I made this trip on May 19, 2009. It took place in the village of Nikolsko-Trubetskoye, now part of the city limits of the city of Balashikha, Moscow Region, and also on that day I visited the Kalitnikovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Collecting information about the hierarchs and clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church, I learned about the burial place of a famous church figure of the 20th century. He was buried in the organ of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the village of Nikolsko-Trubetskoy. I decided to go there and find the grave, began to prepare for the trip. I had to look for the information I needed on how to get to the place on the Internet for a long time, but finally I collected the necessary materials.
So, on May 19, 2009, on the day of the 141st anniversary of the birth (according to the new style) of the Russian emperor Saint Nicholas II Alexandrovich(6/19.V.1868-17.VII.1918), I set off. I took a six-hour morning electric train from Tver to Moscow, then by subway to the bus station on Shchelkovo Highway. There I also quickly got my bearings and found the parking lot of the fixed-route taxi No. 447, which just goes past the village of Nikolsko-Trubetskoy. Even halfway there was such a case: I got off at a stop with the inscription "Temple", but it turned out not to be Nikolsko-Trubetskoye, but the temple of Demetrius of Thessalonica. I had to again catch a fixed-route taxi No. 447 and go to Nikolsko-Trubetskoy. This time I drove normally and got off at the bus stop just opposite the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Nikolsko-Trubetskoy.
Immediately went to the temple, located behind the fence. In some places the fence is continuous, in some places it is a lattice. Behind the altar of a beautiful red brick temple, I found the grave I was looking for Metropolitan Anthony (Krotevich) and also the graves of two priests - and. A small necropolis has been preserved in the temple fence. Most of the graves on it are from the middle of the 20th century, but there are also a few burials of recent years. Behind the fence of the temple, with a separate entrance, there is also a small old cemetery. I looked at him through the bars of the fence and decided not to visit: ordinary graves, many of which are not in the best condition. Then I went to the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, put candles in front of the icons, and prayed. And he set off on his way back to Moscow, rejoicing that he had found a grave Metropolitan Anthony (Krotevich) and two other clergy.
Soon I boarded a bus of the same route No. 447 (*1) and went to Moscow. It should be noted that during the trip on the Shcherbinsky highway every now and then there were traffic jams in which the transport had to stand for a long time. But it seems to be a common thing for Moscow and the Moscow region now. The best way, I think, is to travel by rail, but, unfortunately, railroads are not everywhere. Also on the way I saw some kind of cemetery by the road through the bus window. At first I thought that maybe it was Shcherbinsky, but the fence of the cemetery quickly ended, the cemetery is small, most likely some kind of city Balashikha. However, I don't know for sure.
When I got to Moscow, to the Shchelkovskaya metro station, I decided to go to the Kalitnikovskoye cemetery. Buried there Archbishop Alexy (Sergeev) (†6.IV.1968). I remembered the advice of the necropolis Dvamala how to get to this cemetery, which he sent me in response to my request the day before my trip. I got to the Proletarskaya metro station and then on foot, along the Moscow streets, I got to the Kalitnikovsky cemetery. By the way, I had to walk quite a decent distance. At the cemetery, I examined the area around the church. Found several graves of priests. I already had photographs of some of these graves, they were sent to me by mail from Moscow necropolises, but I found the graves of several more clergymen, whose photographs were not on the site or in my archive in the queue for uploading to this site. I also visited the grave of the head of the renovationist Orthodox Church. But in the area of the church there is a grave Archbishop Alexy (Sergeev) I failed to find. I went to the temple, but the workers of the temple also do not know about the grave of this bishop. The cemetery office said that they did not have archives for burials by area. One of the cemetery workers noticed that he seemed to have seen the grave of some bishop in the seventeenth section, but he does not remember exactly. I went to the seventeenth precinct, got around it pretty well, but the grave Bishop Alexy unfortunately not found. And for some time I walked around the Kalitnikovsky cemetery, including going into the depths of some sections. Found some notable graves and tombstones. There was already a lot of time, and I had to go back to Tver, I had to catch the electric train. I left the Kalitnikovskoye cemetery at about 3 pm, with the hope of continuing the search in this cemetery again some time later.
I also walked to Proletarskaya metro station, passing by the Pokrovsky Monastery. I managed to get on the Tver electric train departing at 16.28, on which I safely got back to Tver. align=center>
Supplement - biographical information about Metropolitan Anthony.
