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Among the interesting places in the Moscow region is Istra in New Jerusalem, and how to get to this city and what to see in it, any guidebook or reference book for travelers in the Moscow region can tell.

What to see?

Although the city of Istra is associated with the New Jerusalem, once laid down by Patriarch Nikon in strict accordance with the biblical places, in addition to religious monuments, there is a lot of other, no less interesting.

Inspect this small town completely possible in one day, and all its attractions can be reached on foot.

Once here, you need to see:

1. New Jerusalem Monastery with all its cathedrals, towers, inner churches and buildings.
2. The Siloam baptismal font.
3. Garden of Gethsemane.
4. Skete of Patriarch Nikon.
5. Museum of Wooden Architecture.
6. Stables and cattlemen.
7. Wooden sculptures from the fairy tale about the Ryaba chicken.
8. Museum (exhibition hall) "New Jerusalem".
9. One-pylon pedestrian bridge.
10. Places associated with A.P. Chekhov.
11. Revolution square.
12. City Park.
13. House of Culture and Rest.
14. Ascension Church.
15. Square with a memorial to the fallen defenders and liberators of Istra and the Nikon's cross.
16. Drama Theater of Istra.
17. Fire department and its museum.
18. Market "Farmers' yard".
19. Church of the Myrrhbearers.
20. Sculptures at the School of Arts.
21. Friendship Square.

You need to go to the city of Istra on a fine day, with a comfortable temperature and in comfortable shoes. If it rains, it gets cold or your legs get tired, then instead of an abundance of positive and bright emotions, only bad memories will remain.

Monastery complex

Inspection of the New Jerusalem Monastery in Istra should start with the Resurrection Cathedral, its main architectural and semantic dominant.

Outwardly, the cathedral is interesting not only for its bizarre combination architectural styles, which made it look like a teremok from folk tales, but also with beautiful friezes, borders and platbands made of ceramics, on the one hand similar to Vologda lace, and on the other - very reminiscent of something Indian and Middle Eastern.

Looking from afar at the Resurrection Church of the New Jerusalem Monastery, it is impossible to miss not the bell tower or the porch, but the large rotunda, sparkling with a heavy dome-tent with a diameter of 18 meters and three rows of dormer windows. Thanks to these windows, on a clear day, a unique lighting is created inside, which is also an argument in favor of an excursion in good weather.

Inside the temple, in the central part of the rotunda, there is a kuvukliya, which exactly imitates the original kuvukliya from the tomb in the Israeli temple of the Holy Sepulcher. There is also an icon of the Mother of God, the famous "Three-handed" with a human brush made of silver.

An interesting half-story, half-legend is associated with this icon. Unfortunately, it is very difficult to look at her up close, because in front of the Three-Handed Woman, crowds of believers are always "to death" in dense rows, both on their knees and usually.

Therefore, it is much easier to inspect not the icon, but the Stone of Anointing and the giant golden iconostasis of 12 tiers.

The transitions in the cathedral are very interesting, against the blue background of the walls, with an abundance of stucco molding in the spirit of the late Baroque, you can see icon-paintings representing biblical subjects. Religious canons of painting on them are minimized, intricately intertwined with classical performance, reminiscent of the work of the masters of the Renaissance. Very unusual and really beautiful.

The appearance of the Church of Constantine and Helena is connected with the legend of the found, of course, not in Istra, but in Israel, the cross on which Jesus was crucified. According to legend, following the command of Emperor Constantine, the cross was found at a depth of 6 meters. That is how deep this church is, only 33 steps lead down.

Excursions in this particular place are not very interesting, the guides talk a lot, but absolutely nothing. Better to wander inside just reading the signs. A moat designed to drain towards groundwater looks very interesting. It is faced with white tiles and gives the impression of a limestone vein from a distance. Many tourists throw coins at it.

Chambers and Church of the Nativity of Christ

The Church of the Nativity of Christ is not only a church building, it is a single complex that unites:

• church;
• refectory chambers with three rooms;
• the abbot's chambers;
• hospital wards;
• kvass cellars;
• workshops of the chamber of malts and blacksmiths;
• sentries.

