monastery were erected on the left bank of the Chornaya River (now the Monastyrka river) where according to the legend Crusades headed by Byrger were detested.

In 1716 the first architect of Petersburg Domenico Trezzini made a design of a monastery town. In 1917 two-storyed aisles of monastery cells in the easten side were built. Galleries and aisles in the Western, Southern and Northern sides had to be built too. In front of the courtyard a regular park was pesigned. In 1713 a long path was made across an impassable swamp to the center of the city which was to become in 1733 Neva Avenue. In 1724 the first stone church in Lavra, the Annunciation Cathedral (Blagovestchensky Sobor) was built by D. Trezzini in the style of early baroque was concecrated. The remains of Alexander Nevsky encased in a magnificent sarcophagus were brought to the monastery.

The monastery was built during the 18th century. Many outstanding architects, sculptors, builders, decorators and painters tock part in the designing of its churches, towers and aisles. The design of D. Trezzini was taken as a basic one.

Architect Theodore Shwertfeger designed a new cathedral and changed the configuration of the aisles of monastery cells so that the form of „cir-cumferences“ repeated the shape of the river bank. By 1750 the new cathedral was nearly finished but in 1755 it was pulled down because of the technical errors in the desing and a flimsy foundations.

In 1740-1750 architect Pietro Trezzini built South-eastern aisle and the second corner church — Fyodorovskaya.

In 1755 architect M. Rastorguev designed the Western aisle of monastery cells and «Bishop’s House» in baroque style. At the same time the Northern and Southern aisles with open galleries and corner towers were built. The principal church, the Holy Trinity Cathedral (Troitsky Sobor) was built by

Ivan Starov in 1790. The Holy Trinity Cathedral is a brilliant example of the style of Russian Early Classicism and of Russian applied art of the 18th century (the interior). Ivan Starov also worked on the main entrance to the monastery, the stone wall and the adjoining Alexander Nevsky Square which architecturally connected the Monastery with the center of the city. He also united the aisles of monastery cells with the walls of the oldest cemetries of Petersburg.

Peter the Great’s beloved sister Natalia was buried in the monastery in the St. Lazar’s Chapel built in 1717. This started St. Petersburg’s oldest cemetry where courtiers and high dignitaries were enterred. The famous Russian general of Peter’s time B. Sheremetyev, the commander of the cavalry in the Patriotic was of 1812 F. Uvarov were buried there. Among the many outstanding personalities interred in the monastery cemetry were the scientists M. Lomonosov, architects I. Starov, A. Voronikhin, C. Rossi, playwright D. Fonvizin. Many tombstones were designed by talented sculptors and architects such as I. Martos, M. Kozlovsky, A. Voronichin, G. Quarenghim, F. Gordeev and others.

In view of the great cultural and historic importance of the Alexander Nevsky Necropolis it was made a state preserve and a Museum of Urban Sculpture was organized there in 1930.

Tikhvin cemetry was also reorganized then and the remains of main outstanding people were brought there. Among them writers and poets I. Krylov, N. Karamzin, V. Zhukovsky, F. Dostoyevsky; composers M. Glinka, M. Mussorsgsky, A. Borodin, P. Tchaikovsky, A. Dargomyzhsky, main artists, actors and artcritics interred there. The tombstones were designed also by Soviet sculptors M. Manizer, V. Ingal, M. Anikushin and others.

In 1960 — 1970 besides works on restoration the reconstruction of the district near Lavra was carried out. Now the ensemble of Alexander Nevsky Lavra is one of the architectural and historic centres of Leningrad.

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Примечания

1

Первоначальное наименование, установленное Петром I в 1710 г.: «Монастырь Живоначальные Троицы и Святого Благоверного великого князя Александра Невского». Позднее монастырь именовался просто — Свято-Троицкий Александро-Невский монастырь. В 1797 г. он был переименован в Александро-Невскую лавру.

2

И. Н. Петров. История Санкт-Петербурга с основания города до введения в действие выборного городского управления по Учреждениям о губерниях. 1703—1782. Спб., 1885.

3

Подлинное историческое место Невской битвы могло быть известно Петру I. Земли на Ижоре, где была старая церковь в память битвы, принадлежали А. Д. Меншикову. (Здесь же, в устье Ижоры, Петр I встречал прах Александра Невского, который Невою везли в монастырь.) Однако необходимость иметь монастырь рядом с городом побудила воспользоваться легендой или создать ее заново.

4

С. Г. Рункевич. Александро-Невская лавра. 1913, с. 35.

5

П. П. Пекарский. Наука и литература в России при Петре Великом. Т. 2. 1862, с. 397. Цитата из неопубликованной первым историком Петербурга А. Богдановым части «Исторического, географического и топографического описания С.-Петербурга», изданного в 1774 г.

6

Гробница Александра Невского была вывезена из Рождественского монастыря в августе 1723 года в соборную церковь Шлиссельбурга и находилась там до 30 августа 1724 года, т. к. Петр I