ANTONY (Krotevich).
This article is published on website of the Russian Orthodoxy Foundation, or type the address of the article: http://www.ortho-rus.ru/cgi-bin/ps_file.cgi?2_4178 . (*2)
Anthony (Krotevich Boris Nikolaevich), Metropolitan of Ivanovo and Kineshma.
Born on August 1/14, 1889 in Shenderovka, Kyiv province.
He graduated from the Kyiv 2nd Classical Gymnasium, then was a student at the Kyiv Theological Academy.
In 1914, he was ordained a priest at the Vozdvizhenskaya Church in the village. Pirogov, Kyiv diocese.
In 1917 he was a priest of the Catherine Church. Lukianovsky cemetery in Kyiv.
In 1919, he was the rector of the Baikovo-cemetery church in Kyiv, he was the dean of the 3rd Blagochin. districts. In the same year he was elevated to the rank of archpriest.
In 1931 - rector of the Sophia Church on the Sophia embankment. Moscow.
In 1932 he was awarded a miter.
From August 17, 1932, he was rector of the Nativity Cathedral in the city of Kovrov and dean of the churches of the Kovrov district.
In November of the same year, for the submitted essay "History of Passion Week before the Formation of the Studio Charter", he was approved for the degree of Candidate of Theology.
In 1933 he was rector of the Vvedenskaya Church in Ivanovo.
In 1934 he was rector of the Orekhovo-Zuevsky Cathedral and dean of the district.
Divorced from his wife in 1935.
In 1937 - rector of the church in the city of Perov, Moscow Region. and dean of the churches of Ukhtomsky and Ramensky districts.
In 1944 - Dean of the churches of the Zhytomyr diocese.
On July 10, 1944, by the decision of the Holy Synod, he was appointed Bishop of Zhytomyr, and on August 11 he was tonsured a monk.
On August 14, 1944, he was consecrated Bishop of Zhytomyr and Ovruch.
The consecration was performed by Metropolitan John of Kiev and Archbishop Andrey of Dnepropetrovsk in Kyiv.
Since 1946 - Bishop of Kostroma and Galich, temporarily ruled the Yaroslavl diocese.
On February 25, 1952, he was elevated to the rank of archbishop.
November 16, 1953, according to the petition, he was retired.
On February 9, 1954, he returned to the cathedra and was appointed archbishop of Tula and Belevsky.
In September 1958, the temporary administration of the Rostov and Novocherkassk dioceses was entrusted.
On February 25, 1959, he was awarded a cross for wearing on a hood.
On March 16, 1961, he was elevated to the rank of metropolitan and appointed metropolitan of Minsk and Belarus.
On July 5, 1961, he was retired.
January 12, 1962 Metropolitan of Oryol and Bryansk.
On May 28, 1963, he was retired at the request.
March 30, 1964 Metropolitan of Ivanovo and Kineshma.
He died on November 21, 1973 in the village of Malakhovka, Moscow Region.
The village of Nikolskoye-Trubetskoye arose in the 60s of the seventeenth century and was originally called Nikolskoye, or Nikolaevsky. It lay on the former lands of the Kremlin Chudov Monastery, after the Time of Troubles passed to the first tsars from the Romanov dynasty. The scribe book of 1573-1574 marks the village of Osteevo here with small lands, a wooden monastery courtyard and a mill on the Pekhorka River. This mill was still preserved a century later and was called Pekhorskaya by its location. By that time, the village, which in the sixteenth century was designated as a village, was deserted and turned into a village, which, like many surrounding lands, was part of the Izmailovsky volost. Like neighboring Ivanovskoye, Nikolskoye was listed as a suburb of the sovereign's palace Izmailov.
From the very beginning, Nikolskoye, literally created by order of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, was planned as a purely peasant settlement, which, according to the record of the tsar's archive, was ordered to populate with 80 peasant households in the 1660s. In fact, they were settled much less.
According to documents, the first mention of the wooden single-altar church of St. Nicholas dates back to the second half of the 17th century, when the temple was called “newly built” (1678). According to the testimony of priest Timofey Semyonov, in the parish of the village of Nikolsky there were yards of clerks, yards of kissers and 48 peasant yards. In 1680, Nikolsky priest Bartholomew and deacon Fedor reported to the Patriarchal State Order that the existing wooden church in the village of Nikolsky "was built again in a new place." The content (“monetary and grain salary”) was received by the clergy from the Order of the Grand Palace, and the church land was not separated from the church.
