healing spring, a baptismal water chapel was built in the name of St. prophet of God Elijah
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