The complex is often called the chambers of Princess Tatiana Mikhailovna, this is due to the fact that all the buildings were built with her money and taking into account her wishes.

Basically, this is the only place here where the Jerusalem association is completely absent, as well as the copying of biblical passages. Excursions around the chambers are very interesting, especially those that tell about the arrangement of kvass production and cellars, about the status division of refectories and about the arrangement of sentries.

All buildings are built strictly in the usual national version of the Baroque, that is, they are similar to the buildings of the Moscow Kremlin, teremki and so on.

Located directly above the central gate, which is an integral part of it.

It symbolizes the entrance of Jesus into and forms a single architectural ensemble with walls and towers.

Protective buildings

The New Jerusalem in Istra also has defensive buildings, the excursion program of which will distract from the abundance of information related to religious buildings.

The defense of New Jerusalem in Istra includes:

1. 9 towers.
2. The walls are 3-4 meters thick and 9.6 meters high.
3. Loopholes in 3 rows, allowing for plantar, hinged (mashikuli), rifle combat.
4. Internal parapet and "fighting" passages.

This is very serious and even progressive for the military art of the 17-18 centuries and characterizes the Istra monastery complex as an almost impregnable fortress.

Each of the towers is crowned with a "tent" with a drum of light, and they got their names, of course, in accordance with the names of the gates of the Old City in Israel. Near the towers there are pedestals with cannons that were in service with the monastery compound from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Outside the territory, opposite the Foreigner's Tower, there is a spring with spring and consecrated water - the Siloam baptismal font. Excursions around the monastery go down to it, so you don't need to go around the walls separately in order to see the spring.

It is best to leave the New Jerusalem complex through the Elizabethan Gate, as they immediately go into the Garden of Gethsemane, through which you can go to the sketes, stand over Istra and continue your walk outside the walls surrounding the monastery temples.

When is the monastery open and what is the cost of visiting?

Temples and museums of the monastery complex are open for visits in the following schedule:

• from Tuesday to Friday - from 10:00 to 18:00;
• on Saturdays - from 10:00 to 21:00;
• on Sundays - from 10:00 to 19:00.

Tours are available in the same time mode, the opening hours of the guides coincide with the opening hours of the museums and temples of the complex.

The work schedule of the cash registers is somewhat different:

1. From Tuesday to Friday, the time to buy tickets is 10: 00-17: 30.
2. On Saturday, the time at which tickets can be purchased is 10: 00-20: 30.
3. Sunday - 10: 00-18: 30.

The time before closing, when tourists are still allowed, is 30 minutes, but you need to understand that you simply won't be able to see the monastery, its museums and churches in half an hour, even superficially.

As for the pricing policy, visiting the museums, territory and churches of the monastery will cost from 255 to 455 rubles. The amount will depend on which list of objects will be selected and whether the services of guides will be required.

It is quite possible to save money on paying for excursions, at the entrance to the complex and above its ticket offices there is a detailed diagram of the entire monastery courtyard, and if you wish, you can listen to the guides, standing not far from the tourist groups, as they speak loudly enough.

Video: New Jerusalem Monastery.

How to get there?

The exact address of this interesting place is Istra, Novoierusalimskaya embankment, building 1. You can get from Moscow to Istra by private car, by bus or by train.

Driving directions: Volokolamskoe highway - Novorizhskoe highway - Volokolamskoe highway. The exit to Novorizhskoe is needed to bypass traffic jams near Krasnogorsk. If they are not there, then you can not turn off on it, but drive to Istra directly along Volokolamskiy.

Getting there by bus is also no big deal. Flights depart from the Tushino stopping point, this is at the exit from the metro at the Tushinskaya station. We need bus 372, it departs very often, every 10-20 minutes, starting at 7:00 and ending at 22:00. The cost is 114 rubles, tickets are sold by both the drivers and the conductor, if any. On the way, the bus is about an hour, if it does not fall victim to traffic jams.

Minibuses leave from here and private drivers are immediately looking for fellow passengers.

