Svyatoshino, an intriguing name for the district of Kiev, comes from the nickname "Svyatosh", which our ancestors awarded one of the Russian princes. Now in Kiev, on Vernadsky Avenue, opposite the Svyatoshinskaya district state administration, a monument has been erected to an amazing fellow countryman, the first saint from Rurikovich, whose memory is celebrated on October 14/27. He was born before the Crusades, in 1080. Then the prince was given two names - in the old Slavic pagan tradition, and in baptism. According to the patron saint, the prince was named Pankraty, and according to pagan custom - Svyatoslav, nice name, like his grandfather, Svyatoslav Yaroslavich, who founded the Great Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in the Kiev Caves monastery. Affectionately, the boy began to be called the Saints (which was then in the custom, for example, Stanislav - Stanisha, Dobyslav - Dobysha). The nickname turned out to be providential, prophetic. For us, the image of this man came from the depths of history as a brass of the Monk Nikola the Svyatosha.

Venerable Nicholas Svyatosha

In the "Life of the Monk Nicholas the Svyatosha, Prince of Chernigov, the Pechersk miracle-creator, resting in the nearby caves", it is said that he was the son of the Chernigov prince David Svyatoslavich, the great-grandson of Yaroslav the Wise. Upon reaching the age of majority, he married (his wife's name was Anna) and had children; one of his daughters was married to saint Vse-vo-lod, the prince of Pskov. In 1097 Svyatoslav-Pankraty was a Lutsk prince, but in the same year, besieged by Bonyak and Prince David Olgovich, he voluntarily left Lutsk and went to his allotment, Chernigov. The villages Pakul and Dung, which belonged to him, with the environs of the Dnieper, were subsequently given to them by the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery. According to the chronicle, the prince also owned the lands of Borschagovka, bordering on the territory where the Svyatoshinsky district of the capital is today. Having arranged the life of his wife and children, the devout 26-year-old prince decided “to leave the glory and wealth, honor and power of reign” and came to the Pechersk Monastery, where in February 1106 he accepted monasticism with the name Nikolai, greatly surprising the public with his act. In the same year, on the feast of the Holy Trinity, the first stone of the famous Trinity Gate Church of the future Lavra was laid. It was placed on the second floor on the monastery wall. They say that in the spring, perhaps on the last Sunday of April in a new style, that is, even before Trinity, Nikolai Svyatosha planted the first tree in his Lavra garden. Consequently, the event is 905 years old this year. The garden was not where it is now, above the Near Caves, but at the hospital. The Svyatosha also founded it: a small monastery and a hospital with it, right on the Lavra corner.

Nikolsky temple and the former chambers of the monastery hospital

To the north-west of the Holy Dormition Cathedral of the Lavra, next to the Trinity Church, there is the entrance to the former Nikolsky hospital monastery with a church in the name of St. Nicholas, founded by the Monk Nicholas the Svyatosha. Here he spent the rest of his days caring for the elderly and sick monks. In 1902-1903, according to the project of the architect Yevgeny Ermakov, a two-storey pharmacy building with a bell tower was built on the site of the old buildings. This pharmacy was the largest in Kiev and was very popular in the city. Currently, this building houses the State Historical Library. The service premises of the reserve are located in the church and other buildings of the hospital monastery. We can also think about the fact that in his worship of the Holy Trinity, Nicholas the Svyatosh became the forerunner of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. Saint Sergius Radonezh, thanks to which we have now acquired the Trinity Lavra and the most famous and beautiful Rublev icon. “For three years,” writes Blessed Simon, “Nikolai spent in the kitchen, working for the brethren, chopping wood with his own hands for cooking the brethren, often carrying water from the banks of the Dnieper on his shoulders.” Having passed various obediences, the Monk Nicholas took a vow of silence on himself. When he received money, he used it to decorate the temple, to buy books (for he loved reading books), or distributed it to the poor. In all the years of monasticism they never saw him idle, always in labor and prayer. For a long time, the saint sat in a sydney at the entrance gates of the Kiev-Pechersk monastery, which everyone who comes to the Lavra sees today.

