Description of the Kozeletsky Monastery

Contents Appendix to the description of the Kozeletsky St. George Monastery 1. List of Yuri Khmelntsky 2. List of Hetman Vigovsky 3. Record of Voinilikha 4. Extract from the Kozeletsky magistrate 5. List of Colonel Tansky 6. Report of the monastery consistory 7. Acts of the treasury chamber The Kozeletsky St. George Monastery occupies a place, hitherto quite secluded, 5 versts from the city of Kozelets, on the banks of the Ostra River. In ancient times this place was even more secluded, surrounded by forests, now destroyed; even in 1784. there were groves around it. When, under Hetman Bogdan, Orthodoxy began to breathe freely in the Ukraine, freed from the oppression of the Jesuits and Poles: then in the same year, as the inhabitants of the Ukraine swore an oath to be faithful to the Orthodox Tsar, the inhabitants of Kozelets decided to found a monastery for the constant offering of God's praise. In Kozelets itself on the banks of the river. Ostra was the monastery of the Holy Trinity. It existed under the Polish government and is known from the station wagon of 1645; but also in the station wagon of 1658, it was still called newfounding. 1 Fr. Abbot Simeon, Fr. Joel Puchkovsky, Fr. Savvaty wanted a desert life, and not among worldly people. Residents of Kozelets, honoring St. Great Martyr George, agreed with the thoughts of the desert-loving people and expressed their readiness to help build the desert monastery of St. Georia. Father Superior did not hesitate to fulfill his holy desires in practice. Az 1654 to say: “I let Totyana Voinilikha know and affirm that of my own free will I sold for 60 gold my own land, not mortgaged to anyone - the Doroginka and Kobchik soils - to the honest fathers, Mr. Father Simeon Tchaikovsky, Father Pantkraty Mikhailovich, Father Joel Puchkovsky and other fathers, their brethren, to a holy place, to monastery”, the Act is inscribed as follows: “sale of soils by her grace of Panna Tatiana Zavadskaya Voinilovich to the fathers for the monastery of the Holy Great Martyr George.” The sale of land was included in the city register of the city of Kozelets in 1656, and it says here that the land was sold “at the Fundovan of the Kozelsky monastery.” 2 According to the act of 1660, the “legalists of the Kozelsky monastery”, complaining to the magistrate that the neighbors want to take possession of part of the land they bought from Panna Zavadskaya, testify: to expand the praise of God, we began to fund movastir even for the blessings of his grace, Father Sylvester Kossov, Metropolitan of Kyiv, for permission and universals from the glorious memory of his grace Pan Bogdan Khmelnitsky and from all the hetmans interceding against him. Thus, not only was land purchased for the founding of the deserted St. George’s Monastery, but the blessing of Metropolitan Sylvester was received for the founding of the monastery. According to the general rule of that time, we have no doubt that Metropolitan Sylvester also issued an archpastoral charter for the founding of the monastery. There is no doubt that in 1654 the deserted church of the Great Martyr George was consecrated. This is how the Kozeletsky St. George Monastery reported on its beginning back in 1756: “The Kozeletsky St. George Monastery began to be founded for the blessing of the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Kyiv Sylvester Kossov in God - at that time Simeon Tchaikovsky was abbot.” 3 We do not know whether there were special abbots in the Trinity Monastery after the founding of the St. George Monastery. But it is undoubtedly known that in 1708 both monasteries were in charge of the same abbot. 4 Even before that time, Fr. Ignatius is called abbot of either the Trinity or St. George monastery. And then, just as the special abbots of the Trinity are unknown by name, the abbots of the St. George monastery are known, from the very foundation of it until later times, - We must assume that it is most likely that both from 1683 and before that the abbot of the St. George monastery was in charge of the Trinity, and that the monastics moved from the Trinity to the deserted St. George, leaving in the first only a few part for service, but more for business orders. In the universal, the Abbot of St. George is even called the Abbot of the Holy Trinity-George Monastery - i.e. although the monastics did not live in one St. George monastery: but both places of their stay were one monastery, or else the Trinity Monastery no longer existed in a separate form, but was attached to the St. George monastery, as it has been called in papers since 1746. Father Superior Simeon was a caring owner of the monastery. Coming from the noble family of the Tchaikovskys, he managed to do a lot for the monastery through his connections. He obtained protective papers from both Colonel Pereslavl and the assigned Hetman Tsetsyura for the right to own Lipov Island; this was in 1660, and in 1665 he was given a protective sheet on the same island from the Kozeletsky order. He died in 1675, having been abbot until he was 20 years old. After him, the monastery was managed by Fr. Abbot Joel Puchkovsky, the same one who, together with Fr. Simeon worked so hard to found the St. George Monastery. During his reign, the Trans-Dnieper hetman Yanenko with the Blogorodsk horde (1679) carried out raids on Kozelets and its environs - the villages near Kozelets and Nosovskaya were robbed and devastated. 