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For better orientation, I’ll give you a plan of the estate once again.

And let me remind you that under V.A. Vsevolozhsky in Srednikovo there was a large profitable farm: a stud farm, a barnyard, a garden, greenhouses, greenhouses, cabinetmakers' workshops, a linen and tin factory.

Let's examine the outbuildings located to the west of the central axis of the estate. Unfortunately, I was never able to find out the purpose of all the buildings.

Greenhouses can be easily identified by their characteristic large windows.

We will go along a small alley to the eastern part of the farm yard.

On this side are the cattle yard and stables.

A playpen with a correct, symmetrical shape deserves special attention.

Below, in a wide belt, is a solid foundation made of red brick, on which 14 columns rise. Spans of wooden columns. Each has two windows. At the top is a vault of hewn logs, assembled without a single nail. The upper windows of the vault concentrate rays of light into the center of the arena. Above the gate, a triangular arch rises on wide brick columns. The area of ​​the arena is 350 square meters.

True, on these winter days the staircase has turned into a slide, which both adults and children would love to ride, and the pond has turned into a white field. Regarding the staircase and the larches bordering it like a natural colonnade, there is some contradictory information on the estate’s website: in one place it says that they date back to the time of V.A.’s ownership of the estate. Vsevolozhsky, in another - that they were created under the last mistress of the estate, V.I. Firsanova.

To the west of the stairs there is a ravine with three bridges across it.

The Lower Bridge of Love is located in close proximity to the pond.

The next middle one is Red Bridge.

The largest and most beautiful is the white stone three-arch bridge, also called the Devil's Bridge.

The balconies that adorned it, the four columns at the entrances and the beautiful lattice, unfortunately, are almost completely lost.

From the estate park along the road we headed to the Church of Metropolitan Alexy of Moscow.

The construction of a stone temple in Serednikov begins under the princes of Egupov-Cherkassky. So in 1693, Prince Ivan Mikhailovich
Cherkassky receives permission to build a stone church in the village of Serednikovo. The Arrival Book of the Patriarchal State Order for 1694 states: “...last 1693, on the 18th day of May, by decree of the All Patriarch and according to the note on the extract of Andrei Dinisov Vladykin, according to the petition of the steward, Prince Ivan Prince Mikhailov of Egunov’s son - Cherkassy, ​​was ordered to Moscow district, in Goretovo, on his estate, in the village of Serednikov, I will again build a warm stone church below the Metropolitan Alexy, and a cold one on top of the Icon of Spasov Not Made by Hands...”

However, having received permission to build a two-story church, Cherkassky, for some reason, built a one-story church in St. Alexis the Metropolitan.

In 1777, the new owner of Serednikov, Vsevolod Alekseevich Vsevolozhsky, asked the Synodal Office for permission to repair the stone church, which by that time had become very dilapidated. During the renovation, the bell tower that existed at that time was completely dismantled, and the bells were placed in a specially constructed belfry. In addition to Serednikov, Vsevolozhsky buys the neighboring villages of Podolino and Blagoveshchenskoye, thus acquiring three nearby churches in his possession. He abolished the churches in Podolino and Blagoveshchenskoe, and the neighboring villages were annexed to the parish of the Alekseevskaya Church.

The following changes in the church occur in the 20s. XIX century under Count Grigory Alekseevich Saltykov. A warm chapel in the name of the Martyr Paraskeva is attached to the cold church on the western side, thus making the church somewhat longer. In 1865, already under the Stolypins, the current three-tier bell tower was added to the church.

The Church of Metropolitan Alexy was spacious in the summer, however, in winter, when the cold church was locked, there was not enough space for a large number of parishioners. During the time of the last owners of the Firsanov estate, since the bell tower prevented the warm church from being extended, it was decided to expand it in diameter, extending its sides so that the church took on the appearance of a cross. The expansion of the church was carried out in 1890-1892. As a result of these works, a second aisle was created. And the church became three-altar. The main altar of the temple is Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow, side chapels: the right one in the name of the icon of Our Lady of Smolensk, the left one in the name of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa.

The improvement of the temple does not end here; interior decoration continues. In 1899, oven heating was installed throughout the church, making the entire church warm. In 1901, the interior of the temple was decorated with wall paintings.

After the revolution, the upper tier of the bell tower was demolished and restored only in 2001.

