The graves of the abbesses Olympiada and Anastasia at the Brusensky Monastery in the Kremlin of Kolomna, Russia
In 1852–1858, at the initiative of Olympiada, the abbess of the Brusensky Monastery, the monumental Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was erected, to a design by the architect A. Kutepov. The Cathedral's appearance combines features of the Classical and Kievan Russian architectural styles. In 1922, the Brusensky Monastery was shut down, all its inhabitants were forcefully evicted and its churches stopped hosting services. The Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was occupied by a warehouse. The Cathedral was deprived of its five drums with spires, and during the Second World War its cellar was used as a bomb shelter. On 28 August 1997, the Dormition Cathedral of the Brusensky Monastery hosted its first Divine Liturgy after many years of desolation. On 13 October 1997, standing on the ambon of this church, Metropolitan Juvenal of Krutitsy and Kolomna, read out the decision of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to renew the monastic life in the Brusensky Monastery and to appoint the nun Anastasia the abbess of the Monastery. In the summer of 1999, they found Abbess Olympiada's tomb. In the autumn of 2000, the Monastery opened an exhibition telling about its history. To commemorate the 825th anniversary of Kolomna (in August 2002), reconstruction works on the Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross started. In 2006, the reconstruction was finished.
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Location: Brusensky Monastery, Lazhechnikova Street 12, Kremlin, Kolomna, Russian Federation
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
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