Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village of Trubino, Shchelkovsky District, Moscow Region. Temple on the road

I enter the temple, which now pleases the eye both from the outside and from the inside, I immediately feel how light, warm and cozy it is. Apparently, it was not without reason that when divine services began here, - as the priest later said, - the old women, who had defended the service, then sat on the benches for a long time. "Why don't you go home?" "It's such a grace here, we don't want to leave." Many icons... Both times the Mother of God are collected in one aisle, on the opposite wall - icons of saints. Each newly acquired icon finds its place on the walls of the temple. Some images simply attract, you want to approach them and kiss. Which I did while I was waiting for the priest for five minutes. But then Father Vladimir appeared. From the first minutes he made an impression of an energetic, hospitable person, with whom it is easy and simple to communicate. An interesting story I found out about his ordination a little later, but now, introducing Father Vladimir to the readers, I want to dwell on this story.

At the end of the conversation, the elder said:
“You have already been blessed to be ordained a priest. But I know your nature, you need to be told a third time. In a week you will go to Jerusalem, and they will tell you this for the third time, then you will understand that you need to become a priest.
- Father, but I'm not going to Jerusalem!

But a week later he did indeed go to Jerusalem. Deviating from the standard route, the pilgrims ended up in a Russian mountain convent near Jerusalem. There was an elderly woman present at the service. Suddenly, a nun unexpectedly approached Vladimir - only to him from a group of seven people - and said:
- Take a blessing from your mother.
Surprised, Vladimir went up to the schema nun and heard:
- Go and save your soul and the souls of others.

Was it then possible to resist God's will? On the feast of all the saints who shone on Mount Athos, Vladimir Alexandrov was ordained a priest, and on the same feast, June 25, on Mount Athos he celebrated the anniversary of his ordination.
After a long break, he turned out to be the second priest to become rector of the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village of Trubino. Prior to this, the duty of the rector was performed by the priest of the neighboring village of Kablukovo, Priest Sergiy Dubinin.

And what else can I tell for the newspaper, because I have already given articles about the history and revival of our church? - Father Vladimir asked me almost immediately after the greeting.
“But, father, has nothing really changed lately?”
- No, of course, the life of the temple is slowly developing, but I would like everything to happen faster and more efficiently, because everyone has little time. I would like the activity of parishioners and sponsors to increase, as we say in modern terms, but in our opinion - benefactors. Those kopecks that grannies bring me are not enough to build something. I can't sin - people appear and help, thank God. The Lord sends me such people. But everything must be done quickly, otherwise, just look, another life will begin according to the predictions of our elders. Again persecution, closing of temples…

But doesn't the canonization of the New Martyrs, including the Royal Family, as a fruit of repentance, give you faith in the future?
- Certainly! We will pray to the new martyrs who have just been canonized, they are very close to God, and appeals to them are very effective. I want them to be our patrons. This helps us priests a lot in our work with human souls. But the Lord demands from us universal repentance, but there is none. There are short steps, but for our salvation it is necessary that the movement towards universal repentance go much more intensively. Until then, there is none...

<1998 2002>

Here our conversation breaks off, because they brought the deceased, and the priest needs to perform a funeral service. And immediately after the funeral service, a group of pilgrims from Aniskino arrive, who make a trip to the temples of the Shchelkovsky deanery of the Fryanovsky direction. Thank God that such work is now underway, because many of us know the remote shrines better than the unusually fertile places of our native land, where there is so much sacred and simply interesting. And so Father Vladimir begins a tour of his temple, and first of all draws the attention of the audience to an unusual icon. It is arranged in such a way that if you look at it from one side, you will see the image of God the Father, on the other - the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the middle - the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove.

This icon was brought to us by one of the parishioners, - says the priest, - when I turned to the parishioners, saying: why are you alone praying in front of your wonderful icons? It's another matter, then the whole parish will pray, including for you. Because if someone brings a donation to the temple, all the names are written in the book, and during the proskomidia I take out particles for all the benefactors. Bring the icons, and I will take out the particles for you, and the Lord will wash away your sins with His Blood. And little by little they began to bring icons to the temple, and now they brought this wonderful image.

Then an album with photographs appears in Father Vladimir's hands, in which there are sad views of the desecrated, devastated St. Sergius Church, from which the heart aches.

When I came here two and a half years ago at the direction of Vladyka, I found terrible pictures. On the mutilated dome of the temple there is a spire without a cross, and a crow sits on it ... Well, now, with God's help, we have both a gilded dome and a cross, and this was done this year.

<1998 2002>

And the priest begins to tell the story of his temple. In 1846, cholera raged in these places, and in misfortune people turned to God. At their request, the monks from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra took the icon of St. Sergius and carried it in procession along the Yaroslavl road, had to go around the circle and return again to the Lavra. And as the Orthodox advanced with prayers and prayers to St. Sergius, the disease gradually departed. One, the second was recovering ... And then one fine day they came here to Trubino. They sang a prayer, spent the night. And in the morning we got up - everyone is healthy! The whole village woke up healthy and bowed to St. Sergius. Then the two brothers Bocharovs, John and George, begged the monks for an icon, with which the procession was going on. A chapel was erected on the spot where the miracle happened.

Here in front of you is this icon of the Monk, she is one hundred and fifty years old, - Father Vladimir points to a large, very well-preserved icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh, and continues:

There was nothing here, and suddenly a chapel appeared, people began to come here to pray. The income began to grow. In 1851, permission was given to add side chapels. And now here is the limit of Nicholas the Wonderworker, and this one is of St. George the Victorious, two wonderful saints.

<1998 2002>

At the chapel there was a wooden bell tower, and when two aisles were added, the stone bell tower was raised. Now about the Bocharov brothers, temple builders. Georgy Bocharov was buried in this temple, his tomb has been preserved. He not only gave money, but he himself, rolling up his sleeves, built this church - he was a good bricklayer. And John was, rather, an organizer, allocated a lot of money to decorate the church. Deserved from the Moscow diocese Anna of the third degree for church building, Look what amounts he gave - even in those days - 16 thousand silver, 32 thousand silver ... Naturally, brothers and their relatives are still commemorated in our church. All those who served here are also commemorated.

In the forty-first, the last priest of this church, Vladimir Uspensky, was arrested before the closure. Soon they released him for lack of evidence, but he fell ill, apparently, he had a nervous breakdown, and in the forty-second year he died, And I was born in the forty-second. He - Vladimir - is the last priest of the St. Sergius Church, and I, also Vladimir, revive the church after a break. As if I took the baton from him ...

I remember the first time I came here to get acquainted with my temple. There was no light, it was dark, there were shields instead of windows... After all, photographic documents were stored here at first, then the room began to deteriorate, the roof began to leak. They began to import fodder here. Bales, hay, straw... I came and looked into this damp room - darkness.

<1998 2002>

I open the rickety metal doors, upholstered in felt, creaking and staggering, I go in. "Is there someone alive?" Voice: "Yes, here I am alive." A man in felt boots, in a short fur coat, a fur hat on him.
- Who are you? - I ask.
- Yes, I'm here on the farm, and the watchman.
- I've been appointed priest here.
- I'm sorry that I can't show you the "splendor" of this temple now, because five minutes ago the power was turned off.
At this time, the opening closes behind me, someone's figure appears and asks, just like me:
- Is there anyone alive?
- We. I am the pastor of this temple. What is it?
“Yes, I’ve been driving past this temple for three months already, and my grandmother bequeathed me to give the icon here when the church opens,” the elder said, not seeing any questions, which led Vladimir to even greater amazement.

- Grandpa, why are you walking so late, you would go to your house.
- What are you doing here?
- We protect. we.
- And I guard.
- What are you guarding? Yes, where do you live?
“I live here,” the old man points to the Lavra. Turns, walks away and... goes through the wall. From surprise, one militiaman fainted, he was then rubbed with snow, the second, not understanding what he was doing, pulled out a pistol and began to shoot, shouting: "They are robbing!" They did not yet know the image of the Reverend, and when they saw it after a while, they understood who it was. Saint Sergius walks our land, and in a year his shoes are worn down...

“Our host, prayer book, our dear father,” Father Vladimir Alexandrov calls St. Sergius, hegumen of Radonezh. With joy and prayer we join these words.

Do not leave us, father Sergius, always be the intercessor and patron of the Shchelkovo land ...These miracles, from which our faith is strengthened, help us to see God's help and His power. And your journey is also a chance to save the soul. Surely, in all our temples you will see a lot of interesting things.

We will be praying for you! - a voice is heard from a group of pilgrims. Certainly. How can we, the priests, without your prayers, then we will not be good for anything at all ...

And then Father Vladimir introduces everyone to the shrines of the St. Sergius Church. First of all, this is a piece of the patron saint from the head of St. Sergius, which Father Vladimir received at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. This shrine is very dear to him, And then the priest from Diveevo presented a piece of the cover from the head of Seraphim of Sarov. From St. Petersburg they brought a piece of the gauntlet of the holy righteous John of Kronstadt. From the Zosima Hermitage, where Father Vladimir sometimes goes to serve, the temple received a particle of the relics of the Monk Zosima of Vladimir, at whose shrine many healings are performed. The icon of St. Zosima has already been painted, there is a reliquary, it remains only to put this shrine in the temple for general worship. Here are the treasures of the temple reliquary, which is a carved wooden casket: the relics of the holy age of Theodore Kaliki, from Kyiv, holy stones from Mount Athos, a piece of the Mamre oak, under which Abraham met the Holy Trinity. Here is a stone from the miraculous source of St. Athanasius of Athos, an olive branch from the Garden of Gethsemane, a candle lit from the Paschal Holy Fire on the Holy Sepulcher, a ribbon consecrated on the belt of the Mother of God in the Vatopedi Monastery on Athos. Here is a fresco from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. One of our countrymen visited there on Easter, and at the moment of the Holy Fire descending, a piece of fresco fell under his feet. He realized that this was God's gift, and gave this piece to the St. Sergius Church. A cross made from the branches of the trees of the Garden of Gethsemane, a branch of hyssop from Jerusalem, a stone from the cave of the prophet Elijah... A bit of earth from the Holy Land. Do not cut such a stone - you will see the contour of a branch of a burning bush.

Trubino. Church of Sergius of Radonezh
Moscow region, Schelkovsky district, Trubino

The Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh began with a stone chapel built in 1849 by the elder brother of the Bocharov merchant family, Georgy Filippovich.

From generation to generation, the villagers pass on the following legend related to the history of this temple. In 1844, an icon of St. Sergius was carried from the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. We stopped in the village of Trubino, where cholera was raging at that time, served a prayer service at the icon, and in the morning of the next day half of the village was healed of the disease. Then a chapel was erected in the village.

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The Bocharov brothers - Georgy and John came from a family of serfs of a landowner from the nobility of Fedor Fedorovich Panteleev, but for their God-given sharp mind and great capacity for work they received "freedom". They rented land, worked on it by the sweat of their brow. Their honest work was rewarded by the Lord, and they were doing well. So good that the Bocharov brothers were able to start building the chapel in 1848 and finish it in 1849. The brothers not only gave money for the construction, but also participated in the construction process themselves, working as masons and plasterers. On September 25, 1852, the chapel was consecrated, and at the request of Georgy Bocharov, by the resolution of Vladyka Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, it was ordered that the chapel, which was dependent on Bocharov, be turned first into a cemetery, and then (in 1853) into an independent parish church. At the same time, in the parish to this church, rank from the parish with. Grebnevo is the village of Trubino itself and the village of Nazimikha.
At the beginning of 1854, at the request of the landowner F.F. Panteleev and at the request of the parishioners, Vladyka Filaret appointed priest John Andreevich Uspensky, 36 years old, the son of a deacon, who had a military award - a bronze cross on the Vladimir ribbon for the war of 1853-1856, as rector of the church.

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In the same year, 1854, with the permission of Vladyka Filaret, a stone refectory was added to the chapel, in which two chapels were identified: on the right side - the chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, and on the left side - the chapel of the Great Martyr and Victorious George. The bell tower was first built of wood, and then, in 1859, of stone.

Almost since the years when the church was completed, the second brother, John Bocharov, became not only a permanent headman for more than 30 years, but also a zealous beautifier of the church. All wall paintings, and the church was richly painted from the inside, all three carved gilded iconostasis, chandeliers, icons and church utensils were arranged with the money of John Bocharov. So, only in 1884, for the Easter holiday, he bought four gilded bronze chandeliers for the temple, two lattices for ambos and four candlesticks, as well as lanterns for the outer part of the temple for a total of 3294 silver rubles.