The entire Moscow region is permeated with railway communication and it is most convenient to travel through it by electric trains. You can get to Istra from the Rizhsky railway station. The trains run very often, the first train leaves at 4:10, and the last train leaves for Istra at 00:06.

The cost of travel by train will be:

• 120 rubles - full general ticket;
• 60 rubles - the cost for "beneficiaries";
• 30 rubles - the price for a child ticket.

The benefits of commuter train travel are obvious:

1. Toilet accessibility, which is always important, but especially important when traveling with children.
2. There is no danger of getting stuck in many kilometers of traffic jams, where buses, minibuses and cars are the same.
3. Arriving in Istra, on the way to the monastery, you can see a lot of interesting things, that is, in fact, immediately start an educational walk.

On the way, the train takes from 1 hour 15 minutes to one and a half hours, which is no longer than a trip by bus, minibus or car.

When planning to go to Istra, you need to visit the official website of New Jerusalem and clarify which places of the monastery are available, whether there are any changes in the working schedule and, of course, the time of services, during which there are always a lot of people who interfere with both inspection and simple movement around complex.

You also need to understand that in this place there is not a single whole original building, since the monastery was completely destroyed during the battles near Moscow during the war. The buildings have been restored, some have partially preserved the original fragments, some have been rebuilt from scratch. Each of the buildings has corresponding information signs that detail exactly what the traveler sees.

In general, New Jerusalem is an interesting place, everything is arranged in it very modern and convenient, ticket options are also thought out, the only thing that many ordinary tourists, not pilgrims, lack, is the opportunity to climb the bell tower for a panoramic view.

The New Jerusalem Museum, located in the city of Istra, Moscow Region, was founded in 1920 on the territory of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery. In 2013, the museum moved from a monastery to a new building on the right bank of the Istra River, and in 2014 a new main museum building was opened, designed in accordance with the most advanced requirements of museum construction.

Today "New Jerusalem" is the largest state museum complex in the Moscow region and is included in the list of the 50 largest museums in Russia. The museum funds contain more than 180 thousand exhibits representing the history of the New Jerusalem Monastery and the Moscow Region from ancient times to the 21st century.

The exposition and exhibition space of the "New Jerusalem" consists of three elements: a new building, an Exhibition building and the Department of Wooden Architecture. In the expositions presented in the new building of the Museum and Exhibition Complex, you can get acquainted with the collection of icons of the 16th-19th centuries, see the famous Parsuna of the 17th century "Patriarch Nikon with the clergy" and see the collection of Russian painting and graphics of the 18th - early 20th centuries, which includes canvases F.S. Rokotova, M.N. Vorobyov, V.L. Borovikovsky, V.A. Tropinin, I. Argunova, A.K. Savrasov, I.K. Aivazovsky.

In December 2017, the opening took place permanent exhibition"New Jerusalem - a monument of history and culture of the 17th-20th centuries". The exposition, which unfolded on an area of ​​1500 sq. m., talks about how the image of holy places in the Moscow region was conceived and formed, about the role of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery as a monument of Russian architecture, Russian history and culture, about the personality of Patriarch Nikon.

The exhibition building of the museum is located outside the territory of the monastery. On its ground floor are rare exhibits related to the history of the Resurrection Monastery and its founder, Patriarch Nikon. On the second floor - art exhibition portrait painting and arts and crafts.

The third part of the Museum and Exhibition Complex "New Jerusalem" is the Department of Wooden Architecture, located to the west of the walls of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery. In the peasant estate located there, a permanent exhibition of objects of ancient Russian life has been opened. The meadow in front of the gates of the estate is decorated with a wooden chapel recreated from measurements and photographs of the 18th century building. On the banks of the Istra River, there is a 19th century windmill, where flour was ground until the 1950s. Near the mill you can see a stable with a children's riding school and a summer smithy, where everyone can take a master class from a real blacksmith.

Many feature films and TV series were shot at the wooden architecture objects of the New Jerusalem Museum: Young years Shtirlitsa "," The case of dead souls"," Admiral ".

