3. Филарет

The builder Hieromonk Filaret, originally from the nobility of the Smolensk province, was a man worthy of respect, useful to the monastery; He zealously cared for the monastery, and in the short time of his reign managed to repel the incorrect claims of neighboring landowners. With his assistance, then the forest areas of the monastery with adjacent owners were identified and demarcated from the patrimonial board. The board sent a land surveyor, who actually separated the lands belonging to the monastery, having done this in 1745, from the area around the monastery. Thus, Filaret forever strengthened the well-being of the monastery, averting harm that could sometimes occur from it. Filaret was a builder for two years, having arranged the desert at the end of the land survey, he left the Superiorship, wanting to spend the rest of his days in silence. Having lived in peace for a short time, soon, by the conviction of the Diocesan Bishop, he was taken to the Bishop's House, and then promoted to Archimandrite at the Shartom Nikolaev Monastery, where he died. Under Filaret, a warm stone church of the Most Holy Theotokos, Her Life-Giving Source, was built in the Sarov Hermitage, instead of the first wooden one.