The state of monastic life on the territory of the Dobrush district of the Gomel region BSSR in 1944-1964
The article is devoted to the consideration of the issue of the organization of monastic life within the Dobrush district of the Gomel region of the BSSR in 1944-1964. Special attention is paid to the activities of the illegal («catacomb») monastic community in the village of Ogorodnya-Gomelskaya, which was out of communion with the Moscow Patriarchate. On the basis of archival materials, the activities of Archimandrite Innokenty (Melnichenko) and Hieromonk Herman (Zhuravlev), who were leaders of monasticism in the Dobrush region, are being studied. Special attention is paid to the situation of the nuns of the Makariyevsky Convent, closed in 1928, who settled within the Dobrush district in small groups and for decades preserved the traditions of monastic life.