Photo from 1995 (left) and 2010 (right)

The church was never closed; it preserved the main iconostasis from the early 1780s and carved iconostases from the 1890s.

All parts of the story about the Serednikovo estate:

Part 3. Park, outbuildings and the Church of St. Alexis.

The Serednikovo estate (formerly Srednikovo) is located in the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region, next to the Mtsyri sanatorium village, and is directly connected with the name of the Russian writer Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov.

The history of the estate begins in 1775, when Senator Vsevolod Alekseevich Vsevolozhsky decided to build a state house with outbuildings in the village of Serednikovo. Almost the entire architectural complex of the estate appeared under him. After Vsevolozhsky’s death, his nephew took possession of the estate, then his brother, then Colonel Afanasy Nesterov, Count Grigory Saltykov. Finally, in 1825, it was bought by Dmitry Alekseevich Stolypin, brother of Elizaveta Arsenyeva, Lermontov’s grandmother.

For several years, the grandmother has been bringing her grandson to Serednikovo, where his talent as a writer is revealed. Since 1869, the estate has belonged to the Firsanov family. In 1918 it was nationalized, in 1925 a sanatorium for nervous patients was opened, and in 1946 an anti-tuberculosis sanatorium “Mtsyri” was opened.

Serednikovo Estate on Google Panorama

Since the second half of the 20th century, the estate fell into disrepair. In 1993, the “National Lermontov Center in Serednikovo” was formed, and by the early 2000s, restoration work was completed.

The estate complex of the 18th-19th centuries, made in the classic style, includes a main house with a belvedere, four two-story outbuildings, cattle and horse yards, a carriage house, and an arena. Since the buildings were rebuilt several times, the Serednikovo estate looks different inside; the interiors have been partially restored. The complex also includes the 17th-century Church of St. Alexis, a greenhouse and the film city of Piligrim Porto with scenery from 18th-century England.

The estate hosts various events for visitors of all ages.

• Quest “Bunker Escape”. An extremely popular quest in the Serednikovo estate - 20 rooms with different interiors, from 3 to 8 hours of continuous action, up to 300 participants playing simultaneously. .

• Leisure. You can play paintball, airsoft and laser tag, take a sightseeing helicopter flight, or rent a barbecue area.

• Excursions. Sightseeing tours are held around the Main House of the Serednikovo estate (schedule). Individual visitors do not need to register, while for groups of 15 people or more a reservation is required (themes vary). The duration of the excursion is 1 hour.

• Festivals. The Midsummer Night’s Dream costume ball and the “Lermontov Holidays” summer promenade ball are held on the estate’s territory.

• Hosting an event. Traditional services are also offered - a wedding at the Serednikovo estate, corporate and special events of any format and theme, graduation party or last call, holiday programs for primary and secondary school students.

Opening hours and ticket prices

The Serednikovo estate is open every day, seven days a week, from 9.00 to 22.00.

Entrance fee to visit the historical architectural complex and landscape park of the estate:

• adults - 100 rubles;
• pensioners - 50 rubles;
• Children under 14 years of age and disabled people are free.

A visit to the State House is only possible as part of an excursion group. The ticket for the excursion is paid separately directly at the Main House:

• full ticket - 300 rubles;
• discount ticket (pupils, students, pensioners) - 250 rubles.

How to get to the Serednikovo estate

You can get to the Serednikovo estate on your own by public transport or car.

From Moscow, you can first get to the Firsanovskaya railway station (trains depart from the Leningradsky station, the approximate travel time is 45 minutes), where you need to change to bus number 40, going to the Mtsyri sanatorium, this is the final station. The bus runs from 05:30 to 22:00, with a day break. The bus schedule can be checked. The total travel time is just over an hour.

If you get to the Serednikovo estate from Zelenograd, then in addition to the train, you can get to Firsanovskaya station by bus No. 7.

When driving from Moscow by car, you need to drive along the Leningradskoye Shosse, then turn off at the settlement “Chernaya Gryad” towards Firsanovka.

Exact coordinates of the estate:

Latitude: 55gr. 55’45.03"N (55.929175)

Longitude: 37 degrees. 14’28.38"E (37.241217

To order a car from Zelenograd, you can use mobile applications of local taxi services: for example, “Taxi Bamboo”, “Voyage” or “Taxi24”. Gett and Yandex applications operate in Moscow. Taxi.