5 It can be assumed that at this time, if not the St. George’s Monastery itself, then its property was also damaged. Hegumen Ignatius Gryaznoy is known from two inscriptions on the same gospel of the monastery of lions, 1670. The older inscription says: “I am the servant of God Joseph Kornievich with his wife Tatiana, an inhabitant of the Pechersk monastery, we drop this book of gospel on the throne, for the remission of our sins, to the monastery of St. Trinity in the place of Kozelets, under the honorable Father Ignatius Gryaznoy, abbot of that St. monastery... Rock from the Nativity of Christ 1683. m. Feb. 27 d." - younger inscription: “in fate, now on our way, 1693, I Konstantin Dmitrievich Solonina, we will set this altar gospel in silver and gold to the monastery of St. great martyr Christ George of Kozeletsky, for the remission of his sins under the all-honorable Father Ignatius Gryaznoy, who at that time was the abbot of that St. monasteries; for which that gospel we will give our silver, for the frame, two hryvnias (2 f.) and for the gilding of red honors and artisans we will pay what is due.” – Konstantin Dmitrievich Solonina, Colonel of Kiev, is also known for other, even more expensive charity. In 1687, he donated the village of Danevka to the St. George Monastery. 6 Abbot Georgy, known from the inscription on the Gospel of Lviv, p. 1690, inscription: “I am the servant of God Joseph Kurilovich Spring with his wife Mary we give the altar gospel to the monastery, to the church of St. great martyr Gregory in the presence of the all-honorable Fr. Abbot Georgiy, fate 1697. For this gospel, three hryvnias of silver and five lots of gold and two chervonih of gold were put; but it didn’t happen, so Joseph the master gave the third of hearts, which is holy. Nikolai visited, and the artisan Nikolai Logvinovich gave six talers for the frame.” Hegumen Anastasy Dolinsky left an unpleasant memory in the monastery by selling the mill needed for the desert 7 . In a universal dated June 17, 1709, Hetman Skoropadsky wrote: “with the permission of the former Hetman Mazepa, the God-exalted Father Joseph Isaevich (abbot) of the Pochaev monastery with the brethren there, one from the enemy Swedish invasion, and the other from the relentless persecution of piety in that region, having moved from Volyn, received his refuge in the realm of our Orthodox monarch, His Royal Majesty, in our Little Russian land, and with the blessing of the Kyiv Metropolis, he won the abbess over the two Kozeletsky monasteries of the Holy Trinity and St. the great martyr the victorious George, where and for the current shepherd, most venerable in God, Father Joasaph Krokovsky, Metropolitan of Kiev, is abbot and with all the previous monasteries' appurtenances, according to the universal antecessors of ours, the admiral of his father Isaevich will be seduced. Tyzh also sent our hetman to confirm the ownership of the aforementioned Kozeletsky monasteries.” - The hetman, fulfilling the request, approves for the motastyrs “all the goods, donated and purchased, with burdensome people, pawnbrokers, subgorod residents, settlements and in various villages, such as in Openki and in Glimazdy and Shulyaki, sprat people are seen, also in the village of Likhalitki purchased soils with fields, hay crops and we will take possession of all the lands and overthrow the reserves of the Kozeletsky monasteries into great possession. – Since JoasaF Brokowski was elected metropolitan on Jan. 19, 1708, and was dedicated in Moscow on August 15: then Abbot Isaevich, appointed by the metropolis as the abbot of the Kozelets monasteries, was appointed, without a doubt, not after August 1708. Hegumen Joseph Isaevich enjoyed the respect of the Kyiv colonels Volynsky and Tansky. 8 Especially the latter caressed and honored him. – Proof of this is Tansky’s letter to Fr. YosiFu: “Most revered in God, father abbot of the St. George Monastery of Kozeletsky! From the letter of your honesty, in which you state a complaint against Mr. Shum and Mr. Kozeletsky’s centurion Iolov, we see that they are causing considerable damage to the area of ​​​​your Danevka with their wine tavern. I called these persons and strictly ordered that from now on they should not dare to cause damage to the said area. Shulyakovsky Cossack Sholoika, when God grants him to happily return from Kyiv, we will immediately order him to be summoned to Kozelets with his spiritual testament: we can untie his knot if he turns out to be guilty; let the priest whom you mention in your qidulah immediately be a reliable witness. Informing you of this, I entrust my entire house to your holy prayers. Your honor, wishing all the best and ready to serve His Royal Majesty's troops, Zaporizhian Colonel of Kiev O. Joseph Isaevich enjoyed the favor of the famous Minich, who, being close to Peter I, and even more