Church of the Holy Blessed Tsarevich Dimitri at the First City Hospital (Moscow)

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Russia, Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 8k12

Moscow

Russia

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Church of the Holy Blessed Tsarevich Dimitri at the First City Hospital

built at the end of the 18th century together with the hospital and consecrated on September 22, 1801 in honor of Tsarevich Demetrius, the saint whose name was borne by the founder of the hospital D.M. Golitsyn.

History[[edit]h2>

The temple in the First City Hospital of Moscow has existed for more than 200 years. It was built at the end of the 18th century along with the hospital and consecrated on September 22, 1801 in honor of Tsarevich Demetrius, the saint whose name was borne by the founder of the hospital D.M. Golitsyn. Before its closure under Soviet rule, the hospital church helped many thousands of sufferers. Donations from pious people have always been of great importance to the temple.

In 1990, the Church of the Holy Right-Believing Tsarevich Demetrius at the First City Hospital of Moscow, on the initiative of the hospital administration, was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. On November 22, His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' re-consecrated it.

They began to strive for the opening of a hospital church with the blessing of the great elder priest and confessor Father Pavel (Troitsky) in the spring of 1990. Father Paul knew the will of God and revealed it in written answers to questions. At the end of May 1990, for the first time after years of persecution of the Church, a priest came to the neurological department of the hospital - Archpriest. Arkady Shatov. The number of patients who wanted to receive communion exceeded all expectations.

In the summer of 1990, the first volunteer nurses came to help in the hospital departments.

On July 7, 1990, Mother Archpriest died after a serious illness. Arcadia Sofia. A few weeks before her death, she said: “If I die, the temple will be given away.” Her prayerful intercession was confirmed in his letter received on December 3, 1990, shortly after the consecration of the temple, Fr. Pavel (Troitsky). He wrote about. Arkady: “Congratulations, my dear Father! You have now received everything your soul desired! The church at the hospital was consecrated by the Patriarch, the service is underway. ...I am very happy for you that you really wanted it and everything turned out this way. It’s all Sonyushka interceding for you.”

Agrippina Nikolaevna Istnyuk (Kutomkina) (†10.15.1992), a former cell attendant of Fr., managed to visit the hospital church several times. Pavel and Fr. Vsevolod Shpiller. Agrippina Nikolaevna, who graduated from the school of the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent, knew the priest. Grand Duchess Elizabeth and many other martyrs, confessors and ascetics of piety, was the connecting link between the famous monastery of labor and mercy and the still fledgling emerging community.

Through the prayers of our dear departed - Father Paul, Agrippina Nikolaevna, Mother Sophia - the Lord has mercy on the hospital church, its parishioners, the sisterhood and the School of Sisters of Mercy and covers the mistakes and infirmities of those who work here.

The hospital church, the first in modern Russia, became a kind of center where believers who had anything to do with medicine began to flock: Orthodox doctors, nurses and those simply wanting to work hard, helping the sick and suffering. Thanks to the help of many benefactors and trustees, it became possible to restore the temple and repair the adjacent premises. Now on Sunday evenings in the hospital church of St. blgv. Tsarevich Dimitri, prayers are served for the health of the sick and those working in the hospital.

The main help of the temple to the hospital is the opportunity to provide spiritual consolation to the sick. Almost every day, clergy come to the hospital at the request of patients and their relatives. They confess and give communion to the seriously ill and dying, talk with the sick, and console their relatives. At a crisis moment in human life, the need for prayer and the grace of church sacraments increases. After the return of the temple and the resumption of services in the hospital, more than 35 thousand patients received communion here, many for the first time in their lives.

Exile Bell

Immediately after the death of the prince, they began to beat him, calling on people to reprisal the alleged murderers. For this, the authorities treated the bell as if it were alive - they deprived it of the cross, cut off its tongue, flogged it and sent it into exile in Tobolsk. The Tobolsk governor wrote him down in his book as follows: “the first inanimate exile from Uglich.” The bell was hung in the market square, where it chimed the hours. For three hundred years the bell was in exile in Tobolsk. After the order of Emperor Alexander III in 1892, the bell was returned to Uglich. Now it is inside the temple.

