Join the tour to Optina Hermitage on 6th of July, Sunday Trip program: 8am departure from Moscow 12pm arrival to Optina 12:30pm visit to the sacred relics of Optina Elders, the monastery and the monks’ crafts shop 3pm lunch at the monastery 4pm visit to the Shamordino Nunnery 5pm Bathing in the holy spring 5:30pm free time, time for snacks 6 pm departure 10 pm return to Moscow Cost - 2100 rubles Call Vladimir at +7 905 538 2135 to book the trip. Cheers! The Optina Hermitage (Russian: Оптина пустынь, Optina Pustyn) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery for men near Kozelsk in Russia. In the 19th century, the Optina was the most important spiritual centre of the Russian Orthodox Church and served as the model for several other monasteries, including the nearby Shamordino Convent. It was particularly renowned as the centre of Russian staretsdom. The holy Fathers made the Optina Hermitage (or Poustinia) a focus for the powerful renewal movement that spread through the Church in Russia beginning early in the nineteenth century, and continuing up to (and even into) the atheist persecutions of the twentieth century. Optina’s name is derived from the Russian word for living together, possibly because nuns were allowed into the cloister prior to 1504 Most of the monastery buildings were erected at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, when the monastery was being renovated as a centre of Russian staretsdom. After the Russian Revolution, the last of the startsy were forcibly deported from the monastery, which was declared a gulag. The last hegumen was executed in Tula in 1938. Later, some of the structures were demolished, while the cathedral was designated a literary museum. In 1987 with the beginning of Perestroika, Optina Pustyn was one of the first abbeys to be returned to the Russian Orthodox Church. In the 1990s its most notable startsy were glorified as saints. They are commemorated together on October 10 (October 23 on the Gregorian Calendar). The adjunct holy spring water contains 7 times the standard of silver and is said to heal.
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