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29-449: (Redirected from Semyonovskaya ) Semyonovsky (masculine), Semyonovskaya (feminine), or Semyonovskoye (neuter) may refer to: Places in Russia [ edit ] Semyonovsky District , former district of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia Semyonovsky Urban Okrug, a municipal formation of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, which the town of Semyonov

58-615: A Tatar invasion, and later, during the Time of Troubles , to protect the region against the Polish troops. The fame of the founder attracted pilgrims and novices to the monasteries, helping its growth. When Feodor Romanov , the father of Russia's new tsar, Michael , was enthroned as Patriarch Philaret of Moscow in 1619, he sent a commission to the Unzha to investigate the miracles. He mentioned these miracles as confirmed in his letter to his son

87-483: Is a long way, and the travellers soon ran out of food, but were miraculously saved from starvation (Macarius' Miracle of the Moose ). Once they reached the Unzha, still in 1439, Macarius and his party founded Makaryev Unzhensky Monastery (now a convent ). According to legend, Macarius lived in his new monastery for a few more years, healing the sick and expelling devils from possessed people. He died on July 25 , 1444, at

116-639: Is based on Chet’yi-Minei (the standard Russian Orthodox Lives of the Saints ) as well as to other old manuscripts. One of them, kept in Makaryev Unzhensky Monastery  [ ru ] , was first inventoried in 1835. The other is kept in Makaryev Zheltovodsky Convent , and is written in the 17th century hand . Church scholars believe that he was most likely born in 1349. His home town, Nizhny Novgorod ,

145-477: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Semyonovsky District Semyonov ( Russian : Семёнов ) is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , Russia , notable for being a major center for traditional handcrafts such as Khokhloma wood painting and matryoshka dolls . As of the 2010 Census , its population was 24,473. The town

174-564: Is incorporated as Semyonovsky Municipal Okrug , a municipal okrug of Admiralteysky District of St. Petersburg Semyonovsky (rural locality) ( Semyonovskaya , Semyonovskoye ), name of several rural localities Semyonovskaya (Moscow Metro) , a station of the Moscow Metro in Moscow Semyonovsky Island Other uses [ edit ] Semyonovsky Life Guards Regiment , a guards regiment in

203-642: Is said to have stopped at a site near today's Sviyazhsk , blessing the future location of Makaryev Sviyazhsk Monastery  [ ru ] . However, Macarius and his companions were not allowed to stay at the Yellow Water Lake site. He decided to leave a safe distance between themselves and the Khanate , and went to the forests of the Unzha River , a few hundred kilometers north of the Nizhny . It

232-477: Is situated in an area of lowland bogs and forests, about 100 kilometers (62 mi) northeast of Nizhny Novgorod , the administrative center of the oblast . The Kerzhenets River flows through the town. The surrounding area includes most of the Kerzhenets Nature Reserve , a federal-level strict ecological reserve, established for the protection and scientific study of the local ecology of

261-452: The uyezd town of Semyonov. From the beginning of the 19th to the early 20th century, it was a center for Old Believers movement and the only place to produce Old Believers' religious items such as lestovka prayer beads. Within the framework of administrative divisions , it is, together with 1  work settlement and 190  rural localities , incorporated as the town of oblast significance of Semyonov —an administrative unit with

290-652: The Imperial Russian Army Evgenia Semenovskaya (1895 – 1976), a Russian ophthalmologist and politician Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Semyonovsky . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Semyonovsky&oldid=1253324280 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

319-811: The Russian Church is reborn and is restoring Macarius' monasteries. After the special commission of the archdiocese, with the forensic experts' help, established the genuineness of the relics, their return was celebrated at a special service in the Holy Saviour Cathedral in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin on March 23, 2006. Since then, the head was kept in a special portable reliquary in Pechersky Ascension Monastery in Nizhny Novgorod, which

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348-578: The Yellow Water Lake, and stayed there day and night, emulating the great hermits of the past. However, his solitude did not last long: pious people from far and wide came to his hermitage, some to seek his blessing, others to join him in hermetic life. In 1434, he founded Zheltovodsky Makariev Monastery of Holy Trinity for his disciples. The asceticism of Macarius, together with his love of his neighbors, attracted not only Christians but also many local pagan Mordvin , Mari , Chuvash and Muslim Tatar people. He baptised many in Yellow Water Lake. In 1439,

377-482: The age of 95, after an 83-year monastic career. After the two famous cloisters he founded, he is called Macarius of Yellow Water Lake and Unzha , the Miracle Worker. After the death of Macarius, a wooden church was built over his grave, and the Unzha monastery was named after him. The locals often reported being miraculously healed of various diseases after visiting his grave; his help was said to have repelled

406-504: The clerics can reverently take with them on a visit to a nursing home or to celebrate Feast of Venerable Macarius at his other, Zheltovodsky Monastery . On the occasion of Macarius' feast in 2007, the head was permanently transferred from Nizhny Novgorod to Makaryev Zheltovodsky Monastery (Convent). The transfer took place during August 3–7, 2007. The prized relic, accompanied by Archbishop Georgy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas and other ecclesiastical officials of Nizhny Novgorod Eparchy ,

435-439: The famous Kiev Pechersky (Cave) Lavra . At the age of 12, he snuck out of his parents' house and joined te Pechersky Ascension Monastery , and received the monastic name of Macarius ( Russian : Макарий , Makariy). He became one of the twelve disciples of Dionysius, and was known for the strictness of his fast and the fervency of his prayer. In 1374, Dionysius was appointed the archbishop of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod and left

