Church of the Annunciation in Taininsky priests. The ancient village of Taininsky and the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Church holidays and traditions

Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Taininsky- Orthodox church of the Mytishchi deanery of the Moscow diocese. The temple is located on the high bank of the Yauza River in the village of Taininskoye, which is part of the modern city of Mytishchi.

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The first mention of a wooden church at the sovereign's travel palace on the road to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery dates back to 1628.

In 1675, by decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, construction of a stone church began on the site of the wooden temple, which was completed in 1677. The church was part of the palace complex of the travel palace. Similar churches were built in other travel residences of the tsar, Kotelniki (on the road to Kolomna) and Alekseevsky (also on the way to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery).

In 1751, by decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, a chapel of Sts. was built in the northern part of the refectory, and in 1763, the chapel of St. Zechariah and Elizabeth

In 1812, the temple was plundered by French troops.

In 1882, a new chapel was built at the expense of benefactors - in honor of St. Prophet Elijah. It is located in the southern part of the refectory.

In 1929 the temple was closed. It housed a club, then a bread store, a hostel, a meat shop, a waste warehouse, a decorative toy factory, and a carpentry workshop.

In September 1989, the temple was returned to the church and opened for worship.

Architecture

The temple, which has preserved its structure to this day, consists of a refectory with choirs, a quadrangle and an altar. The altar part consists of three apses. The temple has five chapters - one large and four small. One of the main attractions of the temple is its porch, which has no analogues in ancient Russian stone architecture: from its central platform, covered with a stone “barrel,” two symmetrical staircases diverge to the upper platforms in front of the entrances to the choir. Brick tents rise above the upper platforms. Experts point out that there is, without a doubt, a borrowing of forms of wooden architecture. In its original form, the temple had rich external decorations, which were not restored after modern restoration. Even before the revolution, the beauty and originality of the temple’s forms and the wealth of wall decorations attracted the attention of specialists and lovers of Russian art.

Travel by public transport: from Moscow from the Yaroslavsky station to the station. Taininskaya - 15 km.

Directions by car: on the outer side of the Moscow Ring Road from Yaroslavskoye Highway. towards Ostashkovsky highway. - 0.5 km, before reaching the traffic police post, turn onto the road to Mytishchi, along the street. Trudovaya to st. 1st Krestyanskaya, there to the left and to the intersection with the street. Vera Voloshina, there turn left again and go until the fork from the street. Red Village (she goes to the right). On the street Krasny Poselok to st. Central, there - turn right and follow it to the temple.

Annunciation Church in the village of Taininskoye, the ancestral estate of Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich, was built in 1677. by his decree.

The village of Taininskoye has been known from documents since 1410. as the possession of the Serpukhov prince Vladimir the Brave, grandson of Ivan Kalita. The village, located on the left bank of the Yauza, was one of the important points of the ancient trade route that passed along the then deep river. The village remained a palace for several centuries; here in 1552-1574. Ivan the Terrible visited often, and in 1574. he received the khan's ambassadors here. During the Time of Troubles, the village was occupied by False Dmitry II as an important point on the way from Moscow to the northern regions. Under Alexei Mikhailovich, a travel palace was erected in Taininsky, in which the tsar stopped on his way to a pilgrimage to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Under Elizaveta Petrovna, the wooden traveling palace was rebuilt.

The brick Annunciation Church is built in the style of Russian patterns and is very elegant. Its basis is a tall double-chambered quadrangle, topped with a hill of kokoshniks - a “fiery” ending - and five chapters on light drums. In the 19th century, as was the case with many “fire” churches, the tiers of kokoshniks were cut down and replaced with a hipped roof. The walls are richly decorated with decorative details made of cut bricks. From the north and south, four doors lead into the temple (two to the main volume, two to the refectory), framed by perspective portals with keel-shaped ends and “melon” decorations. The decor of the platbands on the windows is also very rich, and the windows themselves are separated by paired columns. IN The altar part of the temple has three high windows in the apses, their frames repeat the decor of the refectory windows. The main distinctive feature of the temple is the entrance from the west. This is not just an entrance, it is flanked by a pair of symmetrical external staircases with three lockers. The middle locker, lower, is covered on top with a hollow stone “barrel”; the side lockers, higher, are topped with tents. The tents, surrounded by a row of kokoshniks, were originally covered with green tiles. The supports of the staircases with massive bases and arches are decorated very luxuriously and variedly - as befits the entrance to a temple in a palace village. This splendor is reflected in the interior of the refectory: a tray vault with formwork, wide arched openings connecting the main space of the refectory and the choir. The interior decoration suffered greatly during Soviet times.

