Tikhvinsky Assumption Monastery

Tikhvinsky Assumption Monastery

The Tikhvinsky Mother of God Assumption Monastery is the owner of the Tikhvin icon of the Mother of God of Odigitria – a traveler’s icon, who visited different parts of the world. For her, by decree of Ivan the Terrible, this monastery was founded, and its consecration took place in a festive atmosphere, in the presence of the royal family. Until the revolution, the icon remained the main shrine of the monastery, for the sake of it people gathered here from the very different ends of the country. She survived 3 large fires, which each time destroyed almost to the ground, the Assumption Cathedral. Transferred to the museum of local lore after the closure of the monastery, it was seized by the Germans and transported to Pskov, then she visited Riga, apple, Libava.

When the icon was in the American occupation zone in Germany, it was taken under his protection by a priest who took the icon in Chicago. The priest’s will indicated that the icon should return to Russia only in the event of a complete revival of the monastery. And she returned, however, almost a decade after the revival of the monastery. Regarding the return of the icon, Patriarch Alexy II served the Liturgy in the monastery. In 2006. The monastery was immortalized on the obverse of a memorable silver coin of Sberbank.