The October Revolution of 1917 did not affect the life of the church. And in 1922, on instructions from above, an Act of Agreement was drawn up, according to which all those living in the village of Trubino and the village of Nazimikha, through their 56 representatives, accept, according to the inventory from the Shchelkovsky Volost Council, for unlimited free use the church building located in the village of Trubino with all liturgical objects in it. Under the document was the seal of the Trubinsky Village Council and the date - February 23, 1922.
But, apparently, neither the Act of the Agreement itself, nor the 56 signatures of parishioners under it became an obstacle to the godless Shchelkovo administration at that time. And in 1942 the temple was closed. In the same year, his last rector, Archpriest Vladimir Ivanovich Uspensky, reposed in the Lord.

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Some of the icons from the church were carefully preserved by believing parishioners and returned to the church, and some of them remained in their homes. Godless descendants look at them and do not know what to do with them. It’s a pity to give it to the temple, but it seems that you don’t need it yourself, since they don’t go to the temple. The other part of the icons and utensils was simply taken away and no one knows where they are.
For a long time the temple stood empty, useless. It froze from the cold and slowly collapsed. And then the local authorities adapted the temple for a forage warehouse - feed for livestock.

In 1996, the temple was handed over to the church community assembled by that time and the priest Sergius Dubinin, who was at the head of it. Services have been held since 1998. Now the temple is under restoration.

The miraculous image of St. Sergius of Radonezh was returned to the temple.

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Georgy Rovensky.2007

BBK 63.3(2...)

Rovensky G.V. Temple of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village of Trubino. Trubino-Fryazino. 2007.

The book is dedicated to the history of the ancient village of Trubino, Shchelkovsky District, and the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh. The industrial village of Trubino was rich in enterprising people - merchants and peasants. The Viskovs, Bocharovs, Kosyatovs, Chamortsevs (from the village of Nazimikhi) - many people remember these names, and many of their buildings have served for a long time and are serving today. In 1849 the Bocharovs "conceived a chapel" temple. In 1854 - he became a parish. Biographies of priests and church elders are presented. The laborious holy work of restoration in modern times from the ruins of the temple and the revival of patristic traditions by the church community and parish is described.

Author - Rovensky Georgy Vasilievich, candidate of technical sciences, member of the Historical and Genealogical Society (Moscow), member of the Public Council of the Shchelkovo Museum of Local Lore, member of the editorial board of the historical and literary magazine "Schelkovo", author of 32 books on local history and genealogy.

Email: [email protected]

The author thanks the rector of the temple, Fr. Anthony, the administration of the Trubinskoye settlement, the descendants of the merchants Bocharovs and Viskovs, employees of the archives of Shchelkovo and Moscow (CIAM, TsGAMO) for their help in collecting material for this book.

The arrival of the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village. Trubino will be grateful to all the philanthropists who donated funds for the revival of the beauty of the ancient temple.

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The word of the abbot

Rejoice Orthodox Christian
praise and affirmation... Sergius Bogomudre.

(From the service of St. Sergius of Radonezh)

Not so long ago, a little over 10 years ago, passing the village. Trubino, it was hard to imagine that a temple would rise from the ruins and that it would be possible to perform divine services in it.

The revival of the temple is not just the restoration of a building, a monument of history, architecture. The revival of the temple is, first of all, a return to the God-Man Christ, the God-man Union and the Path, the Path followed by our holy predecessors. It is their prayers, ascetic labors, examples of their holy life that today help us to restore the heritage of Holy Russia destroyed in sinful madness.

“The Church, even from the point of view of its external organization, is more powerful than the state, if it is the bearer of the purity of Divine truth and embodies It with itself. And this was proved by those ascetics of the Church who led the faithful and were more powerful than tsars, patriarchs and earthly rulers, - wrote Prince N. Zhevakhov, comrade of the Chief Procurator of the Holy Synod, at the beginning of the 20th century. - The faith of the people and religious development in Russia were either based on the traditions of generations - the hereditary influences of the family, or they were supported by the influence of individual people of a high religious disposition, mainly simple monks living outside the world, in the monastery fence. These latter enjoyed extreme love on the part of the Russian people and were equally close to both the common people and the upper class, being true and, moreover, the only leaders, wise teachers and mentors of their children.

Precisely such is St. Sergius - an associate and prayer partner of St. Alexis, the collector of the Russian Land. The strictest ascetic and silent man, he had a great influence in the unification of the Russian lands. By his life, he showed that a solid foundation for the life of any Russian person is the careful fulfillment of the holy commandments of Christ. Only this work communicates the life of a person, “a spiritual being temporarily clothed with a body” (St. Ignatius Brianchaninov), the true eternal meaning - the fulfillment of God’s plan for a person, gives a person purity of mind and heart, the perfect joy of life.

Today, the work of life according to the commandments is very difficult, because of the significant multiplication of temptations. The propaganda of the anti-Christian, diabolical way of life is strong, the motto of which is “take everything from life”. On the scale of one person, following this call means the death of his soul, on the scale of the state - the death of the country.

Restoring today the temple, illuminated in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh, we call on his blessing, we ask for his holy prayers for the restoration of the Orthodox faith in the hearts of people who come to the temple, their repentant change of their lives according to the commandments of God. Through repentance, it is only possible to restore the spiritual, moral health of both individuals and our long-suffering Fatherland.

“But as if having boldness to the Holy Trinity, remember the flock that you gathered ecu, wiser, and do not forget, as you promised ecu when visiting your children, Reverend Sergius, our father.”

(Troparion of St. Sergius)

Priest Anthony Senko, rector of the temple

The parish of the temple will be grateful to everyone,
who contributes
contribution to the restoration of the ancient church

Bank details
temple of st. Sergius of Radonezh with. Trubino

Account 40703810700100006198
CB MOSCOW CAPITAL (LLC)

TIN 508 0020026 KPP 505001001

BIC 044552782 c/s 30101810800000000782

141131, Moscow region, Shchelkovsky district,
from. Trubino, d. 24. tel. 8-563-61-88.

Website www.trubino.fryazino.net

Roads of St. Sergius

In the old days, the road from Moscow to the Trinity Monastery ran along the old Khomutovskaya road to the village of Petrovsky and then the Trinity road to the monastery. St. Sergius of Radonezh walked many times along this path with his birch bark shoes. So our region can rightfully be considered the dear of our fellow countryman, a saint, especially revered by the inhabitants of the Moscow region.

The village of Trubino is located 5 versts from this road. In the distant past, it did not have its own temple, in any case, the most ancient scribe books from 1584-84. mark Trubino as a village. It was to be 250 years before the peasant industrialists of the village, who had gained strength, set about building their own church and dedicated it to St. Sergius of Radonezh.

It was the first temple in our region, erected not by noble landlords, but by a new energetic estate - peasant manufacturers. Unlike Trubino, the founders of stone neighboring churches were eminent hereditary nobles Dashkovs (Zdekhovo, 1699), Bibikovs (1791, Grebnevo) and princes Golitsyn (1623, Grebnevo), Olsufievs (1803, Bogoslovo). Some exception was Kablukovo, where in 1795 the recent merchants Goncharovs erected a temple, but many years earlier they had received the nobility.

The temple in Trubino was built by a peasant. Who were its temple builders, why is it dedicated to St. Sergius, what is his history and fate - this is our story.

But first, let us recall the life of the holy abbot of the Russian Land.

Life of St. Sergius

The boy Bartholomew was born into a family of pious parents on May 3 (May 16 according to the new style), 1314, in the village of Varnitsy near Rostov the Great. Then the family moved to the town of Radonezh near Moscow. Here the young man had a vision of the holy elder, which determined the life path of the young man.

After the death of his parents, he took the tonsure under the name of Sergius and retired to the forests. His hermitage was short-lived, he was joined by monks who were looking for spiritual guidance. Soon, on the hill Makovets, not far from the city of Radonezh, a monastery of the Holy Trinity arose, which was destined to become one of the world centers of Orthodoxy.

Sergius until his death (and he lived for 78 years!) was hegumen of this monastery, refusing offers to take higher places in the church hierarchy. His relics were found in 1422 and are kept in the Trinity Cathedral of the monastery founded by the saint.

Saint Sergius was a mentor not only to monks, but also to princes. The activity of this saint left a special mark in the history of the country. It is closely connected with the struggle of Russia for liberation from the Horde yoke.

Sergius' calls for unity and national liberation greatly contributed to Dmitry Donskoy in uniting the forces of the Russian principalities in the struggle against the Horde yoke. Sergius blessed the Russian army for the battle on the Kulikovo field.

St. Sergius of Radonezh is one of the purest and brightest images in the history of Russian spiritual culture.

Prayer to our reverend and God-bearing Father Sergius,
Abbot of Radonezh and All Russia wonderworker

Oh, sacred head, reverend and God-bearing Father Sergius, by your prayer, and faith and love, even to God, and purity of heart, still on earth to the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, build your soul, and angelic communion and the Most Holy Theotokos visit, and the gift miraculous grace received, but after your departure from the earthly, you draw closer to God, and join the heavenly powers; but he does not retreat from us with his spirit of love, and your honest relics, like a vessel of grace full and overflowing, leaving us!

Great, having boldness to the All-Merciful Master, pray to save His Servant, who is in you the grace of His believing and resorting to you with love.

Ask us from our most gifted God for every gift that is beneficial to everyone and everyone, the faith is impeccable, the affirmation of our cities, the peace of peace, deliverance from prosperity and destruction, from the invasion of foreigners, consolation, consolation for those who are grieving, healing for the fallen, resurrection for the fallen, those who err on the path of truth and return of salvation, striving fortification, doing good in good deeds, prosperity and blessing, upbringing for infants, guidance for young people, ignorant enlightenment, intercession for orphans and widows, departing from this temporal life for eternal good preparation and instruction, blessed peace of mind, and all of us On the day of the terrible judgment, vouchsafe that part of you be delivered, but the right countries are partakers of being, and hear the blessed voice of the Lord Christ: come, bless my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Amen.

Temples of the region

By the middle of the 19th century, when the temple began to be built, for almost three centuries Trubino had been part of the vast Grebnevo estate, which stretched its lands from Trubino to the village of Schelkovo on the Klyazma. The villages between them - Nazimikha, Fryazino, Chizhovo, Novo, Sloboda and even Toporkovo standing at a distance were also included in this estate. In the mentioned year of the census (about 1585) in Grebnev there was already a wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. And in 1671, the princes Trubetskoy built a temple in the name of the Grebenskaya Icon of the Mother of God.

In 1791, General Gavrila Ilyich Bibikov, a holder of the St. George Cross, built a beautiful stone building of the Church of Our Lady of Grebenskaya with an unusually bright space of the temple and a gilded angel on the dome of the temple.

The next owners, the princes Golitsyns, erected in 1823 a majestic stone Empire church “like under the bells”, the temple was dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. On Sundays, the youth of Trubinsk walked through the forest in a friendly company through the forest to Grebnevo. Older and richer rode in carts. Whether the road was bad, whether it was frost, whether it was rain, nothing stopped their desire for a festive church visit.

Over the years, the number of inhabitants on the estate has increased, and the church has long been unable to accommodate all the peasants for the big holidays. By 1850, in the Grebnevsky parish: in the villages of Fryazino, Novo, Chizhevo, Sloboda, Nazimikha and Trubino, there were more than 3.5 thousand inhabitants.

Dozens of them started their own lucrative business, gaining the necessary experience in economics and craftsmanship, experience in dealing with yarn suppliers and merchandise distributors.

Factory owners Trubino in the XVIII-XIX centuries

In 1767, a general census of lands and villages was carried out in order to clarify the boundaries of possessions and taxes.

Here is the entry by name: “Grebenevo, the village of the Moscow district, Bokhov camp, the property of the lieutenant general, various orders of the kovler, Prince Dmitry Mikhailovich Golitsyn of his late wife, real state lady, Princess Ekaterina Dmitrievna ... Arable land 1532 d 946 s, fallow and forest small growth 1596 d 751 s, forest 1707 d 1378 s, hay mowing 135 d 277 s, village 87 d 1283 s, high road 3 d 1500 s, roads 31 d 1080 s, rivers and swamps 74 d 2000 s, total 5168 d 2015s, shower in the village Grebenev 23, in the village of Bogorodsky, Toporkovo also 30, in the villages: Sloboda 76, Novaya 116, Chizheva 88, Fryazina 70, Nazimikha 74, Trubina 62.

So, in the summer of 1767 in Trubin there were 62 souls of the "male sex", and a little more than the "female sex", that is, about 125 inhabitants. All of them were peasants, i.e. they sowed poor arable land, cut down forests, and hunted. The peasants were on dues, which allowed them to choose their own work: to be engaged in carting, selling firewood, their own special craft or earning money on the side, paying dues to the landowner from the money they earned. Part of this money the landowner paid to the treasury. They say that some of them even worked in Moscow in those days. But suddenly a new time has come. By decree of Catherine II of 1769, “small business” was allowed, i.e. each peasant could start his own production, previously allowed only to merchants.

