Zheltovodsk Monastery

More than seven centuries ago, Gorodets was founded over the Volga, in the place where the Uzola flows into it, an ancient capital city of princes from the Bogolyubsky family. It is believed that Prince Yuri Dolgoruky founded it in the middle of the 12th century as one of the last guard posts. Another name of Gorodets is Maly Kitezh. In those ancient times, as follows from ancient manuscripts, the prince traveled to cities and built churches. On the Volga he set out on a plow, landed on the shore in Maly Kitezh and built it. The fact that we are talking about Gorodets is evidenced by the fact that the same chronicle mentions the construction of Bolshoy Kitezh, which was founded at the same time a hundred versts from Maly across four rivers: Uzola, Sandu, Sanagda, and Kerzhenets. Geographically, everything fits together. Severe trials befell the settlers of those places. Fleeing from the persecution of Batu Khan, the prince secretly left Gorodets and disappeared behind the walls of Bolshoy Kitezh, and the abandoned city was burned by the enemy, as, indeed, all other settlements of the Zauzol country (lands in the interfluve of Kerzhentsa and Uzola). It was from those times that a beautiful legend about a wonderful city came down to us, which, being besieged by the Tatars, sank underground, and in its place Lake Svetloyar overflowed, over which the ringing of the Kitezh bell towers resounded for a long time. In 1439, the Zheltovodsk Monastery was founded on the Volga, below Ogorodets.

Its founder, Monk Makarii from the Nizhny Novgorod Pyatigorsk Monastery, converted local pagans to Christianity. However, the monastery did not last long, it was completely destroyed by Khan Ulu-Mahmet. Makarii and his like-minded people were forced to go further along Kerzhentsu to Unzha. The Zheltovodsk Monastery was restored only in 1624. It so happened that on the day of Makarii's death, on July 25, a great many parishioners gathered at the walls of the monastery, and this was the reason for organizing the Makariev fair. It is impossible to overestimate its role in the development of folk crafts of the Volga region: masters came here and converged from all over the district in order to demonstrate their skills and learn from others. In the 17th century, the Trans-Volga forests became a haven for numerous Protestants and schismatics who disagreed with Nikon's reformation. Monasteries rose along the rivers and skete settlements grew - Gorodets turned out to be the center of the Old Believers. Schism acquired a special scope in the 18th century, and since it was the Trans-Volga region that was the focus of the new teaching, its influence most strongly affected the way of life and the formation of the culture of the local population. You will definitely like it exporntoons.net porn of various genres!