Rector and Chairman of the Parish Council, Hieromonk John (Dmitry Vladimirovich Ludishchev)
Date of birth: February 23 1974 Date of consecration: 2003 G. A country: Russia Biography: On May 18, 2018, by order of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill in connection with the decision of the Holy Synod on the appointment of the long-term abbot of Sretensky stauropegial monastery Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Yegorievsk, the Metropolitan entrusted the obedience of the acting vicar of the monastery to Hieromonk John at the Pskov See.
On September 14, 2018, by decree of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, Hieromonk John, in addition to his obedience, was appointed rector of the church Life-Giving Trinity at Saltykov Bridge.
In the Sretensky monastery, Father John (in the world Dmitry Vladimirovich Ludishchev) has been asceticizing for almost two decades.
Dmitry was born in 1974 in the city of Krasnoarmeysk, Moscow region, at the age of 15 he accepted holy baptism with the naming of the name in honor of St. Demetrius of Prilutsky (day of prayerful memory - February 11/24).
After graduating from school, he entered the Moscow Medical Dental Institute named after N.A. Semashko. After graduating from the institute, he completed residency training at the Department of Infectious Diseases at Clinical Hospital No. 2 in Moscow.
In 1999, Dmitry came to the Sretensky Monastery. The profession he acquired was useful to the monastery brethren: for five years he worked as a doctor at the monastery’s medical office. At the same time, he also performed other obediences: he worked in a book warehouse and in the treasury of the monastery.
Graduated from the specialty of Sretensky Theological Seminary.
After five years of work in the monastery, having chosen the monastic path, on January 2, 2003, Dmitry was tonsured into the mantle by his spiritual father, the abbot of the Sretensky Monastery, Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov), now Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov, with the name given in honor of the saint righteous John Kronstadt (Day of Prayerful Remembrance - December 20 / January 2). That same year, Father John was ordained a hierodeacon and then a hieromonk.
From 2004 to 2018, Hieromonk John served as dean of the monastery and vice-rector of Sretensky Theological Seminary.
Being the dean of the monastery, he studied its history. As a result of this work, articles appeared about the historical past of the Sretensky Monastery: its abbots and builders in the 18th and 19th centuries, the life of the monastery in the years Patriotic War 1812, during the revolution and in the first decades of the 20th century.
Awards:
Gaiter in 2004
Pectoral Cross in 2009
Publications:
Problems of modern man in the letters of confessors of the 20th century. - M.: Sretensky Monastery Publishing House, 2007.
Hieromonk John (Ludishchev). History of the Sretensky Monastery in the period from the establishment of the Holy Synod to 1757. Sretensky collection. Issue 1. Scientific works SDS teachers. M.: Sretensky Monastery Publishing House. 2010. - 526 p.
John (Ludishchev). hieromonk, vice-rector of SDS. Materials for studying the history of the Sretensky Monastery. Sretensky collection. Scientific works of SDS teachers. Issue 2 / Sretensky Theological Seminary / under the general direction. ed. archim. Tikhon (Shevkunova); ed. prot. Nikolai Skurat, priest. John (Ludishchev). M.: Sretensky Monastery Publishing House. 2010. - 728 p., ill.
John (Ludishchev). hieromonk, vice-rector of SDS. Materials for studying the history of the Sretensky Monastery 1919-1923. Sretensky collection. Scientific works of SDS teachers. Issue 3 / Sretensky Theological Seminary / under the general direction. ed. archim. Tikhon (Shevkunova); ed. prot. Nikolai Skurat, priest. John (Ludishchev). M.: Sretensky Monastery Publishing House. 2012.
Church cleric Priest Nikolai (Konyukhov Nikolai Pavlovich)
Date of birth: May 3, 1991
Date of ordination: deacon October 9, 2011, priest March 14, 2013
Country Russia
Biography:
1998 – 2008 - Orthodox school of arts in Moscow.
1997 -2005 - children's music school No. 20 named after D.B. Kabalevsky.
From 2008 – 2013 he studied at the Sretensk Theological Seminary (Currently a student at the Sretensk Theological Master’s program)
1997-2006 - sexton of the Church of the Sign of the Mother of God in Pereyaslavskaya Sloboda,
2006 -2010 - obedience to the reader and singer of the designated temple.