The construction of the church immediately raised the status of the settlement. Nikolskoye, along with Golyanov and Ivanovsky, was listed as a suburb of Izmailov - a village with a church. Her community, which consisted of peasants from the same village, decreased over time and by 1700 consisted of only 39 households. The church clergy did not have land and mowing and was kept on the sovereign's rug (maintenance).
In 1700, during the reign of Peter the Great, they stopped giving the official hand, ordering the clerks "to be content with the alms of the parish people." In 1717, the clergy of St. Nicholas included the priest Antip Fedorov with two clerks. A schematic representation of the village of Nikolsky and the church of St. Nicholas was preserved on a unique drawing of the 17th century. It clearly shows the layout of the village itself, a dammed river with a mill dam. The temple is shown as three-domed, from which it was concluded that the church was three-altar. However, this is only a schematic representation, which is not confirmed by the documents of the archives.
The last wooden church that stood before the construction of a stone church was built in 1790. The history of this church is significant and dates back to the middle of the 18th century. Among the palace estate ensembles in the immediate vicinity of Moscow, the village of Pokrovskoye on the Yauza River is known. Since the beginning of the 17th century, this area has become one of the favorite places for the stay of royal persons. Under Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, Pokrovskoye belonged to his mother, nun Martha Ioannovna. In this area, in ancient times, a large garden was laid out and various garden amusements were arranged. There were also residential and economic wooden buildings.
In the 1730s, Pokrovskoye belonged to the daughter of Peter the Great, Princess Elizaveta Petrovna, who in 1742, already an empress, ordered the construction of a wooden palace in Pokrovskoye, later replaced by a stone one.
Then, in the 1740s, a special wooden single-altar church dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ was built at the palace. It is known that in 1742 the icons for the new iconostasis were painted by the famous icon painter of the 18th century, Roman Nikitin and Comrades. In January 1743, according to the instructions of M.G. Zemtsov made a frame for the painting "in the plafond" of the church. As O.S. wrote Evangulova, “on the drawings, the church was a rectangle in plan, with a rectangular apse and, apparently, a bell tower of a smaller width than the main part of the building.”
At the end of the 18th century, in the last years of the reign of Empress Ekaterina Alekseevna, the palace ensemble in Pokrovsky began to lose its significance as a place of residence for noble persons. By order of Catherine the Great in 1790, the wooden, single-altar Resurrection Church with a bell tower was transferred to the palace village of Nikolskoye and placed in the middle of the parish cemetery on the site of a dilapidated church of the 17th century.
With the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Platon (Levshin) of Moscow and Kaluga, the relocated church was re-consecrated in honor of St. Nicholas. This wooden church with a small bell tower stood on a stone foundation for a little over 60 years, when, at the request of the parishioners, it was replaced by a vast stone church .
In the iconostasis there was an ancient icon of St. Nicholas: "icon-painting, 1 arshin 6 inches high, 1 arshin wide, above it are depicted the Lord of Hosts and the Savior, above them the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove, and below - the repose of St. Nicholas." To this icon there was a cross-reliquary hung on a silver chain, in which were kept “the Savior’s Robe, the schema of Barsanuphius of Kazan, the relics of the holy martyr Prince Constantine of Yaroslavl, the holy martyr Archdeacon Stephen, the holy martyr Barbara, the holy prince Alexander Nevsky and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.” In the sacristy of the stone church, two altar Gospels from the palace church were kept in silver casings of the seal of 1753 and 1774.
A special geometric plan of 1766 of the “department of the Palace Chancellery of the Izmailovsky volost of the village of Izmailovo with villages” has been preserved, including Nikolsky. It shows the site of St. Nicholas Church and the plan of the village with peasant houses.
At the beginning of the 19th century (1808), the village of Nikolskoye, Moscow district and province, was granted from the Treasury to the property, first to Prince Sergeyev, and then to the court adviser, Prince Ivan Nikolaevich Trubetskoy (1811), hence the second name of the village appeared - "Trubetskoy". In addition to Nikolsky, Prince Trubetskoy was given the ancient village of Golyanovo, where the landowner's estate was transferred from the village of Govorova, Setun camp, Moscow district. The latter was badly damaged by French marauders and was burned during the Patriotic War of 1812.