Trinity, the main gates of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

Only once, as the legend says, this prayer book left his post. Nicholas was 62 years old when the aggressive relatives of Chernigov attacked the Grand Duke Vsevolod Olgovich. The saint reconciled the warring parties, but went through strong experiences that led him to death. The ascetic died in his garden near the Lavra gate.

Crosses of the Monk Nikola Svyatosha. Found during restoration work in the Trinity Gate Church. Kievan Rus. XII century

Exhortations are read today, too, with which a certain healer Peter addressed on behalf of the brothers-princes to Nicholas: -So they live in rich houses that they have built for themselves, you have nowhere to bow your head and nowhere to sit, only on weed heaps sometimes at the cook, sometimes at the gate. Which of the Russian princes did this - your blessed father David or the ever-memorable grandfather Svyatoslav? None even of the boyars wished the inglorious path of such a life, only Varlaam, who was the abbot here. Therefore, if you do not listen to my advice, before you are destined to you, you will accept death. " And the ascetic answered: “Brother Peter, I thought a lot about the salvation of my soul and judged that it was not necessary to spare the flesh, so that it would not burden the spirit with lusts, and would not rise up against me in a struggle. Tormented by abstinence and work, she will humble herself, and not exhaustion; but even if I had faint, as the Lord said to the Apostle: My strength is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. 12, 9) ... ”.

An amazing thing happened: Peter with tears listened to the answer of Nikola the Svyatosha and took tonsure. Moreover, according to the word of the saint, who said, “Dare, brother, and be ready; in three days, at your request, you will leave this life ", he" lay down on his bed and gave his spirit into the hands of the Lord. " And the blessed prince Svyatosha asceticised in the monastery for another 30 years, without leaving the monastery. All Kiev gathered for the burial of Nikola Svyatosha, many shed tears over him, and especially mourned the death of his brothers Vladimir and Izyaslav. Izyaslav sent to the abbot with a prayer to give him, for blessing and consolation, the cross of his deceased brother, a head and a platform on which the blessed one bowed. Having received these things, he carefully kept them and donated a lot of gold to the monastery to thank for the memory of his brother. However, the history of the miraculous life of Nikola Svyatosha continued after his death. Izyaslav once fell seriously ill, was already dying and, asking for water from the Pechersk well, fell silent. In the Caves Monastery they took water, washing with it the coffin of the Monk Theodosius of the Caves, the founder of the monastery. The hegumen gave the sent ones to help and the hair shirt of the Monk Nicholas Svyatosha, brother of Izyaslav. Surprisingly: before the messengers came to Izyaslav's bed with water and a hair shirt, the numb sick man opened his mouth and said: "Go quickly out of the city to meet the Monk Fathers Theodosius and Nicholas!" And when the messenger entered with water and a hair shirt, Prince Izyaslav again exclaimed: "Nikola Svyatosha!" After drinking that water and putting on a hair shirt, Izyaslav was healed. And since then he always wore a hair shirt for healing, as well as in battles. “Once, after sinning, he did not dare to put it on himself and then he was killed in battle, but first commanded to put himself in it, hoping that he would heal at least from eternal diseases and ulcers.” The relics of St. Nicholas the Svyatosha rest in the Anthony (Near Caves). A special service has been compiled for the Monk Nicholas.

Cancer with the honest relics of St. Nicholas the Svyatosha in the Anthony Caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

Let us listen to the words of the blessed Simon, who finished the story of St. Nicholas the Svyatosh with the following address: “What have you done like that? Did you leave wealth? But you didn't have it. Glory? But you didn't own it. In poverty, you passed on to fame and happiness. Think about this prince. None of the princes did anything like him; none of them voluntarily went into monasticism: truly he is higher than all Russian princes ... ". On February 17, 2006, on the day of the 900th anniversary of the adoption by Prince Svyatoslav of the first of the Rurikovich monastic tonsure with the name Nikola, residents of the Svyatoshinsky microdistrict of Kiev, with funds from the local budget, opened a memorial (sculptor Yevgeniy Derevyanko).

