Pokrovsky Monastery, known in French as Monastère Notre Dame de Toute Protection, is a women's monastery of the Gallic Metropolis of the Constantinople Patriarchate, located in Bussy-en-Othe, France. In 1938, in the locality of Moisne-le-Grand, 50 km from Paris, nun Evdokia (Meshcheryakova-Kurten) along with nuns Blandina (Obolenskaya), Theodosia (Solomyanskaya), and Dorothea (Kurten) founded a skete in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. They were joined by hieromonk Euphemiy (Vendt). In 1945, the skete split: nuns Evdokia, Blandina, Theodosia, and the recently joined nun Glafira (Kiriakopulos) moved to the village of Rose-en-Brie, where since 1935 an Orthodox monastic community had been operating under the guidance of abbess Melania (Likhacheva). Nun Dorothea, hieromonk Euphemiy, and several new sisters remained at the skete.
In 1946, lawyer Vasily Borisovich Elyashevich, fulfilling the last wish of his wife Faina Iosifovna, née Morgulis, donated the estate "Cherry Orchard" in the village of Bussy-en-Othe in Burgundy for the monastic community. With the blessing of Metropolitan Evlogy (Georgievsky), the first inhabitants were nuns Evdokia (Meshcheryakova-Kurten), Blandina (Obolenskaya), Theodosia (Solomyanskaya), and Glafira (Kiriakopulos), as well as Serbian hieromonk Mitrophan (Kreseovich). In 1948, Metropolitan Vladimir (Tikhonitsky) consecrated the church of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos, created through the efforts of the inhabitants and pious laypeople, and elevated nun Evdokia to the rank of abbess.
In 1950, Russian writer Ivan Shmelev passed away at the monastery.
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