Prince Ivan Nikolaevich Trubetskoy (1766-1844), married to Princess Natalya Sergeevna Meshcherskaya (1775-1852), had three sons: Nikolai, Peter and Alexei.
The family owned two stone houses in Moscow, which burned down in the Moscow fire of 1812, and large real estate in many provinces, including the Moscow district. Prince I.N. Trubetskoy owned the famous estate in the Dmitrovsky district near the Holy Trinity-Sergius Lavra - "Akhtyrka" on the river Vora.
The Trubetskoys did not live in Nikolskoye. The village was primarily of economic importance to them. In 1833, there were 5 petty-bourgeois households and 48 peasant households (341 people) in the village. In the village, a single-altar church of St. Nicholas with a bell tower, “consisting of hardness”, was mentioned, wooden on a stone foundation. It is written about the foundation of this temple: “This church of blessed memory was built by Empress Elizaveta Petrovna in Pokrovsky, and in which year it is not known, and in 1790, by the personal order of Empress Ekaterina Alekseevna, she was granted to this village, transported to the place and arranged by the diligence of the parishioners” . The clergy consisted of a priest and two clerks. With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Augustin (Vinogradsky) of Dmitrovsky, in 1808 Father George Karinsky was appointed rector of St. Nicholas Church. A graduate of the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, Georgy Semenovich Karinsky was the son of a venerable archpriest. In 1799 he received a deacon's place in the church of the village of Kozina, Zvenigorod district, and in 1808 he was ordained a priest of the St. Nicholas Church in the village of Nikolsky. For worthy behavior during the Patriotic War of 1812, when Father George was able to save church property and the temple itself from French marauders, the Diocesan authorities in 1818 awarded him a cross with the inscription "1812" on the Vladimir ribbon.
Since 1808, the legal proportion of church land was marked off in favor of the clergy: “920 fathoms under courtyards and gardens, 150 fathoms under a graveyard, 840 fathoms under a country road, and a total of 33 acres 44 fathoms.” The peasants of the village of Nikolsky in 1832 made a condition with the clergy of the Nikolsky church to lease out church land with a fee of 300 rubles a year. The plan for the church land, dated 1850, was kept in the church sacristy. Interestingly, in addition to the village of Nikolsky and the economic village of Ledova, in the parish of St. Nicholas Church, already in 1833, in a dacha called Bloshikha, there was a cloth factory and a merchant's house attached to it. In total, in the parish of the Church of St. Nicholas there were 62 households with a population of 441 people.
The presence of a mill dam near the village of Nikolskoye contributed to the emergence in 1830 of a patrimonial cloth factory. In the 1840s, near the village of Nikolsky, which belonged after the death of Prince I.N. Trubetskoy to his wife, Princess Natalya Sergeevna, the silk factory of the merchant Gorshkov and the cloth (paper-spinning) factory of the merchant Peter Trifonovich Moloshnikov were mentioned. There were 53 households in the village with a population of 334 people. The factory in Nikolsky became known as the Balashinsky mill. Initially, it was all wooden, but after a devastating fire in 1847, stone buildings were built and equipped with modern equipment. A large number of workers of the Balashinsky factory - parishioners of the St. Nicholas Church in Nikolsky-Trubetskoy - did not fit at all in the building of a small wooden rural church and were forced to visit the stone church of the neighboring parish near the village of Pekhra-Pokrovskoye. In the late 1850s, with the blessing of the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna Filaret (Drozdov), at the expense of manufacturers, merchants of the 1st guild Nikolai Ivanovich Kaulin and David Ivanovich Khludov, with the participation of funds from the St. Nicholas Church (2,000 rubles), the construction of a stone three-altar church began . Unfortunately, the archival file on the construction of the new temple has not been preserved. According to the title in the archive inventory, it is known that the first petition to Vladyka Filaret was dated 1858. Of the two benefactors in the construction of a stone church in Nikolskoye, the name of David Ivanovich Khludov is especially known as a church benefactor and donor. Wealthy textile industrialist D.I. Khludov was a strictly Orthodox and sincerely religious person. He had a special relationship with Metropolitan Filaret, who had long conversations with David Ivanovich and blessed his charitable work, especially church building. In the late 1850s and early 1860s, Khludov donated funds for the restoration of the Bogoroditse-Rozhdestvensky Bobrenev Monastery near Kolomna and the Nikolo-Peshnoshskaya Monastery near Dmitrov. In fact, David Ivanovich was the main builder of a new church in Nikolskoye, dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with side aisles in the name of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul (on the right side), and in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (on the left).