Video about the Serednikovo estate:

Patronal feast day Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow (February 25, October 18, June 2) Aisle of the icon of the Mother of God of Smolensk (August 10) VMC. Paraskeva Fridays (November 10)

Architect: the bell tower project was completed in 1865 by the famous Moscow architect P.E. Baev.

History of the temple.

The temple in the name of St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow, was built in 1693 by the owners of the village of Serednikovo, the princes of Cherkassy.

Initially, the temple was built as a single-altar church. Despite later reconstructions, the temple building retained the typology and foundation of the 17th century.

The history of the temple is connected with such famous noble families as the Saltykovs, Malyshevs and Stolypins.

1829-1831 - the poet M.Yu. visited the Alexievsky Church.

Lermontov, who came to stay at the Serednikovo estate with the Stolypin relatives of the poet through his grandmother Elizaveta Alekseevna Arsenyeva (nee Stolypina).

P. A. Stolypin got married in Serednikovo.

Since 1869 to 1918 The benefactors of the Alexievskaya Church were representatives of the wealthy merchant family of the Firsanovs. So, in 1890, with funds from V.I. Firsanova, the warm refectory of the temple was expanded with the construction of two chapels (in the name of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God and the Great Martyr Paraskeva), the iconostases of which were made by local cabinetmakers.

During the period of persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Church of St. Alexis. Serednikovo was happily preserved, and service to the Lord and people continued there.

In 1941 in the area of Serednikovo, five hundred meters from the temple, were the defensive positions of the defenders of Moscow. To deprive the enemy of a high-altitude landmark, the bell tower was destroyed, and it was restored only in 2000 with funds raised by parishioners.

The modern building of the Alexievsky Church corresponds in shape to sketches and photographs of the early 20th century. The ancient interior decoration of the church is well preserved. A significant part of the temple icons dates back to the end of the 19th century, but there are also more ancient ones: St. Demetrius of Rostov, Mother of God "Smolensk", St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, etc.

On the territory of the parish there is an observation deck with a source and a bathhouse, consecrated in 2008 in honor of St. Joseph Volotsky.

Travel by public transport: from Moscow from Leningradsky station to Firsanovka station - 33 km, then by bus to the stop. "Mtsyri" - 4 km. The church is just over 1 km on foot. on the way to.

Travel by car: from Moscow along the Leningradskoye Highway to the turn to Firsanovka in the village of Elino. Through Nazaryevo and the bridge over the river. The gangway is about 1 km to the roundabout in Zelenograd. On it - straight ahead and a little to the left towards Firsanovka. Go through the crossing at the Firsanovka (Firsanovskaya) platform, after about 4 km there is a bridge over the river. Goretovka, immediately behind which is the estate located to the right of the road, opposite the village of the Mtsyri sanatorium. The road to the manor church is past the manor, a little more than 1 km. The church also stands to the right of the road.

Church of Alexy Metropolitan of Moscow in Serednikovo was built in 1693. at the expense of the then owners of the village and estate - the princes Egupov-Cherkassky. Permission was received for the construction of a two-story stone church - a warm one below and a summer one above, but for some reason the temple was built as a one-story one. The church was completely reconstructed by V.A. Vsevolozhsky in 1777-1782. At the same time, the old bell tower was demolished.

The small brick church with one apse belongs to the late Baroque style: the walls are divided by pilasters, and decorative pediments are placed above the cornices. At the beginning of the 19th century, two chapels were added to the church; in 1865. – a three-tier bell tower, the upper tier of which was demolished after the revolution and restored only in 2001. The main altar of the temple is Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow; side aisles - Smolensky (right) and Pyatnitsky (left). Since the church was not closed, the main iconostasis from the early 1780s was preserved. and carved iconostases from the 1890s. in the refectory.

Approaching the picturesque winding road to the church, it is impossible to pass without noticing Serednikovo estate, in which the Mtsyri sanatorium was located after the revolution. From its name you can already guess that this place is somehow connected with the name M.Yu.Lermontova. The fact is that one of the owners of the estate, Dmitry Alekseevich Stolypin, was the brother of Elizaveta Alekseevna Arsenyeva, the grandmother of Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. The “Lermontov” part of the estate’s history is connected with it. M.Yu. Lermontov spent two summers here with his grandmother visiting her closest relatives - 1830 and 1831. The poet's first youthful love was connected with his stay here - for his Moscow acquaintance Ekaterina Sushkova, who lived on a neighboring estate. In her notes, Lermontov is depicted as a clumsy boy with red but intelligent eyes and a sarcastic smile.

