The Mother of God-Alekseevsky Monastery is an Orthodox male monastery in Tomsk, located in the jurisdiction of the Tomsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The monastery was founded in 1605 at the mouth of the Kirgizka River on Yurtachnaya Mountain. He suffered from raids by Siberian peoples (Kalmyks, Teleuts, Kyrgyz). In 1656, the only monastery church of the Kazan Icon of the Virgin Mary was burned. After this, it was decided to move the monastery to a safer place on the banks of the Ushaika River. The construction of the new monastery was completed in 1663.
The management of the other eight Siberian monasteries that were part of the Tomsk category was carried out from the Mother of God-Alekseevsky Monastery. Until 1764, the monastery was the only owner of 400 serfs in the Tomsk province, and also owned land on the Tom and Ob rivers. In the 17th century, a hospital was opened at the monastery, and in 1746 the first Tomsk school - the Tomsk Russian Theological School (in 1762 it was transformed into a Russian-Latin school). Also, since 1858, a theological seminary with an extensive library operated at the monastery.
The monastery, like other Siberian monasteries, was a place of exile for violators of monastic regulations. It also contained secular persons. So, at the end of the 1720s, Abram Hannibal (great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin), exiled to Siberia on the instructions of Prince Menshikov, was under arrest in the monastery.
The main monastery church is the Kazan Church, which also has chapels in honor of Alexy, the man of God and saints Florus and Laurus. The building was originally made of wood and burned down several times. In 1789, a modern stone church building was built in the Siberian Baroque style. In the 1830s, the monastery was surrounded by stone walls and chapel towers (designed by Tomsk architect K. Tursky). On the territory there was a garden, a lake, summer cells and a cemetery.
In 1864, Elder Fyodor Kuzmich, identified in legends with Emperor Alexander I, was buried in the monastery cemetery. In 1904, a chapel was built over his grave according to the design of the architect Vikenty Orzheshko.
In 1922, the monastery itself was closed, but the community of believers at the Kazan Church existed until 1929. During this period, the monks lived under arrest in the fraternal building, and after the closure of the temple, together with the archimandrite, they were executed on Mount Kashtak.
In 1992, the Kazan Church and the cell building of the monastery were returned to the believers. Regular worship began. On July 5, 1995, in a cesspool on the site of the destroyed chapel of Fyodor Kuzmich, his relics were found, which became the main monastery relic. In 1997, the chapel of the saint was restored.
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The Mother of God-Alekseevsky Monastery in Tomsk is one of the city’s iconic landmarks. The monastery was founded in 1605 on the Bolshaya Kirgizka River, nine miles from the city of Tomsk. Then it was called Ust-Kirgizsky. Despite the fact that the monastery had a very good fortification and was surrounded by defensive ditches, it was constantly subject to raids by Tatars and nomadic Kirghiz.
In 1656, as a result of a fire, the wooden church of the monastery completely burned down. In 1657, the monastery was moved to a new location - Yurt Mountain, Tomsk fort. In 1662, on the territory of the monastery, the first wooden three-altar church was built in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, with two chapels dedicated to the martyrs Florus and Laurus, and the Monk Alexy, the man of God.
In 1681, the monastery was one of the oldest Siberian churches, so Tsar Feodor Alekseevich took it under his personal patronage. In 1698, the first school in Tomsk was opened at the monastery. From the 17th century The city's first almshouse and hospital began operating here. In 1764, the Mother of God-Alekseevsky Monastery became one of the regular monasteries and was ranked in the third class.
The first stone of the modern church of the monastery was laid in 1776. Three years later the consecration of the side chapels took place, and in 1789 - the main chapel of the temple in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The Kazan Church was built in the architectural traditions of the Siberian Baroque school, becoming the first stone building in the city. On the territory of the Mother of God-Alekseevsky Monastery there is one of the oldest graveyards in Tomsk.
In the 1830s. Stone walls and chapel towers were erected around the monastery. The author of this project was the Tomsk architect K. G. Tursky. On the territory of the monastery there were summer cells, a lake, a garden and a cemetery, and to the south there was a monastery grove, which remained until the beginning of the 20th century.
In 1922 the monastery was closed. In 1941-1945. it was used as a military hospital. After some time, the monastery buildings, including the partially dismantled Kazan Church, were transferred to the Tomsk Pedagogical College. In 1992, the building of the Kazan Church and part of the cell building were transferred to the jurisdiction of the Tomsk Deanery of the Russian Orthodox Church. The monastery was restored practically from ruins.
