All Orthodox pilgrims and tourists who love to travel to holy places, of course, have heard many times, and maybe they've been to a huge Orthodox monastery meeting every traveler on the Golden Ring of Russia or just passing through the village of Borisoglebskoye on the road from Rostov to Uglich . This is the famous Borisoglebsky monastery, celebrated by many Orthodox saints and occupying a special place in the history of Russia.

Centuries later, the entire richest architectural ensemble of the Borisoglebsky monastery was formed. Moscow princes and Russian tsars considered the monastery in Rostov the Great "home" and did not skimp on the means of its arrangement. In the post-Petrine period, the architectural ensemble did not change much.

Gradually the Boris and Gleb monastery acquired not only religious, but also economic significance for Rostov and other cities of central Russia .The monastery was attended by believers from many cities, and this could not but attract here and then entrepreneurs of merchants .They began to come here to satisfy the people's thirst not only for spiritual food, but also for the material .So around Borisoglebsky monastery appeared Borisoglebskiye slobody - a large commercial village of the Rostov district of the Yaroslavl province, the center of the Borisoglebsk volost, here on the big holidays there were also rich fairs .

In the Soviet time, instead of the closed Borisoglebsky monastery, the People's Museum was opened, which later became a branch of the Museum-Reserve of Rostov. And now the monastery and the museum are side by side. Perhaps, this neighborhood embodies the inseparability of the world of the human, the people from the world of the divine.

Having gone to Rostov, be sure to visit the Borisoglebsky Monastery and examine the cathedral of Boris and Gleb, the Annunciation Church with the refectory chamber, the Sergius Gate Church, the belfry with the Church of St. John the Baptist, the cell of Irinarkh the Recluse.

The shrines of Borisoglebsky monastery

Rostov the Great, of course, values ​​his monastery also because many Orthodox shrines are kept here. As an expensive shrine preserved in the monastery a simple wooden cross - the blessing of St. Sergius, from the altar for worshiping the believers are stored the multi-kilogram iron relics of the Monk Irinarkha stored there.

The monastery houses the miraculous relics of its founders Saint Reverend Theodore and Paul, Reverend Irinarkh the Recluse, who lived in the Borisoglebsky monastery in the Time of Troubles, his relics under a spoon are kept in the porch of the cathedral church of the monastery .According to the life of the saint, in 1612 he received a blessing to protect Moscow from the Poles Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin .According to the testimonies of the faithful, after the death of the Monk Irinarkh near his coffin many miracles and healings of the sick and demoniacs were performed while the crosses and chains of the holy ascetic were placed on them .

Every year before the holiday of Elijah the Prophet, the worldly angel of the Monk, a religious procession from the walls of the monastery to the source of Irinarkha, 40 km from the Borisoglebsky monastery, near the village of Kondakova - the birthplace of the saint. Believers come here for a miracle, tourists - for impressions. It is absolutely certain that everyone gets what they came for at the Rostov Borisoglebsky Monastery.