powerful after him, could do many good deeds for the St. George Hermitage. Father Isaevich, in the first years of his stay at the Kozeletsk monastery, apparently hoped to return to the Pochaev monastery. In 1714, he bought the village of Likholetovka with the title of abbot of Pochaev and Kozeletsky. Then in the general court of Glukhov he announced that the village was bought not with money from the Kozeletsky monastery, but with money from the Pochaevsky monastery. The General Court gave him a decision that Likholetovka did not have the right to appropriate the Kozeletsky monastery. Over time, it seems, he abandoned the desire to move again to the Pochaev Monastery, having learned more precisely about the state of affairs of that region. At least it is known that he died in old age in the Kozeletsky Monastery in 1731. After Fr. Isifa's abbot was Feofan Stepansky. He was a sincere monk and a sincere leader of monks. From the fact that Fr. In the early years, Isaevich still thought about returning to Pochaev and spent a lot of time getting acquainted with the great lords, but in his old age he weakened due to the infirmities of old age, in the St. George and Trinity monasteries the buildings fell into disrepair and others completely fell down. 0. Theophan, full of living zeal for the monastic life, began to build a new church and new cells in the St. George Monastery. By 1735, both were ready, and the church of St. George was consecrated to the joy of the zealots of desert life. 9 – He even intended to build a stone church in honor of the Great Martyr George: but death stopped his activities for the earth in 1740. Father Gabriel Velikoshapka was appointed abbot of the St. George Monastery on Oct. 14 1740 10 The following year he began to carry out the plans of his predecessor. Another goal in the monastery is the contract concluded with the masons in the regimental office on April 4. 1741 for the construction of a stone church of St. George. This contract is curious in the sense that payment for labor is mostly fixed in food supplies of various kinds, while payment in money is 830 rubles; – the church should be built according to the plan and facade of the church of the Kyiv Florovsky Monastery. At the request of Abbot Gabriel, an archpastoral letter was issued to him in his name to collect donations for the church under construction. “By the grace of God, Rafail Zaborovsky Orthodox Archbishop of Kyiv, Galicia and Little Russia. The eparch of our Kyiv St. George Monastery of Kozeletsky, the all-honorable Abbot Gabriel, announced with a denunciation that due to the poverty of the Kozeletsky Monastery, the newly founded stone church in the name of St. the Great Martyr George, - cannot bring it to a perfect conclusion, asked permission to make requests from God-loving donors. - Having accepted this request as favorable, we issued this scripture, through which we humbly pray to all the sons of the Eastern Church who love the common church, to mercifully, out of their goodwill, donate to the structure of the churches shown with this scripture to the appearing petitioner, lovingly not to deny assistance, with undoubted hope and with strong hope, as merciful in goodwill with love for the church of God, alms will be rewarded temporarily and eternally by the Almighty lover and father”... On this very letter, Empress Empress Elizabeth deigned to write: “The contribution to the St. George’s Monastery is two thousand rubles. Sovereign heir Peter Fedorovich wrote: “To the same monastery and five hundred rubles. Peter". Father Gabriel diligently and zealously took care of the splendor of St. monastery. He managed to convince the Kyiv colonel Evfim Daragan to order the pouring of the Sabbath bell for the monastery. But no matter how hard Fr. Gabriel about the new church and its accessories: he, in many ways, had not yet finished the church, when he passed on to another life, in 1750. After Fr. Gabriel was ruled for a short time by the abbots Feofan Nesin and Inokenty Dombrovsky of the Kozeletsk monastery. Countess Razumovskaya in 1751: asked to appoint the Baturin abbot Joseph Mitkevich or the Kyiv Peter and Paul abbot Dionisy Shugaev as rector to complete the construction in the monastery. The last one was determined. In 1754, he wrote to the regimental chancellery that the new “church is looking for nothing else, just from the rainy weather of the fall - due to the poverty of the monastery in money, there is nothing to cover it with.” – To the great sorrow of the monastery, as soon as the new church was covered with a wooden roof, a strong fire occurred in the monastery in 1756: the cells of the abbot and the brethren were turned to ashes, the bell tower with three small bells burned down, of which one had 2 pounds, and the other two had 1 pounds each; During this fire, the written records of the monastery were also destroyed. - To the consolation of the monastery, and all believing souls, Colonel of Kiev Efim Feodorovich Daragan, out of zeal for St. monastery, covered at his own expense, three domes of the stone church of St. George with white iron. He also arranged in the new church of St. George iconostasis. 