In the park area of ​​the museum, festive mass events and interactive programs are held: "Day of Slavic Writing and Culture", "Christmas in New Jerusalem", "Maslenitsa - Farewell to the Russian Winter", "Russian Wedding", "Festival of the Wind", "Day of Bread" and dr.

The museum was created in 1920 within the walls of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery, which was closed a year earlier. Since 1935, when the Moscow Regional Museum of Local Lore was liquidated in Moscow, and part of its collections were transferred to Istra, the museum received the status and name of the Moscow Regional Museum of Local Lore (MOKM). As the "Moscow Regional Museum of Local Lore" it existed until 1991, when it became the Historical, Architectural and Art Museum "New Jerusalem". Throughout the Soviet era, the museum in Istra was a curator, researcher and popularizer of the architectural and artistic heritage Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery.

As one of the largest regional museums with a rich collection of historical and artistic values, the museum was formed at the end of the 1930s. On May 1, 1941, the next updated exposition of the museum was opened, and in November 1941, the Nazi troops approached Istra. Part of the museum's funds in October was evacuated to Alma-Ata, some were hidden in hiding places, a significant part, including documents, books and exhibits, which were at that time in the exposition did not have time to evacuate.

On November 22, German fascist troops occupied the territory of the monastery ensemble. On December 10, the retreating invaders blew up or partially destroyed all the monuments of the monastery ensemble. The facts of the explosion of New Jerusalem and the destruction of the museum were included in the indictment from the Soviet side at the Nuremberg trials. All the post-war years are a time of hard work of several generations of museum workers and restorers to restore both the museum and the monuments of New Jerusalem.

In 1994, in connection with the resumption of the activities of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Stavropegic Monastery, the Government of the Russian Federation made a decision to gradually transfer the monastery ensemble to the Russian Orthodox Church. The museum was to be removed from its territory. The withdrawal of the museum was accelerated by the adoption in 2008 of a decision on the planned restoration of the monastery's monuments as part of a system of government measures to revive it as one of the largest Orthodox spiritual centers in Russia.

In April 2009, by order of the Government of the Moscow Region, a long-term target program was adopted for the development of the New Jerusalem Museum and its withdrawal from the territory of the New Jerusalem Monastery in 2012. At the end of 2012, carrying out this program, the museum moved to a new location. The scientific funds of the museum are housed in a storage facility specially equipped for the types of materials with an area of ​​2000 sq. m.

At the same time, the construction of a new building continued, corresponding to the modern conditions of storage, study, restoration, exhibition and popularization of the museum collection.

In 2014, the museum once again changed its status and name and was transformed into a Museum exhibition complex Moscow region "New Jerusalem".

Currently, the New Jerusalem Museum is one of the largest in the Moscow region. Its fund collection includes archaeological, historical, ethnographic and various art collections and numbers more than 180 thousand items.

The new building of the museum is located on an area of ​​4.28 hectares, in the immediate vicinity of the monastery in the same cultural space. This became the basis for the design solution of the new building, in which the idea of ​​preserving the dominant role of the ensemble of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery - a monument architecture XVII- XIX centuries. A huge three-storey building is organically inscribed in an open space with a hilly relief, a river and a park. Almost hidden in the ramparts from the side of the river, it is, as it were, spread out on the ground and in no way violates the beauty of the surrounding landscape. At the same time, the new building meets museum norms and standards.

The project of the museum complex was developed by the architectural bureau "City ARKH" (headed by V.V. Lukomsky) and has already been awarded prestigious awards: the Diploma of the All-Russian competition for environmental development and energy efficiency in the nomination "Objects of the social sphere", the Diploma of the CAP Council for sustainable architecture, etc.

The area of ​​the new building (28 thousand square meters) is due to the concept of the museum development, taking into account modern museum technologies. The exposition area is 10 thousand sq. M. will allow to receive up to 500 thousand visitors a year. In addition to the museum itself, the new building provides a storage center for collections state museums Moscow region and a restoration center serving regional museums. The museum building has comfortable rooms for scientific library and the archive, which will be available not only to the museum staff, but also to other researchers. The doors for concerts and other events will be opened by a conference hall equipped with modern equipment. The complex also houses a Children's Center, cafes, souvenir shops. In the park area of ​​the museum, guests can get acquainted with the monuments of wooden architecture of the 19th century - a peasant hut, a chapel, a mill, visit the Exhibition building, a summer smithy, and ride horses. On the territory of the complex there are festive events, interesting interactive programs and lectures are offered for children.