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Lermontov's stay in Serednikovo was subsequently reflected in the appearance of the estate: its last owners, the merchants Firsanovs, who deeply revered the work and memory of the poet, installed it on the centenary of his birth in 1914. a simple miniature obelisk in the estate park, commissioned by Vera Ivanovna Firsanova. By her own order, in the outbuilding where Lermontov’s room was supposedly located, in 1900. a bronze bust of the poet was installed, made by A.S. Golubkina, a famous sculptor at that time. In the oval hall of the main house, marble decoration and a ceiling painted in the 1890s have survived. artist V.K. Shtemberg based on Lermontov's poem "The Demon".

The history of the estate begins in the 17th century, when it was granted in 1623. steward Prince Nikita Cherkassky and from the beginning of the 17th century until 1770. belonged to the princely family of the Egupovs (Egunovs?)-Cherkasskys. For a short time - 1770-1775. – it was owned by N.A. Kamynin.

In 1775 Serednikovo passed to Senator Vsevolod Alekseevich Vsevolozhsky, who moved the estate to a new location; the existing classicist ensemble was built precisely according to his order at the end of the 18th century, probably by Ivan Yegorovich Starov. At this time, the estate was a well-developed profitable farm: it had workshops, a large barnyard, and greenhouses. The residential part of the estate complex (the main house and four residential wings) was built in the classicism style. The entire ensemble was built symmetrically, including the cattle and horse yards located opposite each other, as well as the fence and cast-iron gates of the front yard. Until recently, the fence with very beautiful stone columns was also cast iron, but has now been replaced with a picket fence. A long alley leads to the gate of the main house between the cattle and horse yards, ending with a decorative bridge with low railings made in the same style as the entire fence.

After the revolution, the estate was expropriated by the Soviet authorities, and a sanatorium was opened there for members of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee "Silence", and since 1946. it housed the anti-tuberculosis sanatorium "Mtsyri". In the 1990s, the estate buildings and park began to fall into disrepair; now, the National Lermontov Center has carried out a partial restoration, and a Sunday school has been opened. The interiors of the estate were rebuilt when the sanatorium was located there, and are only partially preserved; Now the Lermontov Center is making attempts to restore them. While the restoration is underway, it is impossible to get into the territory of the estate, but this does not apply to the church, built at a distance from the estate complex - access to it is free, and, what is most interesting, every time the authors of the site When we drove up there, a wedding ceremony was certainly taking place there. It seems that many residents of the surrounding villages and hamlets, and perhaps even Muscovites, prefer to get married in this church.

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Velikanov Pavel - History of the Christian Church - St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow

Pavel Ivanovich Velikanov (August 20, 1971, Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, USSR) - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church (archpriest), Editor-in-Chief of the portal "Bogoslov.Ru", participant in the inter-council presence, secretary of the Commission on Information Activities of the Church and Relations with the Media , theologian, vice-rector for scientific and theological work, associate professor and teacher at MDA.

Saint Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow

Saint Alexy was born in Moscow in 1292 and was named Eleutherius at baptism. Tradition says that, as a 12-year-old boy, he caught birds with nets; their guard, fell asleep and in his sleep heard a voice saying to him: “Alexy! Why are you working in vain?

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Leave; you are to be a fisher of men.” From then on, the boy began to think and often left home for the forest, where he read spiritual books and prayed.

In 1320, Eleutherius left his family and entered the Moscow Epiphany Monastery, where he was tonsured with the name Alexy. Alexy stayed in this monastery for twenty years and, having studied the Greek language, began correcting the Slavic translation of the Gospel from the Greek text.

In 1350 St. Alexy was consecrated by Metropolitan Theognost as Bishop of Vladimir, and after the death of Metropolitan Theognost, he was appointed in his place as Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia. Although the Ecumenical Patriarch dedicated St. Alexy to the metropolitan throne, but he had to go to Constantinople two more times to settle the discord that arose in the Church due to the installation of another Metropolitan, Roman, by the Patriarch. These unrest ended with Alexy being given control of the Kyiv and Great Russian dioceses, and Roman - the Little Russian ones. Returning by sea from Constantinople, Alexy was caught in a terrible storm and made a vow, if the ship was saved from sinking, to build a church in the name of the saint, who would be celebrated on the day the ship landed on the shore. The ship safely reached the shore on August 16 (29), on the feast of the Image of the Savior Not Made by Hands, and, in memory of this miraculous deliverance, Saint Alexy founded the Andronikov Monastery of the Savior Not Made by Hands in Moscow.