Today, the Mother of God-Alekseevsky Monastery is one of the oldest operating Orthodox monasteries in the south of Siberia.
The Mother of God Alexievsky Monastery was founded in 1605. (one year later than the construction of the Tomsk fort). Initially, the church and monastery buildings were built of wood and were located 9 versts from the fort at the mouth of the Bolshaya Kirgizka River. It was called Ust-Kirghiz or Bogoroditsky. In the very first year, the monastery was destroyed by ice during the spring flood, after which it was moved a mile upstream of the Bolshaya Kirghizka to an elevated place. However, a quiet life did not work out in the new place. The monastery was subjected to regular attacks by nomadic Kyrgyz and Tatars, and in 1656. As a result of the fire, the temple was destroyed. After this, it was decided to move the monastery under the protection of the Tomsk fort to Yurt Mountain.
Construction on Yurt Mountain was completed in 1663. Next to the Church of Alexei the Man of God, which has stood on this site for more than 30 years, a temple was erected in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. From that moment on, it began to be called Bogoroditse-Alexievsky. The new monastery was a fortress, which became part of the defensive structures of Tomsk. Together they survived more than one attack by nomads.
In 1776 a stone church was founded in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, the construction of which was completed in 1789. In 1836-1839. according to the project of the first Tomsk bishop Agapit and according to the project of the Tomsk provincial and diocesan architect K.G. Tursky built a stone fence around the monastery with four corner towers and three holy gates. The bell tower of the stone cathedral, built in 1860, became the true decoration of the monastery. In 1863, the “Solemn” 303-pound bell was raised on it. In 1904 A stone chapel was built on the grave of elder Theodore Kuzmich (Theodore of Tomsk), who is associated with Emperor Alexander I.
After the establishment of Soviet power in the summer of 1923. the monastery was closed. Most of the monks were captured and shot on Mount Kashtak. The territory of the monastery was transferred to Pedagogical School No. 2 and partially built up. The monastery was gradually destroyed despite the fact that in 1923. was registered by the museum department of the Glavnauka as an ancient monument of national importance. The bell tower of the main temple, the chapel at the grave of Elder Theodore, the corner towers and gates were dismantled into bricks.
In the 80s of the 20th century, a partial restoration of the monastery was carried out. The real revival began in 1991, when its territory was transferred to believers. In 1995, the restored Kazan Cathedral with a newly rebuilt bell tower was opened. In 1996 The former abbot's building was returned, where monastic cells are now located. In 1998 The chapel of St. Rights was rebuilt. Theodore of Tomsk.
Early 20th century photograph of the Kazan Cathedral and the monastery courtyard.
Below are 2 archival photographs of the monastery and Monastyrskaya Street (now Krylova). The first was filmed in 1903, the second - in the period 1900-04.
Currently, from this angle you can only see part of the fence and the corner tower. The temple is closed by a five-story building.
The newly rebuilt fortress wall now protects not from enemy attacks, but from worldly vanity. There is a constant traffic jam in this place.
Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God with the restored bell tower.
Residential building.
Archival photograph of the early 20th century of the chapel above the burial place of St. Theodore of Tomsk. Near it you can see the monastery cemetery.
Now there is no cemetery, and the chapel is under renovation.
At the end of the post, another archival photograph from 1904. It shows a view from the bell tower of the Kazan Church towards Monastyrskaya (Krylova) Street and the Annunciation Church (now in its place is Batenkova Square). The photo is mistakenly signed as Preobrazhenskaya Street (now Dzerzhinsky).
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The oldest monastery in Siberia, the Mother of God-Alekseevsky Monastery, was founded in 1605 at the mouth of the Bolshaya Kirgizka River. In 1658, for strategic reasons, the monastery was moved closer to the city, to Yurt Mountain, where a wooden church in the name of Alexy the Man of God was built. In 1754, the church burned down from a lightning strike. In its place in 1789 a stone church was built, consecrated in the name of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Since 1746, the first school on Tomsk soil, the Tomsk Russian Theological School, existed at the monastery.
In 1923, the entire territory of the monastery was given under state protection, but nevertheless, in 1928-1930, the bell tower was demolished, the church was partially dismantled, and the territory was built up with new houses. Since 1979, the Kazan Cathedral has been restored.
