Троице-Феодоровский монастырь, Orthodox monastery in Kazan, Russia.
The Trinity Feodorovsky Monastery stands on the high Fedorovsky hill on the left bank of the Kazanka, near the Kazan Kremlin. Its stone Trinity church with a bell tower and a side chapel of Saint Theodore Stratelates was built at the end of the 17th century and consecrated in 1700. By the late 19th century the church was surrounded by small mostly wooden buildings: a stone cell wing, three wooden wings with cells and a hospital, a prosphora building and a two-storey house for the abbess and sisters.
Founded between 1595 and 1607 by Kazan Metropolitan Hermogenes, later Patriarch of All Rus, and voivode Prince Ivan Golitsyn, the monastery is first documented by a 1607 inscription on the frame of its icon of Saint Theodore Stratelates, donated that year by Golitsyn. For most of its history it was attached to other Kazan monasteries, from 1855 to the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery. On 23 September 1900 the Synod converted it from a male to a female community, consecrated on 12 November 1900.
Each summer on 20 July a cross procession left the Annunciation Cathedral with the Kazan and Smolensk icons of the Mother of God and came to the Feodorovsky Monastery. The monastery's main shrine was a venerated copy of the Feodorovskaya Icon of the Mother of God, and Prince Golitsyn donated an icon of St Theodore Stratelates in 1607.
The site is accessed by a path that climbs from the lower level up to the raised plateau where the buildings sit. Comfortable footwear is advisable since reaching the monastery requires walking uphill and exploring the grounds involves considerable movement.
On 12 December 1887, the 19-year-old Alexei Peshkov shot himself in the chest at the monastery walls on Fyodorovsky Hill; the watchman Mustafa Yunusov helped him, and the future writer Maxim Gorky survived. The monastery's main relic was a venerated copy of the Feodorovskaya Mother of God icon from Kostroma, and Prince Golitsyn donated an icon of St Theodore Stratelates in 1607.
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