The Church at the Smolensk cemetery (1992)

Monument to Peter I in St.

Petersburg.

View of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St.

Petersburg.

View of St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Ancient engravings about the construction of St.

Petersburg in the time of Peter I.

Smolensk cemetery on Vasilievsky Island.

The first builders of St.

Petersburg from Smolensk were buried in this cemetery.

Ancient crosses on graves.

The builders put a chapel in the cemetery, in which they put an icon of the Smolensk Mother of God brought from the motherland.

View of the stone temple built on the site of the chapel.

The temple was dedicated to the icon of the Smolensk Mother of God.

The interior of the temple.

Icon of the Smolensk Mother of God in the temple.

View of the temple, the priest is coming from the temple.

During the construction of the temple, workers noticed that someone was lifting bricks on the walls of the temple under construction.

It turned out that this was done by a beggar woman who was in the cemetery all the time.

The image of a beggar woman against the background of cemetery trees.

Icon of St.

Xenia of St.

Petersburg.

They began to read the beggar woman during her lifetime.

People talked about the miracles she did.

Chapel over the grave of a beggar.

Cemetery visitors and priests approach the chapel to worship.

Fence around the chapel dedicated to Xenia of St.

Petersburg, with notes of believers.

The woman puts a note for Xenia with a request or gratitude.

The Life of Xenia of St.

Petersburg.

The interior of the chapel.

Icons in the chapel.

Xenia of St.

Petersburg was the wife of the courtier Pevchevo.

The husband died suddenly at a feast without rest.

On the day of her husband's funeral, the young Xenia died for the world.

She put on her husband's clothes, called herself by his name and began to live for him, instead of him, to beg and save his soul.

At the call of Christ, she took upon herself the feat of foolishness.

Service in the chapel dedicated to Saint Xenia.

A procession led by Patriarch Alexy around the chapel dedicated to Xenia of St.

Petersburg.

The Patriarch brought to the grave of Saint Xenia the Holy Fire from the Temple of the Lord.

The limit is consecrated in the church of the Smolensk Mother of God, in honor of Blessed Xenia.

Believers at the Church of the Smolensk Mother of God.