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was liberally applied to its buildings. The Presentation Church, rising in three towers above the main entrance to the abbey, was erected in the late 1680s in the simplified Ukrainian Baroque style. The main cathedral was rebuilt in the Baroque style in 1715. The ancient clocktower was built up to
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There was no new construction in the monastery after that. In the 19th century, the cloister declined, especially after the fair had been moved to Bryansk in 1864. A garden of cedars, chestnuts, and cherry-trees was planted to mark its historical location. The
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the height of 42 meters. The Saviour Church over the fair gates was constructed in five levels, ringed by a gallery, in 1742. The walls of the monastery were erected between 1749 and 1769.
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donated funds sufficient to build a cathedral of five domes, a refectory church, and a belltower. The cathedral doors of rare craftsmanship were endowed by Prince
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torn down. It was not until the late 1980s that conservation works on the remaining structures started. The monks were readmitted into the monastery in 1992.
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supposed that the icon was modeled on a mosaic from the central conch of the Assumption Cathedral in the Pechersk Monastery.
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closed the monastery in 1926. Its valuables were expropriated, while the miraculous icon of the Theotokos was given to the
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from the old cathedral was carefully preserved and assembled in the new structure before it was consecrated in 1758.
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On 30 July 1749 work started on the new cathedral, which was to be modeled on the New Cathedral of the
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The miraculous icon represents the Theotokos Panachrantos with SS.
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in Moscow. It is believed that its design was commissioned from
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In the 16th century, the monastery was repeatedly sacked by the
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Objects of cultural heritage of Russia of federal significance
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Panachrantos, an 11th-century icon from the Svensky Monastery.
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Church legends attribute the monastery's foundation to Prince
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Russian Orthodox
monastery
Desna
Sven
Bryansk
Russia
swine
Roman of Bryansk
Theotokos
Mikhail of Chernigov
Anthony and Theodosius
St. Alypius
Kiev Pechersk Monastery
Nikodim Kondakov
Crimean Tatars
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan Mstislavsky

Anthony and Theodosius
Theotokos
Left-bank Ukraine
Treaty of Andrusovo
Cossack Baroque
Donskoi Monastery
Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin
St Andrew's Church of Kiev
Zamoskvorechye
iconostasis
Bolsheviks

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