Such a product, which the peasants were already trying on, was silk. From time immemorial, there was a weaving mill in every hut, there was no money, but it was necessary to sheathe the family - so it turned out a little free time, then family members spun yarn and from the received threads “worked? Or” lean matter. The material for yarn was most often hemp fibers (its stems were broken, crumpled, combed out, creating a tow), less often flax. And in the evenings it buzzed, swaying in the hands of a spindle, twisting these fluffy threads into a strong thread. Threads were tucked into the base of the camp, i.e. longitudinal threads, and then the brisk work of the shuttle began, sliding back and forth between the threads and creating a fabric. But there was already a rumor that if you take a fine thread of some kind of cocoon and weave it on the same mills, then you can get completely different money from Moscow merchants for silk goods. And many have already tried, and it turned out to be a good income.

So the Decree of 1769 only provided the basis for legal earnings. The Grebnevo estate is known to many researchers of the development of capitalism in Russia, as it was 15 peasants of the estate who bought the first tickets in Russia for legal production.

In Trubino, a certain Grigory, patronymic Ivanov, became such an entrepreneur. Here we are faced with difficulties in determining the family name, since neither the authorities nor the church recognized village nicknames-surnames for a very long time. Faced with this, I began to compile genealogies of the inhabitants of all the villages of the Grebnev estate a long time ago. In 1834, for the first time in our region and only in the Grebnevo estate, an entry was made in the Revizsky tales with surnames. From here it was possible to follow the Revizsky tales of 1811 and 1773 into the eighteenth century, tracking all the families one by one.

So it was possible to determine that the first entrepreneur Trubino, Grigory Ivanov, was from a family that received the surname KOSYATOV (Kasyatov), ​​he was born in 1735. He also bought a ticket for 1 camp in 1770, and in 1772 even for 4 camps, putting his fellow villagers behind rather expensive wooden camps. The rest “reed silk”, that is, they soaked silkworm cocoons in boiling water, which came through merchants from Italy or France, and unwound their threads. The next operation is the twisting of the thread, for different types of silk it has its own special one, which creates tension.

Many peasants followed Grigory Ivanovich, and by 1796 the peasant production in Trubino brought the village to the 4th place in the Moscow province (1-Schelkovo, 2-3 - Fryazino and Chizhevo), and the whole estate became the main leader. So a small wealth came to the Trubino family. And since then, for almost 150 years, silk rescued them in all sorts of hardships and crop failures.

Even earlier, in 1781, when the coat of arms of the newly designed Bogorodsk district was approved, a machine was placed on its coat of arms for unwinding silk thread from a silkworm cocoon “as a sign of many silk factories” in this area.

In 1796, when the government, after a 20-year break, again registered entrepreneurs in Trubino, there were already 5 such organizers of the new production:

Terenty Antonov - 30 camps (since 1785), probably PONOMAREV.

Miron Trifonov - 10 mills; from VISKOV.

Mikhail Fedorov 10 camps, released with his brothers in 1802 from a common family with the Viskovs, but of a different surname.

Nikita Fedorov 10 camps (1785), from VISKOV.

Prok Efimov - 2 camps; (Prokofy Efimov ZUDNOV)

The leader of this list, Terenty Antonov, worked with his brother, it was not possible to determine exactly his last name, but the descendants of their cousins ​​later bore the last name Ponomarevs. The first of the Trubinets was set free in 1798 (probably for a ransom) by his brother Leonty. A free peasant was obliged to be assigned to one of the philistine settlements of Moscow or to a merchant settlement. In subsequent revisions, his family was no longer listed ( it must be sought in Moscow).

In 1807, the Viskovs, known to everyone in Trubino, were released, the brick buildings of factories and houses taken from them in the 1920s still serve the inhabitants of the village.

In 1849, the time came for the Bocharovs (Bacharovs), "from the freed peasants of Mr. Panteleev." Before the New Year on December 30, 1850, they were assigned to the Bogorodsk merchants and gained new status life.

Family of temple builders Bocharovs

Arkhip Petrov (1771-1854), an elder of this branch of the Bocharov family, was recorded as a merchant of the 3rd guild in the Revision Tale of the Bogorodsk merchants under No. 165/170. He was already 80 years old, and all his affairs were undoubtedly managed by his children and grandchildren.

For the first time, the surname of the Bocharovs is indicated in the Revizsky tales of 1834, like the majority of the peasants of the village of Trubino and the neighboring Nazimikha, which later entered the parish of the church built by the Bocharovs.

Here are the names from the Revizsky tales:

Trubino : Efimov, Krapin, Kasyatov, Novozhilov, Popov, Zuev, Klimich (Klimychev), Coma?, Sedov, Pimenov, Lukyanov, Avlonich, Granilin, Churaev, Zudnov, Lonev (Lenev, Lyunev), Galkin, Gareliy, Mazokhin, Samsonov, Ponomarev , Granilin, Sedov, Korneichev, Bocharov, Skuratov, Tipushny;

Nazimikha: Golydba, Kuznetsov, Titov, Silin, Shemyakin, Manikhov, Soldatenkov, Fungus, Tyuronkov, Elichev, Krimov, Shishkovich, Fedulaev, Boltunov, Temple, Shogolev, Sidorichev, Chamorsov, Trofimich, Smyslov, Kulik, Korneev, Mamon, Shishkin, Khramov, Evseich, Demin, Kurochkin, Bezlaptev, Luzhin, Veselov,

The Bocharov family is very ancient. According to older Tales, it was possible to identify their ancestor Pavel, born around 1633 (Paul "gave birth" to Rodion, he - two Ivanovs, Ivan - Peter, Yakov and Grigory, Peter "gave birth" to Trofim, Vlas and Arkhip).

So, after 4 generations, in 1771, Arkhip Petrov, the founder of the Bocharovs' factory line, was born.

When was the silk-weaving factory of the Bocharovs founded by him?

His grandson Ivan Filippovich sanitary inspection factories in 1888 indicated the year the factory was founded in 1813. That year, Moscow, devastated by fire and Napoleon, was just beginning to recover, many silk factories were in ruins, and many of the clothes of nobles and townspeople died in the fire. The Moscow region began to multiply these factories in villages and villages, because for the arrangement of the houses of the nobility a lot of silk was required for the arrangement of front "halls", and silk was needed in large quantities for dresses and scarves.

Bocharov's factory, as shown in the Atlas of Industry of the Moscow Province of 1845, had 60 mills, 73 workers, produced silk taffeta, twill, and other goods worth 32,900 rubles.

The income was sufficient to support the desire of the peasants of the village to build a cemetery chapel.

From the chapel, then, with God's help, a church arose.

The birth of the temple

St. Sergius of Radonezh

The local legend about the temple brought to our time the reasons for the appearance of the temple in Trubino.

In those years, epidemics often hit the Moscow region. I still remember the terrible plague of 1772, which devastated many villages. During the black time of cholera in the autumn of 1830, 200 people died daily in Moscow. The threat of cholera was renewed in the 1840s. Cholera patients appeared in villages adjacent to Trubino. Then the peasant community was formed with money and sent walkers to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra to ask the monks for the image of St. St. Sergius of Radonezh for the procession. And so it was.

And with the image of St. Sergius they went around the district of the village and the neighboring villages in a procession, and the threat of illness was over.

In honor of deliverance from the invasion of cholera, it was decided to build a temple. The desire of fellow villagers was supported by businessman Yegor Filippovich Bocharov. In 1848, at his request, the construction of a chapel was allowed.

Ancient clergy record of the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village of Trubino describes these events as follows:

"I. It was built in 1849 by the diligence of the peasant Egor Filippovich BOCHAROV, freed from the landowner Fyodor Fedorovich Panteleev ... it was conceived as a chapel and was called Sergius. In 1850, by the resolution of the Most Holy Metropolitan Filaret, following the petition of the above-mentioned peasant Bocharov on July 26, No. 3188, it was approved and prescribed:

1. Turn the chapel at the expense of the Bocharovs into a cemetery church with the establishment of a throne in it in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh. It is allowed so that the correction of the service in it ... is carried out by the clergy of the parish church of the village of Grebnev, depending on the need and opportunity ..., and from March 1, 1854, as a result of the petition of Mr. Panteleev and the permission of the Holy Synod, expressed in the Decree Moscow Theological Consistory No. 250 dated April 21 of the same year, the church was made an independent parish, its own parable was assigned to it, and the village itself was called a village.

2. In the parish of this church, add the village of Trubino and the village of Nazimikha from the parish of the village of Grebnev.

II. The building is stone with the same meal, which was attached to this one in 1854 with the permission of His Eminence Philaret; covered with iron, in this meal on the right side in 1855 a chapel was arranged in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker and consecrated on October 1 of the same year, and on the left side the chapel of St. martyr George the Victorious in 1864

The belfry at this church in 1859 was built of stone. The plan and facade of the church, the refectory and the bell tower are available and are stored in the church sacristy.

Instead of church land by a landowner Vera Mikhailovna Panteleeva the capital of 4,000 rubles in silver was contributed to the Moscow Council of Trustees in 1858 and the State continuous income ticket for N19099, stored in the church sacristy, issued for this amount.

Such is the entry in the church books about the construction of the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh and the rise of the industrial village of Trubino from a village to the status of a village.

Back in 1852, a temporary wooden bell tower was installed and “small” bells for it were purchased.

Unfortunately, fate did not measure the life of the temple builder himself for long. More recently, according to the Metric Books of the Sergius Church in the Central Historical Archive of Moscow (CIAM), it was possible to clarify the date of his repose. Egor (Georgy) Filippovich Bocharov died at the age of 37 on January 5, 1852. and on January 8, the funeral service was held in the Grebnevsky church by Dean John Smirensky. The entry noted that he was buried in the cemetery c. Trubino, and, therefore, at the chapel he built.

Subsequently, in the trapeza of the temple in 1869, his brother Ivan arranged a chapel dedicated to his guardian angel, the Holy Great Martyr George (Egoriy). Perhaps, the ashes of the temple builder were transferred to the underground crypt under the floor of this chapel and a floor slab was installed. It was not possible to find a monument to him in the church cemetery or slabs.

In the "Provincial Necropolis", published in 1908, the following words are given about him, sent by the priest of the temple:

« Bocharov Georgy Filippovich. Merchant of Bogorodsk, founder of the parish and church in the village of Trubin in 1854. “Merciful Christ God! rest his soul with the saints in the hope of the Resurrection. I beg you, mother and children, brothers, sisters, friends and all who pass by, look at my coffin and pray to the Most High Merciful God and the Most Holy Lady Theotokos for the forgiveness of my sins. (S.Trubino, Bogorodsk district at the Sergius Church)” Probably, this is the inscription that was made on the floor plate of the chapel of St. George the Victorious.

Factory business and concerns about the further improvement of the temple fell on his younger brother Ivan Filippovich who was only 23 years old. But he very skillfully led the factory business, was elected ktitor (church headman) and remained in this trustee capacity for 49 years until his death in 1902.

Their sister Matrona was married off to a wealthy merchant Fyodor Ivanovich Kondrashev from Fryazino, who, together with his brothers, later bought the estates of Grebnevo and Raiki.

The temple builder Yegor Filippovich had 3 sons and 3 daughters.

Philip Egorovich(1838-1874), named in memory of his grandfather, the founder of the factory business, died at 36;

Nikolay Egorovich(1840-1883) was in the general Bocharov business, but then he got his own factory for 50 workers. in 3 buildings, producing silk fabrics. After his death at the age of 43, his widow Alexandra Sergeeva led the case. According to the reference book “All Russia. 1912" its semi-silk (fabrics with the addition of cotton threads) factory produced 6,000 arshins of fabrics. They had a daughter.

Grigory Egorovich(1848-1890), Bogorodsk merchant in 1873-76, 87-89. He separated from his brothers and in 1871 founded the Grebnevo estate in three buildings (“on his own land”), which at that time belonged to his brother-in-law F.I. Kondrashev, a silk-weaving factory for 50 workers. (1881-87). Died of "rev. lungs" at the age of 42. He had 8 children. The grandson of his son Vladimir, Vladimir Ivanovich Bocharov, the son of the Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, retained a surname rich in history and lives in Reutov.

Nadezhda Egorovna was married off to the Kirzhach merchant son Solovyov and died at the age of 23, probably in childbirth.

We do not know anything about the fate of the daughters of Evdokia and Alexandra.

We cannot but tell about the owners of the Grebnevo estate during the construction of the temple in Trubino, the already mentioned landowner Fedor Fedorovich Panteleev and his wife Vera Alexandrovna, who contributed funds for the maintenance of the parable of the temple.