Museum "New Jerusalem" in Istra, Moscow region - one of the largest state museum and exhibition complexes in Russia. Until recently, it was located on the right bank of the Istra River, within the walls of the New Jerusalem Monastery - an architectural monument of the 17th-19th centuries. Until 2014, the move to a new three-story complex next to the monastery took place.

The exposition area of ​​the modern exhibition center is 10,000 sq. m, includes several storage facilities, an archive, a restoration center, exhibition halls and gift shops. A venue for concerts is provided.

Today, the museum contains about 180,000 exhibits: archaeological finds, manuscripts, weapons, paintings, photographs, coins and other relics directly related to the history and culture of the Moscow region.

Prices for entrance tickets to the New Jerusalem Museum in 2019

• Single entrance ticket - 600 ₽
• Discount ticket - 400 ₽
• Family ticket - 1,000 ₽
• Photo permission - 300 ₽

Prices for excursions to "New Jerusalem" in the Moscow region

The building hosts excursions in several directions, interactive lectures, scientific and entertainment museum quests.

At the exhibition "New Jerusalem - a historical and cultural monument of the 17th-20th centuries", visitors will be introduced to the history of the New Jerusalem Monastery and told to Patriarch Nikon. A two-hour excursion will cost 1,000 rubles, plus 100 rubles for each additional visitor if the group includes more than 10 people.

A three-hour sightseeing tour of the museum, for an organized group of 1 to 10 people, will cost 1,500 rubles. For groups of more than 10 people, there is an additional payment of RUB 150 for each subsequent visitor.

Museum schedule in Istra in 2019

• Tuesday to Friday - 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
• Saturday - from 10:00 to 19:00
• Sunday and holidays- from 10:00 to 18:00
• Monday - day off

Ticket sales stop half an hour before the museum closes.

Infrastructure

Designed by the architect Valery Lukomsky, the museum complex is a fusion of modern architectural forms with local nature and landscape. The new building delicately blended into the surroundings, preserving the dominant position of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery.

The museum includes a large exhibition building, a children's center, gift shops, a conference room, as well as a food court and restaurant. On the roof of the complex there is observation deck with a wonderful view of the monastery and its surroundings. Free parking nearby.

The architectural and ethnographic museum is located in the park area of ​​the monastery complex. On its territory there are a wooden chapel, a peasant hut, the Kokorins' estate, a 19th century windmill and other exhibits.

Exposition

In the exhibition halls of the museum in Istra, a huge number of ancient relics and art objects are collected.

Main collections:

• Stove tiles and architectural ceramics
• Collection of Russian and Western European painting
• Old Russian facial and ornamental sewing
• A collection of archaeological finds - from the Stone Age to the advanced Middle Ages
• Ethnographic collection (art objects, household utensils, tools)
• Icons of the 16th-19th centuries

Since 2017, there has been a permanent exhibition with an area of ​​1.5 sq. km - "New Jerusalem is a monument of history and culture of the 17th-20th centuries." It displays antique items, clothing, paintings and other artifacts found in the Moscow region. Among the exhibits there is a parsuna "Patriarch Nikon with the brethren of the Resurrection Monastery" and a miniature of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher of the 17th century.

The museum often organizes large-scale exhibition projects. So in 2018, an exhibition of works by Boris Kustodiev and Albrecht Durer was held. V different time also exhibited - Picasso, Aivazovsky, Shishkin, Levitan, Kustodiev and others.

Modern exhibition spaces in MVK are complemented by advanced multimedia equipment: digital installations, holographic panels, interactive tables, augmented reality glasses.