2010 - obedience as a reader and singer in the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Uzkoye.
From December 2011 to March 2013 - temporary ministry in the Church of St. Martin the Confessor of Moscow (order of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill.
From September 2010 to the present, teacher of the Law of God for junior classes at the Orthodox School of the Arts.
He was ordained a deacon on October 9, 2011 in the church of St. Roman the Sweet Singer of the Novospassky Monastery, the consecration was performed by Bishop Savva of the Resurrection.
Ordained a priest on March 14, 2013 in the lower Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord Cathedral cathedral church Christ the Savior of Moscow, the consecration was performed by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'
Family status: Married. Three children.
Awards: In 2014 he was awarded a gaiter.
Church cleric Hieromonk Nikon (Belavenets Sergei Vladimirovich)
Country Russia
Biography:
Representative of the noble families of the Levachevs and Belavents. Grandson of the famous chess player Sergei Vsevolodovich Belavenets (1910 - 1942).
In 1981-1982 he worked at the Book Chamber. In 1982-1986 he studied at the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute, from which he was expelled.
In 1988 he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary (graduated in 1996) and began working in the publishing department of the Moscow Patriarchate; at the same time he was a subdeacon of the chairman of the Publishing Department of Metropolitan Pitirim (Nechaev) and his assistant. He was editor, and from September 4, 1991, deputy editor-in-chief of the Moscow Church Bulletin.
On April 23, 1992, he took monastic vows with the name Nikon.
In July 1992, he was appointed rector of the Trinity Church in the village of Yazvische, Volokolamsk region, which received the status of a metochion of the Joseph-Volotsky Monastery.
During the events in September - October 1993, he was in the building of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation - until the morning of October 4, 1993.
Was assigned to the staff in December 1999.
Since December 1998, he has been the leader, and since 2001, the confessor of the political social movement “For Faith and Fatherland,” which has a monarchical orientation (leader - K. R. Kasimovsky).
Friend of Dmitry Rogozin and confessor of the leader of the People's National Party A.K. Ivanov-Sukharevsky, as well as spiritual mentor of the Brazilian musician Max Cavalera. Friend of the leader of the group “Corrosion of Metal” Sergei “Spider” Troitsky; took part in the events he organized.
He advocated the renaming of the Voikovskaya metro station, as well as the rehabilitation of Admiral Kolchak and General Vlasov. In June 2007, he signed an appeal criticizing the Appeal of Bishop Diomede (Dzyuban) of Chukotka.
In November 2009, in an interview with the newspaper Zavtra, he stated, among other things: “Today Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna is a symbol of the unity of the peoples of Russia.”
Member of the Small Administrative Council of the Russian Assembly of Nobility. From 2001 to 2005 member of the Guiding Center of the movement “For Faith and Fatherland”. Since 2007, member of the editorial board of the all-Russian Orthodox-monarchist newspaper “Tsarsky Vestnik” (Samara).
On August 27, 2012, he was returned to the staff of the clergy of the Moscow diocese.
Awards
Awards of the Russian Imperial House
Badge with a monogram image of the name of the Head of the Russian Imperial House, 1st and 2nd class
Badge of the Imperial Military Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, II degree
Church awards
Commander of the Order of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (Antiochian Orthodox Church)
Order of Pochaev Icon Mother of God(Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate)
Order of St. Mark, III degree (Alexandrian Orthodox Church)
Other awards
Order of Honor (Transnistrian Moldavian Republic, 2009)
Jubilee medal “20 years of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic” (2010)
Jubilee medal “600 years of the city of Bendery” (2009)
Medal of Honor “In memory of the creation of the Union of Descendants Russian Nobility- Russian Noble Assembly"
Since October 2013 he has been the confessor of the Orthodox Motorcycle Association “Motorcycle Brotherhood in Christ”
Church cleric Deacon Andrey (Yatskov Andrey Yuryevich)
Country Russia
Biography:
In 2003 he graduated from Astrakhan state college professional technologies in the specialty “Law and organization of social security”.
In 2008 he graduated from Astrakhan State University"Major in Jurisprudence, specialization: Civil Law.