His father, a merchant of a linen factory near Bolshevo, Fyodor Panteleev, was awarded the Order of St. Vladimir 4 tbsp. for the invention of yellow paint, which freed Russia from importing such paint from abroad. He allocated considerable funds for Muscovites who suffered from the invasion of Napoleon, entering the Committee created for this purpose. Later, as a holder of the order, he was included in the nobility. His son Fedor Fedorovich bought an estate and a factory from Balashikha, and his 2nd wife was from a wealthy family of merchants Krasheninnikovs and bought several estates in our region - from the princes Golitsyns, the Grebnevsky estate, which had been waiting for the owner for a long time, including Toporkovo and Shchelkovo, and from other landowners, the village Mavrino and the village of Kostyshi. Both took an active part in charitable affairs. Fyodor Fedorovich equipped in 1849 new chapels in the Grebnevskaya church of Our Lady of Grebnev. The left one was dedicated to their family's patron saint, St. martyr Theodore Stratilat, right - St. St. Sergius of Radonezh. They and their children also took care of the schools of the region.

Recently managed to find their descendant in Moscow, Nikolai Fedorovich Panteleev. But there were no portraits or old photographs of these God-loving people in the family, but they should be.

Temple keeper Ivan Filippovich Bocharov

After the death of his elder brother, Ivan Filippovich (1835-1902) headed the Bocharov merchant business, leaving a bright mark on the history of the St. Sergius Church. After his death, for the “Provincial Necropolis” published by Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, Priest Uspensky sent a short note about the inscription on the slab in the church: “Bocharov Ivan Filippovich, ktitor of the church in the village of Trubino, who has been on this share for 49 years. "Eternal memory to the zealous servants of the temple of the Lord."

He is also known as a temple builder - in 1854 he attached a meal to the church, and in 1859 a stone two-tier bell tower. Back in 1852, he purchased 9 bells for the wooden bell tower, which evoked beautiful festive melodies. In 1855, on the right side of the meal, he arranged a chapel of St. Nicholas, and in 1864 a chapel of St. Great Martyr George, in memory of the temple builder George (Egor) Filippovich. In 1871, a large bell worth 310 pounds was cast at his expense. For numerous financial donations, on the proposal of the diocesan authorities, he was awarded special medals to wear: in 1870 - on the Stanislav ribbon, in 1876 - on the Vladimir ribbon.

In 1886, the spiritual department especially noted his merits as a temple builder - he was awarded the Order of Anna, 3rd degree.

In the history of the Church of St. Sergius, his deeds are also described in this way:

“Practically since the years when the church was completed, the second brother, John Bocharov, has become not only a permanent headman for more than 30 years, but also a zealous beautifier of the church. All wall paintings, and the church was richly painted from the inside, all three carved gilded iconostasis, chandeliers, icons and church utensils were arranged with the money of Ivan Filippovich.

So, only in 1884, for the Easter holiday, he bought four gilded bronze chandeliers for the temple, two lattices for ambos and four candlesticks, as well as lanterns for the outer part of the temple for a total of 3294 silver rubles. The efforts and good deeds of John were noticed by the Lord and were rewarded not only with the excellent state of the merchant's craft, but also with awards from the spiritual department. So, the Bogorodsk merchant of the 2nd guild I.F. Bocharov was awarded gold medals for wearing around the neck on the Stanislav and Vladimir ribbons, as well as the Order of St. Anna, 3rd degree.

Let us add that in 1866, as a particularly revered resident of Trubino, he was elected a vowel (zemstvo deputy) of the Bogorodsk district and took an active part in zemstvo activities. In 1875, as a trustee of the zemstvo school, he greatly contributed to its opening in Trubino. The school was first located in a rented house, and then a separate building was built for it by the Zemstvo.

The factory business of the God-loving worker was also successful. In 1876 (CIAM f.51 op.7 d.1758) he was already a Bogorodsk merchant of the 2nd guild. In 1890, reference books noted his large t / t factory for 160 slaves, he also owned (after 1902) known under the name "Bocharovsky Forest" (previously - from the merchant Golovlev). In 1898, his silk weaving factory had a 16 hp engine, with 66 weavers and 33 weavers, it produced silk and semi-silk fabrics for 147 thousand rubles.

The Lord gave him an extensive family - four daughters (Anna, Glafira, Claudia, Julia) and three sons (Nikolai, Fedor and Alexander).

Ivan Filippovich died in 1902 and was buried in the temple, the decoration of which he gave so much effort, money and energy.

In the family archive of the Bocharovs' descendants in Fryazino, a photograph of this moment has been preserved, when the coffin with the deceased was put up for farewell in the St. Sergius Church and almost all the parishioners passed by, paying their last tribute to the headman and employer.

In the crisis years of the 1900s, the factory had large debts, and despite the fact that in 1909 the factory of the Bocharova I.F. sons ”had 186 workers and produced silk products for 163 thousand rubles, but then it began to incur losses and owed considerable amounts. They say that the business was rescued by the Moscow merchant Anna Mikhailovna Kaptsova, the founder in 1901 of a large three-story silk-weaving factory in the village of Fryazino, together with Morozov G.M. They buy the factory from the heirs, which later passed to the Viskovs.

But in 1912, in the large reference book “All Russia”, the memory of him is still preserved, the silk factory of I.F. Bocharov is still listed there. with the production of silk fabrics 161 thousand arshins. In 1916, only two factories were shown in Trubino, both at the Viskovs, and the Bocharovs factory probably passed to them.

The descendants of the temple builder, the builder of the meal and the bell tower, the arrangement of two aisles, live in Obukhov, in Moscow, in Fryazino. Dmitry Andreevich Alekseev (Moscow) takes an active part in the life of the parish of the church built by their family, who donated a number of family photographs to the archive of the church.

Recently, the tombstone floor plate in the aisle of St. Nicholas returned to its place. There, in a crypt below her, this donor and Christian was buried, whose deeds can serve as an example for today's entrepreneurs.

Priests of the temple - Assumption

For 85 years the parishioners were served by priests father and son Uspensky.

1854-1897 The first pastor of the temple - John
Andrianov USPENSKY, was born in 1830 in the Vladimir province in the family of a sexton in the village of Lokotka, Aleksandrovsky district, the northern neighbor of our district. He received a good education - he studied at the Vladimir Seminary in the sciences: theology, church history, philosophy, physics and mathematics, literature, world history, Latin, Greek, French.

“After completing the course of sciences in this seminary in 1850, at the request of the landowner Fyodor Fedorovich Panteleev and parishioners, His Eminence Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna was appointed to his present position in 1854. He has a bronze pectoral cross on the Vladimir ribbon in memory of the war of 1853-56. ". This is how it is said about the priest in the Klirov Gazette of 1864.

The entire parish is also described here: “In total, in the village of Trubin, there are 2 clergy households (7 men and 6 women), the landowner of the provincial secretary Vera Mikhailovna Panteleeva, 22 temporarily obligated peasants (258 males and 293 females), and 1 soldier’s yard ( 2 m and 5 g). The same landowner of temporarily liable peasants in the village of Nazimikha has 20 houses (201 m and 246 f), and 1 soldier's yard (10 m and 12 f). Living in these villages with payment of land money and in rented apartments of merchants 6 houses (29 m and 34 f), philistines 2 houses (11 m and 9 f). In total, there are 184 houses in the parish with 518 males. and 695 wives.

“For honest service in the priesthood and zealous fulfillment of his duties in 1871, he was awarded a legguard., And for especially diligent activity during an epidemic illness in 1871, the gratitude of the Holy Synod was announced in 1873 ... in 1874 he was most graciously awarded a velvet purple skufia .. In his family - mother Ekaterina Alexandrovna, 38 years old.

They had 6 adult children. Older Anna was married to a priest of St. Nicholas Church with. Zhegalovo Shirogorov Ioann Nikolaevich, who died at the age of 36; she was the godmother (godparent) in 1904 in Zdekhov of her grandson Nikolai Shirogorov, the future holy martyr; As a widow, she lived with her father and brother in Trubino. Maria- wife of Dmitry Vasiliev, priest of the village of New Dmitrovsky district. Sergei Graduated from the Zaikonospassky Theological School. Alexander born 1866 (Fate we do not know). John, born in 1869, rector of the church in the village of Obraztsova, Grebnevskaya volost, Bogorodsky district in 1910, archpriest (1920), he had 6 children - Glafira, Yulia, Elizaveta, Olga, Ivan and Natalya.

The youngest of the children John Vladimir, after graduating from the seminary, succeeded his father in 1897.

We have a supposed, though fuzzy, image of a shepherd from a large photograph. (see cover). Priest Fr. John the Assumption, in a kamilavka - in the center of the holiday, which brought together almost all the parishioners of the two villages. Behind him is a temple icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh. On the left with a medal is church warden Ivan Bocharov. The photograph may have been taken in 1894 at the patronal feast of St. Sergius of Radonezh, when they could celebrate the 40th anniversary of the parish church. In those distant times it was a big rural holiday. Almost the entire adult population of the two villages and teenagers gathered on the square in front of the temple, through which he had been passing since 1888. Novo-Khomutovsky tract from Fryanovo to Shchelkovo.

The temple had long been embellished from its own funds by the diligence of the church elder Bocharov I.F. To the small 6 bells that rang on the wooden bell tower in 1852, was added in 1871, in the year of the 10th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom by Emperor Alexander II, a huge bell of 300 pounds, perhaps the largest then and "loud-voiced" in the district . It was raised by craftsmen to a new bell tower 27 arshins (19 m) high.

“Inside the temple, both the dome and the walls are painted with picturesque writing,” the church “Metrika” of those years reports. "Copper-gilded, eight-pointed" shone in the sun in summer and winter.

The lively color of candles and lamps gave a particularly solemn reflection on the gilded and silvered robes of the icons.

This was the temple.

1897-1940 Vladimir Ivanovich Uspensky.

The next priest of the temple, Fr. Vladimir was born in Trubino on July 12, 1873. In 1888 he graduated from the Zaikonopass Theological School, in 1890 he entered the Moscow Theological Seminary, then at the Bethany Seminary, and in 1896 he graduated from it.

At first, he was appointed as a teacher of the law (teacher of the Law of God) in the Trubinsk school, where quite a lot of children were already studying. Many parents liked the young seminary graduate. He also married by the Resolution of Metropolitan Sergius of Moscow and Kolomna from 17 September. In 1897 he was appointed a priest in place of his aged father. A month later, having passed the prescribed examination practice of a church service well known to him, he was ordained a priest by Tikhon, Bishop of Mozhaisk on October 22. 1897. From the same year he became a member of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood of the Bogorodsk branch at the Epiphany Cathedral.

The collected church archive contains photographs from the family of his descendants - a young priest in the year of graduation from the seminary, along with his bride (about 1896) and their children.

Father Vladimir knew his native parish well, he zealously carried out church works. In 1908, the church was visited by the Most Reverend Bishop of Mozhaisk Vasily (Preobrazhensky, 1854-1915), whom Muscovites called "the people's saint". This meeting and conversations of the famous Orthodox writer were very useful for the young priest. For his work on the improvement of the temple and the care of the parishioners, he was awarded a gaiter in 1908, in 1910 - a skufi, in 1914 - a kamilavka. To the Day of the Holy Trinity 1919 - a gold pectoral cross. "In 1922 he was consecrated to the archpriest, is the confessor of the deanery."

Let's talk about the priest's family: mother Alexandra Ivanovna (born 1877), children - Sergei (1899), in 1922 the clerk of the railway office at Art. Mytishchi; Eugene (1901), in 1922 a teacher in Nazimikh; Susanna (1907). Their descendants gave their photos to the temple.

Great respect for Fr. Vladimir parishioners allowed in Soviet time long resist the closure of the church. But godless power broke the spiritual strength of the laity. He died a year after the official closing of the temple, in 1942. His descendants are in Moscow.

Deacons and deacons

1. 1854-1883 - deacon SALMANOV Ilya Efimovich (1832, Moscow - 14.1883, Trubino), was from the family of a deacon. He studied at the Perervinsk Theological School, served as a sexton, and then transferred to Trubino as a sexton. In 1875, his two sons Alexander (16) and Nikolai (11) were novices of the Berlyukovsky monastery. He died at the age of 50 from "an obsessive disease in the chest."

2. 1884-1888 - Deacon VASILIEVSKY Dmitry Mikhailovich (wife Maria Ivanovna, daughter Lydia 4/2/1888, son Viktor 21/7/1889).

3. 1889-1909 - Deacon MIROSLAVSKY Alexander Nikolaevich, wife - Alexandra Andreevna, daughter of Fr. Andrey Levshin, deacon of Ilyinskaya in the Ants Church of the Bogorodsky district. They have a son, Andrei, born on 7/8/1893. (ok Perervinskoe DU in 1909 and MDS in 1916), on February 15, 1896, the son Peter was born.

4. 1910-1915 - Deacon Andrei Grigorievich LEVSHIN, father-in-law of the previous deacon. He was 74 years old (he graduated from the Moscow Spiritual Seminary in 1858). For 50 years of service he was awarded the Order of St. Anna III Art.