In 1929 The temple was closed, and first a village club was set up in it, then a bread store was opened. Later, a decorative toy factory and a carpentry workshop were located here. The church was returned to the believers in 1989, and then restoration began. They restored the original appearance of the roof with rows of keel-shaped and semicircular kokoshniks, put crosses on the domes again, and restored the temple from the inside. A belfry was built in the southern part of the outer porch (before this, the bells hung in the barrel-shaped middle part of the porch). In the basement of the temple there is a throne of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, in the upper part there are chapels of Ilyinsky and Sts. Zechariah and Elizabeth.

If you walk from the temple towards the Moscow Ring Road, you can see a tall monument. This is a monument to Emperor Nicholas II by sculptor V.M. Klykov, erected on the site of the royal travel palace. It was installed in 2000; This is already the second monument to Nicholas II on this site - its predecessor was blown up by vandals three years earlier.

The rector of the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Taininsky talks about obedience and spirituality:

My confessor is Archimandrite Tikhon (Agrikov)

— My confessor is buried behind my church. He passed away in 2000. My father's brother - in schema - Panteleimon. Under him, I entered the Moscow Theological Seminary in 1957. I really loved studying. I graduated from a seminary, an academy, and a three-year theological graduate school, but I always obeyed my confessor.

He advised me to also participate in all the circles that we had - I was involved in all of these circles. There was a violin class - I played the violin. There were also clubs for piano, English, iconography and regency. I was somehow more drawn to the regency, I was a regent among a narrow circle at the academy, and then they gave me a certificate that I could manage the choir.

But I liked it all. I really liked all my studies from a spiritual perspective. I studied with great inner satisfaction. I studied theology for eleven years and fell in love with it so much that I am now participating in the Divine Service Commission of the Moscow Diocese with the blessing of Metropolitan Juvenaly. This commission meets in Sergiev Posad, there are several of us. I love it, we edit church services.

And my wife really doesn’t like it, she says: “What good can you say there?” Sometimes she doesn’t let me go to this commission, and I have to obey so that there is no family conflict. And I really want to be on this commission!

As for the confessor, I listened to him in everything

But as for the confessor, I listened to him in everything. He was a teacher at the seminary and academy and supervised my education. He said: “Yes! Somehow you got “C” grades.” I immediately pulled myself up so that I could get “B’s.” But my love for learning was simply extraordinary.

I was already graduating from the academy when the time came to be ordained, and for this I had to get married. I didn’t have any girl, and my confessor told me this: “You study first, and St. Sergius will send you a bride.” I liked one girl. I came to Father Tikhon and said: “Here, father, I like this girl.” He replies: “Faith? No, she’s not good for you, she’s not good for you.” And I didn’t marry him or her. And he was a confessor, he knew all the girls. Then I brought my future wife to him. He says: “Well, this one will suit you, talk to her.” I talked to her and our marriage was created. We have lived together for fifty-two years, we have three children. We raised them. All of them received higher education, all of them are doctors.

I tried and try to listen to my wife. Even though I sometimes don’t like it, I never insist.

I am seventy six years old. I myself am already a confessor for those who come to me. And I have to say that many of them do not have complete knowledge, and for me this is a very big test. I am very upset about this because I see that their lives will turn out wrong.

Well, today there was one girl who grew up with me. She chose a boy and brought him to me. I looked: she surpasses him in development and will not be happy with him in life. I tell her: “You will not be happy with your choice. If you are disappointed, you will make him and yourself unhappy.” She began to cry. Sits and cries. Or does she already love him? And I look at him and see that he simply does not suit her. I tell the girl: “Look again!” She graduated from law school, but he is a narrow-minded person. She needs a husband for development.

