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Monastery (the Holy Trinity Monastery of Antony of Siya)
The Antoniyevo-Siysky Monastery was founded in 1520 by the Reverend Antony on a smallish island on the Mikhailovskoye (Michael’s) Lake, near the river-head of Siya (today it is the Kholmogorsky District of the Arkhangelsk Region). It bears the name of its first and main cathedral – the Holy Trinity Monastery.
Fyodor Nikitich Romanov, the father of Mikhail Romanov who would establish the Romanov dynasty of the Russian tsars, was in exile here (1599-1605) and was made a monk against his will under the name of Filaret; later (in 1619) he became the Patriarch of Moscow and All-Russia.
In the 16th-18th centuries Antony of Siya Monastery became the largest spiritual and cultural center of the Dvina River Land. The Monastery had huge archives of more than 20 thousand items: donation records, census records, account-books, etc. The Monastery vestry could boast of excellent Russian jewelry art objects, such as a holy-water basin (1583), panagia (1608) (once it belonged to the Siya Monastery Hegumen Feodosy), a precious polykandelon which was presented by the Patriarch Filaret in 1628.
The outstanding monument of ancient Russian culture, the Siya icon painting original with 500 outline drawings from the Western Europe icons-gravures was made in the Monastery, too.
The revival of the Antony of Siya Monastery began with its being transferred to the possession of the Russian Orthodox Church under the Father Superior Hegumen Trifon (1992).
At present there are 13 monks living in the Cloister, and 60 workers live here permanently. Devine service, spiritual and educational, charity and missionary activities have been renewed. The monks of the Antony of Siya Monastery took part in the archeological diggings in the vicinity of the Kozhezersky (1997) and Krasnogorsky (1998) Monasteries.
Following ancient traditions a library, an icon painting workshop, candle production are being revived in the Antony of Siya Monastery.
The Monastery owns hayfields, ploughed fields, forests, a farm, stables; greenhouses and a garage have been built; bakery, mechanic’s, joiner’s, furrier’s, shoemaker’s shops are opened.
The Monastery churches are being reconstructed. The Antony of Siya Monastery offers service to several parishes in the Eparchy where there are no priests. Annually up to 5 thousand pilgrims from Russia and abroad visit the Cloister.
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