11 After abbot Dionysius, who died in 1770, the abbot of the St. George monastery was David Sukhozanet, and it was 1770–1775 - in 1770 he consecrated the main church of the monastery. - According to the notes of the monastery, he “lived holy, respected faith and law.” 1776–1777 was hegumen Varlaam. Until that time, he served in the Black Sea Fleet and was in Catherine’s first war with the Turks. After the conclusion of peace, he presented himself to the Patrarch of Constantinople and received from him, for his blessing, parts of the relics of St. martyrs Tryphon and Marina. During the administration of his Kozeletsk monastery, Archimandrite Pachomius lived here in retirement. Varlaam, dying, as a sign of spiritual friendship, gave him the St. power; and Pachomius, moving to the Poltava Ascension Monastery, left them to the St. George monastery. Pachomius also donated a pectoral cross to the monastery. 12 Varlaam's successor, abbot of the Kyiv Peter and Paul Monastery, Reuben of Petulinsky, during his reign (1777–1784), acquired a large bell that was still intact. Hegumen Irinarkh Bazilevich, who had previously lived in retirement in the Lubensky monastery, and even before that was the abbot of the Moscow Pokrovsky monastery, found the St. George monastery in a poor condition. Traces of the fire of 1756 were still visible in many ways. O. Irinarh smoothed over these sad traces. – He had the opportunity to transfer the lands with the villagers to the State Administration. From the Kozeletsky Trinity Monastery, which had long been assigned to the St. George Hermitage, it was now ordered to transfer the sacristy and all the utensils to the St. George Monastery. 13 According to the notes of the monastery, Fr. Irinarch was also a smart owner and kept the desert inhabitants in the fear of God. In 1787, he introduced himself to Empress Catherine during her stay in Kozelets, and received his 150 rubles for the monastery. 14; the following year he retired to the St. Michael's Monastery, where he died. Abbot Theodosius Stefanovsky (1788–1793) was to complete the report in the previous order of affairs and apply the new order to the situation in the desert; St. George's monastery was established in the 3rd class of regular monasteries and Fr. Theodosius petitioned the authorities for land for it. Afanasy Korchan, who entered in 1793 as a student and mentor of the Kyiv Academy, according to the monastery notes, gifted with a keen mind and firmness of advice, maintained the deanery at the monastery, although he remained a teacher of the French language, and then the corrective position of rector of the Chernigov gymnasium. By decree of June 30, 1797, he was appointed abbot of Vydubitsky. 1797–1798 Theodosius Stefanovsky again ruled the monastery. Former Baturin abbot Pavel Chednevsky in 1800. from the Kozelets abbot ordained as Archimandrite of Nizhyn. Monasiya Ivashutich, a native of the village of Dubrovnoye, Chernigov province, a widowed priest, tonsured a monk in the Cherigovsky cathedral monastery in 1780, from 1786 a hieromonk of the Black Sea Fleet, who saw 17 maritime companies, was an active abbot and died at the ripe old age of 80 years. 1809–1813 abbot Melchizedek of Konstyansky, formerly, from 1801, typographer of the Chernigov department, from 1803, seminary instructor and prefect. Hegumen Melchizedek, says the compiler of the monastic notes, over the course of three years corrected and decorated the monastery so that even the demanding court could not pronounce reproaches on anything; in the monastery there was what was necessary and there was nothing superfluous. Everyone gave about. Melchizedek has an advantage over the previous abbots. Upon entering the monastery, he found in it 2 monks with several novices - and multiplied the number of both. In 1809, the devout Colonel Pyotr Semenovich Katerinich, dying, left 9,000 rubles in his will. in favor of the St. George's Monastery. With the blessing of Archpastor Michael, Fr. Melchizedek, on the site of a wooden warm church that stood on the bank of the Ostra, built a stone building and a warm church in it; On October 8, 1811, the Right Reverend Michael himself consecrated the church. At the same time as the construction of the building, the construction of a stone fence was carried out and was also completed under Fr. Melchizedek. Elder Hieromonk Venedikt took part in the construction of the fence; in secular life, Vasily Dzyuba, merchant and head of Kozeletsky. Ekaterina Evfimovna Galagan, in memory of her parent, Colonel Evfim Fedorovich Galagan, known to the monastery, donated 2050 rubles for the restoration of the iconostasis. “I myself,” said the unknown compiler of the notes, saw the commitment of the district assistants to Fr. Melchizedek and respect for his learning. I myself heard how all the persons wanted to see in their homes the abbot, dear in mind and heart.” Melchizedek died on December 21, 1813. Evgeny Prozorov 1814–1818; student of the Chernigov seminary, priest and archpriest, having been widowed, he was tonsured a monk and appointed as a teacher of rural economy at the seminary - from March 20, 1820. housekeeper