3. In 1916 - Deacon Alexander SOLOVIEV. Wife - Alexandra Alexandrovna (probably Miroslavskaya). On March 4, 1916, they were born and baptized in the church. from. Zhegalovo son Nikolai, godparents - Offspring. honorary citizen Andrey Alexandrovich Miroslavsky and Maria Alexandrovna Miroslavskaya.

Since 1919, the diaconal vacancy has been closed by the decision of the Diocesan authorities.

Readers

1854-1881 - KONTENDANTOV Nikolai Ivanovich (1828, village of Savelyevo, Ruza district - p. 1881), son of a deacon. He studied at the Zvenigorod theological school, served as sexton from 1848 in Dmitr. district, and from 1854 - in Trubino. He has a son, Ivan, born in 1869.

1893-p. 1922 - PREOBRAZHENSKY Viktor Ivanovich, born in 1871, studied at the Nikolo-Perervinsky Theological School, in his second marriage he was married to Varvara Nikitichna, born in 1869, children - Vera 16/9/1901, a teacher in the village. Trubino in 1922, Nikolay, 16 years old, born in 1906, with relatives.

Church elders

1. About the first patron of the temple - the famous Ivan Filippovich Bocharov, it was said above.

2. The second was his son Nikolay Ivanovich Bocharov, born in 1861, a hereditary honorary citizen who continued the work of his father in 1902. At the age of 23, he became the headman of the Nikolsky church in the neighboring village of Zdekhova, and from 1905, after his father, he took the post of church clerk in the village. Trubino. In the crisis years of the 1900s, things were going badly at the factory, and although in 1909 the factory of the Bocharova I.F. sons ”had 186 workers and produced silk products for 163 thousand rubles, the factory heavily owed creditors, and Nikolai Ivanovich himself was under commercial court and therefore remained unapproved by the headman. The brothers Nikolai and Fedor were co-owners of the factory and together they decided to deduct profits for the beautification of the temple. Events after 1917 did not allow him to continue this charitable work and remain in the post of headman. .

2. Viskov Alexey Lavrentievich(1865-p.1925) took over from the Bocharovs the baton of church elders 16.10. 1916. This line of the Viskovs was the most successful in manufacturing. Their buildings are still standing today. In 1916, the silk factory of the brothers Alexei and Vasily Lavrentievich had "100 workers, an oil engine, and produces silk and semi-silk fabrics." In 1918 the factory was nationalized. In the 1920s, most of the Viskovs were deprived of their voting rights (“disenfranchised”), they were dispossessed. In the Book of Memory of the Repressed of the Moscow Region, the wife of the headman Praskovya Ivanovna and their son Anatoly, who lived and worked in Moscow, are indicated. The fate of all of them, as well as other descendants of the descendants of the merchant Lavrenty Viskov, is still unknown.

3. Viskov Ivan Petrovich ( 1884-1950s). He was chosen, as recorded in the Clearing List of 1922, "with the blessing of the Diocesan authorities." Known from records in the affairs of the community in 1922 and 1925. He was from the already mentioned family of Viskovs, who owned a factory. However, he was a distant relative of these Viskovs, he worked at their factory as a clerk, i.e. was a hired servant, but a respected man in the village. Why was he chosen as a church warden.

But the Soviet authorities had already begun to fight against the "churchmen", he was soon deprived of voting rights in 1927 (became the so-called "disenfranchised") and expelled in 1930 as a former manufacturer. The history of his family became known to me a long time ago thanks to the most interesting memories of Anna Baraboshkina (he was married to Agrafena Baraboshkina) from the village of Chizhovo, who described about 200 people of her relatives): “They lived prosperously, but most importantly, all the children were talented: they painted, sang, played on various wind and string instruments - in a word, a natural gift from God and parents.

When they were dispossessed, his eldest son Nikolai worked hard and the house was still not taken away, and the parents who left for Samarkand soon returned to Volokolamsk (101 km away - G.R.), and then to Dmitrov, where they lived, and only before the start of the war did they return to their home (in one of these cities, "the village of Vanya developed a fabric - artificial fur"). The house was divided in half with the eldest son, where they lived until their death. They raised 5 children - 3 sons and 2 daughters. Nikolai, born in 1906, was the head. club; Alexei (1909) became an aircraft designer, Peter was sick all the time, Alexandra became the head of a tailoring studio, Nina sang well, was a housekeeper and worked at various jobs. Ivan Petrovich died at the age of 72. Such a wonderful person was the headman of the temple in the first years of Soviet power.

4. The last headman was Alexei Mikhailovich Samsonov. In 1930 he was 49 years old. His grave at the Trubinskoye cemetery is visited annually by descendants living in Moscow. It was they who handed over the photo of the last headman to the temple.

The name of the Samsonovs was revered in Trubin. Many of them remained on the lists of the church community in 1923 and 1930.

In 1912, Kirill Alekseevich Samsonov kept a distributing office - i.e. he brought silkworm cocoons from Moscow and, in accordance with the orders of merchants and shopkeepers, distributed tasks to various masters. He also paid for the work of silk unwinders, and for the handed over various silk goods. A small office of only 5 people, but they provided work for dozens, and sometimes hundreds of weavers at home. Then in each hut there were one or two camps, and as soon as an hour was free, then the owner or daughter, or son, or their grandmother sat down behind the camp.

The distribution office performed a very important task for earning Trubinets. It was from this surname that the last headman was. Until the very last moment, he did not give the village council the keys to the temple, even when the temple was banned by the local authorities. And only after the decision of the Moscow Regional Council the keys were handed over to them by the village council.

Temple during the years of persecution

In 1857, there were more than a thousand parishioners in the parish of the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Trubin and Nazimikhe. By 1917 this number had doubled.

But the church has fallen on hard times. The communists who came to power did everything to destroy the Faith in God and close the church. These persecutions took place in several stages. In 1918, the Soviet authorities entered into an agreement with the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh. In 1923 they started re-registration. Then the statement on the formation of a religious community in 1923 was signed by 60 people. In 1925 a new treaty was concluded. Priest Archpriest Victor Petrovich Uspensky, as chairman of the parish council, managed to gather a reliable community asset. The warden was the already mentioned Ivan Petrovich Viskov.

Among the defenders of the temple in 1923, many parishioners of well-known names in Nazimikh and Trubin are recorded: Bocharovs, Viskovs, Samsonovs, Monakhovs, Khromovs, Avdokachevs, Barablins, Kosyatovs, Linevs, Zuevs, Vlasovs, Blinovs, Galkins, Kerovs, Abalikhins, Klimychevs, Vlasovs, Fomins, Soldatovs, Patsukovs, Shcheglovs, Trofimochevs, Lafitskovs, Mazurovs, Umenskys and others.

In 1930, the community was forced to re-register again, hoping that there would be no one willing to defend the temple, but up to 278 people signed an application for re-registration to the authorities.

It was a year of persecution of priests throughout the country, many were sent into exile. In March 1930, the respected priest of the church, Assumption V.P., was convicted under Art. 169; parishioners rose to his defense, and only an appeal to the court saved him from exile. He was acquitted by the District Court under Art. 48 of the Criminal Code. But many priests of the region were exiled - the brothers Kudryavtsev (priests Fryanov and Aniskin), Fr. Nedumov (Zdekhovo), priests of Oboldin, Ryazantsev, Zhegalova and Aristov churchyard, etc.

In the late 1930s, a new wave of persecution by the Soviet authorities sent tens of thousands of priests into exile and camps, some of them were martyred in Butovo, on other bloody Chekist training grounds. The abbots of the Zdekhovsky, Fryanovsky, Ryazantsevsky, Ulitkinsky, Khomutovsky churches were shot. Exiled, and then shot the rector of the Aniskinsky temple, Fr. Sergiy Kudryavtsev and his brother Nikolai (priest in Fryanovo). The priest and deacon (died) of the Grebnevsky parish were sent to the camps. Many of those who escaped execution perished in camps and prisons. Five of those priests of the region have already been included in the Cathedral of the Holy New Martyrs.

The authorities in the late 1930s undertook a mass closing of churches. This was done according to the standard for all closed churches. Of the 22 churches in our district, parishioners managed to defend only 7.

At the beginning of 1940, the church in Trubino was also closed, sealed, and only a year and a half later a check was carried out according to the inventory, as prepared by the authorities, the commission discovered a “shortage” in the amount of 1,139 rubles. The check was biased. For example, one vessel of church things passed through the documents either as a “shortage”, or as a “surplus”. The church received a writ of execution for the payment of 671 rubles. Despite the protests of the community, the financial department decided to pay this shortfall equal to several annual salaries. The Church Council did not agree with this decision and went to court. But the church was closed, and in January 1941 the final decision was made. In the Decree of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee, a typical lie is "sarcastically" recorded that "the church has not functioned for a number of years, the community has broken up, the church building is not being repaired, the contract from December 1940 to January 7, 1941 was not concluded - the church should be closed." Such was the decision of the godless authorities, who closed the church in Trubino long ago.

The building of the temple was transferred to the rural bakery. The silver objects from the church were confiscated and sent for remelting, the money for them was transferred to the account of the City Financial Department. A week before the start of the war in June 1941 from 80 sq. m of the iconostasis, the gilding was washed away and handed over for salvage.

But some of the icons were secretly buried by parishioners in anticipation of better times. Temple icon of St. Rev. Sergius of Radonezh, after some stay in one of the houses of the village, was transferred to one of the few surviving churches - in Grebnevo.

The church was quickly abandoned by the authorities, and without supervision and care, this monument of initiative and spirituality, allegedly under the fictitious protection of the Decree for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, began to quickly collapse. By the 1990s, the temple building was a sad sight.

Temple Revival

With the advent of a new democratic time, good times have come for the church. Everywhere they began to raise temples from the ruins, young people went to church, the era of the Spiritual Revival of Russia began.

In Trubino, this holy work began with the revival of the ruined temple. This is how exciting Trubin's story of the restoration of the temple sounds in the mouth of a local church chronicler, a very young then recent schoolboy, and then an altar boy Alexey Blinov:

"The state and a brief description of the temple of St. Sergius of Radonezh
before the start of restoration work (for 1996).

Walls ( appearance): the plaster was completely destroyed, only in some places its weak, barely noticeable traces were visible, the bricks also began to fall apart, various plants grew from the lower parts of the walls (continuous thickets of elderberry, burdock, etc.). In the southern part of the temple there was an opening in the wall (large), teenagers went and played there.

Roof ( appearance): at the top - birch, raspberries, gooseberries and other plants. The bricks that made up the frame of the roof were preserved thanks to a large layer of greenery, it was so compacted by rains and other natural phenomena that during cleaning it had to be torn off with great difficulty. The weakest point on the roof was north side. The dome above the altar was destroyed, leaving only its iron frame and a rusty cross, which spoke of the former greatness of the temple.

Bell tower it was also battered by rains and winds, there were no bells, and birch trees grew at the very top near the domes.

Interior view of the temple: there were no floors, one earth, well-packed with fragments of brick (there were solid ones too), the altar chapels were destroyed, the chapel of St. George the Victorious was destroyed the most. At the entrance to the temple there were rusty iron doors (one bent on top). There were no windows, the bars on them were rusty and taken out in some places. There were no borders between the altars. In the main altar, on a high place below, a recess was made for something in the wall. This is what the temple looked like at the beginning of a new life for it. None of our fellow villagers thought that the temple could be restored, and even I, who is now writing these lines, did not imagine that I would be a direct participant in the events in which I was to be. So let's go back to that distant and turning point in 1996.

Start

Somewhere at the end of July 1996, I was walking, came to a bus stop and saw an ad with something like this:

« Brothers and sisters

(on such and such a date) there will be a meeting at the temple.

Agenda:

1. Creation of a labor collective for the restoration of the temple (twenty)

2. Solving problems on the initial arrangement of work, etc.

Dean Archpriest Vladimir Galushko"

Here I would like to make a small digression. Before I saw the ad and became interested in it, I had been serving for 2 months in Kablukov, in the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands, whose rector was Priest Sergiy Dubinin. It was he who nourished us until April 1998, when Priest Vladimir Alexandrov became our rector, who now serves as rector in the church in the village of Grebnevo ( then he was transferred to the Church of the Intercession with. Khomutovo- G.R.).

We now return directly to the meeting, and I will try to describe this event, which was a turning point in the history of our temple.

Meeting

On the appointed day and hour, I came to the meeting, there were a lot of people (we gathered in a clearing near the temple). The dean arrived and talked about the possibility of restoring the temple, he also stressed that the residents of the village of Trubino and the village of Nazimikha should show perseverance and initiative in this matter. The people welcomed this statement, although in the process of work (initial) the functions of clearing the temple were performed only by a group of people who were fanatically devoted to their work. Here I would like to name the names of people who directly worked on the restoration of the temple, as well as those who made up the first church council:

A.A. Kuprienko, L. V. Mikheykina, N. V. Kondratovich, L. Remizova, O. Mironova, O.I. Matveeva, M.P. Golubtsov.

