How to explain this seizure and renaming of the Grand Ducal Church by the Pechersk monks? In particular, why was it necessary to rename the church of St. Demetrius to the Church of St. Peter, when was there a church near her in the name of this saint? The reason for the seizure of the Dmitrievsky Monastery of the Pechersk residents can be guessed in the special relationship to the Pechersky Monastery of the daughter of the builder of the church of St. Peter, Yaropolk Izyaslavich, Anastasia, widow of Prince Gleb Vseslavich, who died in 1158, at the age of 84, and was buried with her husband in the Great Pechersk Church, at the tomb of St. Theodosius. Le; The topography says that she, living as a widow for 40 years and having a special love for the Monk Theodosius, gave her entire life and her father’s volosts - Nebelskaya, Derevskaya and Luchevaya near Kyiv and her husband 5 villages with servants, 700 hryvnias of silver and 100 gold and all her ■wildness until the last war to Pechersk monastery Princess Anastasia was widowed 40 years before her death; Consequently, the capture of the Dmitrievsky Monastery of the Pecherians happened in the 10th year of her widowhood, when she had already managed to renounce earthly acquisitions. Out of love in memory of the Monk Theodosius, the pious widow donated all her property to the Pechersk Monastery. Naturally,
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that at the same time she could transfer to the Pechersky Monastery her right to the Dmitrievsky Monastery, founded by her grandfather, in which the church of St., founded by her father, Yaropolk Izyaslavich, was located. A black man with the tomb of this prince. And it is known that the Pechersk Monastery expanded its possessions, subjugating smaller monasteries with their lands and other lands. But why was it necessary to rename the church of St. Demetrius to the Church of St. Petra? The fact of renaming this already suggests that the church of St. Yaropolk founded. Peter's either remained, after the death of this prince, unfinished, or collapsed due to the fragility of the building - its top fell off, which happened to some of our churches in ancient times. In the first case it was necessary to complete the construction; in the latter build again. But, firstly, there was still one more ancient church left in the Dmitrievsky Monastery - why build another? Secondly, the remaining church bore the name of that prince who once threatened to excavate the cave of the Monk Anthony, wanted to take over the glory of the Pechersk Monastery to his monastery and forced the Monk Anthony himself to seek refuge for a time outside of Kyiv, on the Boldino Mountains of Chernihiv. Rather than finishing the church that had been started, or building a new one, it was easier to perpetuate the memory of the benefactress’s parent by renaming the former church of St. Demetrius in the name of the saint whose name he bore. The chronicler was right to call such a disposition of the churches of the Dmitrievsky Monastery “a great sin and untruth.” It is remarkable that the seizure of the Church of St. by the Pecheryans. Demetrius and renaming it the Church of St. Peter occurred in the same year in which the last grandson died. book Izyaslav Yaroslavich, son led. book Svyatopolk and the nephew of Yaropolk Izyaslavich, Izyaslav Svyatopolchich, who alone could stop the illegal disposal of his grandfather’s church. You may not believe our explanation of the mysterious place in the chronicle; but it is hardly possible to find another, more probable explanation. After 1128, in which the church of St. was renamed. Demetrius to the Church of St. Peter, neither about the Dmitrievsky Monastery, nor about the Church of St. Demetrius in Kyiv, is no longer mentioned in our chronicles.
Where was the Dmitrievsky-Izyaslav Monastery with the churches in it that were in the name of St. Demetrius and St. Peter and what is his future fate?
DMITRIEVSKY MONASTERY, AT STR. IN Kyiv V. KN. IZYASLAV YAROSLAVICH. 31