The name of the architect - the author of the project of the temple in Nikolsky, is unknown. The Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God has features of the "neo-Russian" style, characteristic of the work of architects of the 1850s - 1860s. The double-height quadrangle of the temple, completed with a small onion cupola, with a narthex and a low hipped bell tower, in its compositional and spatial solution and external decoration, corresponded with the monuments of Russian architecture of the 17th century. Similar buildings in Moscow and the Moscow diocese were designed in the 1850s - 1880s by the architect of the Moscow Chamber of State Property Vladislav Osipovich Grudzin (1824-1890). His temples are known, built in the Moscow district in the 1860s - in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village of Businovo, and in the name of the holy martyrs Boris and Gleb in the village of Degunino.
In 1862, the construction and interior decoration of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Nikolskoye-Trubetskoy were completed and, with the blessing of Metropolitan Philaret, the newly built church was consecrated by His Grace Leonid (Krasnonevkov), Bishop of Dmitrovsky. The side churches were consecrated on December 3, 1863, and the holy relics transferred from under the throne of the abolished St. Nicholas Church were placed at the base of the side tables.
A memorial plaque preserved on the wall of the church reads: “This church was founded in the name of the Nativity of the Mother of God with the thrones of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in 1858 July 20 days in the reign of Emperor Alexander Nikolaevich and Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna Filaret, diligently Priest Dmitry Nikolaevich Malinin and headman of the Moscow church merchant's son Alexander Illarionovich Gorshkov.
Familiar surnames: the priest was related to the rector of the neighboring Intercession Church, and the ktitor was one of those Gorshkov merchants who owned the Weaving Factory in Pekhra-Pokrovsky.
In 1877, the entire church inside was painted with picturesque writing by the artists of the workshop of Ya.E. Epanechnikov. In 1879, His Grace Ambrose (Klyucharev), Bishop of Dmitrovsky, Vicar of Moscow, visited and served in the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in Nikolskoye-Trubetskoy.
The main iconostasis was wooden, gilded on polyment, with carvings and columns, four-tiered, and ended with the icon-painted Crucifixion with the Coming Ones. In the local tier there were icons of the Savior, the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (temple), the icon of the Mother of God “Blessed Heaven”. The iconostasis of the chapel of the holy apostles Peter and Paul was also four-tiered, all gilded, with carvings. In the local tier were placed the icons of the Savior, the holy apostles Peter and Paul (temple), the Mother of God, Archdeacon Lawrence (northern door). Behind the altar of the altar of this chapel was the ancient Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God in a silver robe and with a crown. The iconostasis of the left aisle was the same as in the right one. In the local tier there were icons of the Savior, the Three Hierarchs and Teachers of the Ecumenical, the icon of the Mother of God "The Sign", Archdeacon Stephen (northern door).
Behind the right and left kliros of the main altar, in special icon cases, were placed images of the Holy Great Martyr Panteleimon and the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, painted on cypress boards, sent from the Athos Panteleimon Monastery.
Behind the right kliros of the main altar, in a special icon in the middle, there was a reliquary with holy relics: the Holy Prince Theodore of Chernigov, Saint Peter the Metropolitan, the First Martyr Archdeacon Stephen, Prince Theodore of Smolensk, the Monk Markelin Abbot, Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, Saint Alexius the Metropolitan; Anthony, Patriarch of Tsaregrad; Saint Cyril of Beloezersky, Saint Zosima of Solovetsky, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Martyr Stephen the New, Prince Michael of Chernigov, Saint Anthony the Roman, Martyr Theokla; St. Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow; Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Tsaregrad; holy fool Basil the Blessed, holy prince Vsevolod; Saint Jonah, Metropolitan of Moscow; Saint Theodore hegumen.
There was a ringing on the bell tower, consisting of seven bells: a large bell weighed 158 pounds 34 pounds, a polyeleic bell - 70 pounds, an everyday one - 34 pounds 34 pounds, the fourth - 4 pounds, the fifth - 3 pounds, the sixth - 1.5 pounds, the seventh - 30 pounds.
The old wooden St. Nicholas Church in the cemetery was dismantled, and a small wooden chapel with the icon of St. Nicholas was erected in place of the altar . The chapel was wooden, on a stone foundation, sheathed with boards, painted with oil paint and covered with iron.