Spiritual guidance is not leadership at all, but torment

Have you realized that spiritual leadership is not leadership at all, but torment? Because you see people’s destinies, you know what their choices can lead to, and you can’t fix anything. This is the difficulty of clergy.

There is in the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery. I remember him from the Lavra. One small, unattractive girl walked around him and said (I just heard it): “I want to get married!” Father to her: “You can’t get married! Your husband won’t appreciate you.” And she really wanted to. And she gave birth to a child. And then I saw that she and this child were following Father Adrian. That is, something in her family did not work out, and she again came with her sorrows to the priest, although he warned her and said that her life would not work out. She didn't listen to him.

Nowadays there are few confessors, because people have become all willful

That’s why there are few confessors now, of course. And why not enough - because people have become all willful. Everyone lives the way they want and acts the way they want. That is why the Lord does not give confessors.

I am also a mediocre confessor. What issues do I solve? Yes, some household issues: whether to exchange an apartment or not, whether to leave your husband or not ( laughs). Well, these are the simplest questions! What can I recommend from my meager mind? It’s just that I’ve gained some life experience: after all, I have fifty years of priesthood behind me.

It's very difficult to manage now. And it’s very difficult for people because they are not brought up to obey. But you must be able to obey. It is no coincidence that this has been one of the vows of monasticism since ancient times. And in the wedding prayer, the priest prays and says (I’ll read it to you now): “You yourself and now, Master, Lord our God, send down your heavenly grace on these servants of yours (and the names of those who are being married are listed) and give to this servant (that is, the bride ) obey your husband in everything, and let your servant be the head of your wife, so that they may live according to your will!”

People don't listen - this is the result of our era

It’s just that obeying and obeying is very difficult. People do not listen - this is the result of our era. And all our troubles, all the troubles of our youth, our children, are that they were not taught to obey.

Now, children don’t want to go to school. Well, how can you not study at school? Childhood should be devoted to learning, youth should also be devoted to education. And some people don’t want to “waste time” on this.

- Should everyone have one?

- I don't know. Now there are simply no elders. Of course, everyone should have an elder, but people now govern themselves. The confessor can be either the mother or the father - not necessarily a priest. Parents have the right to guide their children: they have life experience. They can, based on this experience, advise something good to their children.

— They say that modern man is very proud...

— My friend Father Hilarion lives in Pyatigorsk. Although he is blind, he confesses and communicates with the people. He says: “The most important shortcoming of our time is this. People don’t want to listen to anything, don’t want to accept anything, not even faith. They don’t know how to believe, they don’t know how to trust God. But no matter what happens, you must trust God! But they don't want to. They want to do it on their own. They usually say: “I am a strong woman! I'm strong! I can do everything!" - but it doesn’t work out...”

- How to deal with pride?

- It's very difficult. This is brought up. Respect for God and the Church is part of our culture. During the Soviet period, a whole layer of culture was hidden from modern generations and was not brought up properly. And now ill-mannered people don’t know how to live differently. If they are offended, then it offends them. They think they don't deserve it. It's very difficult.

- You can go crazy...

- Don't know. God bless! He said: “Only smart people go crazy.”

There are a huge number of operating churches in the Moscow region. Among them there are completely new ones, opened just yesterday, as well as ancient temples, imbued with a unique atmosphere, which is felt even by those who consider themselves atheists. Today I would like to talk about the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Taininsky. This is one of the most ancient cathedrals of all that have survived to this day and continue to function.

general description

The ancient temple building itself is a unique historical monument. The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Taininsky today is located on the site of a wooden church that was built back in 1628. Its founder was Tsar Alexander Mikhailovich. However, it did not exist in this form for very long. Already in 1675, it was decided to carry out reconstruction and build a stone temple here. And in 1677 he appeared before the parishioners in the form in which we can see him today.

