Kizichesky Monastery

{{Short description|Orthodox monastery in Kazan}}{{Expand Russian|date=December 2024}}

{{Infobox monastery

| name = Kizichesky Vvedensky Monastery

| native_name = Кизический Введенский монастырь

| native_name_lang = ru

| image = Надвратная церковь Кизического (мужского) монастыря.jpg

| caption = The gate church dates from the 1690s

| established = 1691

| denomination = Orthodoxy

| country = Russia, Kazan

}}

Kizichesky Vvedensky Monastery ({{langx|ru|Кизический Введенский монастырь}}) is a Russian Orthodox male monastery in Kazan, Tatarstan.

The monastery was founded in {{start date and age|1691|p=y}} by Patriarch Adrian of Moscow, who had been Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsk between 1686 and 1690.{{Cite book |last=Феоктистов |first=Анатолий А. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/%D0%A0%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B8/NhTZAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=%22Kizichesky%22%20%20-wikipedia |title=Русские монастыри: Казанская, Саранская, Симбирская, Cамарская, Cаратовская, Волгоградская, Астраханская епархии. Средняя и Нижняя Волга |date=2004 |publisher=Очарованный странник |isbn=978-5-93974-003-6 |pages=100 |language=ru, en}} It was dedicated to the {{ill|Nine Martyrs of Cyzicus|ru|Девять мучеников Кизических}} ({{langx|ru|Девять мучеников Кизических}}, {{transliteration|ru|Dyevyat muchenikov Kizicheskikh}}), relics of which were translated to the new monastery on Adrian's instructions.

In the 1690s Vvedensky Cathedral (Presentation of Mary Cathedral) and Vladimirskaya Church (Church of Vladimir Icon of Virgin) were built. Vvedensky Cathedral was destroyed during the Soviet period.

Count {{ill|Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy (governor)|ru|Толстой, Илья Андреевич (губернатор)|lt=Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy}} (the grandfather of Lev Tolstoy) is buried in the monastery.