The monastery's stone castle with four corner towers and three holy gates was built in 1836-1839. according to the project of the first Tomsk bishop Agapit and according to the project of the Tomsk provincial and diocesan architect K.G. Tursky. The stone two-story fraternal building with the rector’s chambers was built in 1884 according to the design of the diocesan architect V.V. Khabarova. The monastery was closed in 1923. In 1979-1995. work was carried out to restore the Kazan church of the monastery in its original form. In 1992, with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II, the opening of the monastery took place.
Based on materials from the website tomsk.gov.ru
V. Mother of God-Alekseevsky Monastery, 3rd grade, in Tomsk. It was founded no earlier than the beginning of the 17th century, 7 versts from Tomsk, at the mouth of the Kirgizka River, and was called Ust-Kirgiz. Due to frequent raids by the Kigiz and Kalmyks, it was moved to its present location in 1656-1662. The monastery houses a wooden cross from 1662 and a handwritten synodikon. Elder Fyodor Kuzmich was buried in the cemetery within the monastery fence.
From the book by S.V. Bulgakov “Russian monasteries in 1913”
One of the oldest monasteries in Siberia. It was founded in 1605 at the mouth of the Kirgizka River, 9 versts from the Tomsk fort, and was popularly called Ust-Kirgiz or Bogoroditsky. In the first year, the newly rebuilt monastery buildings and the church were destroyed by ice during the spring ice drift, after which the monastery was moved a mile up the Bolshaya Kyrgyzka to an elevated place protected from floods. At a distance from the Tomsk fortress, the position of the monastery was dangerous: despite the fact that it was well fortified and surrounded by defensive ditches and embankments, it often suffered from raids by nomadic Kyrgyz and Tatars. The fire of 1656 destroyed the newly built temple. Another construction stopped due to lack of funds.
Elder Ephraim, who was the builder of the monastery at that time, decided to move the monastery to the city with the advice of the governor and citizens of Tomsk "... according to their mutual choice of location." And they built the monastery again on Yurtochnaya Mountain, the most elevated in the entire surrounding area. In 1663, the construction of the monastery in a new location was completed by a new abbot, schema-abbot Isaiah. The monastery was located next to the church in the name of Alexei the Man of God, which by that time had stood on Yurt Hill for more than 30 years. After the unification of the monastery with the Alekseevskaya Church, the Ust-Kyrgyz Mother of God Monastery began to be called the Mother of God-Alekseevsky. The new monastery was a fortress and became part of the defensive structures of Tomsk. Over the course of several years, the monastery withstood many sieges “from the Kalmat [Kalmyk] parish,” the most significant of which was in 1668.
The site of the original construction of the monastery on the Kirgizka River was marked by Elder Isaiah with a large memorial cross. The inscription on it read: “In the summer of 7170 (1662) the life-giving cross of the Lord was built, and on it is depicted the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ under the power of the blessed and pious Sovereign Tsar and Grand Duke Alexy Mikhailovich of all Great and Little and White Russia, Autocrat by faith and the promise of the Tomsk city of the monastery of the Mother of God of Kazan: the builder of Isiah, even about Christ with the brethren. Written in the Kuznetsk prison."
In 1662, the first (there were four in total in the history of the monastery) wooden three-altar church was erected in the monastery in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God with a northern aisle in the name of Sts. mchch. Flora and Laurus and the south in the name of Alexy the man of God. In the early 1660s, the builder of the monastery, Elder Isaiah, submitted a petition to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, in which he asked to reward the monastery with money and an annual gift. The Tsar ordered that the monastery servants be given an annual salary, and also sent liturgical books, icons, bells, vestments and all the necessary church utensils from the royal sacristy.
By the beginning of the 18th century, the monastery owned significant land and fisheries. The increase in monastic lands required many workers. The monastery recruited peasants and sent them out to settle their land plots in the Verkhotomsk camp, near the Ishtan channel and on the river. Shegarke. Already in the 1760s, more than 400 “male revision souls” lived on the monastery plots.
At the time of its creation in 1605, the monastery, like the whole of Siberia, was part of the Vologda diocese. In 1620, with the appointment of the first Siberian Archbishop Cyprian (Starorusenkov) to Tobolsk, the monastery became part of the Siberian and Tobolsk Archdiocese until the opening of an independent Tomsk diocese in 1834. In 1681, the monastery was accepted under the personal patronage of Tsar Feodor Alekseevich.
