Tomb in the Necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery

 

Tomb in the Necropolis of the Donskoy Monastery, which believers do not pass by.

The chapel-mausoleum of the family of the manufacturer Levchenko was built according to the project of the architect R. I. Klein and decorated with mosaics made according to the drawings of the artist V. M. Vasnetsov. The mosaic icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the left wing of the tomb with traces of bullets is especially venerated by believers.

When in 1918 soldiers in the Donskoy Monastery fired at the mosaic image of St. Nicholas in the Levchenko chapel, the bullet ricocheted and hit the shooter in the chest. He fell and never got up. He shot himself. His soul riddled long ago. Traces of bullets and broken pieces of glass smalt are clearly visible against the gold background around the head of the saint.

They say that all the mothers who came here when Soviet soldiers fought the Germans in the Patriotic War, waited for their sons. Since then, the golden background of Vasnetsov's Nikola in the Donskoy Monastery is considered to be miracle-working. In his chapel there are always fresh flowers.

Everyone who comes to the Donskoy Monastery always puts one candle in this chapel-tomb.