Upon his arrival in Moscow, Metropolitan Alexy began to zealously engage in church affairs and in district messages he taught his flock to work hard, diligently perform duties and attentively listen to the word of God. In addition, with his influence, Saint Alexy often stopped the feuds of the princes and acquired such respect with his wise leadership that in contracts between the princes they began to write at that time: “With the blessing of our father, the Metropolitan of All Rus'.”

The fame of the virtues of the Moscow Saint spread beyond Russia. Twice he went to the Horde to visit the Tatar Khan, whose wife, Taidul, he healed of blindness. Amazed by the miracle, the khan, as a sign of gratitude, released the Metropolitan with honor and again restored the benefits previously given to the Moscow princes by his predecessors. But after the death of Khan Zhanibek, his heir again began to demand tribute from the Russian princes, and Metropolitan Alexy again went to the Horde as an intercessor for his oppressed fatherland. God helped Saint Alexy; he managed to persuade the khan to mercy and returned to Russia with confirmation of the rights that the khans had previously given to the state and the Church.

At this time, the Grand Duke of Moscow John died, leaving his son Dimitri as heir. But taking advantage of his youth, the Prince of Suzdal took possession of the grand-ducal throne. Only thanks to the personal influence of Metropolitan Alexy, his firmness and wise advice, young Demetrius was declared Grand Duke of Moscow and confirmed as Khan on the parental throne.
Finally, dejected over the years and feeling the approach of death, Saint Alexy wished to choose a successor for himself and, calling St. Sergius from the Trinity Monastery, announced to him his desire to see him as his deputy. But the humble abbot fell at the feet of the Saint and begged him not to entrust this difficult and great feat to him.

In the last years of his life, Saint Alexy built many churches and monasteries, of which in Moscow: the Alekseevsky women's monastery and in the Kremlin, on the site given to him by Khansha Taidula, a monastery in honor of the miracle of Archangel Michael in Khoneh, where he bequeathed to bury himself.

On May 20 (June 2), 1431, the vault of the temple in which the Saint rested collapsed due to disrepair. During the construction of the new temple, the incorrupt relics of St. Alexis were discovered. The Council of Russian Saints established the celebration of Metropolitan Alexy on the day of his repose on February 25 (12) and on the day of the discovery of his relics on June 2 (May 20). In 1485, the relics of the Saint were transferred to a temple dedicated to his name. Now they rest in the Cathedral of the Epiphany in Elokhov in Moscow.
In the Church of St. Nicholas in Klenniki, the veneration of St. Alexy, Metropolitan of Moscow, is also connected with the fact that after the abolition of the godless authority of the Chudov Monastery in the Kremlin, the spiritual children of Bishop Arseny (Zhadanovsky) moved to the Maroseya Church under the leadership of the Holy Righteous Alexy and the Hieromartyr Sergius and joined to the community. With the help of the “Chudovskys,” as they were called, statutory worship and singing were established in the church.

Alexievskaya Church at the end of the 18th century

In the 1780s, the church of Metropolitan Alexy in Serednikov became the spiritual center of the area. Parishioners of two deserted churches came to her - in the villages of Podolino and Blagoveshchenka. The parish of the Alexievskaya Church was made up of peasants from the villages of Podolino, Savrasovo, Golikovo, Zhavoronki, Blagoveshchenka, Ligachevo, Luginino - a total of 54 households, numbering 300 souls. The Alexievskaya Church was part of the Krutitsa diocese of the Resurrection district. The parish remained in this composition until 1918, or more precisely, until the time of persecution of the Orthodox Church by Soviet authorities.

On April 25, 1777, the new owner of the village of Serednikovo and its surroundings, Senator Vsevolod Alekseevich Vsevolozhsky, asked the Synodal Office to repair the stone church that had fallen into disrepair. After receiving permission the following month, the owner extensively rebuilt the church. The entrance to the church was on the site of the current arch. In this form (with minor later alterations) the church has survived to this day.