Historical reference

The Museum in Istra was founded in 1922 by combining the art-history and local history museums. The originally formed exposition included art objects, archaeological finds and other exhibits found in estates, monasteries and temples near Moscow.

By 1940, part of the exhibits from the disbanded museum in Zvenigorod were transported to New Jerusalem. To the beginning of the Great Patriotic War the museum already had a huge historical and art collection at its disposal.

In November 1941, the most valuable art objects were transported to Moscow, then to Alma-Ata. Part of the museum's fund was hidden in hiding places, but most of the exhibits remained in the galleries.

During the retreat of the German troops, the buildings of the New Jerusalem Monastery were destroyed. Work on the restoration of the museum began at the end of the 1940s, and only in 1959 the work on the formation of the first exhibition since the war was completed.

The Moscow Regional Museum of Local Lore, as it was called "New Jerusalem" until 1991, appeared in its current form only in 2014, after moving from the walls of the monastery to a new separate building.

How to get to "New Jerusalem" in Istra

You can get to Istra from Moscow on daily commuter trains- to the station of the same name (a little over an hour on the way).

By regular buses, running at intervals of 10 to 60 minutes, can be reached from the bus station "Tushinskaya".

Having reached Istra, you will have to change to local buses - to the Teplitsa stop (routes 32, 33) or to the Museum stop (routes 46, 40, 48, 4).

The optimal route for the car is along the Volokolamskoe highway. The distance from the center of Moscow along the highway is more than 50 km. See and travel by car published on the official website of the New Jerusalem Museum in Istra.

To call a taxi, use the mobile applications: Yandex.Taxi, Uber, Gett, Maxim, etc.

Bus route from the station "Tushinskaya" to "New Jerusalem" - Google Maps

Panoramas at the entrance to the museum - Google Maps

Brief overview of the new museum complex - YouTube

The history of the Resurrection Monastery, in the premises of which the museum is located, dates back to 1656. It was then that its founder, Patriarch Nikon, came up with the idea to make a three-dimensional icon of Palestine near Moscow. The main monastery building - the Church of the Resurrection of Christ - was built by analogy with the temple of the same name in the Holy Land, erected over the Holy Sepulcher.

The New Jerusalem Museum was opened in 1920 at the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery. Then the territory of the monastery closed by the decision of the authorities with all the temples and monastery buildings was transferred to the exhibition local history museum... This circumstance played a positive role in the history of the monastery. It was not plundered during the years of "theomachist", its property during the war years was evacuated and carefully preserved. To date, everything that previously belonged to the monastery has been returned to the holy fathers.

There are more than 180,000 exhibits in the funds of the "New Jerusalem". They are stored in an area of ​​approximately 2,360 square meters. it huge collection church rarities, canvases by Russian and foreign masters, porcelain and weapons, furniture brought from former noble estates, ancient manuscript and printed books, a rich collection of decorative and applied art. After the nationalization of historical estates, the best items from the western region of the Moscow region were brought to the museum: Znamenskoye and Glebovo, Petrovsky and Rozhdestvenno, Nikolsky and Ilyinsky, Yaropolets and others.

Samples of the Russian school of wooden architecture were brought and carefully restored in the park area set aside for the territory of the museum: a residential peasant house (Lyubertsy district), a carved chapel (Chekhovsky district), a windmill (Tver region). These structures have been used many times as scenery for films and television series. The rebuilt premises of the former equestrian yard (Exhibition building), since the 80s of the last century, have been reserved for art exhibitions.

Museum workers are doing a lot of exhibition work. Every year, large-scale holidays are held on its basis - "Day of Slavic Writing and Culture", "Christmas in New Jerusalem", "Russian Wedding", "Moving to a New Home".

In connection with the transfer historic buildings the legal owner represented by the Russian Orthodox Church, a complex of purpose-built buildings was transferred to the museum, and in 2013 it moved to a new building on the opposite bank of Istra.

The new building has become the main, but not the only site of the Museum. Now the Museum complex "New Jerusalem", in addition to the new building, includes: the Exhibition Hall and the Department of Wooden Architecture, located in the forested area of ​​the Istra bend adjacent to the monastery.