The next item at the meeting was the selection of the head of the restoration work. They became Igor Petrovich Thomson(the surname is very interesting, like himself), his assistant was E Vgeny Ivanovich Pirozhkov. The rector of the Helkovo church was appointed as the caregiver of our church Father Sergiy Dubinin.

Reference: Sergei Nikolaevich Dubinin born 8.6.1963 (Kaliningrad-Korolev ). Name day for St. Sergius of Radonezh July 18. Graduated from high school. After the army, in 1988, he felt that his life priorities had changed, and he went to serve the Lord - he worked as a carpenter in the Lavra, passed the exams for the seminary, which he graduated in 1992, and entered the Academy. In 1990-94 carried the obedience of a subdeacon under Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna. On December 19, 1994, he was ordained to the priesthood of the church with. Exemplary (until 1.7.1995). Along with this, since 1993, the young priest was entrusted with the difficult work of restoring two churches - St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village of Trubino (until 1998) and Spassky in the village. Kablukovo, which he, despite the severe destruction of the temples, energetically began to perform.

During the elections to the first church council, they also tried to nominate me as a member, but it didn’t work out because I was still young (they were elected to the church council from the age of 18, and I was 16 then), but potential colleagues told me that I could come and get involved. My entry into the G20 happened later, when Father Vladimir Alexandrov was the rector and in the presence of Father Sergius Reshetnyak, Dean of the Shchelkovsky District (May 17, 1998, at the 2nd Church Council). When the people dispersed, we met with the Reverend Father, he, smiling, patted me on the shoulder and said: “You will be our altar boy here.” His words turned out to be prophetic.

I will now describe how we began to conduct and prepare our first meetings. Initially, our services consisted of two trebs: a prayer service and a memorial service (beginning at 12 noon on Sundays and major holidays). Square racks made of bricks, covered with a film on top, served as candlesticks for us, tin cans covered with sand were placed on these cabinets, candles were placed in this sand. After each service, the cinders were taken out, put into a bag, and the sand was also changed each time. All windows were covered with foil, and slats were nailed to the sides, this was done so that the draft was not so strong. Tables were made for the icons, where they stood, there were also tin cans with sand near them.

There were few icons. First, after the service, we collected them and took them to L. Remizova, since her house was not far from the temple, later we began to put them in the kondeika. The caretaker of church utensils was M.P. Golubtsov. The candle box was a desk on which candles, notes, pens, etc. lay. After cleaning, the floor was still a series of potholes and depressions, later it was covered with boards with carpets laid on them.

We walled up the holes in the wall of the chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on the very first day. The place where the refectory is now located, we made the room where our leader Thomson lived. It consisted of two halves, separated by a wooden partition. In one half of the room there were two bunks on which Thomson and his assistant slept, a desk, the second half was a small utility room, somewhere remotely resembling a kitchen. Earth was poured between the mother wall and a wooden partition to insulate the room, that is, a mixture of earth with the remains of bricks, fragments of slabs, etc. The earth for insulation was taken where the entrance to the bell tower is now located. As a result of cleaning, which I was directly involved in, I was able to clean 6 or 7 preserved steps.

By winter, we had put scaffolding on top of which iron sheets were laid (since the vault was leaking, especially on the north side). The windows were boarded up and insulated. The road to the toilet was paved with bricks and fragments of slabs. This is how we welcomed 1997. On Epiphany on January 19, Father Sergius served a prayer service for water, first they blessed the water in tanks in the church, then they went and blessed the source, there were a lot of people, there was such a crush that they almost crushed me, but everything turned out well.

The events of the middle of 1997 were, so to speak, of a political nature. Thomson, as it turned out, did not fit the ideal of a leader. In the summer of 1997, he was removed from the post of leader, and Father Sergius said in his place that he would send another person. The end of summer and the beginning of autumn passed for cleaning the roof. At this time, the twenty included I.Ya.Belyaeva and V.K. Vasiliev. Then Belarusian workers came to us, who concreted the floor, covered it with expanded clay between the roof and ceiling, and built a shed from blocks.

In November, Fr. Sergius sends us his representative, whose name was Vladimir Uralov. He was an elderly man with a gray beard and hair. When I asked him how to address him, he replied: “Call me brother Vladimir,” although he was like my grandfather. In December, members of the Central Council went to Sofrino, brought candlesticks (1 large, 2 small), candles, books, etc. Sergius of Radonezh, which meant that we could write a petition to the dean so that they would give us a rector, since we were told that if there is an altar in the restored church and you can perform a full service, then you can ask for a rector.

The Belarusian workers who worked for us, meanwhile, laid out 3 stoves: one stood where the shroud now stands, the 2nd one - where the library is now, and the 3rd - in the altar, where there is now a cabinet with a washstand. So we met the new year 1998 with the hope that they would give us a rector. Finally, they gave us a rector.

In the spring of 1998 Father Sergius handed over the affairs to Father Vladimir Alexandrov. Prior to us, Father Vladimir served as the second priest in the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Aniskino, Shchelkovsky District. On Palm Sunday, the first service was held in our church. There were many people. The choir on the kliros was organized under the direction of the regent T.A. Kudryavtseva. Also at this time in our temple appeared Sergei Yakovenko which has been working for us for some time. In May there were elections to the CA, where I finally became a member. There was also a division of labor among the members of the twenty: AND I. Belyaeva began to work behind a box, A.A. Kuprienko - a cook, A.V. Mikheykina- a librarian V.K. Vasilyeva erased O.I.Matveeva and M.P.Golubtsova became caretakers of church utensils and watchers of candles during the service.

The main event of this year was the return to our church of the icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh, which was brought from the Grebnevsky church in a solemn procession. They also carried out heating, put in the AGV, the temple began to gradually change. The hottest work was carried out from May to the end of September, the plastering of the outer facade of the temple, followed by whitewashing. The interior of the temple also underwent the same renovation.

New icons began to appear. The first icon that appeared with us with the arrival of Father Vladimir was Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Then the priest brought a box with shrines. The first pilgrimage trips began to be organized (Sergiev Posad, Tula, Serpukhov, Optina Pustyn, etc.).

Reference: Retired lieutenant colonel Vladimir Vasilievich Alexandrov was born in the Urals on February 27, 1942 during the evacuation of his family from Lugansk (Ukraine). His father, a pilot, died at the front. Vladimir graduated from the 10th grade, and the Kharkov Military School (1962, diploma with honors). He played basketball there and was the champion of the boxing school (light heavyweight). He served in Germany and at the Chkalovsky airfield. In 1973 he graduated from VVIA them. Zhukovsky (correspondence faculty). In 1987, he was transferred to the reserve (due to age) and served in Star City. Acquaintance and friendship with the rector of the Aniskinsky church, Fr. Sergiy Kazakov led him to serve God. In 1995, he passed the deacon, and then the priestly consecration. Appointed as a priest in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin (v. Aniskino, 1995-1998), and then in Kablukovo. For many useful deeds, he was awarded a gaiter (1997), a kamilavka (1998), and a pectoral cross. In 2003 he graduated from the Kolomna Theological Seminary. In 2003-2006 - Rector of the Church of the Grebnevskaya Icon of the Mother of God in Grebnevo. Since 2006 he has been a priest of the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos (Khomutovo, Shchelkovo), on Easter 200 he was elevated to the rank of protireus. Mother - Galina Mikhailovna Bocharova, a good writer, writes poetry, an employee of the newspaper of the Shchelkovsky deanery "Father's Lamp", "the main flower grower" when decorating the territory.

In 2000, they began to tile the floor inside the temple, and the window sills were also tiled. The reason for installing an alarm in the temple was an incident that occurred at the end of November 1999. Unknown persons broke the window in the altar, entered the temple and stole the icon. We were all very upset by this incident.

The territory of the temple was ennobled, flowers were planted, garbage was removed, birch trees that grew near the walls of the temple were cut down. On Christmas Day 2001, I was initiated into the surplice.

In August 2001, a joyful event also happened - on Ascension (August 14), a dome with a cross was erected on the bell tower. With a confluence of many people, the spectacle was impressive, if we take into account the fact that the weather was sunny, the gilded cross shone brightly in the rays of the sun. The bells were hung later. The summer of 2001 was dedicated to laying a tile path for the procession around the church.

A small archive of the history of the temple began to be created: photographs of the last warden of the temple A. Samsonov, the last priest of the temple V. Uspensky, the builder and patron of the temple I.F. Bocharov. Photographs of the temple also appeared (2): one shows the facade of the temple, in the foreground of which is a priest with people, with banners, with an external cross, it is clear that this photograph was taken during the patronal feast.

Another photo shows the profile of the temple in the mid-30s before its closure. We also have photographs of the latest time, that is, the restoration period.

On the street, near the toilet, a potbelly stove was placed to burn paper and other burning garbage. Conducted street lighting of the temple. And since in the spring there is mud and cars, braking, spray the temple, a wall was also placed from the highway, and a mud protection was welded to it.

During the period of service of Father Vladimir (April 1998 - September 2003) a lot was done for the further development of the temple, a lot of work and money was invested by many people who worked for the good of the church. Sometimes I had to work in very difficult conditions, for example, when there was no heating yet and it was very cold in the temple. But the Lord gave us the strength to do a good deed that will be in the memory of future generations.

In the summer of 2000, certificates of honor were awarded to the main participants, who remained faithful to their cause to the end.

Surnames of some members of the CA (except for rectors):

Alevtina Kuprienko Maria Golubtsova

Lyudmila Mikheykina Igor Tomson

Nina Kondratovich Evgeny Pirozhkov

Lyubov Demidova Irina Belyaeva

Olga Mironova Valentina Vasilyeva

Olga Matveeva Alexey Blinov

It has become warm and cozy in the temple, the bells are shimmering with a crimson ringing, calling the faithful to service. In this state of temple life, we come to September 2003, when a very important event took place. Our father was transferred as rector to the Grebnevsky parish with two churches - in the name of the icon of Our Lady of Grebnev and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. the temple of the village of Grebnevo, they appointed us rector Fr. Anthony Senko, who previously served as a deacon in the Trinity Cathedral in Shchelkovo.

Here is such an interesting, heartfelt and very historically important story of a young man about the restoration of the temple. Now Alexey Blinov continues to serve as the altar boy of the temple.

Father Vladimir Alexandrov

I cannot help but cite the sincere story of Marina Kravtsova about the rector of the temple, Fr. Vladimir Alexandrov in 1997-2003, who had the most difficult path of reviving the temple.

“From the very first minutes, he made an impression of an energetic, hospitable person, with whom it is easy and simple to communicate.

Not so long ago, Vladimir Alexandrov was just a parishioner of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Aniskino, took care of Father Sergius Kazakov and did not think about the priesthood. Father Sergius, whom the priest now calls “his dear teacher,” noticed him and blessed him to help at the altar. And after a while he said:

You must become a priest.

I am absolutely not worthy, - Vladimir began to refuse, - this is not mine ...

I will give you the address, go to the monastery to the elder, he will tell you the same thing.

Vladimir came with a blessing to the elder, knocked on the cell door, and heard:

Vladimir, come in.

He was amazed - the elder never knew him and never saw him. Going to the elder, he prepared twelve questions.

Now I will answer your twelve questions in order,” the elder said, not seeing the questions, which led Vladimir into even greater amazement.

At the end of the conversation, the elder said:

You have already been blessed to be ordained as a priest. But I know your nature, you need to be told a third time. In a week you will go to Jerusalem, and they will tell you this for the third time, then you will understand that you need to become a priest.

Father, but I'm not going to Jerusalem!

But a week later he did indeed go to Jerusalem. Deviating from the standard route, the pilgrims ended up in a Russian mountain convent near Jerusalem. There was an elderly woman present at the service. Suddenly, a nun unexpectedly approached Vladimir - only to him from a group of seven people - and said:

Take your mother's blessing.

Surprised, Vladimir went up to the schema nun and heard:

Go and save your soul and the souls of others.

Was it then possible to resist God's will? On the feast of all the saints who shone on Mount Athos, Vladimir Alexandrov was ordained a priest, and on the same feast, June 25, he celebrated the anniversary of his ordination on Mount Athos.

After a long break, he turned out to be the second priest to become rector of the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village of Trubino ...

This icon was brought to us by one of the parishioners, - the priest tells the arriving pilgrims of their temple in the village. Aniskine, - when I turned to the parishioners, saying: why are you alone praying in front of your wonderful icons? Another thing is when the whole parish will pray, including for you. Because if someone brings a donation to the temple, all the names are written in the book, and during the proskomidia I take out particles for all the benefactors. Bring the icons, and I will take out the particles for you, and the Lord will wash away your sins with His Blood. And little by little they began to bring icons to the temple, and now they brought this wonderful image.