At first the church clergy consisted of one priest, there was no sexton and no sexton. The priest had only one servant who kept the church and outbuildings clean. Since there were no residents in Serednikovo, it would be more correct to call Serednikovo a graveyard: a church and a cemetery attached to it are the exact definition of a graveyard.

The priest of the church in Serednikov for some time (1768-1775) was Ivan Borisov, and since 1775 - Nikita Ivanov. In the book of A. Ternovsky “Church of Metropolitan Alexy in the village of Serednikovo” there is confirmation of this:

“In 1768... Priest, sexton, sexton<в Подолинской церкви>did not have; priestly services and secular needs were corrected by the priest. Serednikova Ivan Borisov... When Podolino was purchased by Vsevolozhsky in 1775, the priest at the church there was Nikita Ivanov, who was then transferred to the church in the village of Serednikova.”

In 1782, Metropolitan Vladimir of Moscow visited Serednikovo and personally consecrated the antimension (a consecrated plaque depicting the position of Jesus Christ in the tomb; placed on the church altar during the celebration of the Holy Eucharist).

Until 1797, only fragmentary information about the clergy of the church of Metropolitan Alexy was found in documents. Since 1797, this information has been complete.

Alexievskaya Church in the priesthood of Father Michael (Zertsalov)
(1797-1833)

In 1797-1833. The priest of the Alexievskaya Church was Mikhail Petrovich Zertsalov, born in 1767. About himself he writes: “I am the son of a priest, I did not receive an education, I did not study in schools” (entry in the clergy registers).

Mikhail Zertsalov was ordained a priest on November 3, 1797 by His Grace Serapion, Bishop of Dmitrov.

For blessing the flock of his parish in 1812 to resist the French marauding invaders, Father Mikhail (Zertsalov) was awarded a bronze pectoral cross on the Vladimir ribbon with the inscription “1812”.
I will give an extract from the manifesto of Emperor Alexander I on the establishment of bronze crosses (approved on August 30, 1814):

“1) Our Most Sacred Clergy, who called before the Altar of the Most High with their warm prayers God’s blessing on the All-Russian weapons and army, and with examples of piety encouraged the people to unanimity and firmness, as a sign of reverence for faith and love for the Fatherland, let them wear it on their foreheads, starting from the Supreme Shepherd, including the Priest, a cross specially established for this purpose with the signature of 1812.”

Father Mikhail died in 1833 at the age of 66.

In 1814-1823, the owner of the Serednikovo estate was the court councilor (since 1822) Count Grigory Alekseevich Saltykov. At the request of his wife, Ekaterina Alexandrovna (née Kheraskov, niece of a famous writer and university figure), a chapel was built in the Alexievskaya Church in the name of the martyr Paraskeva (on the western side of the temple), and the church was thus somewhat lengthened. The church was cold, but the chapel was made warm.

The sexton in the Alexievskaya Church during the priesthood of Father Mikhail was Sergei Pavlovich Bazhanov. The son of a sexton, born around 1773, he studied in the grammar class of the Perervinsky seminary. In 1792, he was assigned as a sexton to the Znamenskaya Church in the village of Golubova (a small but interesting touch for local historians!). On April 1, 1819, he was transferred from the village of Golubova as a sexton to the church in the village of Serednikovo, served until 1835, and was buried at the church.

The sexton of the Alexievsky Church at the time described was Vasily Alekseevich Perepelkin. Born around 1783, the son of a priest from the lower class of the former Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy. First, in 1806, he was appointed sexton to the Church of the Transfiguration of the Savior in the village of Slyadnevo, Ruza district. Then, on September 26, 1809, he was transferred as a sexton to the Serednikov Church of Metropolitan Alexy, where he died in 1876, almost blind, 93 years old. Buried at the church.

The church elder (otherwise known as ktitor) in 1824-1839 was Ivan Tikhonov. He ran the usual church business: collected money and sold candles.

Alexievskaya Church to the priesthood of Father Vasily (Ternovsky)
(1833-1868)

In the place of Father Mikhail, on May 15, 1833, his son-in-law, the son of the sexton of the Khotkovsky Monastery, Vasily Sergeevich Ternovsky, who graduated from the Bethany Seminary, was ordained. He served as a priest in the Alexievskaya Church for 35 years (1833-1868). In his apartment he taught the children of parishioners to read and write, since there were no schools in the area at that time, and he was engaged in beekeeping and gardening.