Temple plan

To this day, the church has retained its original structure consisting of a refectory and a quadrangle. The altar part of three apses is also outstanding. Relatively small, judging by the standards of capital monasteries, the temple is decorated with five domes: one large and four small. If you look at the church from the main entrance, it immediately becomes clear that such a porch has no analogues in ancient Russian stone architecture. Here we see a transfer of the traditional wooden construction style to a more functional and reliable material.

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Almost no church in Russia escaped the sad fate. Most of them were looted and desecrated, some were completely destroyed. The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Taininsky village was no exception. It was first attacked by soldiers of the French army in 1812. It was almost completely plundered, but the reliable stone structure was difficult to destroy. Therefore, after the war, the church was gradually restored, and services began to be held here again.

Already in Soviet times, in 1929, the temple as such disappeared. The premises were taken over as a club. Later it was used as a club, a store and a warehouse, that is, almost until the end of the Soviet period, various organizations periodically replaced it. In 1989, the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Taininsky village was again returned to the parishioners. After the reconstruction, the doors were reopened for worship. Surprisingly, over such a long period of time, the unique atmosphere was not lost here. The history of the temple was complex, but not the most tragic.

Where is

Local residents know this church well and visit it regularly. The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Taininsky stands on the banks of the Yauza River, at the confluence of another river called Stebelki. Address of the temple: Central Street, no. 75. But once upon a time it was a quiet outskirts of the village. The temple is included in the city limits of the city of Mytishchi, Moscow region. In fact, it is very close to the majestic Moscow, so you can safely organize an excursion to the capital.

Church priests

The history of ancient monasteries and temples is quite interesting. However, it is not the walls that create the essence that the temple in Taininsky represents. The photos show us a majestic structure, which through the centuries has served its function of serving God. But it was not the walls that did this, but the people who gathered here for a common cause and laid down their lives to serve the highest ideals.

If little information remains today about the first priests who lived here from the day of opening, then those who served here during the period of persecution are still remembered. These were Father Peter and Pavel. They were the last priests until the closure of the temple in 1929. Father Peter was additionally a teacher and mentor. Father Pavel also followed in his father’s footsteps. Since he played the violin well, Father Pavel additionally taught music. He died in 1912, and Father Pavel died in 1952.

Father Superior

Many believers come to Taininskoye just to attend this man’s service or ask for personal advice. Father Vladimir headed the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary for quite a long time; he is its true decoration. Today he is already 76 years old, but he is a wise spiritual mentor for many parishioners. The main thing that Father Vladimir teaches is obedience and gaining knowledge. He himself studied with pleasure all his life, gravitated towards various arts and is trying to instill this in the modern generation.

Sunday school on the temple grounds

This is important work with the younger generation. On weekends, the doors of the Sunday school open for children, where there are no boring lectures. God's lesson is taught in the form of lively, interesting conversations. Children learn their first prayers, get an idea of ​​the commandments, learn musical notation and the basics of choral singing. Teachers pay especially much attention to developing a sense of beauty. Painting is used for this. Drawing gives you the opportunity to express your impressions in artistic form.

Schedule of services

The road here is open every day and for everyone. From 8:00 to 18:00, parishioners can visit it to light a candle and say prayers. And on weekends and holidays everyone is invited to worship in the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Taininsky. The schedule can always be viewed additionally on the official website.

• At 8:30 the general confession begins.
• At 9:00 - Divine Liturgy.
• At 11:00 - prayer service for the blessing of water.
• At 16:00 - evening service.

Every week on Saturdays and Sundays the sacrament of baptism is performed in the church at 11:00. You must first go through public conversations, which take place on Fridays at 16:00. They are intended for those who are going to baptize their children, as well as future godparents.

Church holidays and traditions

The store always has a detailed schedule of what services will be held in the coming month at the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Taininsky. The schedule of services includes not only regular sermons from the rector, but also meetings of church ministers of various ranks from Moscow. Such services usually attract a huge number of people, which is not surprising. After all, they know how to convey to each parishioner a piece of their soul, to make it a little warmer and brighter.

