Tserkov' Savvy Visherskogo

At this place used to be the Savva-Visher Ascension Monastery, from which almost nothing is now left. The emergence of the monastery is associated with Savva Vishersky. He was supposedly born in 1380 in Kashin in the Principality of Tver in the family of boyar Ivan Vasilievich Borozda. After taking tonsure, he originally lived in the desert 20 miles from Tver. In 1411 he went to Mount Athos, and returning from there in 1414 he settled on the Vishera River in the vicinity of Novgorod. In 1418, the annals contain instructions on the construction of a wooden church in the Savina Desert, where the monastery was founded. According to the biography of Savva, after the founding of the monastery, he set himself a pillar (it was curious how this building looked), on which he spent the whole week, going down only on Saturdays, so that he could be in Sunday service with his brethren. He died in 1460, presumably at the age of 80, and was buried in a monastery. In 1549 he was canonized. The village of Savino got its name from his name. In 1571, during the defeat of Novgorod by the oprichnina army of Ivan the Terrible, the monastery was ruined, but as it often happened to this crazy king, after some time atone for sins, he ordered the construction of a new cancer for the relics at the expense of the treasury. In times of trouble during the period of Swedish occupation, the monastery was also ruined, after which the Ascension and Savva the Monk Temple remained. In 1764, during the monastery reform, the monastery was closed. However, thanks to the hieromonk of the Vyazhishchi monastery Varlaam (former lieutenant of the Izmail regiment guard Vasily Pavlovich Glazatov) and the monk of the same monastery Joasaph (nobleman Ivan Ivanovich Anichkov), the monastery was renewed again in 1770, and then rebuilt, decorated and enlarged. The monks Joasaph and Varlaam stood at the head of the monastery one after another, and after death were buried in the cathedral church. By the beginning of the 19th century, the monastery was a fenced area, in the center of which was a cathedral complex, surrounded by an apple orchard. In the middle was the Church of the Ascension, from the south adjoined the Church of the Intercession, rebuilt in 1781, and from the side of the river in 1805 there was a chapel of the Monk Savva. From the west of the cathedral there was an extensive porch, under the floor of which many representatives of the Borozdins and the renewers of the monastery were buried. I also note that the famous statesman of the first half of the 19th century M.M. Speransky repeatedly attended services in the churches of the Savva-Vishersky Ascension Monastery in the period 1814-1816, when he was in exile in his estate of Greater Poland a few kilometers from the village of Savino. At the end of August 1915, nunners (about 200 people) of the evacuated Riga Holy Trinity Convent were housed in the monastery. The monastery was closed by the Soviet regime, apparently around 1920, but the churches still functioned until the 1930s. During World War II, the monastery was badly damaged. The Ascension Cathedral was adapted for locksmith workshops, a silo and a milk storage. But most of the buildings are still preserved. After the war, they housed a prison camp. Until 1974, the buildings still existed in acceptable condition. According to one opinion, the last point in the history of the monastery was put by Lenfilm workers in the 1970s. In an effort to demonstrate the barbarism of the Nazis in the film "Live Until Dawn" according to the novel by V. Bykov (V. Bykov himself called the film unsuccessful) they burned and blew up the remains of the monastery. After that, the remains of the buildings were dismantled into bricks. In 1992, a chapel was erected near the destroyed Ascension Cathedral. In 1992, the relics of Savva Vishersky were discovered, which in 1995 were transferred to the Intercession Cathedral in Veliky Novgorod. Now part of the territory where the monastery was located is fenced, and inside there is a chapel. In addition to it, a wooden cross is installed. A stone with an inscription indicates the place where in 1992 the relics of Savva Vishersky were discovered. Nearby there is another plate with an inscription about who Savva Vishersky was. And from the monastery buildings there are only a few photos of the 19th century.

The church is about nothing, but on the Vishera River it is very picturesque!

Beautiful church worth seeing