Ignatevsky skit

 village, abandoned / shut down, hermitage, Old Believers

Ignatevsky Old cell (mid-XVII - XIX cc.) Situated at the Winter White Sea coast, on the island of Grand Lake, situated at 10 versts from the mouth of river. Streams in the Arkhangelsk region.

According to legend, Ignatevskim this skit named after a farmer Zolotitskoy volost Ignaty Lazarev, who in the late XVII - early XVIII centuries., Uydya in the division, together with his associates stayed in the upper river. Streams, founded the Old Believer monastery, where he was a «mentor and old age». He died in 1739, and after his death, he founded skit called Ignatevskim.
skit, along with Anufrievskim Old cells, situated at 160 versts from him, just at the Winter White Sea coast, in the upper river. Koidu, some Koydozera, founded in the first quarter of XVIII century, was a haven for the Old Believers who fled here from Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod kerzhenskih Old cells located on the River. Kerzhenets, after the pogrom of these cells, arranged in the Nizhny Novgorod bishop Pitirim 1717-1719 biennium.

In the first quarter of XVIII century, many Old Believers monastery Ignatevskogo under threat of persecution by the authorities began to leave the cell and move to other safer places. Thus, living in a monastery Ignatevskom from nizhegordskih kerzhenskih Old cells nun Efimov and Paul, in search of a safer place with this aged skite Irina and Dorofey and elder Jehoiakim the ship on the eastern shore of Mezenskoy Bay, went through the swamp at right tributary river. Mezen - R. Semzhu, and on the shore of it, in 18 versts from the mouth, built cell, thereby founding a new Old Believer monastery here, which is called «Semzhenskie cells».

In January 1744 at the Winter White Sea coast have been one of the group of special military punitive expedition led by Major Peter Ilischevym sent here archangelic Governor, at the insistence of the Bishop and Archangel Kholmogorskaya Varsanofiya «for the investigation and capture hidden schismatics», hiding on the rivers of Koidu and Maida where the selbischa Anufrievskogo старообрядческого skite.

Information about skite only beginning to emerge again in the second half of XVIII century, according to him, this skit in those years began to emerge for the set of resettlement of peasants there Zolotitskoy Kuyskoy and parishes.
In the village of Lower Zolotitse in 1763 went to a split and moved to a monastery Ignatevskom 11 people, including 5 men and 6 women. In the same year, crossed the parish from Kuyskoy in division and exited at the district. Koidu and Ignatevsky skit at the district. Streams 41 people, including 23 men and 18 women 11.
According to the fourth revision, provedennoyv in 1782 of the 369 people who lived in the village. Upper Zolotitse, 11 people were absent due care in their hermitages raskolnichi 12.
In summer 1772, consisting of the expedition of Academician II Lepehina in Winter White Sea coast have been well-known naturalist - traveler IJ Ozeretskovsky. He writes that while in the region. Streams in poluverste from its mouth, there was a «village in the 4 yard», but above this village was Ignatevsky skit, in which resided «schismatics of 30 people» 13.

The male population Ignatevskogo monastery, which in 1791 numbered 23 people, mostly engaged in hunting and fishing, including marine fisheries, and marine zveroboynym fishing.
In his leisure time, men do crafts, wooden spoons, cups, buckets and other small dishes and zimniku Reindeer removed it in Arkhangelsk and Mezen.
Women engaged in the summer of gardening and gathering berries and mushrooms, and in the rest of the year pryali wool and knit various kind items, as well as sewn jumper and soviki of reindeer skins.

In the monastery there was a church, which, along with other icons, brought here skityanami and pilgrims, kept old letters Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, which has been brought to his cell first settlers, was known to the residents of nearby parishes Arkhangelsky and Mezenskogo counties and esteemed by them for the miraculous. Many of them felt their duty bound to visit the monastery, to pray Tikhvinskaya miraculous image of Our Lady and serve thanksgiving prayer.

At the beginning of XIX century in Ignatevskom skite lived only 59 people, including 8 men and 51 women, while in 1814 there remained only two men: Brown, aged 51 years and Zharavov, 82 years, and how many women - it is not known.
In 1830, this monastery lived a man and 10 women.
In 1847 the decision of provincial authorities Ignatevsky skit was renamed the Farm Maydensky. The decision stipulated that in these places, no one has the right to settle again. At the time of the buildings here were: church and two residential yard, where a population of 2 persons, a man and a woman.
In 1858, lived in seclusion Maydenskom 2: mezensky square Lichutin Peter Ivanovich, 53 years old, who moved to the hermitage of the city Mezen in 1853 and the maiden Marya Fyodorovna Nazarova, 65. There was still had a prayer house and two apartment courtyard.
Petty bourgeois Peter Lichutin after the death of the old Dmitry remained virtually the sole owner of all assets remaining here from the former Ignatevskogo Skete.
In 1883 Lichutin died testate on the property in favor of a peasant village Ruchevskoy Andrei Ivanovich Yurieva.
According to the inventory of the assets of former Ignatevskogo skite said: one-two old wooden houses, old barn, old barn, an old bathhouse, the old barn, blacksmith equipment, ryuzhi, 10 networks and other assets, as well as 54 icons for various saints, including Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, four copper image, shroud 15 and 12 different prayer books 26.
According to a court decree Arkhangelsk Spiritual consistory of 14 May, it was agreed that skit Ruchevskomu parish. Pursuant to this decree, the parish priest Koydenskogo Ion Bogdanov May 23, 1894 Rucheskuyu moved into the church from the former farm Maydeknskogo houses of worship all the holy icons, including Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, prayer books and other belongings. And other property and the building sold to farmers Ruchevskogo rural society.
This ended the history Ignatevskogo старообрядческого skite.
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