Then an album with photographs appears in Father Vladimir's hands, in which there are sad views of the desecrated, devastated St. Sergius Church, from which the heart aches.

When I came here two and a half years ago at the direction of Vladyka, I found terrible pictures. On the mutilated dome of the temple there is a spire without a cross, and a crow sits on it ... Well, now we, with God's help, have both a gilded dome and a cross, and this was done this year ...

The founders of the temple, the brothers Bocharovs and their relatives, are still commemorated in our church. All those who served here are also commemorated.

In the forty-first, the last priest of this church, Vladimir Uspensky, was arrested before the closure. Soon they released him for lack of evidence, but he fell ill, apparently, he had a nervous breakdown, and died in the forty-second year. And in 1942 I was born. He - Vladimir - is the last priest of the St. Sergius Church, and I, also Vladimir, revive the church after a break. As if I took the baton from him ...

I remember the first time I came here to get acquainted with my temple. There was no light, it was dark, there were shields instead of windows... After all, photographic documents were stored here at first, then the room began to deteriorate, the roof began to leak.

They began to import fodder here. Bales, hay, straw...

He came, looked into this damp room - darkness.

I open the rickety metal doors, upholstered in felt, creaking and staggering, I go in. "Is there someone alive?" Voice: "Yes, here I am alive." A man in felt boots, in a short fur coat, a fur hat on him.

Who are you? - I ask.

Yes, I'm here for the housework, and the watchman.

And I've been appointed as a priest here.

Forgive me for not being able to show you the “splendor” of this temple now, because the power was turned off five minutes ago.

At this time, the opening closes behind me, someone's figure appears and asks, just like me:

Is there anyone alive?

We. I am the pastor of this temple. What is it?

Yes, I have been driving past this temple for three months now, and my grandmother bequeathed me to give the icon here, when the church opens, - said the elder, which led Vladimir to even greater amazement.

And this man brings me a wonderfully preserved icon. My first appearance in the temple, and the Most Holy Theotokos blesses me with Her icon of Kazan! Can you imagine my condition? When I first looked at the temple, I had something like despondency - how can I raise it? And suddenly ... And the mood immediately rose.

And those who are guilty of this or another sin, St. Sergius from the image calls to resort to him in penitential prayer for intercession before the Lord. The same, miraculous, which one hundred and fifty years ago was carried in a steep passage from the Lavra, with which the history of the temple began. The fate of this icon is amazing!

In 1942, the church was closed, they began to take out silver icons. They say that a local teacher took a large icon of the monk to his home, put it on the bed for rigidity - he had a very soft featherbed - and after three months ... he went crazy. The icon was thrown out of his house, and then it served as a fence in the barn. But God is not mocked, and neither are his saints. This icon has endured everything, and by a miracle of God it has not changed in a hundred and fifty years, it has remained as bright and beautiful as it was. From the barn, she fell into the hands of pious laity. Three icons ended up in their house, except for St. Sergius - the image of St. Seraphim of Sarov and George the Victorious. In the 60s, a priest from the Grebnevskaya church saw these icons, began to persuade the owners to give them to their church, promising that if the church in Trubino begins to be revived, the icons will be returned there. So these images ended up in Grebnev.

I thought, - says father Vladimir - that we, as in every church, should have the main temple icon, and I was told that there is such an icon, located in Grebnevo. But since the sixtieth year, the whole composition has changed there, no one remembers anything, they know one thing - the icon of Father Sergius stood in the Grebnevsky church for thirty years. Then we brought Baba Zina, who kept the icon - a very kind, good old woman - she told me how everything was. And they decided to return the icon of St. Sergius to us. And in 1998, in July, it was transferred to Trubino in a procession. Such a feeling, - the priest continues, - that the monk himself came to us and helps, finds people ...

And I received a twenty, which, even before the arrival of the priest, organized the core, around which the rest of the parish is growing. The core turned out to be very strong - they worked for about two years without a priest at all, only Father Sergiy Dubinin stopped by and took care of them. During this time, they did a lot, leveled the floor, repaired the roof... This could be done only by purposeful people, believers who know how to straighten up the negligent, make him work. Servants of God Alevtina, Lyudmila organized this twenty, under their leadership the first works were carried out. But Baba Manya and Baba Olya, old, with love for God, with the joy of belonging to the Church, they do a seemingly simple thing - they look after the candlesticks. But they come to every service, regardless of whether or not their legs or head hurt ... And when they are not there, some kind of emptiness is felt. From organizational, strong, powerful work to small, the simplest ... All this was done by wonderful women, but there were no men in the temple. But about three months after the start of the services, I leave the temple, I see - the guy is sitting young, curly, smiling. And I feel like I already know him. I say:

Great. Why are you sitting here?

I came to you.

And what do you want? - I want to work for you.

Wow! The first man in my temple.

What is your name?

Saint Sergius sent me Sergei. There is already someone to carry the board or raise the table. Serezha lived in Fryazino, worked for us for a year and a half. Then, by the grace of God, he took the next step towards the salvation of his soul. He has a medical education, and Serezha went to the courses of nurses at the 1st City Hospital. He graduated from them and now works as a senior nurse in a hospital, takes care of the most seriously ill patients, carefully looks after ... Sometimes he comes to us, sings on the kliros - he is very musical, he has a wonderful baritone. After a while, more guys came, but no one was late for the reason I have already mentioned. And then the Lord gave me an assistant, Demetrius. Pilot, reserve lieutenant colonel, squadron commander.

It was hard for him to start managing, because he had a completely different life, he flew a lot, commanded subordinates, but here you have to obey yourself, you have to do simple things, hammer in a nail, align the icon ... And slowly he began to get used to it, and, Thank God, I already trust him to organize a lot. This is such a good helper. I hope that our core will remain strong, strong, healthy...

And also about the help of St. Sergius, about which Father Vladimir says that it is huge. The father told such a story. It was necessary to urgently pay for the work of laying the floors, but there was no money, and nowhere to get it. Who to ask? Of course, at the Reverend: Father Sergius, help!

And then a man comes into the temple, greeted him, and asked:

What problems?

They tell. He takes out 10,000 rubles. with the words: "I received the award today, take it."

These are miracles!

Saint Sergius walks our land, and in a year his shoes are worn down...

“Our host, prayer book, our dear father,” Father Vladimir Alexandrov calls St. Sergius, hegumen of Radonezh. With joy and prayer we join these words.

Do not leave us, father Sergiy, always be the intercessor and patron of the Shchelkovo land ... These miracles, from which our faith is strengthened, help us to see God's help and His power. And your journey is also a chance to save the soul. Surely, in all our temples you will see a lot of interesting things.

How can we, the priests, without your prayers, then we will not be good for anything at all ...

And then Father Vladimir introduces everyone to the shrines of the St. Sergius Church.

First of all, this is a piece of the patron saint from the head of St. Sergius, which Father Vladimir received at the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. This shrine is very dear to him, And then the priest from Diveevo presented a piece of the cover from the head of Seraphim of Sarov. From St. Petersburg they brought a piece of the gauntlet of the holy righteous John of Kronstadt. From the Zosima Hermitage, where Father Vladimir sometimes goes to serve, the temple received a particle of the relics of the Monk Zosima of Vladimir, at whose shrine many healings are performed. The icon of St. Zosima has already been painted, there is a reliquary, it remains only to put this shrine in the temple for general worship. Here are the treasures of the temple reliquary, which is a carved wooden casket: the relics of the holy age of Theodore Kaliki, from Kyiv, holy stones from Mount Athos, a piece of the Mamre oak, under which Abraham met the Holy Trinity. Here is a stone from the miraculous source of St. Athanasius of Athos, an olive branch from the Garden of Gethsemane, a candle lit from the Paschal Holy Fire on the Holy Sepulcher.

Here is a fresco from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. One of our countrymen visited there on Easter, and at the moment of the Holy Fire descending, a piece of fresco fell under his feet. He realized that this was God's gift, and gave this piece to the St. Sergius Church. A cross from the branches of the trees of the Garden of Gethsemane, a branch of hyssop from Jerusalem, a stone from the cave of the prophet Elijah... A bit of soil from the Holy Land. An unusual stone from Mount Sinai - from the burning burning bush there was a shadow on all the stones in Sinai. Do not cut such a stone - you will see the contour of a branch of a burning bush.

All with reverence are applied to the shrines. The journey through the church of St. Sergius in Trubino is over, the priest escorts his guests to the door ... "

Let us add that during the reign of Father Vladimir, a candidate of physics and mathematics came to the temple. Sciences Anatoly Kucheryavenkov and not only carried out the obedience of the altar boy, but also attracted funds for the revival of the temple. Subsequently, he was ordained a deacon, and then a priest. Now he is the pastor of St. Anatolia in the village Carmolino.

Priest Anthony Senko

In 2003, Fr. Anthony Senko. He, like many in the 1990s, had his own path to God and serving others.

He grew up in Fryanovo. Born on 12/7/1971 in Tomsk. Father Henry Ivanovich, an engineer, and mother Alevtina Alexandrovna, a doctor, moved to Fryanovo in 1974. Then his father returned to Tomsk, so his mother raised Anton alone.

In 1983, his mother persuaded him to be baptized while traveling to Moscow. So in one of the surviving churches, at the age of 12, he was baptized in honor of St. Anthony Pechersky.

In 1986, Anton graduated from a music school (accordion class) and 8 classes from a school in Fryanovo and entered the Kaliningrad Mechanical College and, as a process equipment adjuster, entered the Semiconductor Devices Plant (Fryazino).

On the day of his 20th birthday, he and his mother went to the Elokhovsky Epiphany Cathedral, where the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov, recently found in the funds of one of the museums. This day became for the young man the beginning of turning to the spiritual life.

In 1991, Anton entered the Forestry Engineering Institute. In parallel with his studies, he performed the obedience of the head of the choir in the Church of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God with. Mavrino. At that time, an unusual youth community formed at the temple. Subsequently, 6 priests came out of this community.

From July 1994, Anton worked as a regent in the church of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God with. Dushenovo. In 1996 he graduated from the Forest University with a degree in automation engineering.

July 9, 2001 for hard work for the glory of the Russian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna Juvenaly was awarded a Diploma. In the same year, he married Irina Alexandrovna Pavlova (born 1982).

On October 25, 2002, by decree of His Eminence Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna, he was ordained a deacon and appointed to the staff of the Trinity Cathedral in Shchelkovo, and on September 11, 2003, in the rank of priest, he was appointed rector of the St. Sergius Church. In November 2003 he entered the Kolomna Theological Seminary in the correspondence sector. The Lord granted him with mother Irina three sons - Timothy (February 3, 2003), Peter (June 25, 2004) and Luka (February 18, 2006).

After the evening service, while the church was being cleaned, we talk with Fr. Anthony about his predecessors.

“The time of the second birth of the temple,” he says, “began with fervent prayers and labors of Fr. Sergius Dubinin and Fr. Mikhail Gerasimov, who were the first to say prayers on the ruins of the once magnificent temple. Then, for almost 6 years of work on the revival of the temple, Fr. Vladimir Alexandrov. He did the almost impossible - what was destroyed became a temple, a strong community was created, the service of the liturgy began, the reading of the Psalter for the temple began, the walls, roof, windows, doors were strengthened and plastered - all this created comfort in the temple. Through his diligence and diligence of the parishioners and his spiritual children, many icons appeared in the church, the improvement of the cemetery and the church territory began, the tombstone of Ivan Filippovich Bocharov, the first church warden and temple builder of the aisles of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and St. vmch. George, and much more.

I, a very young priest, received at the age of 29 in 2003 a parish from the hands of a 60-year-old Fr. Vladimir, he was very worried, seeing the prayers and labors of the former rector, the love of the parishioners for him, he understood how difficult it would be to become the same good shepherd and zealous restorer of the temple. But the love and care of the temple community, joint work pushed aside all these experiences.

And there was still a lot of work to be done, but there were also many helpers. We began to work on expanding the cramped church territory, and, thanks to the efforts and responsiveness of the head of the Administration of the Trubinsky District, V.N. Uglov and his collaborators E.N. Dorofeeva, this was done, and we immediately set about landscaping this territory.

The temple did not have a single additional building where it would be possible to organize a refectory and hold meetings of parishioners. A.I. Voronko and A.V. Ganichkin, such a church wooden house with a carved porch was built, its improvement is being completed.

We think Sunday school will also start here.

The roof raised doubts in many respects, besides, its appearance was different from the old one. Through the efforts of the God-loving G.I. Pushko now this work is completed. The copper coating of the meal and the quadrangle restored the historical appearance of the temple, known to us from old photographs...”.