Since its founding, the monastery has become a major missionary center. Already at the beginning of the 17th century, on the Krestovy (Krestheny) island at the confluence of the Tom and Ob rivers, missionary monks performed the first baptisms of foreigners in southern Siberia. And by the middle of the 17th century, one of the first missionary camps was established on the monastery grounds in Nagorny Ishtan.
In 1698, the Greek abbot Jonah founded a Russian school in the monastery, which served as the beginning of the entire future educational system of Tomsk. In 1744-1746, with the blessing of the diocesan authorities, the first Russian theological school in the south of Siberia was opened in the monastery. In 1818, through the labors of Archimandrite Jerome the “Gymnasiarch” (Kirillov), the first Russian-Latin gymnasium in Tomsk was opened. Two years later it was transformed into the Tomsk Theological School. In the 17th century, the first hospital in the region appeared at the monastery. In historical materials of the 18th century, the monastery hospital is already described as “quite extensive” and well equipped.
After the reform of 1764, significant land holdings of the monastery were lost, it was classified as a third-class monastery with government salaries, and the archimandrite's rule was abolished. Gradually, the brethren of the monastery began to consist of elderly monks.
Since 1807, the Mother of God-Alexievsky Monastery, as a monastery of the provincial city, began again to be governed by an archimandrite. By decree of the Holy Synod of September 30, 1809, the monastery was converted from a regular third-class monastery to a dormitory. Since 1835, the monastery has been the residence of Tomsk bishops. A bishop's house was built on its territory.
In the 1830s, a stone fence with main and economic gates and corner towers was first erected around the monastery, which gave the monastery a majestic appearance. In the southeastern tower there was an antimins chapel in which funeral services were held. Another ancient chapel was located in the monastery cemetery. The real attraction of the monastery was the unusual garden, created through the efforts of Bishop Afanasy (Sokolov) in the southern part of the monastery. With its lake, mountain, monastic cells and cemetery, it represented a symbolic image of the Holy Land of Palestine.
In 1882-1899, the monastery housed a theological seminary. In 1898, a literacy school was opened in the monastery wing, in which, according to information from 1900, 16 boys studied.
The monastery was closed in the summer of 1923. The brethren of the monastery switched to monastery borrowing, the so-called. "Archimandrite". Here, at the ancient location of the monastery at the mouth of the river. Kyrgyz, there was a country house of archimandrites and there was a wooden Church of the Intercession. Until 1926, 26 inhabitants of the monastery labored here, earning food with their labor. In the mid-1920s, the complete destruction of the monastery began. In 1925-26, the monks, already doomed to death, lived in the fraternal building. They were forbidden to leave their cells on pain of death. The fate of all the inhabitants of the monastery is unknown, but most of the brethren were captured and shot on Mount Kashtak.
Over time, the territory of the monastery was transferred to the jurisdiction of Pedagogical School No. 2 and built up with new houses, despite the fact that in 1923 the monastery was registered by the museum department of the Main Science Department as an ancient monument of national importance. During the Great Patriotic War, the monastery housed workshops for sewing military uniforms and a school for sanitary instructors. In the early 1960s, the corner towers and holy gates of the monastery were dismantled.
In the 1980s, an attempt was made to restore the monastery complex as a museum, which was limited to only partial restoration of the monastery temple.
In 1991, the territory of the monastery was visited by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II. In 1992, Bishop Tikhon (Emelyanov) of Novosibirsk and Berdsk made the grand opening of the monastery. Until 1994, the art museum remained the owner of the temple. In the same year, the complete return of the temple to believers took place. In 1995, the restored Kazan Cathedral was transferred to the monastery. In the same year the discovery of the relics of St. right Theodora. In 1996, the former abbot's building was returned, where monastic cells are now located.
Kazan Temple. The stone church was founded in 1776 with the blessing of St. Varlaam (Petrov), Archbishop of Tobolsk and all Siberia. In 1779, the side chapels of the temple were consecrated, dedicated to the holy martyrs Florus and Laurus (northern) and St. Alexis the man of God (southern). And only in 1789 the main altar was consecrated in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. The church bell tower, built in 1860, became the true decoration of the monastery. In 1863, the “Solemn” 303-pound bell was raised on it. At first, they wanted to place a throne in the name of St. in the second tier of the bell tower. right Lazarus the Four-Day, but later the archive and repository of antiquities of the monastery were built here. After the closure of the monastery, the temple continued to function as a parish church. On December 17, 1929, by decision of the Siberian Regional Executive Committee in Tomsk, the church was closed. Over time, it was partially dismantled. In the early 1980s, the temple was "... the stump of an ancient building with the remains of a dome." By the time the reconstruction of the monastery began at the end of the 20th century, the bell tower, apse, and the completion and covering of the temple itself had not been preserved. In the early 1990s, large-scale restoration work was carried out, as a result of which the temple was completely restored.