While studying at the university, he completed training courses with the qualification “Passenger Car Conductor”. Worked as a passenger carriage conductor during the period summer holidays 2004 – 2005
From 2006 to 2011 worked in various organizations in the positions of lawyer, senior lawyer, head of legal services.
From 2004 to 2013 was an assistant to the head of the Department for Youth Affairs of the Astrakhan Diocese.
2011 – 2013: worked at the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Astrakhan as an assistant rector, and also served as a sexton.
From 2014 to the present, she has provided legal support for exhibitions in the “Orthodox Rus'” series. My history".
From 2015 to 2017 taught the Law of God at the Sunday school of St. Seraphim of Sarov on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment in Moscow.
In 2016 he graduated with a bachelor's degree from Sretensky Theological Seminary in Moscow. Profile: “Practical theology of Orthodoxy.”
On June 2, 2016, Hirothesia was performed as a reader by Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Yegoryevsk with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'.
In 2018 he graduated from the master's program at Sretensky Theological Seminary in Moscow. Profile "Pastoral Theology".
From 2018 to the present, she has been working at the Patriarchal Council for Culture as a legal adviser.
On June 10, 2018, he was ordained a deacon at the Intercession Academic Church of the Moscow Theological Academy. The consecration was performed by Metropolitan Evgeniy (Reshetnikov) of Tallinn and All Estonia.
Family status: Married, has a son.
The parish consists of two churches: the Life-Giving Trinity at Saltykov Bridge and the Entry into the Temple Holy Mother of God. The Trinity Church was built in 1819 as a summer church, the Church of the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1825 as a winter church. After the closure of the churches in 1931, the head of the bell tower with the cross was broken at the Trinity Church and the casing was removed from the domes. When adapting the building for housing, the facades and interior were distorted: new windows were broken, two interfloor ceilings were installed, and additional stairs were made. The completion of the church fell into disrepair during use; the heads and crosses of the small side drums have been lost; all that remains of the central head is a deformed metal frame - kuravitsy. Since 1966, restoration work on the temple began. In 1970, design and survey work began and architectural measurements of the building plans were completed. By 1984, the onion domes and crosses on the main dome and two side ones were restored. The rest of the church building was in dense forests, which were removed in the early 90s, after the restoration of the other two small domes of the church and the bell tower dome. In 1992, an Orthodox community of believers was formed to which the churches of the Life-Giving Trinity and the Entry of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the Temple were transferred.
Trinity Life-Giving at Saltykov Bridge 
Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary into the Temple 
The parish is located on Samokatnaya Street. Street name with popular vehicle not connected in any way. On August 12, 1924, the street was named in honor of the fallen soldiers of the scooter reserve battalion, located on Zolotorozhskaya Street, who participated in the establishment of Soviet power in Moscow. The former name - Newly Blessed Street was given in early XIX century.
In one of the courtyards nearby I discovered a painting that is rare for modern Moscow. In Slabodsky Lane in the area of house No. 6, old garages are still preserved. Nowadays you don’t see people like this very often in Moscow.
After the emergence of Edinoverie in Russian Orthodoxy in 1801, in most beautiful place near the Yauza River on the former New Blessed (now Samokatnaya) street, a wooden church was built for the Edinoverie Vvedenskaya community - the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
In 1819, next to the Vvedensky Church, a Edinoverie church was erected in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity. The religious building was conceived as a summer chapel.
In 1829, on the site where the first wooden Vvedensky Church was located, a stone one was built. It became a warm, winter temple. The author of the architectural project was the architect A.F. Elkinsky. The style of the new building is Empire style.
In 1836, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was rebuilt.
So they still stand behind the common fence near the Saltykov Bridge, representing a single temple complex. And the bridge bears this name because this place near the river once belonged to the boyar Saltykov.
The year 1931 arrived. A lot of churches were closed and destroyed. This did not escape the churches of the Life-Giving Trinity and the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary, located near the Saltykov Bridge.
The summer Trinity Church of the complex was closed. Domes, bell towers and crosses were broken, and the dome skin was torn down to the frame structures. The temple was looted. The church building alternately housed a warehouse, production workshops, and laboratories of a research institute.