Monument to Nikola Svyatosh in Kiev Svyatoshyn

Nicholas the Svyatosh, the Kiev-Pechersk ascetic, is revered today throughout Russia. In particular, in the city of Serpukhov, in a posad that adjoins the fortress, but is located upstream of the Nara River, there is a picturesque group of churches. Closer to the river and to the rampart, on a stone-lined hill, stands the Church of the Assumption Holy Mother of God... For the first time, a wooden temple at this place was mentioned in 1620. In 1352, 1426 and 1693 Serpukhov was visited by a pestilence, once the city almost completely died out: according to legend, then only six families remained. The deceased were buried near the Church of the Assumption in a common grave, this place was called the "poor house". In 1744, a stone church of the Assumption was built. Damaged by a fire in 1817, it was rebuilt and consecrated in 1854. In this temple, which we see in the photo, there are three side-chapels: in the name of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian, icons Mother of God"Joy of All Who Sorrow" and in the name of St. Nicholas Svyatosha (in the lower tier of the bell tower). In Soviet times, the Assumption Church was closed, and the rector, Archpriest Alexy Sinaisky, was shot at the Butovo training ground in 1938.

Assumption Cathedral in Serpukhov

And the church of Matthew the Apostle and Paraskeva Friday of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky monastery near Moscow was built in 1854 in a building with abbot cells on the first floor under the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1763). The church was closed together with the monastery in 1925, restored in 1994. Outside, it stands out with a ledge with a gold dome. This temple was built at the expense of P. M. Alexandrov, a close friend of Archimandrite Pimen. At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the church had a black iconostasis with silver decorations, copper, chased, slotted and silvered Royal Doors... It was in this temple, or rather, in front of the entrance to the temple, that there was a coffin from under the relics of the Russian saint of the 12th century, Nikola Svyatosha.

In the foreground, with a golden cupola, Church of Matthew the Apostle and Paraskeva Pyatnitsa of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery

Thus proclaims the second voice in the Troparion to Nicholas Svyatosh, Prince of Chernigov:

Fatherland and the glory of your reign left,
The prince of humility, Christ, you zealously followed,
venerable our father Nicolo;
by this you have received from Him the eternal kingdom and glory in Heaven,
where, rejoicing, remember us who honor your memory faithfully.

Nikolai Svyatosha was the first Rurikovich to become a saint

Svyatoshino, an intriguing name for the district of Kiev, comes from the nickname "Svyatosh", which our ancestors awarded one of the Russian princes. Now in Kiev, on Vernadsky Avenue, opposite the Svyatoshinskaya district state administration, a monument has been erected to an amazing fellow countryman, the first saint from Rurikovich, whose memory is celebrated on October 14/27. He was born before the Crusades, in 1080. Then the prince was given two names - in the old Slavic pagan tradition and in baptism. According to the patron saint, the prince was named Pankraty, and according to pagan custom - Svyatoslav ...

A beautiful name, like his grandfather, Svyatoslav Yaroslavich, who founded the Great Church of the Assumption of the Virgin in the Kiev Pechersk monastery. Affectionately, the boy began to be called the Saints (which was then in the custom, for example, Stanislav - Stanisha, Dobyslav - Dobysha). The nickname turned out to be providential, prophetic.

For us, the image of this man came from the depths of history as the image of the Monk Nikola the Svyatosha.

In the "Life of the Monk Nicholas the Svyatosha, Prince of Chernigov, the Pechersk miracle worker, resting in the nearby caves", it is said that he was the son of Prince David Svyatoslavich of Chernigov, the great-grandson of Yaroslav the Wise.

Venerable Nicholas Svyatosha

Upon reaching the age of majority, he married (his wife's name was Anna) and had children. One of his daughters was married to Saint Vse¬vlod, the prince of Pskov. In 1097 Svyatoslav-Pankraty was a Lutsk prince, but in the same year, besieged by Bonyak and Prince David Olgovich, he voluntarily left Lutsk and went to his allotment, Chernigov. The villages Pakul and Dung, which belonged to him, with the surrounding area near the Dnieper, were subsequently given to them by the Kiev-Pechersky Monastery. According to the chronicle, the prince also owned the lands of Borschagovka, bordering on the territory where the Svyatoshinsky district of the capital is today.

Having arranged the life of his wife and children, the devout 26-year-old prince decided “to leave the glory and wealth, honor and power of reign” and came to the Pechersk Monastery, where in February 1106 he accepted the monastic name of Nicholas, greatly surprising the public with his act.