Current state[[edit]h2>

Ascribed temples:

• Temple of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Sign” at 1st State Clinical Hospital (named after Pirogov)
• Temple of the Icon of the Mother of God “Merciful” at the Morozov Hospital
• Church of the Holy Confessor Archbishop Luke at the Scientific Center named after. A.N. Bakuleva
• Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital
• House Church of the Martyr Elizabeth at the 1st City Clinical Hospital (named after Pirogov)
• House Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Kazan” at the Orphanage for disabled children No. 15
• House church in the name of the martyrs Vera, Nadezhda, Lyubov and their mother Sophia at the St. Sophia orphanage
• House Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov at the St. Demetrius Orphanage
• The home church of the passion-bearer Tsarevich Alexy at Psychoneurological boarding school No. 11
• The home church of St. Spyridon of Trimifuntsky at the St. Spyridonian almshouse
• Home Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Voskresensky

The mysterious death of Tsarevich Dmitry in Uglich: fate and legends

The death of Tsarevich Dmitry is still one of the historical mysteries. Was Dmitry killed as a result of intrigue or was his death an accident? There are several versions, but scientists do not come to a consensus. Tsarevich Dmitry, who died on May 15, 1591, was the son of Ivan the Terrible. With the death of the heir to the throne, the Rurik dynasty was interrupted and the Romanov dynasty began. And for Rus' the Time of Troubles came. The undisclosed circumstances of the death led to the emergence of several False Dmitrys, supposedly miraculously saved heirs. Tsarevich Dmitry did not even live 9 years. However, his short life influenced the fate of Russia and almost led to the collapse of an independent power. He was found with his throat cut in the yard where he had gone for a walk. Later, a temple was erected on this terrible place, in the altar of which the place where the prince was found was marked. There is a legend that every year on the day of his death, blood flowed at this place.

The official version, voiced by the chairman of the commission, Vasily Shuisky, stated that the young prince injured himself during an epileptic attack. However, his mother Maria Nagaya claimed that the prince died at the hands of villains sent by Boris Godunov.

Tsarevich Dmitry was considered illegitimate and could not lay claim to the throne. His mother, Maria Nagaya, was the eighth wife of Ivan the Terrible, but the church did not recognize this marriage as legal. After the death of his father, Fyodor Ivanovich ascended the throne, who sent his stepmother and brother to the city of Uglich. Dmitry Ivanovich was proclaimed an appanage prince, but his rights to rule were greatly limited.

Information about the prince himself is contradictory. In some descriptions he is presented as an angel, while in others he is cruel and hot-tempered, an exact copy of his father in his younger years. Fyodor Ivanovich was sickly and weak, he had no children, so the Nagikh family counted on Dmitry’s possible ascension to the throne.

The desire to rule the country does not leave Boris Godunov, the brother-in-law of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich and boyar Vasily Shuisky, who later, as a result of intrigues towards his opponent, will nevertheless ascend to the throne. It was he who, in order to rid the country of the False Dmitrys and maintain power, ordered the relics of Tsarevich Dmitry to be transported to Moscow to the Archangel Cathedral. For this purpose, brocade-covered stretchers and reliquaries were used, which are still kept in the Uglich temple. The relics turned out to be incorrupt and the prince was proclaimed a saint.

Activities of the parish[[edit]h2>

The Temple of Tsarevich Dimitri is a co-founder and oversees several educational projects. Some of them have already become independent organizations, without ceasing to maintain contact with the temple community. Among them:

• St. Demetrius School of Sisters of Mercy
• Orthodox St. Dimitrievskaya School (ANO Secondary School "Dimitrievskaya")
• Sunday School
• Volunteer service "Mercy"
• Catechetical courses
• Mission trips
• Camps
• St. Demetrius Brotherhood
• Help service for large families
• Charity fairs
• Lectures
• Concerts
• Department of Social and Youth Work of PSTGU

History and photo of the Church of Tsarevich Demetrius on Blood

The Church of Tsarevich Dmitry on Blood was erected in 1692. Its construction lasted 15 years. This is the second oldest building on the territory of the Uglich Kremlin . Initially, on the site of the mysterious death of Tsarevich Dmitry, the last son of Ivan the Terrible, a small bell tower was erected, and later a wooden church. But wood is not an eternal material, but the stone temple managed to survive to this day. Until now, this church reminds us of those bloody events that occurred many centuries ago.

