Rogozhskoye Cemetery
The Rogozhskoye Cemetery ( Russian Рогожское кладбище ) is a cemetery in the east of Moscow . It is the religious and administrative center of the largest religious community of Old Believers in Russia , the Russian Orthodox Old Ritualist Church . The head of the Russian Orthodox Old Ritualist Church, the Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia, has his seat in the Rogozhskoye Cemetery.
history
In 1771, under Tsarina Catherine II , the Old Believers in Moscow were allocated a piece of land in front of the Rogoschskaya city gate. There they were supposed to bury their dead who had died of the plague that ruled the city at the time. At this point, the Old Believers' own small district with cells, poor houses and churches was created. In the 19th century, the Rogozhskoye cemetery became the center of the priestly Old Believers (Popowzy).
In 1856 the altars of the Old Believers in the Rogozhskoye cemetery were sealed. They were only released again in 1905 by decree of Tsar Nicholas II .
description
Because Russia's richest merchants were Old Believers, the tombs in the Rogozhskoye Cemetery are particularly magnificent.
In the Rogozhskoye Cemetery stands the Rogozhskoye bell tower, which was built between 1907 and 1913 in memory of the unsealing of the cemetery altars based on a project by the Russian architect Fyodor Fyodorowitsch Gornostajew. With a height of 80 m, it is only one meter lower than the tallest bell tower in Moscow, the Ivan the Great bell tower in the Kremlin .
The summer church of the Virgin Mary Protection and Intercession was built between 1790 and 1792 years according to the plans of the builder Matwei Kazakow .
The Nativity of Christ Church was built in 1804 in the neo-baroque style and is used as a winter church.
In the north of the site there is also the Nikolaikirche, which was built in 1776 on the spot where the original wooden chapel stood. It has been used by the Old Believers since 1854. To the south of it is the Michaeliskirche, which also belongs to the Old Believers. The residence of the Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Old Ritualist Church of Russia is also located here.
art
The old believing merchant's son Parfjon Semjonowitsch Rogozhin from the novel " The Idiot " by Dostoyevsky got his name based on the name of the Rogoschskoye cemetery.
Web links
- The Mystery of the Ancient Faith exhibition opens at the History Museum in Moscow
- Рогожское кладбище (Russian)
Coordinates: 55 ° 44 '25.3 " N , 37 ° 42' 9.6" E