У статті наведено відомості про чудотворні ікони Дігтярівської та Леньківської Богородиць. Обґрунтовано наукову актуальність вивчення, наведено інформацію про час явлення і початок
шанування, їх іконографію та зовнішні характеристики, відомості про пожертви і місцезнаходження збережених копій.
The article presents information about the miraculous icons of the Virgin
Mary from Dihtiarivka and Lenkiv, which venerated near Novhorod-Siverskyi.
The scientific interest is substantiated in the study of this issue, the features
of these icons are described. Summary about the time of appearance and
start of veneration of the Dihtiarivska and Lenkivska icons of Our Lady.
The iconography and the external characteristics of these icons described.
Donation information provided. The presence and location of the saved
lists of these miraculous icons are told about.
The study of veneration of the miraculous icons allows us to understanding
the treatment to them of past society. The prevalence of the cult, the number
of recorded mentions and the amount of precious gifts to miraculous icons
indicates the place of miraculous icons at life of people in the past.
Two miraculous icons of the Virgin Mary in the Novhorod-Siverskyi
region are the icons of Virgin Mary from Dihtiarivka and Lenkivka. The
main sources of information about them are the XIXth century publications.
Also modern historians are beginning to become interested in the study
of miraculous icons, although to date this topic has been elaborated only
in conjunction with other historical studies in Chernihiv-Siverschyna.
The tearful icon of Our Lady of the Dithiarivka village is an ancient
item of the Novhorod-Siverskyi region. Evidence of its occurrence is dated
back to 1392. The size of the icon is 31 x 23 cm. The icon tearful in 1702,
before the attack of the Swedish troops during the Northern War. After
that the monks of the local monastery wanted to move the icon to the
monastery church, but it returned to the village Dіhtiarivka. The original
miraculous icon of Our Lady of the Dіhtiarivka was not preserved, but two
later copies are known now.
Hetman Ivan Mazepa had venerated miraculous icon of Our Lady from
Dіhtiarivka very much. He built the church of the Intercession of the Blessed
Virgin Mary here and made the silver cover with gilding for icon in the early
XVIII century. Now this cover stored in the Museum of Historical Treasures in
Kyiv. Ivan Mazepa wrote an appeal to the Starodub Regiment in Dihtiarivka,
he was calling walk over on the side of King Charles XII of Sweden.
Another miraculous image of Our Lady revealed in Novhorod-Siverskyi
district is icon from village Lenkiv. This icon is simply floated on water to the
shore in the XVIIth century and called the “Savior of the Drowners”, because
it appeared near a dangerous swirl on the river Desna. In this place many
times boats sinked along with people into the swirl. The accidents at the
swirl stopped after the appearance of the icon. After a while a temple of the
Blessed Virgin was built at the site of the icon’s appearance. O. Yefimov at
first systematized and published material on this miraculous icon in 1901.
Lenkiv village was destroyed in the beginning of XVIIth century during
a military conflict. It was reborn in a new place. There have built a new
temple of St. Archangel Michael, where the miraculous icon of Our Lady
of Lenkiv was kept. The first mention of the icon in 1751, dating from the
gift record in the Gospel of this church.
The miracle-working icon of the Lenkiv had size 44 x 27 cm. In the XVIIIth
century the miraculous icon had transferred to the local Transfiguration
Monastery. It was located here before the revolution of 1917 and then
was lost. A local resident presented the monastery an ancient copy of the
Lenkivska icon in 2003.
Summary in this study systematized information about the miraculous
icons of Virgin Mary from the Dihtiarivka and Lenkiv of Novhorod-Siverskyi
region. The article shows that the sacred monuments united society and
efforts to fight an external enemy.