In the same year, on the feast of the Holy Trinity, the first stone of the famous Trinity Gate Church of the future Lavra was laid. It was placed on the second floor on the monastery wall. They say that in the spring, perhaps on the last Sunday of April in a new style, that is, even before Trinity, Nikolai Svyatosha planted the first tree in his Lavra garden. Consequently, the event is 906 years old this year.

The garden was not where it is now, above the Near Caves, but at the hospital. The Svyatosha also founded it: a small monastery and a hospital with it, right on the Lavra corner.

Nikolsky temple and the former chambers of the monastery hospital

To the northwest of the Holy Dormition Cathedral of the Lavra, next to the Trinity Church, there is the entrance to the former Nikolsky hospital monastery with a church in the name of St. Nicholas, founded by the Monk Nicholas the Svyatosha. Here he spent the rest of his days caring for the elderly and sick monks. In 1902-1903, according to the project of the architect Yevgeny Ermakov, a two-storey pharmacy building with a bell tower was built on the site of the old buildings. This pharmacy was the largest in Kiev and was very popular in the city. Currently, this building houses the State Historical Library. The service premises of the reserve are located in the church and other buildings of the hospital monastery.

We can also think about the fact that in his worship of the Holy Trinity St. Nicholas the Svyatosh became the forerunner of the doctrine of the Holy Trinity of St. Sergius of Radonezh, thanks to whom we have now acquired the Trinity Lavra and the most famous and beautiful Rublev icon.

“For three years,” writes Blessed Simon, “Nikolai spent in the kitchen, working for the brethren, chopping wood with his own hands for cooking the brethren, often carrying water from the banks of the Dnieper on his shoulders.” Having passed various obediences, the Monk Nicholas took a vow of silence on himself. When he received money, he used it to decorate the temple, to buy books (for he loved reading books), or distributed it to the poor. In all the years of monasticism they never saw him idle, always in labor and prayer.

Trinity, the main gates of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

For a long time, the saint sat in a sydney at the entrance gates of the Kiev-Pechersk monastery, which everyone who comes to the Lavra sees today.

Only once, as the legend says, this prayer book left his post. Nicholas was 62 years old when the aggressive relatives of Chernigov attacked the Grand Duke Vsevolod Olgovich. The saint reconciled the warring parties, but went through strong experiences that led him to death. The ascetic died in his garden near the Lavra gate.

Exhortations are read today, too, with which a certain healer Peter addressed on behalf of the brothers-princes to Nicholas: -So they live in rich houses that they have built for themselves, but you have nowhere to bow your head and nowhere to sit, only on weed heaps sometimes at the cook, sometimes at the gate. Which of the Russian princes did this - your blessed father David or the ever-memorable grandfather Svyatoslav? None even of the boyars wished the inglorious path of such a life, only Varlaam, who was the abbot here. Therefore, if you do not listen to my advice, before you are destined to you, you will accept death. "

And the ascetic answered: “Brother Peter, I thought a lot about the salvation of my soul and judged that it is not necessary to spare the flesh, so that it does not burden the spirit with lusts, and does not rise up against me in struggle. Tormented by abstinence and work, she will humble herself, and not exhaustion; but even if I had faint, as the Lord said to the Apostle: My strength is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. 12: 9) ... "

Crosses of the Monk Nikola Svyatosha. Found during restoration work in the Trinity Gate Church. Kievan Rus. XII century

An amazing thing happened: Peter with tears listened to the answer of Nikola the Svyatosha and took tonsure. Moreover, according to the word of the saint, who said “dare, brother, and be ready; in three days, at your request, you will leave this life ", he" lay down on his bed and gave his spirit into the hands of the Lord. "

And the blessed prince Svyatosha asceticised in the monastery for another 30 years, without leaving the monastery.

All Kiev gathered for the burial of Nikola Svyatosha, many shed tears over him, and especially mourned the death of his brothers Vladimir and Izyaslav. Izyaslav sent to the abbot with a prayer to give him, for blessing and consolation, the cross of his deceased brother, a head and a platform on which the blessed one bowed. Having received these things, he carefully kept them and donated a lot of gold to the monastery to thank for the memory of his brother.

