Handwritten self-made photo album. Kostroma, B. Ipatievsky monastery, architectural monument of the XVI-XIX centuries.

Handwritten self-made photo album. Kostroma, B. Ipatievsky monastery, architectural monument of the XVI-XIX centuries.
1950-70-ies. (?) 10 l. Handmade, 1 copy edition.

Paper folder, sheet size 18.5 x 27 cm, image size 11 x 17 cm.

Good condition, tears in the folder. 

Founder: Tatar murza Chet.

Time of foundation: about 1330 (first mentioned in the chronicle in 1432).

- The founder of the monastery - the ancestor of the Godunov and Saburov families, who fled from the Golden Horde to Ivan Kalita;

- During the years of Turmoil, a young boyar Mikhail Romanov, along with his mother, the nun Marfa, hid from the interventionists behind the walls of the monastery. On March 14, 1613, in the Trinity Cathedral of the Ipatiev Monastery, Mikhail Fedorovich was called to the kingdom;

- Under the Romanovs, the monastery had a privileged position, members of the imperial family revered it as their family shrine;

- In the XVII century, the monastery kept a list of the Ipatiev Chronicle-one of the oldest Russian chronicles and the most important documentary sources on the history of ancient Russia, in 1809 it was found in the Library of the Academy of Sciences by historian Nikolai Karamzin;

- In 1649, there was an explosion in the powder magazine, the Trinity Cathedral and its shrines were almost completely destroyed. On the site of the lost cathedral, a new one was erected, inferior in size to the previous one;

- In 1685, the new cathedral was painted with unique frescoes by an artel of masters under the leadership of Guriy Nikitin;

- In 1767, for the visit of Catherine II to Kostroma, the Catherine Gate was built, which became the main entrance to the monastery;

- In 1839, a column was erected on the monastery square in memory of the events and people who left a mark on the history of the monastery;

- The period of 1837-1863 was marked by a large-scale reconstruction of the monastery under the direction of architect K. A. Ton - the facade of the monastery was re-decorated, the tent church of the Holy Martyrs Chrysanthus and Daria was designed over the Holy Gate (on the side of the Kostroma River), the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was built, connected to the Trinity Cathedral, the Chambers of the Romanov Boyars were reconstructed and the "royal staircase" was erected .";

- During the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov in May 1913, Emperor Nicholas II came to the monastery, the monarch lived outside its walls in a specially built wooden house;

- In 1919, the monastery was closed, and its property was nationalized. In the buildings of the monastery, dormitories for textile workers, an orphanage and military barracks were arranged. In 1934, the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos was destroyed;

- The dormitories were settled by the mid-1950s, restoration work was carried out;

-In 1958, the Kostroma State Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve was opened in the monastery;

- In 1989, the first divine service was held since the closure of the monastery, and in 2005, the monastery was completely returned to the Diocese.