Social work at the temple

The Church is an ancient organization that was engaged not only in serving God, but also in working with people. A priest is a father, a comforter, a superior and a psychologist who will listen and guide, help and support. But not every church undertakes to work with the most difficult cases: drug addicts and alcoholics and their relatives.

In the church, Father Vladimir managed to organize and establish work in two directions at once. Every day meetings of the Society of Alcoholics and Drug Addicts Anonymous are held within the walls of the church. Each group has different problems and specific hours. But that is not all. Separate meetings are organized for relatives who have suffered such a difficult ordeal. Here all these people receive support and strength to move on towards their goals, and understand that they are not alone. Even though the result of healing cannot be 100%, even a fraction of those who came to the temple and returned to normal life is already a huge thing.

Mentions of the temple in Taininsky have been found in acts since 1651. In 1675, on the orders of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich (1629-1676), the stone church of the Annunciation that now exists was built. It was consecrated already under Tsar Fyodor Alekseevich (1661-1682).

The chapels of the temple are the holy righteous Zechariah and Elizabeth and Elijah the Prophet. The temple is five-domed, with a two-story porch and a high porch with a two-flight staircase; without a bell tower. It is decorated with stone carvings, intricate kokoshniks, tents and cornices.

In Taininsky, False Dmitry forced Maria Naguya, brought from the monastery, to recognize him as her son. In the 1730s. Taininskoye is the patrimony of Princess Elizaveta Petrovna (1709-1761). Having become empress, in 1749 she built a new wooden palace on the site of the dismantled palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. It was located, as it were, on a peninsula, at the confluence of the Yauza and Sukromka rivers. On the site of the palace there are now barns and a warehouse.

In 1929 the temple was closed. It housed a club, then a bread store, a decorative toy factory, and a carpentry workshop.

In 1989, the temple was returned to believers, and restoration work began. Currently, work is underway to reconstruct the lower church in honor of the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia. There is a Sunday school in the church. For more than four years now, on the feast of Epiphany, the rite of blessing the water has been held in the Sukromka River. More than 1000 people here plunge into the ice hole on these blessed days.

The clergy of the temple work to provide care for various social institutions and take care of the home for the disabled.

The rector of the temple is Archpriest Vladimir Agrikov, the clergy are Hieromonks Sergius (Agrikov) and Alexander (Pereslavtsev), and Priest Alexander Gushchin.

Divine services are held regularly on Sundays and holidays.

"Summer 7186 (1677), September on the 6th day, according to the Sovereign Tsarev and Grand Duke Fyodor Alekseevich of All Great, Lesser and White Russia, the autocrat decree, the newly built stone Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary should be prepared for the illumination of September by the 9th."
(From documents... "Department of the General Archives of the Ministry of the Imperial Household")

"The temple is located as part of the palace estate of the village of Taininskoye, on the way to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra - a holy pious monastery, a center of pilgrimage for the great Moscow princes and Russian sovereigns.....
The only monument of the palace estate that has survived to this day is the stone Church of the Annunciation.

“The beauty and originality of architectural forms, expressing the idea of ​​the national concept of the Russian temple, combined with the wealth of wall decorations, in some places a little wild and extremely original, attracted the attention of specialists and lovers of Russian art throughout all 300 years of its life.”
(From the book by V.K. Klein “Monuments of Ancient Russian Art in the Palace Village of Taininsky” - 1912.)
Reference:
There are 6 confessors in the Moscow diocese, namely:
- Archpriest Vladimir Ganin, rector of the Assumption Church in the village of Zhilino, Ramensky district;
- Archpriest Valerian Krechetov, rector of the Church of the Intercession in the village of Akulovo, Odintsovo district;
- Archpriest Mikhail Redkin, rector of the Tikhvin Church in the city of Stupino;
- Archpriest Vladimir Agrikov, rector of the Annunciation Church in the village of Taininskoye, Mytishchi district;
- Hegumen Valery (Larichev), rector of the Floro-Lavra Church in the village of Yam, Domodedovo district;
- Hegumen Sergius (Amunitsyn), rector of the Spassky Church in the village of Klyazma, Pushkin district;