However, the history of the miraculous life of Nikola Svyatosha continued after his death. Izyaslav once fell seriously ill, was already dying and, asking for water from the Pechersk well, fell silent. In the Caves Monastery they took water, washing with it the coffin of the Monk Theodosius of the Caves, the founder of the monastery. The hegumen gave the sent ones to help and the hair shirt of the Monk Nicholas Svyatosha, brother of Izyaslav. Surprisingly: before the envoys came to Izyaslav's bed with water and a hair shirt, the numb sick man opened his mouth and said: "Go quickly out of the city to meet the Monk Fathers Theodosius and Nicholas!" And when the messenger entered with water and a hair shirt, Prince Izyaslav again exclaimed: "Nikola the Holy One!"

Cancer with the venerable relics of St. Nicholas the Svyatosha in the Anthony Caves of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

After drinking that water and putting on a hair shirt, Izyaslav was healed. And since then he always wore a hair shirt for healing, as well as in battles. “Once, after sinning, he did not dare to put it on himself and then he was killed in battle, but first commanded to put himself in it, hoping that he would heal at least from eternal diseases and ulcers.”

The relics of St. Nicholas the Svyatosha rest in the Anthony (Near Caves). A special service has been compiled for the Monk Nicholas.

Let us listen to the words of the blessed Simon, who finished the story of St. Nicholas the Svyatosh with the following address: “What have you done like that? Did you leave wealth? But you didn't have it. Glory? But you didn't own it. In poverty, you passed on to fame and happiness. Think about this prince. None of the princes did anything like him; none of them voluntarily went into monasticism: truly he is higher than all Russian princes ... ".

Monument to Nikola Svyatosh in Kiev Svyatoshyn

On February 17, 2006, on the day of the 900th anniversary of the adoption by Prince Svyatoslav, the first of the Rurikovichs, of the monastic tonsure with the name Nikola, residents of the Svyatoshinsky microdistrict of Kiev, at the expense of the local budget, opened a memorial (sculptor Yevgeniy Derevyanko).

Nicholas the Svyatosh, the Kiev-Pechersk ascetic, is revered today throughout Russia. In particular, in the city of Serpukhov, in a posad that adjoins the fortress, but is located upstream of the Nara River, there is a picturesque group of churches. Closer to the river and to the rampart, on a stone-lined hill, stands the Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos. For the first time, a wooden temple at this place was mentioned in 1620. In 1352, 1426 and 1693 Serpukhov was visited by a pestilence, once the city almost completely died out: according to legend, then only six families remained. The deceased were buried near the Church of the Assumption in a common grave, this place was called the "poor house".

Assumption Cathedral in Serpukhov

In 1744, a stone church of the Assumption was built. Damaged by a fire in 1817, it was rebuilt and consecrated in 1854. In this temple, which we see in the photo, there are three side-chapels: in the name of the holy Apostle John the Theologian, the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” and in the name of the Monk Nikola Svyatosha (in the lower tier of the bell tower). In Soviet times, the Assumption Church was closed, and the rector, Archpriest Alexy Sinaisky, was shot at the Butovo training ground in 1938.

And the church of Matthew the Apostle and Paraskeva Friday of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky monastery near Moscow was built in 1854 in a building with abbot cells on the first floor under the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1763). The church was closed together with the monastery in 1925, restored in 1994. Outside, it stands out with a ledge with a gold dome. This temple was built at the expense of a certain Alexandrov, a close friend of Archimandrite Pimen. At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, the church had a black iconostasis with silver decorations, copper chased, slotted and silver-plated Royal Doors. It was in this temple, or rather, in front of the entrance to the temple, that there was a coffin from under the relics of the Russian saint of the 12th century, Nikola Svyatosha.

In the foreground with a golden cupola is the Church of Matthew the Apostle and Paraskeva Pyatnitsa of the Nikolo-Ugreshsky Monastery

So proclaims the second voice in the Troparion to St. Nicholas the Svyatosha, Prince of Chernigov: “Fatherland and the glory of your reign left, to the Prince of humility, Christ, thou art diligently followed, venerable our father Nicholas; by this you have received from Him eternal power and glory in Heaven, where, rejoicing, remember us who honor your memory faithfully "...

