Волгоградская Епархия Русской Православной Церкви. Официальный сайт. История и современность.
Volgograd Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Официальный сайт Волгоградской и Камышинской епархии Русской Православной Церкви. В структуре сайта представлена история епархии, информация о её развитии и современной жизни, православных образовательных учреждениях, печатных и иных изданиях. Есть русская и английская версия.
...In 1917 6 nuns and 24 lay sisters inhabited the cloister. They prayed and did needlework: embroidered, quilted, made shawls and artificial flowers, and taught girls needlework. The cloister had gardens and farms. The nuns grew potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers and wheat.
When the Bolsheviks came to power the cloister was closed. It was completely destroyed by bombings in the days of the Stalingrad battle. The nuns of the cloister remained in the village Besrodnoe even after the war.
The monastery in the village Kalach opened at the beginning of the 19th century, its name was unknown, later it became a nunnery. In 1915 in its hospital soldiers wounded in the war were cured there. In 1945 a local hospital for 60 patients was opened there. The cloister was destroyed during the Stalingrad battle.
The Gryasnushenskiy Svyato-Troitskiy nunnery was founded in 1837 in the village Gryaznukha with the means of Pelagiya Burkova, who had donated her country estate and became prioress of the nunnery. In 1877 an orphanage was opened there. In 1890 in the cloister was sanctified the Svyato-Troitskiy temple with side chapels Tikhvinskaya and of All Saints.
The Kraishevkiy-Tikhvinskiy nunnery was situated in the village Kraishevo. It was founded in 1865 as a community. At the end of the 19th century the community became a nunnery with 4 temples. The nuns found near the river Tersa a spring with healing silver water and built there a chapel, then a temple. In 1920 the nunnery was closed, the temple near the spring was torn down, but believers gathered there every year according to official documents dated 1945. The nuns of the former cloister organized those meetings. At that time there gathered more than 2000 persons. But the number of believers decreased and there were no masses after 1947. In 1961 came only 30-40 pilgrims. Now the spring is a state water reserve and there is a waste on the place of the nunnery.
After 1917 members of renewering church played an important role in the life of the city, they approved of cooperation with Bolsheviks and occupied most temples. In October 1922 they liquidated cloisters; monks were announced free citizens and had to leave their cloisters. The war of 1941-1945 provoked religious enthusiasm. After the war nuns held masses within temples. Believers asked local authorities to let nuns serve instead of priests. Historians mention that nuns disapproved of the official church, which wasn't free from the state. The last of the sisters agitated at the time of «perestroika» and «a new thinking»...