In 1874, the famous Moscow businessmen I.I. Korzinkin, P.G. Shelaputin, M.D. Shcheglov and the Englishman M.O. Lunn. At the same time, the Association of the Balashikha Manufactory of Paper Products was formed. In 1879 the factory employed 905 workers. Chairman of the Board of the Balashikha Manufactory, hereditary honorary citizen P.G. Shelaputin (1848-1914), elevated to the nobility in 1911, founded an almshouse, a hospital, and workers' houses at the factory. A sincerely Orthodox man, Pavel Grigorievich spent huge sums on works of mercy. At his expense, in the 1890s, a major renovation of the Nativity Church was carried out. This is evidenced by the inscriptions on the holy antimensions of the main altar and the Peter and Paul chapel (offered by Metropolitan Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) of Moscow and Kolomna on October 29, 1899).
The holy antimension of the chapel of St. Nicholas was celebrated on September 20, 1892 by Metropolitan Leonty (Lebedinsky) of Moscow and Kolomna. During the years 1892-1898, at the expense of the Balashikha manufactory in Nikolskoye, houses were built for the clergy of the Mother of God-Nativity Church: a log one-story priest's house on a stone foundation (1892); a log house, sheathed with boards, on a stone foundation, the deacon's house (1896); log house, on a stone foundation, the house of the psalmist (1898). At the request of the church warden P.G. Shelaputin in 1896, the Moscow Spiritual Consistory permitted the opening of a deacon's vacancy in the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God, and thus the clergy from that time on consisted of a priest, a deacon, and a psalmist. Archpriest Alexy Pisarev, who served for many years as the rector of the church (he was the same age as the pastor P.G. Shelaputin), was awarded a blessed diploma of the Holy Synod and priestly awards for his diligent performance of pastoral duties and work on the improvement and beautification of the parish church. Archpriest Alexy Pisarev was also a teacher of the law at the Balashikha Factory School, and in addition, he was elected chairman of the parish council of trustees. Everything that was organized, built, equipped by the parish priest P. G. Shelaputin, was spiritually filled by the father rector.
In 1897, on the allowance of the Balashikha manufactory, a parochial school was opened at the church in Nikolskoye, which was located in a specially built building: “a log house, with apartments for a teacher and a church watchman, log-built on a stone foundation, sheathed with boards, painted with oil paint, heated by a Dutch stove ". Cellars and a barn were built at the school.
Since 1893, the Moscow tradesman Mitrofan Alexandrovich Prokhorov was elected the church headman of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in the village of Nikolskoye-Trubetskoy, Moscow district. For his activities in favor of the church as a ktitor, he was awarded a large gold medal (1904), and also received a large gold medal from the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood (1909).
In the “evaluation inventory” of the Insurance Department of the Holy Synod, the following description of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in the 1st deanery district of the Moscow district has been preserved: and a bell tower, 16.03 sazhens, maximum width 8.93 sazhens, height 6.47 sazhens, the church has one large dome and one small dome on the bell tower. The bell tower is in two tiers with a total height of 10 sazhens up to the eaves. The church is heated by an oven; There are 18 windows in the church. One wooden door on the outside and one iron door with a porch. The whole church is surrounded by an iron fence on a stone foundation, the nearest building is a peasant dwelling house at a distance of 24.64 sazhens. from the east side" .
In August 1910, the Consistory submitted to the Construction Department of the Provincial Administration a proposal and a project for a stone chapel in the cemetery of the village of Nikolsky-Trubetskoy. This section of the cemetery was again allocated by the Association of the Balashikha Manufactory from a part of the Nikolsky forest estate of the Moscow district of the Pehorskaya volost. The surviving design drawings do not have the signature of the architect.