of the bishop's house. - He is ordered to compile monastic records, known as the “history of the Kozeletsky Gorgievsky Monastery of 1811.” not devoid of entertainment." Jerome in the world Ilya Nikolsky, a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy in 1818, mentor at the Chernigov Seminary, from October 29, 1818, rector of Kozeletsky and rector of schools, died November 1, 1821. in a fever. Job Kurodsky, from March 5, 1822 hegumen, and next year Archimandrite Dumnitsky. Philadelph, a student of the St. Petersburg Academy and mentor of the Chernigov Seminary, from August 23, 1823. Abbot Kozeletsky, and in 1825 rector and archimandrite of Voronezh. In 1827, he was promoted to abbot of Kozeletsky, economist of the Chernigov department, and before that naval hieromonk Anthony. After Philadelph, the treasurer, Hieromonk Pankraty, ruled the Kozelets monastery for four years; he was a weak man; already, from the frequent changes of the abbot in the monastery, much has changed for the worse; and with the weakness of Pankratius, the deanery was upset and the buildings of the monastery fell into disrepair. Father Anthony, with the help of benefactors, changed the roof of St. George's Church; in 1832 He was dedicated to Archimandrite Glukhovsky. Gerasim Yakimovich-Kozhukhovsky, a naval hieromonk who took his place, completed the construction of fraternal cells; covered the boundaries of the St. George's Church with iron and repaired various dilapidated monastery buildings; for his work for the monastery he was ordained archimandrite and in 1846 he was retired to the Yelets monastery. Archimandrite Ilarius, the former rector of the Irkutsk seminary and abbot of the Ascension Monastery, is a kind man, but due to weakness of character, he allowed a lot of unrest in the seminary and monastery, for which he was appointed abbot of the poor Kozeletsky monastery. He ruled here from 1846 to 1853 and not only did not arrange anything better in the monastery, but also did not support what was previously instituted. Sick with old age, he brought the monastery to the point that almost all the monastery buildings began to threaten to fall. The abbot did not meet anyone, and the monastery was almost forgotten. After the death of Fr. Ilaria, dedicated to the abbot of the Kozeletsk monastery by the treasurer of Dumnitsky, Theodosius Alternatsky. He restored decorum in the monastery, increased the number of workers, repaired dilapidated buildings and built new ones. The current state of the monastery is as follows: The main church of St. George is made of stone with two altars. Here is a very ancient icon of the Holy Great Martyr George, which has long been called miraculous. Two miracles were recorded at the monastery. One happened in 1742 under Abbot Gabriel. “The snake crawled into the mouth and stomach of the carelessly sleeping Cossack and tormented him greatly. He walked to many holy places and entered the Kozeletsk monastery; here in front of the icon of St. George, the snake came out, and the sufferer became healthy. Another incident took place in September 1814. The monk of the Putivl monastery Isaiah Ivchenkov went crazy and unconsciously came to the St. George monastery. During the all-night vigil, he came to his senses and, hitherto mute, began to speak. This was September 26, and on November 6 he went, completely healthy, to his monastery. In the St. George's Church - the relics of St. martyr. Tryphon and Marina. Another warm church in honor of St. Trinity, built under the current rector in memory of the former Trinity monastery. The former refectory building, where the warm church was located, is widespread and now contains a church and an abbot’s cell on the upper floor, and a fraternal meal and cells on the lower floor. A large stone building of fraternal cells is also being built, since the previous wooden cells are very dilapidated. There is a stone fence around the monastery; behind the fence there is a hotel and a stable yard with buildings. – Until 1786, the monastery had 178 male souls, villagers with a small amount of arable land. Current facilities of the monastery: 460 rub. salaries, up to 40 acres of arable land, 50 acres of forest and interest on 7650 rubles. but for what the Lord sends. Appendix to the description of the Kozeletsky St. George Monastery “George Khmelnitsky, hetman of the troops of His Tsarist Majesty, the Zaporozhye lords, colonels, centurions, atamans and all the elders and ranks of the army of His Tsarist Majesty of the Zaporozhian and Vshelyak will become people - who should know about this. And as of glorious memory, our celestial relative, out of his piety, gave and donated soil, stakes, hay sheds with accessories and belongings, and also from pious people a donation to the monastery of the Holy Trinity of Kozeletsky to increase the praise of God, and I do not violate the will and decree of the parents, even the soil, stakes and hay sheds with all accessories and We are disposing of the belongings of that monastery in the Holy Trinity Kozeletsky, without moving them away, we would order in memory, so that the elders and mob of the army of His Royal Majesty