Chapel of St. Theodore of Tomsk. In 1904, over the grave of the popularly revered elder St. Theodore, located according to his will in the monastery fence, a stone chapel was built. The main chapel icon depicted St. blgv. book Alexander Nevsky is the heavenly patron of Emperor Alexander I and St. Theodore Stratilates is the patron saint of the elder Theodore Kuzmich. In Soviet times, it was dismantled into bricks for the construction of secular buildings. In 1997-1998, the chapel-monument was restored according to the original design on the previous foundations.
Church of the Three Saints.
Temple at the gate. Built at the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st century.
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Chronicle of the monastery
1605 - Founding of the Ust-Kirgiz (Bogorodsky) monastery 9 versts from Tomsk on the river. Big Kyrgyz.
1606 - the church and monastery buildings are demolished by flood. The monastery is moved to a higher and safer place upstream of the river.
1620 - with the appointment of the first Siberian Archbishop Cyprian to Tobolsk, the monastery became part of the Siberian and Tobolsk Archdiocese (before that it was part of the Vologda Diocese).
1656 - a fire occurred that destroyed the new wooden church of the monastery. The monastery is moved to Tomsk to Yurt Mountain.
1656 - Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich granted the monastery the first allotment of land holdings outside Tomsk.
1662 - the first wooden three-altar church was erected in the monastery in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God with chapels in honor of the Monk Alexy the Man of God and the martyrs Florus and Laurus.
1663 - completion of construction of the monastery in a new location.
1681 - the monastery was among the three oldest Siberian monasteries accepted under the personal patronage of Tsar Feodor Alekseevich.
1695 - the abbots of the Mother of God-Alexievsky Monastery receive the rank of archimandrites.
1698 - the first school in Tomsk was opened in the monastery.
Since the 17th century, the first hospital and almshouse in the city was organized at the monastery.
1746 - a Russian theological school opens in the monastery.
1750s -archim. Isaiah established the “leading monastery bell”: the city churches were to begin and end the bell ringing according to the ringing of the monastery church.
1764 - the monastery becomes a regular one and is classified as a 3rd class monastery. Its abbots again become abbots.
1769 - Kuznetsk Nativity of Christ Monastery was annexed to the Tomsk monastery.
1776 - the first stone church of the monastery is laid.
1779 - the side chapels of the new church are consecrated in honor of the Monk Alexy the Man of God and the martyrs Florus and Laurus.
1789 - the main chapel of the temple in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was consecrated.
1807 - restoration of the archimandrite in the monastery.
1818 - a Russian-Latin gymnasium was established at the monastery.
1820 - the gymnasium was transformed into the Tomsk Theological School.
1834 - opening of the Tomsk diocese.
1835 - The Mother of God-Alexievsky Monastery becomes the residence of Tomsk bishops; a bishop's house was built on the territory of the monastery.
1836 - construction of the stone monastery fence began.
1860 - the bell tower of the stone cathedral is built.
1863 - a 303-pound “Solemn” bell was installed in the monastery.
1864 - death of elder Theodore Kuzmich (holy right. Theodore of Tomsk).
1884 - a stone abbot's building was built in the monastery.
1891 - Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich, the future Tsar Nicholas II, visits the monastery.
1904 - above the crypt of St. A stone chapel is being erected under Theodore of Tomsk.
1908 - Vicar bishops with the title “Barnaul” become abbots of the Mother of God Alexievsky Monastery.
1923 - closure of the monastery; the last rector of the monastery was Archimandrite Irakli (Popov), who, later becoming a bishop in the Urals, was shot in the 30s.
1923 - numerous apparitions of St. right Elder Theodore of Tomsk at the chapel and above the walls of the monastery.
1936 - the building of the bishop's house and the house church burned down, was rebuilt and alienated from the monastery.
1936 - the chapel of St. right Theodore of Tomsk.
1937 - the country church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary was set on fire.
1941-45 - there is a military hospital in the monastery.
