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19-504: The monastery is located at the place where previously a fortress of Gleden was built in the end of the 12th century by Vsevolod the Big Nest , the Grand Prince of Vladimir. Gleden was the predecessor of Veliky Ustyug and was destroyed in the 15th century during wars between Russian princes. The early history of the monastery is not well documented, however, it is assumed that the monastery

38-444: A daughter of Vasilko Bryacheslavich, Prince of Vitebsk . They had no known children. Ossetia 43°N 44°E  /  43°N 44°E  / 43; 44 Ossetia ( / ɒ ˈ s ɛ t i ə / o- SET -ee-ə , less common: / ɒ ˈ s iː ʃ ə / o- SEE -shə ; Ossetian : Ирыстон or Ир , romanized: Iryston or Ir , pronounced [iˈrəston] )

57-414: A part of Georgia. On Sunday 12 November 2006, South Ossetians (mostly ethnic Ossetians ) went to the polls to vote in a referendum regarding the region's independence from Georgia . The result was a "yes" to independence, with a turnout above 95% from those among the territory's 70,000 people who were eligible to vote at that time. There was also a vote in favor of a new term for Eduard Kokoity , who

76-582: A recent peace plan proposed by the government of Georgia promised the South Ossetians larger autonomy and pledged expanded international involvement in the political settlement of the conflict. Meanwhile, the South Ossetian secessionist authorities demand independence or unification with North Ossetia, which itself is located in Russia , while the international community instead recognizes it and Abkhazia as

95-687: Is an ethnolinguistic region located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians . The Ossetian language is part of the Eastern Iranian branch of the family of Indo-European languages . Most countries recognize the Ossetian-speaking area south of the main Caucasus ridge as lying within the borders of Georgia , but it has come under the control of

114-791: The de facto government of the Russian-backed Republic of South Ossetia – the State of Alania . The northern portion of the region consists of the, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania within the Russian Federation . Although a Russian-mediated and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe -monitored ceasefire was implemented in South Ossetia in 1992, the Georgian-Ossetian conflict still remains unresolved even though

133-457: The Vladimir-Suzdal war of succession (1212–1216) broke out between his sons, who each sought a larger share of his inheritance for themselves. Vsevolod married first Maria , whose origins are disputed. She has been variously identified as Ossetian , Alan and Moravian . They had at least fourteen children: Maria died in 1205 or 1206. Vsevolod married Liubov Vasilkovna in 1209. She was

152-521: The sobriquet Big Nest . Before his death, grand prince Vsevolod divided his territories between his sons, with the second-oldest Yuri receiving the largest share. Four of them, Konstantin , George , Yaroslav and Sviatoslav , succeeded him as Grand Dukes of Vladimir. Vsevolod died on 12 April 1212 and was buried at the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir . Immediately after Vsevolod's death,

171-574: The Volga, and with your helmets scoop dry the Don." But Kievan matters concerned Vsevolod little in the latter part of his reign. He concentrated on building up his own capital, Vladimir . His Ossetian wife, Maria Shvarnovna , who devoted herself to works of piety and founded several convents, was glorified by the Russian church as a saint. By her Vsevolod had no fewer than fourteen children, thus earning for himself

190-462: The cathedral was consecrated in 1707. Mikhaylo-Arkhangelsky Monastery in Veliky Ustyug was used as a prototype for the cathedral. Inside, the cathedral contains a five-row iconostasis carved between 1776 and 1784 by local artists, brothers Nikolay Bogdanov and Timofey Bogdanov. The icons were also painted locally. Next to the cathedral, there is a tented roof bell-tower, built simultaneously with

209-717: The cathedral. Another church in the monastery is the Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Virgin (1729-1740). There is also a wall (1770s) with towers and gates. One of the gates is the Assumption Church . Vsevolod the Big Nest Vsevolod III Yuryevich , or Vsevolod the Big Nest (Russian: Все́волод III Ю́рьевич Большо́е Гнездо́ , romanized : Vsévolod III Yúr'yevich Bol'shóye Gnezdó ; 1154–1212),

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228-564: The chivalric court of the Komnenoi . On his return from the Byzantine Empire to Rus' in 1170, Vsevolod supposedly visited Tbilisi , as a local chronicle records that that year the Georgian king entertained his nephew from Constantinople and married him to his relative, an Ossetian princess. In 1173 two Smolensk princes captured Kiev ( Kyiv ), captured Vsevolod and briefly installed him on

247-459: The first instance, started to replace the wooden buildings. Almost all the buildings of the monastery preserve the original exterior and interior. The main church of the monastery is the Trinity Cathedral build as a cube and containing five domes. The Trinity cathedral was the first stone building of the monastery. The construction was initiated by Rostov Metropolitan Iona Sysoyevich , and

266-410: The princes of Ryazan by ousting them from their lands. In 1207 he burned to the ground both Ryazan and Belgorod . His military fame spread quickly. The Tale of Igor's Campaign , thought to be written during Vsevolod's reign, addresses him thus: "Great prince Vsevolod! Don't you think of flying here from afar to safeguard the paternal golden throne of Kiev? For you can with your oars scatter in drops

285-477: The religious fever. The monastery was eventually used as a junior correction establishment, as a center for force resettlement, and as a retirement home. In the 1980s, the former monastery buildings were transferred to the Veliky Ustyug Museum. The architectural ensemble of the monastery originates from 17th and 18th centuries. This is the time when in and around Veliky Ustyug the stone building, churches in

304-591: The throne. Ransomed a year later, Vsevolod took his brother Mikhalko 's side in his struggle against the powerful boyars of Rostov and Suzdal . Upon Mikhalko's death in 1176, Vsevolod succeeded him in Vladimir . He promptly subjugated the boyars and systematically raided the Volga peoples, notably Volga Bulgaria . He installed puppet rulers on the throne of Novgorod and married his daughters to princes of Chernigov and Kiev . Vsevolod showed little mercy to those who disobeyed his commands. In 1180 and 1187 he punished

323-504: Was Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1176 to 1212. During his long reign, the city reached the zenith of its glory. Vsevolod was the tenth or eleventh son of Yuri Dolgoruky (c. 1099 – 1157), who founded the town Dmitrov to commemorate the site of Vsevolod's birth. Nikolai Karamzin (1766 – 1826) initiated the speculation identifying Vsevolod's mother Helene as a Greek princess, because after her husband's death she took Vsevolod with her to Constantinople . Vsevolod spent his youth at

342-405: Was abolished in 1841, re-established in 1912 as a female monastery and in 1918 transformed into an agricultural commune. The commune was a compromise between the authorities, trying to eradicate any religious movements, and the nuns, who wished to preserve the same way of living they had in the monastery. In 1925, the commune was abolished, since it was judged by the authorities to display too much of

361-433: Was founded at the same time as the fortress, but survived the civil war of the 15th century. Troitse-Gledensky monastery was first mentioned in 1492. By 1725, the monastery has 24 monks and 176 priests and deacons. By the same year, it owned 60 villages with the total population of about 1000. In the beginning of the 19th century, the monastery lost any significance, and there were two to four monks living there. The monastery

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