of Zaporozhye are so greedy as the inhabitants of Oster, Kozeletsky and people around the outskirts of every camp in a calm holding. As if for the glorious memory of our relative and belongings I do not take away, so I suffered under our unkindness and strict military punishment, which cannot be canceled by anyone who is contrary to our will. 3 Boguslav days, November 28, 1659.” Stverzhene on the soil of the monastery and the Kozeletsky voyt, see. (Arch. Kozel. Georg. Monastery) 2. Sheet of Hetman Vigovsky “Ioann Vigovsky, Hetman of the troops of His Royal Majesty of Zaporozhye. We acknowledge by this scripture to everyone who should know about this, change the lord of the colonel of Kyiv, Essaul, centurion, ataman and all the older and lesser comrades of the army of his king. led zap. and to all the inhabitants of Burkovsky and the whole coalition of people, to whom it would have been shown that we, for the sake of revival and multiplied praise, God’s conferred the village of Burki (Berkovo) with all the belongings of the village lying on the monastery of St. Troetskoy Kozeletsky, newly founded out of our piety, did so for us, like all the Trans-Rozhian troops, bless the Lord God, the great father abbot and his brethren monks, each knowing, either from the elders and the rabble and all the embassy, the least falsehoods and, transferring to the administration of this village Borok father The hegumens did not care to fix the difficulties of the greedy one, and he did not collect all the necessary things to the village of Borok from Devna and now the necessary things like forests and other soils could not get along peacefully, sawing and sternly admonishing. Those Burkovsky inhabitants are obedient to the father abbot of the Kozelsky monastery and are deported from him; otherwise, where someone was contrary to our will and in the administration of this village caused harm and difficulty, or wanted to be disobedient among the Burkovsky townsfolk, each of them, behind the hired sack, will be punished strictly by us, otherwise it will not happen. Given in Chigiriv on June 27, 1658. “I am repairing Tatiana Voynilikh knowingly and recognizing myself with this sheet of mine, a voluntary record. Izh, out of her good will, recklessly sold her shady soil for 60 kilos, no one knows anything about it.... the soil of Doroginka and Kobchik, which is the soil with all the stubs lying right up to the very river from the Ostra River, which goes to Zolotusha nicknamed, the tract, which is the Zolotusha River that borders the soil. The same is true with this letter of mine, and that river Zolotusha fell into the Starsky swamps, and from the Starsky marshes the border also fell in Ostr, sharp tezh in Trubezh, Trubezhem also new in Ostro, which is the above-mentioned soil sold and legated to honest fathers, Mr. Father Simeon Tchaikovsky, also Father Pankraty Mikhailovich, also Father To Joel Puchkovsky and all the fathers of their brethren at the holy place, that is, at the monastery, with an eternal watch, which I also give with this letter of mine and voluntary entry, since no one is allowed to be a bad person before that ground and before all the stumps lying, so I myself, as well as my descendants, are my neighbor and eternal watch under the curse of anathema and also guilty of his royal majesty thousands of kopecks, and in order, then they would have ground from whomever the above-replaced persons were called up and turbocharged another thousand kopecks. With whom were people of good faith, suitable for the gentleman, the centurion of Kozelsky, Pan Ivan Sukhov, Marko Goryachka, Voyt of Kozelsky, Timofey Volodkovich, and other people of good faith and their inhabitants of Kozelsky. Why do I give this sheet of my voluntary record to a vish-menovaya person for the sake of faith with a hand inscription and with an embossed seal in Kozeltsa to the fate of God on the tenth day of March 1654.” On the side is written in Polish: Przedaza grantow od jei milosfci paniej Tutiany Zawackiej Wojnilowiczowej ojcom na monastyr St. great much George." “Roku 1656 June 26 days. On the order of the meskom, the town hall of Kozelsky, in front of me is Alexander Ivanovich Dolinsky, the voit of Kozelsky. Ivan Rangunka the burgomaster, Andrei Gunikevich the raitsa, Zinovy Yashchenko the storekeeper, having obviously become ostracized persons in front of you, Mrs. Tatyana Voinilovichovna admitted clearly, openly, voluntarily, that the celestial mother of her mother, Mrs. Tatyana Voinilovichova, sold the land to her honest father To Simeon Tchaikovsky and the honest Father Joel Puchkovsky and the honest Father Savvaty, the hieromonks on the foundation of the Kozelsky monastery within the boundaries of the recumbent. And from the other world, having zishovov still did not get 10 gold for that land, for which now, after death, this king was left with me, the well-worn lawyers began to pay for that land and gave all the pennies to the vedlugs of the established auction. Before that soil of the land, Father Kozelsky gave an eternal possession to the greedy attack, so I myself, as my dear relatives to the replaced hieromonks in that land, have grown from the giving of all the pennies that have already reached my hands, the eternal treasure that I had done before the local Kozelsky district, asking that we have this list of the district issued, which with the stamping of the seal of our bowl and with the signature of the hand of the clerk of our mayor, issuing to the honest hieromonks of Kozel is ros-casalismo. Written in the Kozelsk town hall for the month and day mentioned above. 