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New Jerusalem Monastery

New Jerusalem

also: Новый Иерусалим, Novy Ierusalim, Resurrection Monastery, Voskresensky Monastery

A 17th-century monastery just outside Voskresensk, built by Patriarch Nikon to replicate holy sites of Jerusalem; Chekhov, summering nearby in 1883, could walk over to visit the monks.

Reading notes

To N. A. Leikin, 28 April 1885. Moscow. §7 New Jerusalem
The New Jerusalem (Novy Ierusalim) Monastery near Voskresensk, founded in the seventeenth century as a symbolic replica of the Jerusalem holy sites; its name was used interchangeably with the town of Voskresensk itself as a place-marker.
To N. A. Leikin, 9 May 1885. Babkino. §8 New Jerusalem
The New Jerusalem Monastery near Voskresensk, a popular pilgrimage destination whose surrounding countryside Chekhov invites Leikin to see for himself rather than trust to description.
To N. A. Leikin, 26 May 1883. Voskresensk. §7 New Jerusalem
The Resurrection ("New Jerusalem") Monastery just outside Voskresensk, built in the 17th century to replicate sites of the Holy Land; Chekhov's family lodgings were near enough that he could visit the monks there.