DIVEYEVO OBEDIENCES: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

   On June 14/27, the Fourth Portion of the Mother of God on Earth—Diveyevo Convent—honors its own saints. Before the revolution in 1917, there were approximately 1700 nuns and novices in the monastery. Only one of them, Schemanun Margarita (or as they used to call her, Grandma Frosia) lived to the reopening of the monastery and the return of St. Seraphim’s relics.                          

Nevertheless, the pre-revolutionary day-to-day life of the monastery and its sisters were preserved in photographs, some of which were found in the personal photo album of Abbess Alexandra (Trakovskaya †1942), the last abbess of Diveyevo. Fortunately this album was preserved, and it we gladly present these unique pictures here. (http://www.pravoslavie.ru/)

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  View of the St. Seraphim-Diveyevo Monastery, from the southern side
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  Cross procession to Diveyevo Monaster
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  The Church-parish school and orphanage at Diveyevo Monastery
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  The Church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God
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  Sisters working at the printing press in Diveyevo Convent
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  Sisters embossing icons in Diveyevo Convent
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  Icon painting in Diveyevo Convent
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  Drawing in Diveyevo
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  Painting in Diveyevo Convent
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  Sewing vestments in Diveyevo Convent
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  Sisters entering names into the prayer commemoration books at Diveyevo Convent
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  A nun’s funeral
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  The Diveyevo Convent choir
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  Making wax
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  Candle-making in Diveyevo
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  The Church of the Transfiguration and the hermitage of St. Seraphim in the Diveyevo Convent
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  Sisters cutting the hay
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  Sisters laboring at the harvest
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  A chapel on the place where the mill was built at the blessing of St. Seraphim
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  Sisters laboring in the kitchen
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  Sisters laboring in the garden