In the temple every day they boil construction works. Now the parish is restoring the main chapel of St. Sergius, from which the temple began in 1849, at first as a chapel. Services are held in St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, where the work on the creation of a carved iconostasis ends (project and work of Nikolai Frolov, icon painter - Sergey Putiev). I had to completely redo the power supply modern rules(The work is being done by D.V. Nikitin, A.A. Kucheryavenkov, A.E. Shumilin, A.M. Naumov).

The rector notes the works of E. and A.E. Shumilinykh, A.M. and I.B. Kuzinykh for the repair and painting of the walls and ceiling of the refectory with two aisles, financial support from Istok-Audio Trading LLC (general director Klimachev I.I.) when adjusting the heating system in the church house.

With the charitable help of Evgenia LLC (Fryazino, director S.N. Bortulev) and SBKU LLC (Nazimikha, director O.A. Zaitsev), the restoration of the intra-temple historical appearance is being actively carried out.

The musical accompaniment of the services is not forgotten either. The chants of the youth church choir (regent A.A. Gruzinsky) already sound harmoniously and beautifully.

They work sacrificially in the temple of V.K. Vasilyeva, G.V. Shmeleva, A.A. Blinov and other parishioners, in order to maintain the splendor of the temple created by today.

The parish solemnly celebrated the 10th anniversary of the resumption of services in the church. The liturgy was led by Archpriest Sergiy Reshetnyak at the cathedral of 10 priests of the deanery and a deacon. Diplomas of deanery were awarded to many trustees and workers of the parish.

The community commemorates the already deceased first community workers Irina Belyaeva, Lyudmila Mikheykina, Nina Ivanycheva. The prayers of the abbot and the community are dedicated to their memory.

“As the main duty,” says Fr. Anthony, - I see the restoration of the faith of the parishioners through joint prayers and common church works, pilgrimage trips. Numerous conversations with those wishing to be baptized and with the parents of babies before baptism show the desire of many residents for the affairs of faith and the church. And how much work is needed here.

Therefore, we also have conversations before the Sacraments of Confession, Wedding, Unction.”

Let us also add that soul-saving sermons about true Christian life in a world full of temptations are heard in the church every Sunday.

We are finishing this book in the joyful post-Easter weeks. "Christ is Risen!" - sounds in the temple and on the street. "Truly Risen!" hearts and souls respond.

The Temple is resurrected in its ancient splendor, the souls of those who come to the temple are resurrected. Russia returns to holy Russia.

Sources:

1. Sidorenko A. Shrines of the Shchelkovo land. Shchelkovo: Editorial Board of the Shchelkovo magazine. 2001

2. Rovensky G.V., Chekhereva G.A., Filimon A.N. History of the Shchelkovsky region. Shchelkovo: Editorial Board of the Shchelkovo magazine. 2003

3. Confessional books of the Bogorodsk district of 1844 and 1864. f.203 op.747 file 1879 1864 p. 639. Sergius church in the village of Trubino.

4. Lists of merchants of the Bogorodsk district. 1876. (with reference to RS 1858) TsIAM 51/7/1758; Revision tales of merchants of the Bogorodsk district. 10th revision. 1858 CIAM 51/8/637.

5. Revision tales of the peasants of the Bogorodsk district. Landowners "from A to G". 8th revision. 1834 CIAM 51/8/185 Princes Golitsyn. Trubino.

6. Materials of the newspaper of the Shchelkovsky deanery “Father's saint: a) Kravtsova Marina. Reverend Sergius.//"Father's Lamp" No. 24, October 2000. b) Other materials.

7. Memoirs of Anna Baraboshkina (Chizhovo). Manuscript, Fryazino, 1992//www/website

8. Materials on the history of the church in Trubino: Trubino on the resolution of the device of the chapel in the name of St. Nicholas in the meal // CIAM f. 707 Bogorodsk Spiritual Administration, op.1. 545 May 23, 1855; b) On the transfer of the cemetery church in the village of Trubino into an independent parish church // ibid., d. 609; c) On the election of church elders for 1857-59. // ibid., d. 588..

9. Materials of the Shchelkovsky City Archive: a) Sergius Church with. Trubino//SHGA fund. protection of cultural monuments. b) Registers of births of the Sergius Church 1870-1917// Shchga fund of the registry office.

10. Dubinsky A.Yu. Bethany Theological Seminary. M.2002.

11. Clear statements Sergiev. cer. from. Trubino. a) 1865 f. 707 1910//f.2127 op.1. d. 475; b) 1922// ibid., d. 476

12. Archive of the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh: a) "Metric" of the church Jan. 1887; b) receipts from the descendants of the priests of the Assumption; c) receipts from Dm. A. Alekseev, a descendant of I.F. Bocharov; d) Insurance cards of the churches of the Bogorodsk district of the Moscow diocese in 1910 //certificate of the Russian State Historical Archives f.799, op.33 d.874 l.41 1, d. 24 (not issued, restoration). e) Clear statements of 1872 and 1875 (originals); f) Pages of the Register of births and deaths of 1918

24.06.2013

Temple near a busy road. Is it a momentary landscape outside the window of a passing car, a temporary stop for a wounded soul for half an hour, or maybe an hour, or a serious reason to stay and then regularly slow down here from sixty kilometers to zero? Can this point on the map become the main one in life or will it remain a short road episode?

The village of Trubino, Shchelkovsky district of the Moscow region. 36 kilometers from Moscow almost in a straight line. The road - monotonous, lulling, just going downhill - immediately after the sign with the name of the village suddenly changes its mood, evens out and even begins to strive upwards, as if it also understands where it is going. A small white church stands exactly in the middle of the village. Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Between the road and the entrance to the temple is a distance of one step.

My interlocutor shares one of the most vivid memories associated with the “temple on the road” image:

- A man in the village of Fryanovo catches up: “Wait, wait! Excuse me, are you a father? - "Yes, father." - "Where do you serve?" - "In Trubino". Pause. "Where is the temple?" And then it turns out that this is the driver of the Moscow-Fryanovo bus, who passes Trubino and, accordingly, the temple at least five times a day. Apparently, there is a symbol in this, that whoever does not need a temple, he goes by.

We talk with the rector after Sunday Liturgy in a small refectory. Father Anthony is waiting for the bride and groom for the wedding. They are late, and the parishioners around pour out jokes, they say, "the bride was afraid in advance", "changed their mind, probably." I ask if this is the case.

- There was no wedding, but once they changed their minds about the funeral. They came directly from the morgue, told about the deceased, that he was lying here, not far away, wept and said that they would come with him soon, they begged him to wait. We waited and waited, but for some reason no one came. They didn't even call.

The main feature of the church on the road is the absolute unpredictability of parish life. Location is a must. To Moscow, from Moscow, to the dacha, to work - the flow of traffic is such that it is sometimes difficult to cross the road. Every now and then the brakes squeal: people stop by spontaneously, leaving their cars in a hurry and impatiently waving away taxi drivers, relatives and friends running after them. They cross themselves for a long time and with respect before entering. Sometimes, in indecision, they shift from foot to foot, and only then timidly slip inside. It happens that they abruptly open the doors in search of a priest, to whom they are no less energetically going to tell "the whole of their life."

“There was an incident about five years ago. The woman came to an emergency stop near the temple. She just found out that her plane crash killed her. ex-husband, I went from my friend's dacha to Moscow and saw a temple, which I had passed by many times, but had not gone before. She and I walked around for a long time, talked, and then took her to church, where we prayed. She left further reassured, comforted - at least she understood what to do next.

Father Anthony remembers such cases with joy. Here the rule is observed: people in critical condition should be taken immediately to the priest. And if this meeting brought relief to a person, the whole parish rejoices.

Summer is a busy time. The transit location plus the summer season is an explosive mixture. The flow of people who urgently need something, for example, to baptize a child, is increasing. Cars slow down again, relatives get enough sleep from there, like peas, noise grows, indignant talk is heard that “some talks” were offered in the city, and the baby - here he is, with us, how cute, put on a cross for him, father and let's go on good terms. It does not always work out in a good way, although you want to. After another offer by the priest of catechumens, the procession turns around in anger and disappears.

Father Anthony is obliged to pay attention to everyone, and is upset that because of such a transit flow, regular parishioners sometimes fade into the background - there is simply not enough time for them. At the same time, the rector notes that the role of the church by the road is, after all, primarily missionary. You don't even have to go anywhere. The road itself will lead, if a person needs it. Someone will later become a parishioner of this church, someone will go to another church, but for many this stop will indeed remain an important event.

- Once a climber turned here right from the road. Before conquering another height, I wanted to be baptized. I found out about this later. And then he jumped on me right during the confession of one of the parishioners with the question: “When can you baptize me?” To which I, somewhat dumbfounded, said: “Never!” In turn, he was dumbfounded and asked: “Why? I say: “And what did you do in order to be baptized? Just came? – “What should be done?” - “Take the Gospel, read it, maybe you will get sick of it? Maybe it's not close and not needed? ”Two and a half months passed. The bell rang. "Hello," the man said. – Remember, you advised the Gospel. I have read the entire New Testament. Then I returned to my family, my wife accepted and forgave me, and made some changes in my life, and now I would like to talk with you about the possibility of baptism.” And that was the first time I ever baptized an adult. In 2005. The beginning of my ministry. Before that, I was afraid to baptize adults. When you baptize a baby, there are no vivid confirmations of the perfect Sacrament: the baby screamed and fell asleep, grandmothers are touched, everyone is happy. And here, when I turned to put a cross on him, he stood and beamed, like children smiling: “Father, it became so easy for me!” It was evident that he felt the joy of communion with God. After that, it became not scary to baptize, and it was not scary to talk, and sometimes refuse too.

Father Anthony himself often drove along this road past the dilapidated walls of the temple. And I never thought that the church could be restored, and even more so that he would serve here. The proposal of the deanery district plunged him into a state of shock. And when the future rector crossed the threshold of the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh, he was least interested in geographical location. The stone chapel of 1849, rebuilt ten years later by the merchant family Bocharovs into a temple, previously richly painted, with a belfry of ten bells, was closed in 1942. And then the temple was completely given over to a fodder warehouse - feed for livestock. Services have been held here since 1996, and the rector, Father Vladimir, restored the church as best he could. But Father Anthony remembered that until quite recently, boys were running along the ruined walls, birch and raspberry trees grew on the roof, an iron frame and a rusty cross remained from the dome above the altar. And I knew that there would be a lot of work. Inspired by road stories from the former rector.

- The workers were laying the marble floor, the day came to count the brigade, but there was no money, a decent amount. And then Father Vladimir knelt down near the recently found shrine of the temple - the icon of St. Sergius, and began to read the akathist. After some time, a man came inside: “Money appeared, I would like to give it to the temple.” He gave up and left. The astonished father Vladimir ran after him and on the run managed to ask two questions: what is his name and where did the money come from. - "My name is Sergey, the money is a bonus that I no longer counted on and decided to hand over to the church." Of course, the amount turned out to be exactly the one that had to be given to the builders.

About money and I have a story. Funny, and also associated with the road. A car drove up, from there a man ran after the priest, that is, behind me: “Father, do you have green candles? Not???" Then the father runs after this man: “Why green, tell me?” - “Well, of course, in dollars, so that there is money!” I tell him, thinking that he is joking: “Well, then we have yellow ones, for gold” - “He doesn’t roll for gold!” The car door slams and a man drives away.

It's hard for a priest without a sense of humor. The Christian faith, like gold, is not perceived by everyone. And there are hundreds of such stories. Someone refuses to take the Gospel for free, believing that it is bewitched. Loud, domineering women almost under their arms drag frail and submissive, but at the same time resisting husbands to get married. Happy and drunken peasants on Easter, when the priest goes out for incense, admiringly tug at his vestments: “Well done, dad, well done!”

Father Anthony, not without irony, calls his temple on the road an emergency room. People appear at its white walls with heavy experiences, spiritual troubles once or twice - and disappear. Like injured patients who have their limbs plastered and sent home to doctors at their place of residence.

Permanent parishioners are mainly residents of the nearby cities of Shchelkovo, Fryazino, and they also come from Moscow. More than two thousand people live in the village. However, the locals, the villagers, according to Father Anthony, in the church can be counted on the fingers. Why that is, he does not know. Although some of them just need to cross the road. And the townspeople get into cars, minibuses, buses and go to the village church. There are not enough churches in the cities, the rector says, the priest physically does not have time for everyone. Here they are on their way.

– The road to the temple is different for everyone. God calls with the voice of love. A person often does not hear, and then he comes to the temple later - as a rule, through pain and suffering. I would say it's like heart to heart. He feels at home in this place, that it is warm, calm, and remains here. And then - tests, with something agreement, with something - no. Coming to the temple is not an end in itself. But many believe that once you come to the Church, the road is over. Man is called by God to find a place in the Church. You can participate in worship: read, sing, become a clergyman. You can cook. Clean up. Paint icons. Help restore. The hospital ministry is in high demand right now. Missionary. While you are explaining to others, you yourself are trying to comprehend and asking yourself questions.