1960s - the stone fence and gates of the monastery are dismantled.
1991 - His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II visited the territory of the monastery.
1992 - Bishop Tikhon of Novosibirsk and Berdsk made the grand opening of the Tomsk Mother of God-Alexievsky Monastery.
1995 - the restored Kazan Cathedral was transferred to the monastery.
1995 - the discovery of the relics of St. right Theodora.
1996 - the former abbot's building was returned, where monastic cells are now located.
1996-1998 - the chapel of St. right Theodore of Tomsk.
1999 - the current abbot Silouan (Vyurov) was appointed governor of the monastery.
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The Mother of God-Alexievsky Monastery of Tomsk was founded in 1605, 9 versts from Tomsk on the river. Bolshaya Kirghizka and received the name Ust-Kirgizsky (Bogorodsky). In 1656 there was a fire that destroyed the wooden church of the monastery. The monastery was moved to Tomsk on Yurtochnaya Mountain.
In 1662, the first wooden three-altar church was erected in the monastery in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God with chapels in honor of the Monk Alexy, the man of God, and the martyrs Florus and Laurus. In 1681, the monastery, among the three oldest monasteries in Siberia, was accepted under the personal patronage of Tsar Feodor Alekseevich. In 1695, the abbots of the Mother of God Alexievsky Monastery received the rank of archimandrites.
In 1698, the first school in Tomsk was opened in the monastery. Since the 17th century, the first hospital and almshouse in the city was organized at the monastery. In 1746, a Russian theological school was opened in the monastery. In 1764, the monastery became a regular one and was classified as a 3rd class monastery. Its abbots again became abbots.
The first stone, now existing church of the monastery was founded in 1776. In 1779, the side chapels were consecrated, and in 1789, the main chapel of the temple in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.
In 1818, a Russian-Latin gymnasium was established at the monastery, which was later transformed into the Tomsk Theological School. After the opening of the Tomsk diocese from 1834 to 1883, the Mother of God-Alexievsky Monastery became the residence of the Tomsk bishops, and a bishop's house was built on the territory of the monastery.
In 1864, the holy and righteous elder Theodore of Tomsk was buried in the monastery’s fence. The elder's grave became a place of pilgrimage. The Kazan temple and the grave of Elder Theodore at the altar of the temple were visited by many famous and outstanding people of Russia, including representatives of the royal House of Romanov: Grand Dukes Vladimir Alexandrovich (1868) and Alexei Alexandrovich (1873), Tsarevich (from 1894 - Emperor) Nikolai Alexandrovich (1891). In 1904, above the crypt of St. A stone chapel was erected by the elder's admirers of Theodore of Tomsk.
In 1923 the monastery was closed; the last rector of the monastery was Archimandrite Irakli (Popov), who, later becoming a bishop in the Urals, was shot in the 30s. In the same year, numerous apparitions of the holy righteous Theodore of Tomsk took place near the chapel and above the walls of the monastery. According to some sources, the inhabitants of the monastery were shot in Tomsk, on Kashtachnaya Mountain; according to others, the monastic brethren moved to their homestead at the mouth of the Bolshaya Kirgizka River, where they existed until the summer of 1937. The further fate of the inhabitants remained unknown.
In 1941-1945. There was a military hospital in the monastery. Over time, the monastery buildings were transferred to the Tomsk Pedagogical College, including the partially dismantled Kazan Church, from which all the chapters with crosses were torn down, the bell tower was demolished, its premises were converted for workshops and household needs, and then a gym was built in it.
In 1992, the building of the Kazan Church and part of the cell building was completely transferred to the Tomsk deanery of the Russian Orthodox Church. On Easter night 1992, the first service took place in the restored church.
On July 5, 1995, the discovery of the relics of the holy righteous Theodore of Tomsk took place. The relics remain in the Kazan church of the monastery. In 1996-1998 The chapel over his burial place was restored.
Since 1992, the monastery has been restored practically from ruins. During this time, the Kazan Church was completely restored, including with funds allocated by the state as part of the “Culture of Russia” program. The monastery wall was rebuilt, and the residential buildings located on the monastery territory were resettled. In 2006-2010 A new three-story building with a house church in the name of the Three Saints was erected within the monastery’s fence. A church and cultural center and a children's Sunday school opened there. The monastery has the largest library of spiritual literature in the city. Currently, construction work has begun on the construction of the northern building of the monastery.