Externally, the church looks very elegant - red brick combined with white inserts and five blue domes with gold stars and crosses. She is visible from afar. The church was built in the Moscow style, characteristic of buildings of the 17th century. It is shaped like a ship: on one side there is an altar apse, and on the other there is a refectory and a vestibule with a porch and a hipped bell tower.

Once inside the temple, pay attention to the interior paintings. Its plot is based on the story of the death of the prince. The artist managed to reproduce the tragic events step by step. So the prince went out for a walk, then his death occurred, and then there was an uprising of the people. An unusual artistic composition is presented in the refectory - completely naked Adam and Eve. It is not often that such scenes can be seen in an Orthodox place. For that time, this painting was generally a bold decision.

The forged doors of the refectory and the gilded iconostasis from 1867 have been preserved to this day. Among the surviving icons:

• Face of the Mother of God of Smolensk,
• Rare icon of the Temperant Savior (was painted in 1692 by Bilindin),
• Temple image of Tsarevich Dmitry (painted by Burenin as a copy of a 17th century icon).

Initially, the Church of Tsarevich Demetrius on Blood was erected as a memorial. Services were held there infrequently. Now it is part of the Uglich Kremlin museum complex.

How to get there[[edit]h2>

Address:

Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 8, room 12.

Directions:

Oktyabrskaya-Koltsevaya metro station or Shabolovskaya metro station.

If you get from Oktyabrskaya-Koltsevaya metro station:

• walk - 15 minutes. Walk along Leninsky Prospekt towards the region (=in the direction of traffic). On the right, first there will be an institute, then the fence of the hospital will begin. You will pass several traffic lights. You will see the temple inside behind the fence.
• by minibus or bus: drive two stops to the entrance to Neskuchny Garden (on the other side of Leninsky Prospect, Raiffeisen Bank will be a landmark), stop st. Academician Petrovsky. The temple from the entrance to Neskuchny Garden, if you stand facing the entrance, is to the right.

Telephone:

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Architecture and interior decoration

The creator of the Golitsyn hospital complex with the temple was the outstanding Moscow architect Matvey Kazakov. A contemporary and student of the famous Vasily Bazhenov, together with whom they became legislators in Moscow of a new architectural style of the era of enlightenment - classicism.

The architecture of the Golitsyn hospital is a typical monument of classicism:

• the central building together with the temple;
• two side wings connected to the main part of the building by an arch;
• entrance to the temple: the central portico is raised to the second floor, two stone stairs lead to it;
• triangular pediment with clock;
• majestic dome.

The interior of this temple is absolutely amazing. Kazakov, as a representative of the era of classicism, took as a basis the Roman pantheon, the temple of all gods in Rome, which in design is a rotunda. At the top in the center there is a circle, which ends with a dome, visually appearing enormous in size thanks to a special painting.

Architectural features and interiors

View of the Church of Tsarevich Dimitri from the territory of the Uglich Kremlin

The festively decorated building is a real pearl of the “Golden Ring” of Russia. Many tourists specially come to Uglich to see the elegant temple-monument and places that are described in “The History of the Russian State” by N. M. Karamzin and the historical drama “Boris Godunov” by A. S. Pushkin.

The beautiful temple “shaped like a ship” consists of a pillarless quadrangle, a refectory, a porch and a low hipped bell tower. The church is completed with a decorative five-domed structure, and its walls are covered with dark red paint, which symbolizes the color of spilled blood.

Inside there are icons painted by Russian masters. They depict biblical scenes and executions of the “culprits of death” of the prince. It is clear that very talented craftsmen worked on the images, since the figures of Adam and Eve from the scene of expulsion from Paradise are painted very sensually and vividly.

Useful information for tourists

The ancient church has the status of one of the branches of the Uglich Museum

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It is open to visitors daily from 9:00 to 18:00. Inside you can see the exile bell.

View of the domes of the Church of Tsarevich Demetrius on the Spilled Blood

A ticket for adults costs 70 rubles, for students – 65 rubles, and for schoolchildren – 60 rubles. A single ticket to view the entire Kremlin along with the Church of Tsarevich Demetrius on the Blood is 450 rubles for adults, 400 rubles for students, and 350 rubles for schoolchildren (2021).