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Presentation Monastery - Orthodox Monastery in Solvychegodsk, Kotlassky district of the Arkhangelsk region.
Stroganov founded by brothers in 1565 on the banks of a small river Solonikha (Usolki). In the same year was given a wooden fence monastery. Anika Stroganov sons - Jacob, Gregory and Simon - put in the years 1565-1570 in the monastery wooden cathedral of Our Lady of the Presentation in the Temple. The cathedral was consecrated in 1570; Anika Stroganov donated to the Cathedral of the icon "Introduction."
The heyday of the monastery associated with the name of the merchant, industrialist and philanthropist Grigory Dmitriyevich Stroganov. He created several church choirs from the serfs, who sang in the monastery. In 1688, instead of the burnt wooden monastery cathedral GD Stroganov began to build a new stone cathedral. Vvedenskii Cathedral was built eight years and was completed in 1693, but consecrated only in 1712. It was the first building so-called "Stroganov baroque" (to the same direction belongs to Christmas (Stroganov) Church in Nizhny Novgorod and the cathedral in Verkhoturye). Carved seven-tier iconostasis of the cathedral was made in 1693 in Moscow team of carvers led by master Grigory Ivanov. Icons wrote land painter Stepan Naryk Stroganoff, who had studied abroad and learn there style and technique of painting.
At the end of the XVII century, the monastery was annihilated by fire, but then rebuilt.
Near the cathedral Vvedenskii once was high bell tower (not preserved), and between it and the church contains the tombs of revered locally foolish Michael, Herodion, Thomas and Ivan Samsonovich. The monastery was surrounded by a stone wall (not preserved).
The monastery was abolished after the revolution. Bell tower and fence were broken. Monastery Archimandrite Theodosius (Sobolev) - shot in Koryazhemsky Nicholas Monastery.
In 2005, shot in 1918, Archimandrite Theodosius canonized.
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