Mikhail KHUSTOCHKA, "One Motherland"

Memorial Day: October 14 (27) and September 28 (October 11) - on the day of the Monk Fathers of the Kiev Caves, resting in the Near Caves.

One of the sons of the Chernigov prince David Svyatoslavich Svyatoslav (baptized Pankraty) was born ca. 1072 year. His mother, Princess Theodosia, and his father were known for their piety and support for churches and monasteries.

Upon reaching adulthood, Svyatoslav Davidovich marries the daughter of Grand Duke Svyatopolk Izyaslavich, grandson of Yaroslav the Wise, Anna. They had two daughters. One of them married Vsevolod Olgovich, the prince of Chernigov, who then went to a monastery with the name Gabriel, the other, in 1123, married the prince of Novgorod, the grandson of Vladimir Monomakh, Vsevolod Mstislavich.

Since childhood, Svyatoslav helped the unfortunate, loved to attend church services. He prayed in the Assumption Cathedral in front of the Elets Icon of the Mother of God and sometimes spent his nights in prayer. His place was in the southwest corner. Later, a chapel was built here, called the cell of the Svyatosha. Even then, they began to call him the Holy One for his sincere devotion to God.

The reign failed Svyatoslav. As a result of civil strife, he lost his possessions on the Oster River, then in Lutsk, where he reigned in 1097. The decision to go to the Kiev-Pechersky Monastery appeared long ago. He maintained relations with the abbot, as well as with the monk of the monastery, translator Theodosius the Greek and gave him orders, since he had his own large library and wanted to expand it, he knew Nestor - the author of The Tale of Bygone Years. Therefore, when he left for a monastery on February 17, 1107, he found here peace of mind and application to his intellectual abilities... The decision may have been facilitated to some extent by the solar eclipse in 1106, which for many at that time served as a sign before committing or postponing the fulfillment of some important business.

The relics of the Monk Nikola the Svyatosha rest in the Anthony (Near Caves) of the Kiev Pecherka Lavra

In the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, the prince was assigned obedience in the kitchen, and he had to chop wood, carry water from the Dnieper, and cook food. His brothers Izyaslav and Vladimir Davidovich, having learned about the hard work of their brother, asked the abbot to soften their obedience, but the brother did not agree and served in the kitchen for three years. Then he bore obedience as a gatekeeper at the monastery gates, leaving only for prayer. After taking the tonsure with the name Nicholas, he lived in a separate cell, like the others, and constantly worked. I planted it near the cell garden trees, started a vegetable garden with vegetables, sewed clothes. He never tasted anything except the general monastery food and distributed everything that he received from relatives to the poor. On the basis of his library, which he brought with him, a monastery was created, and he gave the property for the benefit of Chernigov Yeletsky and Kiev-Pechersk monasteries and never regretted the lost wealth. Relatives have repeatedly tried to bring him back to the world, and personal doctor Peter, originally from Syria, settled in Kiev, closer to him, and treated many, constantly visiting him. He persuaded me to return home, to which Nikolai (Nikola Svyatosha) replied: “I thought a lot about the salvation of my soul and judged that it was not necessary to spare the flesh, let it be humbled by labor and fasting. You are telling the truth that none of the princes did this before, but let me be the first on this path: let others follow me. I thank my God that He freed me from the work of the world and made me a servant - his slave, a blessed black man. Let my brothers, princes, listen to themselves. As for the fact that you threaten me with death for my labors and abstinence, I will tell you this: you, doctor, do you sometimes order your patients to abstain from this or that in order to get recovery? And in this way I need to heal my mental ailments. And even if I die bodily, for Christ's sake, it will be an acquisition for me. " Under his influence, Peter more and more inclined to the side of the righteous monk, marveling at the fact that in case of illness, Nikola recovered without the help of medicines, only by prayer. Once Nikola the Svyatosh summoned Peter and said that in three months he should die by the will of God and invited him to take monasticism and work in his place. Peter in tears asked the prince to pray to God to die in his place, because without the prince, he, an orphan, would not have life. Soon, he cut his hair and lived in a cave for three months, praying incessantly, then he received the Holy Communion and died. And Nikola Svyatosha lived for another 30 years.

