St. Nicholas Church

NIKOLO-BERLYUKOVSKY MONASTERY, MOSCOW OBLAST, RUSSIA. НИКОЛО-БЕРЛЮКОВСКИЙ МОНАСТЫРЬ.

In 1719, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker became the main temple of the new monastery — the Nikolo-Berlyukovsky desert, which after some time was removed from the jurisdiction of the Chudov monastery and assigned to the Stromyn Assumption monastery. The first Abbot of the desert appointed hieromonk Diodorus.



From October until April 1731 1734 the Abbot of the monastery was hieromonk Josiah Samgin, the driver of which was Princess Mary and Theodosia, sister of Peter the Great. In April 1734, the hieromonk Josiah, from whom various forbidden manuscripts were found, was stripped of his dignity, whipped with a nostrils and sent to Kamchatka[2], and the inhabitants of the monastery were distributed to other monasteries.





The bell tower of the monastery with a cross towering over the river Thieves 120 m.

In 1770 the Nicolo-Berlyukovsky monastery was abolished and Nicholas Church declared a parish Church. March 15, 1779 the monastery was restored as a provincial desert by decree of the Moscow Spiritual Consistory. Hieromonk Ioasaf was appointed rector of the revived monastery. In December 1779, according to the decree of the Synod, Berlyukovsky deserts was among the eight provincial monasteries in the Moscow diocese. In 1786, on the site of the old Trinity Church, a new one was laid; the plan was approved personally by Metropolitan Plato, who also consecrated the new Church and sent books and utensils for it from Moscow.



In 1794, died the Abbot Joasaph. His work was continued by his brother — hieromonk Nicholas. Later the monastery was managed by the monks of St. Nicholas monastery Pecherskogo: Pachomius (1806), Ioannikii (1811), Nicholas (1827).