In 1913-1916, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village of Nikolskoye-Trubetskoye was painted "stone with a bell tower and a fence, built in 1862." Since 1911, the rector of the church was the priest John Alekseevich Pisarev, who at the same time was the head of the parish school and the chairman of the local parish guardianship of the poor. Since 1909, the deacon was Nikolai Vasilyevich Lyubimov, who graduated from the course of the Moscow Theological Seminary. Aleksey Filippovich Nesterov was appointed as a psalm reader in 1911. Since 1897, Anna Vasilievna Gruzova worked as a prosvir. The houses of the clergy were listed as church property. The clergy of the village of Nikolsky owned a specified proportion of church land in the amount of 37 acres of 1712 square meters. sazhens, of which 1 tithe of 2248 sq. soot, arable - 26 acres 1014 sq. soot, hay - 3 acres, forest - 3 acres 1386 sq. sazhen, under the cemetery - 1 tithe 715 sq. sazh., under swamps and roads - 1 acres of 1143 sq. soot In the parish of the Mother of God-Nativity Church, there were 74 courtyards with a population of more than 2,700 people. At the factory of the Balashikha manufactory, there were 884 men and 1088 women. In 1911-1912, a railway line was laid to Balashikha from the Reutovo station, and a settlement was formed around the factory. In 1914, a large bell broke on the bell tower of the temple, but on the initiative of the rector Father John Pisarev, a new bell weighing 297 pounds was ordered and bought.
The revolutionary unrest in society in 1917-1918 had a severe impact on the state of church life in the Moscow diocese, especially in the industrial regions of the Moscow province. The Balashikha manufactory was nationalized in 1918. Pehorskaya volost was renamed Razinskaya by the new authorities. The general disorder and lawlessness was reflected in the situation of the temple in Nikolskoye.
In July 1917, intruders broke into the church and stole many valuable silver sacristy items. By decree of 1918, the Church was deprived of the right to own real estate, and all church buildings were municipalized, this also applied to the houses of the clergy. The school was separated from the Church, so the parochial schools were closed and the teaching of religious subjects to children was forbidden. All this also affected the arrival of the village of Nikolsky-Trubetskoy. Local authorities municipalized church property, confiscated the capital of the clergy and the church in the State Bank, took away the building of the parochial school, turning it into a Soviet school of the 1st stage. The clergy and their family members were disenfranchised, leaving them defenseless against the state Bolshevik machine.
During the period of the campaign to confiscate church valuables in favor of the starving people of the Volga region in March-April 1922, in the Mother of God-Nativity Church in the village of Nikolsky-Trubetskoy, the district commission seized the following items: a riza from the icon of St. Nicholas, a riza from the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, salaries from the Gospels of the middle and small format, five silver-gilded altar crosses, two sets of liturgical vessels, an ark for storing the Holy Mysteries, a silver censer.
In 1923, there were changes in the clergy of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos: priest Vladimir Pomerantsev was transferred from the temple of the Ermakovskaya almshouse in Moscow to the village of Nikolskoye. At the same time, Nikolai Bogomolov, who had returned from the civil war, was appointed deacon.
By agreement with the Police Department of the Razin Volost on October 1, 1925, only the building of a “stone one-story church with a bell tower” was transferred to the Orthodox community of the Theotokos-Nativity Church in the village of Nikolsky-Trubetskoy, the rest of the church buildings had already been municipalized by that time.
A list of members of the Church Council of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, dated 1927, has been preserved. The parish, in addition to the village of Nikolsky-Trubetskoy, Razin volost, Moscow province, included the village of Ledovo, Shchelkovsky district, as well as the Balashikha spinning factory. Archpriest Vladimir Ivanovich Pomerantsev, 57 years old, is shown as the rector of the church, Nikolai Vasilievich Bogomolov, 29 years old, was mentioned as a deacon-psalmist. Alexey Fedorovich Gorshkov was elected chairman of the church council at the age of 4822. It is known that, unlike most Orthodox churches in the Razinskaya (later Reutovskaya) volost, the church in Nikolsky-Trubetskoy adopted a renovationist orientation and was subordinate to the renovationist Supreme Church Administration (VCU). Archpriest Vladimir Pomerantsev became the leader of the "renovationist" schism. Later, already at the height of the Stalinist repressions of the 1930s, priest Vasily Kopytov became rector of the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God. The presence in the Renovationist schism is also confirmed by the data of the list of Renovationist churches dated 1936, where No. 8 mentions the church in the village of Nikolsky-Trubetskoy, Reutovsky District, with the clergy, Archpriest Vasily Kopytov and Protodeacon Vladimir Dmitrievsky. By 1940, only five churches remained in operation in the Reutovsky district of the Moscow region, including the one in Nikolsky-Trubetskoy.
Only during the years of the Great Patriotic War, when the renovationist movement came to naught, the church was again filled with Orthodox believers. The Queen of Heaven did not leave the temple dedicated to Her Nativity in desecration. After the war, in connection with the liquidation of the "renovation" hierarchy, the Mother of God-Nativity parish in the village of Nikolskoye-Trubetskoy returned to the Patriarchal Church.