Thanks to the donations of the Svyatosha, in 1108 the Trinity Gate Church was built and now adorns the monastery that has become Lavra. During repair and restoration work in the 1880s, a wooden cross was found in the southern wall of the church, not far from the floor, upholstered with gilded plates and decorated with enamel. The cross was a relic of the family of Chernigov princes, to which he belonged, and was a shrine. The church was built in the style of the Annunciation at the Golden Gate. He also founded the very first monastery hospital in Russia with the Church of St. Nicholas and helped with treatment.

Shortly before his death, in 1142, at the request of Prince Vsevolod, he reconciled the brothers Vladimir and Izyaslav, Igor and Svyatoslav Olgovich, which helped to avoid bloodshed. It is also known that Vladimir and Izyaslav, who were distinguished by their piety, in the 20s of the XII century, at their own expense, built a stone church of the Transfiguration in Novgorod-Seversky, near which the Transfiguration Monastery arose.

The saint died on October 14, 1143. His relics still rest in the Near Caves of the Lavra. After Nikola's death, brother Izyaslav Davidovich begged the abbot for his headrest and the platform on which he knelt. The abbot gave them with the words: "According to your faith, let it be." Soon Izyaslav also got a hair shirt, when, having got sick, he asked to bring water from the Kiev-Pechersk well. The water was brought, and the abbot also handed over the Saint's hair shirt, which the prince immediately put on after drinking the water. He recovered and always put it on before the battle, and when he forgot to do it, in 1161 he was killed.

Troparion, voice 2

You left your fatherland and the glory of your reign, / To the Prince of humility, Christ, you zealously followed, / Reverend our father Nicolo; / thus you received from Him the eternal kingdom and glory in Heaven, / where rejoicing, remember us who honor your memory faithfully.

Kontakion, voice 8

All the red of this world / and perishable riches not even imputed, / you have been enriched with many miracles and signs from Christ God, / to Him in the joy of coming, / remember us, who honor your memory with love, but we call you: / rejoice, Nikolo is wonderful.

Holy Trinity Gate Church of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

The documentary “Prince-Inok. Nikola Svyatosha "

Prayers for health in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra

Prayer service to the Monk of the Caves

Memorial Day: October 14 (27) and September 28 (October 11) - on the day of the Monk Fathers of the Kiev Caves, resting in the Near Caves.

One of the sons of the Chernigov prince David Svyatoslavich Svyatoslav (baptized Pankraty) was born ca. 1072 year. His mother, Princess Theodosia,andfathers were known for their piety and support for churches and monasteries.

Upon reaching adulthood, Svyatoslav Davidovich marries the daughter of Grand Duke Svyatopolk Izyaslavich, grandson of Yaroslav the Wise, Anna. They had two daughters. One of them married Vsevolod Olgovich, the prince of Chernigov, who then went to a monastery with the name Gabriel, the other, in 1123, married the prince of Novgorod, the grandson of Vladimir Monomakh, Vsevolod Mstislavich.

Since childhood, Svyatoslav helped the unfortunate, loved to attend church services. He prayed in the Assumption Cathedral in front of the Elets Icon of the Mother of God and sometimes spent his nights in prayer. His place was in the southwest corner. Later, a chapel was built here, called the cell of the Svyatosha. Even then, they began to call him the Holy One for his sincere devotion to God.

The reign failed Svyatoslav. As a result of civil strife, he lost his possessions on the Oster River, then in Lutsk, where he reigned in 1097. The decision to go to the Kiev-Pechersky Monastery appeared long ago. He kept in touch with the abbot, as well as with the monk of the monastery, translator Theodosius the Greek, and gave him orders, since he had his own large library and wanted to expand it, he knew Nestor, the author of The Tale of Bygone Years. Therefore, when he left for a monastery on February 17, 1107, he found here peace of mind and the use of his intellectual abilities. The decision may have been facilitated to some extent by the solar eclipse in 1106, which for many at that time served as a sign before committing or postponing the fulfillment of some important business.