4. Extract from the Kozeletsky magistrate “1666 roku. In front of me is Pavel Ilemenko, the centurion of Kozelsky, and Mikhail Dovgy, the ataman of the city, and Alexander Dolinsky, the mayor of Kozelsky, Avram Mokretsky, the mayor, Samuil Brilevich, and before the entire board of the Kozelsky magistrate and before all the townspeople; The lawyers of our monastery have settled down on their neighbors Futorov Berlozov, Lipovoe Island.... We are well aware - perhaps - of how the townspeople, the Yak and the Cossacks, and the same lawyers from the ladies of Zadaska bought the noblewomen for eternal watches... And now these rights remain with us on that ground, which we wrapped up and turned around not on our bodily belongings, but on the expansion of the praise of God: we began to found a monastery for the blessing of his grace, Mr. Father Sylvester Kossov, Metropolitan of Kyiv, with permission and universal defense from the glorious memory of Pan Bodan Khmelnytsky Hetman Zaporizhzhya and from all the hetmans advancing against him, the defense universals exhausted and confirmed even to this point his mercy, Pan Ioann Brukhovetsky, the faithful to his royal majesty, the hetman of Zaporozhye, completely tore away (?) and from the orders of the monastery, church piety was pleased... He also sends this, so that for the blessed sovereign the Tsar and his grace, Pan Hetman with his Orthodox army and all of us Christians until the end of the world, God’s promise was sent to that place; Even if the enemy of soul sees our good deed, he allows us to destroy that holy place, those vilified farms of Berlozov, but the Berlozovs (?) are quite right and from no one will listen to that Lipovoe Island with all their belongings from the holy place, they want to take it away and they want to turn it into their belongings...... 5. Sheet of Colonel Tansky “His Royal Majesty of the Zaprozhian army, Colonel of Kiev Anthony Tansky. To you, Mr. Sotnik Kozeletsky Atamanov; To the policeman and the local voitov, I declare with this universal of ours that the eminent father abbot of Pochaev Joseph Isaevich, and now the abbot of the Kozeletsky Holy Trinity St. George Monastery, presented to God a letter of highest importance to his royal majesty and a letter of the most noble virtue of his grace Pan Hetman, the same letter rejected by the side of his subjects monasteries right there and not far from Kozelets, present in village hamlets, like in the suburbs, in bookmarks, in Danyuvets, Openki, Shulyaki, Likholetki, Glamazdy, etc. anyhow with special respect; they were preserved by the gaze of the commemorated most excellent father hegumen in the wretched monastery commemorated with those present at the monastery and all sorts of great things that happened there, as well as small acts carried out according to the powerful decree of his royal majesty; For which I order the monastic master centurion, the ataman and the chief, from here on out, who will rush to the subjects of the monastery, without reporting to my authority, who would not at all dare to do anything without the advice of a special one, in this of our own will we especially want to have it, I strongly and again order it. Given in Kozelets on December 5, 1713. The exalted colonel with his hairy hand. (a copy of this station wagon is kept in the arch. Koz. Georg. Mon). Primch. – From the file of the Chernigov treasury chamber for 1786 it is clear that the estates of the Kozeletsky St. George Monastery in the Berezinsky district were: 1. Khutor Lug, 66 versts from Berezna, contains: 2. The village of Shulyaki, 58 versts from Berezna, contains: d) 3 quarters of arable land. 6. Report from the monastery to the consistory “From the Kozeletsky St. George Monastery to the spiritual and sacred metropolis of the Kiev consistory, to the decree in this consistory on the 11th day of November 1764, received from the Holy Governing Synod, held by the Most Reverend Arseny, Archbishop Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia and Little Russia, to whom, depicting the need for writing, the address - calendar about sending the list: 1.) About the members of the Holy Synod and the offices and consistories subordinate to it; 2.) About all the bishops in order of the advantages of one diocese over another; 3.) Notable monasteries, about archimandrites, abbots and abbesses; 4.) Also about those, whether in the department of the Holy Synod and the government places subordinate to it there are what civil ranks, having general and state ranks, it was ordered from what time and by whom exactly each monastery was founded and who and from what year to what year were the leaders there. It was reported on May 1765, the day that the