Necropolis of the Intercession Monastery

Necropolis of the Intercession Monastery in Moscow

The churches on the western side are surrounded by a cemetery. The graves of the dead are here on God's nave, under the protection of the Mother of God and under the cross. 

Archbishop Filaret, a famous missionary in Eastern Siberia, was buried in the Intercession Monastery in 1872.	Abbot of the High Priests Monastery Archimandrite Veniamin. He was buried in the Intercession Monastery in 1888

Significant people buried in this monastery:

А. Under the Intercession Church, in the side-chapel of St. Metropolitan Jonah:

1. The Georgian Metropolitan Jonah, in 1821.

2. Georgian Archbishop Paphnutius, died in 1823. The Georgian Tsar George XIII, the children of the prince:

3. Elijah, died in 1854.

4.Okropir, died in 1857.

The Tower of the Missionary Library. Gravestones on the graves of Moscow merchants: II. Ershova, I.I. Gusev. Pokrovsky Monastery	Abbot of the High Priests Monastery Bishop Laurence. Buried at the altar of the Intercession Church

5. Irakli, died in 1859.

6. The daughter of the Imeretian Tsar Solomon, the wife of the Georgian prince Konhoros-Abashidzo, the princess of Darius, died in 1827.

7. Alexandra Ivanovna, the pious wife of the Collegiate Soviet, nobleman and chevalier Alexei Ivanovich Lobkov. His venerable parent, Ivan Prokofievich, was buried in the monastery cemetery. 

      

М.А. Morozov	Chapel over the grave of M.A. Morozov

Under the Resurrection Church there are:

8. The neophyte Metropolitan of Iliopol and Lebanese, cf. 1853

9. Nikolai Petrovich Khlebnikov, died in 1806 and his mother, the general-auditor-lieutenant Irina Yakovlevna Khlebnikova, died in 1812. Above them was erected a monument of exquisite foreign work of white marble, representing angels, in the growth of a man leaning on the urn.

10. The girl Anna Dmitrievna Poltoratskaya, the daughter of Mrs. Khlebnikova, died in 1820. She, upon her mother's request, arranged a women's almshouse for 12 people at the monastery, with the provision of 7114 rubles in silver, today there are 20 people in this hospice under the care of the monastery.

11. Varvara Dmitrievna Gurko, Poltoratskaya by origin, died in 1838. 

N.D. Puschina	N.D. Puschin’s tombstone

12. Collegian Assessor Pavel Stepanovich Lupandin, died in 1850. He donated capital of 25,722 rubles in silver in 1839, for the construction of the monastery. On the next year, when this capital has increased by more than 20,000 rubles, the constructing of another two-storied stone monastery building has started. It was 12 fathoms of length, it could fit up to 40 people and even more. The interest from the capital was enough for all those people.

In the cemetery:

13. Archimandrite of the Mozhaisk Luzhetsky Monastery Methodius.

14. Archimandrite Mitrofan, the Moscow Epiphany Monastery. 

Chapel-tomb of Khludovs	G.I. Khludov

15. Nicholas, the builder of the Belopez monastery.

16. Gennady, the former builder of David's Desert.

17. Arseniy, the former builder of David's Desert.

18. Athanasius, the former builder of David's Desert.

19. Abbess: Athanasius of the Ascension Monastery.

20. Paisius, the Passionate Monastery.

21. Tabitha, the Passionate Monastery.

The noble families buried: Yakovlev, Serebryakov, Ermolov, Davydov, Pichugin, Ivanov, Fon-Vizin, Bulgakov, Akinfov, Severin, Nechaev, Pisarev, Leman, Ushakova, Korobanova, Shenshiny, Ginglyat, Pafnutiev, etc.

The Moscow merchant class was buried mainly here. There were many worthy and pious people.The honorary citizen Mikhail Krasheninnikov was buried near the entrance to the Resurrection Church. He died in 1849. The percentage from his capital was donated to many poor families, especially to poor girls when they were getting married.

Here are many priests of parish churches; monks and nun from monasteries located within Moscow are buried.

  

Memorial composition on the grave of P.I. Shchukin