Until 1966 there were apartments there. Then the residents were evicted, and the church was placed under state protection. Restoration work began, which was completed by the early nineties.
Now the summer Trinity Church is a four-pillar, five-domed temple with a semicircular asp. Its main monumental volume is a cubic two-light quadrangle, the corners of which are rounded. The church is completed with an illuminated domed rotunda. It carries a cylindrical drum of the main head and rotundal lights of a smaller volume.
In 1992, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was transferred to the Moscow Patriarchate and services were resumed there.
The collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery contains one of the many icons confiscated from the temple. This is a 16th century icon belonging to the school of Dionysius: “John the Theologian on the island of Patmos, with his life.” In 2013, the “Sretenie” store was opened at the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, where you can purchase spiritual literature.
The Winter Church, the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Saltykov Bridge, was also closed in 1931, robbed and destroyed. The premises began to be used for various economic needs (there was also an institute laboratory there). At one time, in 1966, the church building even housed a sobering station.
Partial restoration began in the seventies of the 20th century, after the temple was taken under state protection. In the early nineties, the religious building was returned to the Moscow Patriarchate and transferred to the New Believer community. And already in 1992, on the feast of the Holy Trinity, the first service was held.
The Warm Vvedenskaya Church is a cruciform church in plan. On its side facades there are four-column projecting Tuscan porticoes. They give the small church building a representative appearance. The three-tiered slender bell tower is also decorated with Tuscan porticoes.
Restoration work continued for several more years. Finally, in 2000, a unique 19th-century painting of gospel scenes was restored in the church. The 19th century stone fence that unites these temples has also been preserved almost completely.
Trinity Life-Giving at Saltykov Bridge.
The area near the Yauza River, in which the temples were built, belonged to the boyar Saltykov in the 17th century, so this surname was preserved in some old names, as in the case of the Saltykov Bridge.
The first of the two churches, Trinity, was built in 1817-1819; it was considered a summer church (it was not heated in winter). The second, warm one, Vvedenskaya, was built later in 1825. Both churches form a single temple complex and the Trinity-Vvedensky parish. The author of the projects, according to many researchers, is the architect A.F. Elkinsky, whose works are widely known both in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
The peculiarity of these churches is that they belong to the Vvedensky Edinoverie community. From the book “The Life of Metropolitan Platon of Moscow” it is known that the churches were built at the request of those who lived in this territory. They abandoned intolerance towards Orthodox Church, accepting its hierarchical structure, agreeing that services would be conducted by Orthodox priests, but, at the same time, the old liturgical rites should be preserved. The Holy Synod granted the request of the Old Believers, blessing Edinoverie and approving the first Edinoverie church, which was built at the Vvedensky cemetery in 1801. She was a monument to prudent tolerance. consecrated by Metropolitan Platon of Moscow, who submitted a petition on behalf of the Old Believers to the Holy Synod.
They were built in the Empire style. Four-column portal. The central dome of the temple, surrounded by four turrets, and the three-tier bell tower were decorated with onion domes and crosses. Both churches are single-altar. To this day, only the quadrangular building with a four-column portico and the fence have survived.
In 1931, when anti-religious actions were carried out everywhere, churches were closed for worship. The churches were partially destroyed, looted and desecrated. The domes with crosses and drums were either demolished or dismantled into frame structures. There was a shrine in the temple (an early 16th-century icon of “John the Theologian on Patmos, with Life,” from the school of Dionysius), which is currently exhibited in the Tretyakov Gallery.
Until 1980 the buildings were not used for their intended purpose (housing, warehouses, a sobering station, laboratories of a scientific institute). In the 70-80s. The Trinity Church was partially restored (dome and facade), but inside there was a production workshop for alcoholic beverages. 
In 1992, the temple was returned to the New Believer community and in July of the same year, on the Feast of the Holy Trinity, services resumed in the Trinity Church. The Kristall plant provided great assistance in the restoration. From 2005 to 2009, restoration work was carried out in the temple to restore the unique painting late XIX century. The restoration of the churches has not yet been completed, but this does not interfere with the holding of regular services, as well as the functioning of the Sunday school.
The temple complex is included in the Register of Monuments of Architecture and Urban Planning Art of Moscow.
