Igumenia Anatoly Barshay Biography

The director of the school, she is the mother on September 2, the abbess-director of Anatoly with his pupils.

The school principal is the abbess of the monastery, the abbess Anatoly Barshay. Both the standards and to the liking, despite the fact that training here is conducted according to approved ministerial standards, this school happily escaped a crisis in which the education system was in the years of global changes. And while at the top they are developing and implementing programs and systems of systemic education, Orthodox schools in Russia and teach and develop the personality of a younger person.

Solving the inalienable task of Orthodox education, first to introduce to faith, the school at the Nikolsky monastery copes with the training of sciences that are necessary to obtain a certificate. Her pupils invariably withstand tests by a single state exam and enter prestigious educational institutions not only in the regional center, but also in the capital. The abbess Anatoly, she is the director, without hesitation gives examples.

Kikotya; Alina, in baptism, Ekaterina Kruglova successfully studies at the Shui Pedagogical University; Anastasia Kuzmicheva, a beautiful vocalist, entered the Ivanovo music school some girls, having received a special spiritual education, professionally engage in icon painting, carry regent service in temples. As for the teachers of the Orthodox school, they can rightfully say about them: they teach and educate not for duty, but to their liking.

This is the head teacher and a mathematics teacher Olga Valerievna Porshneva, who, according to the abbess of the director, "in every lesson inspires the search for inquisitive students with their own love for knowledge and surrounding people." These are the writers Nina Nikolaevna Zhgutova and Sofia Vitalievna Chikaleva: communicating with the children, they "relentlessly follow the advice of Theophan the Recluse, stated in" letters about Christian life.

"The saint calls to develop not only the mind of students," but mainly to ennoble the heart. "She reflects on the meaning of human life, analyzes the motives that leads the motives, which leads to the motives that leads the motives. Sincerely believers in the monastery, raises the questions of the reader and pedagogical in the book with the dedication of the spiritual father Naum Bayborodin, the abbess-director admits that at one time "with great interest, I read the Antoine Saint-Exupery" and explains that "the spirit of Christianity permeates the works of the writer." The prince is very close to the views of the director of the monastery school.

Here is one of the fragments of the book confirming this: "Antoine de Saint-Exupery remained for me a bright star even after many years. A man who was looking for a secret child in his neighbor and who understood that only the Holy Spirit, having touched clay, creates a person out of him." Igumena is a teacher not only in secular education, but also at the call of the heart.

She believes that today's school, more than ever, needs Christian education, because spiritual and moral enlightenment not only cleanses of sins, but first of all reveals the best in kids and adolescents. Is it because the ordinary girls entering the monastery school, under the leadership of teachers-mentors, soon show themselves as surprisingly talented personalities. And no wonder: the school has many circles and studios.

Orthodox students enthusiastically engage in needlework, optionally study Chinese ... And they also like to sing. It’s just breathtaking when, performed by a group of girls, you listen to the most difficult musical works, for example, Arioso Mother from the cantata Anatoly Novikov “We ​​need peace”. Mother Anatoly spoke about the success that their young choinos had at the solemn event in honor of the surrounding of the sailor of the sandals in St.

Petersburg. The abbess remembered how, having received an sole invitation to the upcoming celebration, she flatly refused to go without her singing schoolgirls. And I was not mistaken: the young singers conquered a huge audience with performing skills. The abbess-dramaturg, the abbess-director happened so that the abbess and at the same time, the director of the Orthodox school had to master another profession important for educational activities.

Once, obedience was entrusted to her: to put a Christmas performance and show it within the framework of the interregional children's festival. But first I had to write a script. And mother took up the feather. She based on her work, she laid the parable of the friendship of St. Gerasim Jordan with Leo. The abbess-dramaturg suffered the heroes of the play-the children of our time-to the 5th century, when this instructive story actually happened.

The director of Anatolia Barshay managed to use many children from different schools of the region in the play, organize consolidated rehearsals and take their first staged work to the audience. The joyful amazement of all participants, the Christmas representation was a great success.Now, the creative assets of the abbess of the Nikolsky convent, several religious and sheet scenarios, collected in a separate book of the Parish Holiday and implemented in their Orthodox school.

In the preface to the collection, the head of the Ivanovo Metropolis, Metropolitan Joseph, noted that such productions are developing an existing in the church system of working with children a wonderful tradition of conducting bright stage actions and "are an example of the joint creativity of adults and children." The teacher is the most sincere friend for teachers and director of this unusual educational institution it is important to build their own pedagogical concept that meets the requirements of modern education and develops the ideas of the Russian National School.

The abbess spoke in deep respect about the educational system of Sergei Rachinsky, based on the principles of humanism, nationality and morality, close community with the temple. Leaving the university department, the Moscow professor, voluntarily and consciously became a village teacher. Rachinsky assigned the most important role in school education to religious and moral education and the main subject of learning called Christian morality.

This provision, according to the Igumeni of Anatolia, to a large extent correlates with the tasks of their monastery school. At the same time, she explains, the Russian teacher gave an enduring significance to master the exact and humanities. Aren't her colleagues-riverbits strive for this today? As a clear example, the abbess of Anatoly quotes the paintings "Oral Account" and "Sunday reading".

They were written by the artist Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky, who himself left the school of Rachinsky. Most of all in these canvases are captivated by plots that display the communication of the mentor with his students. Children see in their favorite teacher a sincere friend, a good adviser, probably even a father who loves them to see them, takes care of the future of each of his pupils.

Peering into the paintings of Bogdanov-Belsky, you involuntarily correlate them with the real reality, which you observe in the Monastery School of Volzhsk. Indeed, relationships here are on the same principles of respect, kindness, friendliness, and openness, which Sergei Alexandrovich Rachinsky had previously proclaimed. Leaving the monastery monastery, I thought: that the pupils and colleagues, turning to their leader, abbess Anatolia, call her such a warm and native word - “mother”, is a deep symbolic meaning.