Now the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Nikolskoye-Trubetskoy is in full splendor. A great merit in this belongs to its long-term rector, one of the oldest clerics of the Balashikha deanery, mitred archpriest Vladimir Sergeevich Borozdinov. December 2006 marked the 30th anniversary of Father Vladimir's ministry in this church. The name of Father Vladimir is associated with the excellent condition of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos itself, and the construction of a new building for the parochial school. Father Vladimir Borozdinov is known not only as an experienced pastor and confessor, but also as a wonderful spiritual poet, author of many collections of poems and prose. He is a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. From his good poems, not only pupils of the Sunday school at the temple, but also students of the Zemsky gymnasium, which he has been caring for since its inception, can learn a lot. The spiritual children of Father Vladimir not only teach poetry, but also make pilgrimages to the holy places of Russia. From under his wing came several pastors who now carry out their ministry in various churches of the Moscow Diocese. One of them, priest Mikhail Kalashnikov, helps Father Vladimir in the matter of spiritual enlightenment of students of the Zemstvo Gymnasium and the children's art school No. 2 of Balashikha, the director of which is the regent of the right kliros of the temple, L.I. Miretskaya.
Nowadays, the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God has ceased to be a rural parish and has entered the boundaries of a large regional center of the Moscow Region - the city of Balashikha ...
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The Mother of God-Nativity Church in Balashikha is a temple with a long history and great spiritual power. It was built on the site of the wooden single-altar Nikolsky Cathedral, the first mention of which dates back to the 17th century. At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Church of the Resurrection, which had previously stood in the Intercession Palace complex, was moved here. In the 19th century, with the development of the factory, a wooden church for all parishioners was not enough, so in 1858-1863. at the expense of wealthy factory owners in the village of Nikolskoye, a modern stone cathedral with two side chapels was erected. It is interesting that the church worked in the Soviet years, only the outbuildings and the building of the parish school went to the state.
What to see
The temple is made in the neo-Russian style, typical for the architecture of the middle of the 19th century, while in its composition it resembles examples of Russian architecture of the 17th century. The church is two-tiered, the bell tower is decorated with a blue dome with gilding, a clock is installed on the roof. The interior furnishings are quite simple, with elements preserved from the day the temple was founded. For example, wooden iconostases with gilding have remained since those times. At the base of the aisles - St. Nicholas and the Apostles Paul and Peter - are the relics that were stored in the wooden St. Nicholas Church.
In the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, you can see two miraculous icons - Jerusalem and Smolensk.
Divine services are held regularly in the church. There is a Sunday school at the temple, where, in addition to religious education, children learn drawing and music.
Practical information
Address: Balashikha, Nikolskoye-Trubetskoye quarter, Trubetskaya st., 52-a. Web site .
You can get to the church from Moscow from the Schelkovskaya metro station by bus number 447. Inside Balashikha, buses number 8 and 15 go to the temple. Stop "Church".
Church of the Mother of God. G. Balashikha. The village of Nikolskoye-TrubetskoyeStory. The village of Nikolskoye arose in the 1660s. by decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. In terms of the village, it looked like a cross, and in the center of it was a wooden chopped three-altar church in the name of St. Nicholas.
At the beginning of the XIX century. Nikolskoye passed to Trubetskoy. It is customary to associate the emergence of the city of Balashikha with this family: in 1821 they founded the Balashikha manufactory. The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin was built of brick instead of wood in 1858-1862. in the Russian style at the expense of the manufacturers N. Kaulin and D. Khludov, who owned weaving factories in the district.
The double-height one-domed quadrangle of the temple with a lowered three-part altar is connected by a narthex with a small hipped bell tower. The temple has two chapels: in the name of St. Nicholas and St. app. Peter and Paul. The interior is decorated with three gilded wooden iconostasis from the 1860s. The utensils and the chandelier are contemporary with the temple. On the walls and vaults - renewed painting, executed by Ya. E. Epanechnikov in 1877.
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Trubetskoy was never closed, but still suffered: in the 1920s. The temple was taken over by the renovationists. Only during the Great Patriotic War, the temple was again filled with Orthodox believers.
Shrines. Revered icon of St. Nicholas, preserved from pre-revolutionary times.