464-419: The monastery was destroyed during the invasion of Russia by the khan Olug Moxammat of Kazan . Most of the monks were killed; Macarius and a few other Christians were taken to Kazan as prisoners. The khan, impressed by the pious life of the nonagenarian abbot, released him and a few other Christian prisoners, and allowed him to bury the killed. On the way back from Kazan to the Yellow Water Lake, Macarius

493-603: The monastery. Soon, Macarius left the monastery too. He travelled up the Volga , spent some time with Tikhon on the Lukh River , and then founded a monastery in honor of the Epiphany of Jesus Christ (now Makaryev Reshma Monastery, Макариев-Решемский мужской монастырь , near the village of Reshma in today's Kineshma district or Kostroma Oblast ). Macarius did not stay long in his new monastery, however. He wanted to live in

522-602: The parents had to attend every service at the parish church, and to take the child with them, because if they stayed at home during the service, the baby would again start crying. Macarius grew as a pious boy, especially interested in the lives of the Orthodox hermits of the past ages, living in the wilderness alone or in small lavra communities. For that reason, he enjoyed visiting not only his parish church, but also Pechersky Ascension Monastery , which had been recently founded by Dionysius who had come to Nizhny Novgorod from

551-523: The region. Rachmaninov may have born there. Poles are buried there to do with the Katyn massacre of 1940. Nazi Germany was there from some of 1941 to a bit of 1944. It was established in the beginning of the 17th century as a settlement of Old Believers . According to an Old Believer legend, the Old Believer settlement in the area was spurred by the existence of the ancient Olenevsky Skete (today,

580-615: The relics were genuine, and some minor miracles that convinced disbelievers that they were, they were put to rest in a reliquary in Unzhensky Makaryev Monastery. In 1929, Soviet authorities closed the monastery, and most of the relics ended up in the local history museum at Yuryevets, Ivanovo Oblast , where they were kept in storage until 1990, when they returned to Kostroma Eparchy (diocese). In 1995, these relics (bones and vestments) were brought back to Unzhensky Makaryev Monastery. The head of Macarius, however,

609-654: The status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , the town of oblast significance of Semyonov is incorporated as Semyonov Urban Okrug . Since 1918 Khokhloma wood painting became a major craft in Semyonov. In 1960, Semyonov was organized as a factory named Khokhlomskaya rospis (" Хохломская роспись ", Russian for "Khokhloma painting"). This factory specialized in the production of hand-painted wooden items (ranging from tableware to toys and furniture) with unique style, and also matryoshka dolls , marketed as souvenir items. The factory offers tours around

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638-612: The tsar in September 1619, and encouraged Michael to visit Macarius' Unzha Monastery in fulfillment of the vow he had given earlier (which Michael promptly does). It is thought that it was at that time that Macarius was canonized by a Sobor of the Russian Orthodox Church, which made his veneration nationwide. The relics of Macarius were discovered in 1671, during a burial in the church where his body had been buried. After several years of disagreements as to whether

667-573: The various stages of production and visitors can see craftspeople making and painting the items in traditional Russian styles. Semyonov is located on the Nizhny Novgorod - Kotelnich railway, which is part of one of the main routes used by trains traveling from Moscow to the Urals and Siberia . The town is served by electric commuter trains , connecting it to Nizhny Novgorod in just over an hour. Macarius of Unzha The story of Macarius

696-499: The village of Bolshoye Olenevo , some 24 kilometers (15 mi) southeast from Semyonov), which had supposedly been founded in the 15th century by some of Venerable Macarius 's monks to commemorate their leader's Miracle of the Moose that took place at that site, and later joined the Raskol . The first documented mention of Semyonov was in 1644; it was referred to as Semyonov's hamlet, later as Semyonovo village, and from 1779 as

725-627: The wilderness as a hermit. He travelled down the Volga, and liked the site at the Yellow Water Lake (Желтоводское озеро, Zheltovodskoe Ozero), near the fall of the Kerzhenets into the Volga, some one hundred kilometers downstream from Nizhny Novgorod . In those days, this was no-man's land between the Russian principalities, and the Kazan Khanate . Macarius dug a small cave by the waters of

754-540: Was missing. It was not until 2005 that the Eparchy (Archdiocese) of Nizhny Novgorod was contacted by a priest who had inherited the head (or most of it, at any rate) from his brother, also a priest, who in his turn had saved it from the Bolsheviks some time after the closing of the Unzhensky Makaryev Monastery in 1929. The priests had reverently kept the relics in their homes for many years, until they felt secure that

783-425: Was still a baby, he would start crying every time he heard the ringing of the bells of the nearby church. There was no way to console the child. The parents would not want to bring the baby boy to the church, afraid that he would disturb the service with his crying; but eventually they decided to try. To their surprise, as soon as they brought the child to the church, he became quiet, smiling joyfully. From this time on,

812-597: Was the capital of the Principality of Nizhny Novgorod-Suzdal , ruled by Prince Konstantine Vasilyevich. As most other Russian principalities of the time, his land was dominated by the Golden Horde overlords. Macarius was baptised in his parents' parish church, Church of Holy Myrrhbearers ( Russian : церковь Святых Жен Мироносиц ). His baptismal name is not known. According to the Life of St. Macarius , when he

841-470: Was transported down the Volga by the boat "Alexander Peresvet" during August 3–7, 2007, with stopovers in Bor , Kstovo and Lyskovo . Religious processions were organized in the cities visited, to carry Macarius' head from the Volga docksides to local churches for appropriate celebrations. Macarius is considered the patron saint of craftsmen , merchants , and travellers, as well as of Makariev Fair . He

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