In the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery, the prince was assigned obedience in the kitchen, and he had to chop wood, carry water from the Dnieper, and cook food. His brothers Izyaslav and Vladimir Davidovich, having learned about the hard work of their brother, asked the abbot to soften their obedience, but the brother did not agree and served in the kitchen for three years. Then he bore obedience as a gatekeeper at the monastery gates, leaving only for prayer. After taking the tonsure with the name Nicholas, he lived in a separate cell, like the others, and constantly worked. He planted garden trees near the cell, started a vegetable garden with vegetables, sewed clothes. He never tasted anything except the general monastery food and distributed everything that he received from relatives to the poor. On the basis of his library, which he brought with him, a monastery was created, and he gave his property for the benefit of the Chernigov Eletsky and Kiev-Pechersky monasteries and never regretted the lost wealth. Relatives have repeatedly tried to bring him back to the world, and personal doctor Peter, originally from Syria, settled in Kiev, closer to him, and treated many, constantly visiting him. He persuaded me to return home, to which Nikolai (Nikola Svyatosha) replied: “I thought a lot about the salvation of my soul and judged that it was not necessary to spare the flesh, let it be humbled by labor and fasting. You are telling the truth that none of the princes did this before, but let me be the first on this path: let others follow me. I thank my God that He freed me from the work of the world and made me a servant - his slave, a blessed black man. Let my brothers, princes, listen to themselves. As for the fact that you threaten me with death for my labors and abstinence, I will tell you this: you, doctor, do you sometimes order your patients to abstain from this or that in order to get recovery? And in this way I need to heal my mental ailments. And even if I die bodily, for Christ's sake, it will be an acquisition for me. " Under his influence, Peter more and more inclined to the side of the righteous monk, marveling at the fact that in case of illness, Nikola recovered without the help of medicines, only by prayer. Once Nikola the Svyatosh summoned Peter and said that in three months he should die by the will of God and invited him to take monasticism and work in his place. Peter in tears asked the prince to pray to God to die in his place, because without the prince, he, an orphan, would not have life. Soon, he cut his hair and lived in a cave for three months, praying incessantly, then he received the Holy Communion and died. And Nikola Svyatosha lived for another 30 years.

Thanks to the donations of the Svyatosha, in 1108 the Trinity Gate Church was built and now adorns the monastery that has become Lavra. During repair and restoration work in the 1880s, a wooden cross was found in the southern wall of the church, not far from the floor, upholstered with gilded plates and decorated with enamel. The cross was a relic of the family of Chernigov princes, to which he belonged, and was a shrine. The church was built in the style of the Annunciation at the Golden Gate. He also founded the very first monastery hospital in Russia with the Church of St. Nicholas and helped with treatment.

Shortly before his death, in 1142, at the request of Prince Vsevolod, he reconciled the brothers Vladimir and Izyaslav, Igor and Svyatoslav Olgovich, which helped to avoid bloodshed. It is also known that Vladimir and Izyaslav, who were distinguished by their piety, in the 20s of the XII century, at their own expense, built a stone Church of the Transfiguration in Novgorod-Seversky, near which Nick Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery.

The saint died on October 14, 1143. His relics still rest in the Near Caves of the Lavra. After Nikola's death, brother Izyaslav Davidovich begged the abbot for his headrest and the platform on which he knelt. The abbot gave them with the words: "According to your faith, let it be." Soon Izyaslav will fill chill also a hair shirt, when, having got sick, he asked to bring water from the Kiev-Pechersk well. The water was brought, and the abbot also handed over the Saint's hair shirt, which the prince immediately put on after drinking the water. He recovered and always put it on before the battle, and when he forgot to do it, in 1161 he was killed.

Troparion, voice 2

You left your fatherland and the glory of your reign, / To the Prince of humility, Christ, you zealously followed, / Reverend our father Nicolo; / thus you received from Him the eternal kingdom and glory in Heaven, / where rejoicing, remember us who honor your memory faithfully.

Kontakion, voice 8

All the red of this world / and perishable riches not even imputed, / you have been enriched with many miracles and signs from Christ God, / to Him in the joy of coming, / remember us, who honor your memory with love, but we call you: / rejoice, Nikolo is wonderful.

- (before baptism Svyatoslav, in baptism Pankraty) the son of the Chernigov prince David Svyatoslavich, in 1107 he was tonsured at the Caves monastery. He spent 6 years of art in the monastery cookery and as a gatekeeper, against which his brothers strongly rebelled ... ... Biographical Dictionary

Nikolay Svyatosha

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