noblewoman Tatiana Voinelikha Zavatskaya, called Doroginka, bought the monastery for the town in Lyakhovka. The monastery of St. George Kozeletsky began to be founded with the blessing of the late Metropolitan of Kyiv Sylvester Kossov, who had died in Bose. And after that there were abbots Joel Puchkovsy, Joseph Isaevich, who, after all, was the abbot of Pochaev, then took the highest charter of the great sovereign and the great king, Peter the Great, from this St. George monastery for all those lands of this monastery; Feofan Stepansky, apparently the warm church was made in his name, since his name is written on the scrap from the warm church, 1745 Gabriel Velkoshapka, Innocent one year, lastly Dionysius 1751 on the 10th day of January. (architect Koz. george monastery). In addition to the acts placed in this appendix, the Kozeletsky St. George Monastery had several other documents of ownership, given to this monastery at different times; but, unfortunately, at the present time there are neither originals nor copies of them in the monastery archives. The existence of existing documents in the St. George Monastery before 1786 is evidenced by the chronicle of universals and other documents of this monastery, created in 1786 and now stored in the Chernigov treasury chamber. No. 1st. Privilege of John Casimir, King of Poland, approving the Kozeletsky Trinity Monastery of the rights to various lands from different persons, according to the records of the year 1662 December 30 days. No. 2. Protective sheet of Kiev Colonel Vasily Dvoretsky to the Kozeletsky monastery, protecting all the soil on it, June 1667, 2 days. No. 4-Y. Protective sheet of Kiev Colonel Vasily Dvoretsky to the Kozeletsky monastery on the monastery grounds dated July 1660, 26 days. No. 5th. Confirmation sheet from Colonel of Kiev Konstantin Solonina to the Kozeletsky monastery for the village of Danevka given in August 1687, 4 days. No. 7th. The wagon of the appointed hetman, Colonel of Pereyaslavl Arendarenok, given to the Kozeletsky monastery for the protection of Lipovoy Island and other monastic grounds, given on July 27, and in which year is unknown and, due to the dilapidation of the document, it is impossible to find out. No. 8th. Universal punishment of Hetman Timofey Tsyutsyura to the monastery on the same island of Lipovo given in July 1660 for 24 days. No. 9th. Protective sheet from the Kozeletsky order to the Kozeletsky monastery on the island of Lipovo, given in 1665 on July 1, 5 days. No. 11th Universal of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky for the protection of monastery grounds, given on July 1645, 9 days. No. 18th. Universal of Hetman Ivan Skoropadsky to the St. George Kozeletsky Monastery for an eighth part in the village of Abbot Anastasy Dolinsky - 1713 October 17. Vygovsky's universal in app. No. 2, about the Bogdan station wagon in appendix, No. 7, sl, pr. 4, The original act is enclosed. No. 7. The report (Appendix No. 6) says that the blessing was given by Metropolitan Sylvester in 1665 - there is a mistake about the year. Metropolitan Sylvester died in 1657. In ref. register III 689, it is shown that the St. George Monastery was founded in 1654. This, as we see, is quite consistent with ancient acts Yuzhnorussian letop. Belozersky p. 83, 1856. Grabyanka letop.p. 230–Chronicle of the self-witness 70. Colonel's letter dated August 4. 1687 in app. No. 7. – Danevka was approved for the St. George Monastery by the hetman’s general on March 5, 1711. Notes from the monastery. According to the statement of 1786, (appendix, No. 7. the general of Skoropadsky is listed as the Kozeletsky St. George Monastery for the eighth part in Mlyn. Abbot Anastasy Dolinsky), 1713 Oct. 17. Tansky's station wagon in Appendix No. 5. Colonel Volynsky wrote to the station wagon on April 24. 1710 - to you Voitov s. Days with all the local residents The report of 1751 (Appendix No. 6) says that his name survived on the rabble of the warm church. This is because the wooden St. George Church was turned into a warm one when the stone St. George Church was built. History of Kozelets. monastery 1811 in arch, monastery. According to the contract (arch. cons. 1761) for the iconostasis 1220 rubles. for various food supplies: rye 30 quarters, wheat 10 quarters, buckwheat 20 quarters, millet 5, barley 6, plain wine 100 buckets, half-gara 10 buckets. etc. etc. East. Kozel, monastery 1811 in arch. mon. Inventory of the monastery in 1777. After the death of Abbot Varlaam, the relics of the Holy Martyrs Tryphon and Marina remained in silver and wooden caskets. According to the same inventory, silver bars are shown as 51F. Gospel of the Lions, p. 1650 with silver plates, silver chasuble on the icon of the Great Martyr. George, in 7 f. four cups, books: a) liturgical: Lenten triode 1627, 1715 and 1727 service book K. p. 1653 735, 736, 737, 746 black. p. 1704 book of hours k. p. 1682 octoiches in 4 days black. And. 1682. graves, and 1730. p. 739 irmologist m. p. 1683 breviary in 8 d. k. p. 1692 Lvov P. 1698 m. p. 1719 in l. m. p. 743 apostle k. p. 1695, 722, 738 psalter k. p. 1697 715, m. p. 1718. Arc. Chern, June 1806, 1589.