Grand Duchess Alexander Petrovna. The merciful sister of the Russian people
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The book is dedicated to the life history of Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna Romanova (1838–1900), nee Princess of Oldenburg, wife of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Elder. The daughter of the great humanist Prince P.G. Oldenburg, Alexander Petrovna from her young age inherited from her father his convictions and views on what love for people and help them should be expressed in. The young princess gave her “pocket money” to the aid of poor and sick children. Even before marriage, as the chairman of the Council of Children"s Shelters of the Department of Empress Maria, Alexander Petrovna, by her activities, contributed to the maintenance and improvement of 23 children"s shelters. In 1858, she founded in St. Petersburg at her own expense the Pokrovsky community of sisters of mercy with a hospital, an almshouse and a school.
Having left Petersburg for a number of reasons, Alexandra Petrovna settled in Kyiv, where, having adopted monasticism named Anastasia, in 1889 she established at her own expense the Holy Pokrovsky Convent with a stationary hospital, a hospital for coming patients, a shelter and a school for orphan children, almshouse.
The ascetic activity of Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna received decent recognition almost 100 years after her death. By the definition of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate of November 24, 2009, the founder of the Kyiv Holy Pokrovsky Convent (the Grand Duchess Alexander Petrovna Romanov in the world) is ranked to the local Kyiv diocese as the Monk Grand Duchess Anastasia Kyiv
Having left Petersburg for a number of reasons, Alexandra Petrovna settled in Kyiv, where, having adopted monasticism named Anastasia, in 1889 she established at her own expense the Holy Pokrovsky Convent with a stationary hospital, a hospital for coming patients, a shelter and a school for orphan children, almshouse.
The ascetic activity of Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna received decent recognition almost 100 years after her death. By the definition of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate of November 24, 2009, the founder of the Kyiv Holy Pokrovsky Convent (the Grand Duchess Alexander Petrovna Romanov in the world) is ranked to the local Kyiv diocese as the Monk Grand Duchess Anastasia Kyiv
Author:
Author:Annenkova E.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Magazines & Encyclopedia
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91215-199-6
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