Having reached retirement in 1868, Father Vasily gave way to his son-in-law, and he retired to Moscow to the care home for the clergy of the Church of St. George in Gruziny, where until 1883 he was the caretaker of the orphanage, for which he was awarded a gait (a gait is an oblong rectangular cloth with a sewn a cross, which is worn on the right thigh during worship and symbolizes the spiritual sword of the Word of God. In the Russian Church, the legguard has been known since the 16th century; it began to be used as a reward in the middle of the 19th century.

At the same time, he was an early priest at the Church of John the Baptist; local parishioners in May 1883, in honor of the 50th anniversary of his priesthood, presented him with an icon in a gilded silver frame.

Father Vasily died on July 21, 1887; his body was buried in Serednikov, opposite the altar of the Alexievskaya Church.

The deacon of Metropolitan Alexy's Church during these years was Pyotr Sergeevich Bazhanov. On September 30, 1835, he replaced his deceased father. Perhaps because of this, he had to leave the Vysokopetrovsky Theological School, where he studied in the lower department. He served as a sexton for 37 years, until 1872, when he left the staff, giving way to his son-in-law, psalm-reader Nikolai Mikhailovich Orlovsky, who had previously been an assistant under sexton Pyotr Bazhanov. But Pyotr Bazhanov continued to serve freely during divine services and corrections, taking advantage of the willing donations of parishioners who valued him. He lived in his own house in the village, receiving 15 rubles a year from spiritual guardianship.

Pyotr Bazhanov was known in the area and far beyond its borders for the art of treating bites from rabid animals. In summer and winter, people in need came to him, and Bazhanov, sometimes getting stuck waist-deep in deep snow, obtained the necessary root, which was certainly required fresh for treatment. Pyotr Bazhanov died on July 5, 1895 and was buried at the church.

On January 1, 1839, at a gathering of parishioners, Vasily Semyonovich Zenin, a master cabinetmaker, owner of several furniture workshops in the village of Ligachevo and the village of Podolino, who had been elected the day before by a gathering of parishioners, became the church warden.

The life of parishioners before the abolition of serfdom was strictly regulated, and in such stagnation one could not demand or expect special activity from the headman. But even after the abolition of serfdom in 1861, in the first years it did not get any better: landowners began to abandon their estates, and rural churches were left exclusively to the care of their parishioners, receiving no help from their masters, and at first there was little money collected by the parish. In a word - perestroika. It was necessary to get used to new forms of relations in society.

Here's an example... In 1865, a gathering of parishioners decided to build a bell tower. The owner of the buildings near the church, Stolypin, allowed the stone sheds and barns opposite the church to be dismantled so that the bricks could be used in the construction of the bell tower. But Stolypin did not give money. The parishioners still managed to collect the necessary amount themselves, and a significant contribution was made by the owners of furniture workshops and timber warehouses in the villages of Ligachevo and Podolino.

There was enough money not only for a three-tier bell tower, but also for updating the mosaic floor and for a new bell. The church was added 2 windows in length. This was the first experience of independent (without masters!) solving a major problem by “society”.

Alexievskaya Church in the priesthood of Father Nicholas (Troparevsky)
(1868-1892)

In February 1868, upon the retirement of priest Vasily Ternovsky, his son-in-law Nikolai Nikolaevich Troparevsky, like his father-in-law, graduated from Bethany Seminary in 1866 with a second class degree, was appointed to fill the vacated position. After graduating from the seminary, Nikolai Troparevsky was a member of the Moscow choir until 1868 (apparently waiting for his father-in-law to retire).

Father Nikolai, like his predecessor, taught children at home, and when a zemstvo school opened in the village of Ligachevo in 1874, he was appointed there as a teacher of the law. In 1881-1890 he was also a teacher of the law of God at the zemstvo school in the village of Yurlovo.

Here is a short list of his deeds and awards for them:

1873 - a new 125-pound bell was hung on the newly built bell tower to replace the broken old one. The bell was purchased with money raised from the sale of the old bell and private donations;

1876 ​​- the dilapidated altar in the church was replaced, and a new iconostasis was installed in the Paraskievsky chapel of the church, made by local parishioners in the workshop of Zenin from the village of Ligachevo.

On September 12, 1876, the throne and iconostasis were consecrated by Archpriest of the Moscow Kazan Cathedral A.S. Ternovsky with the rector of the temple N.N. Troparevsky and neighboring clergy. For the consecration of the temple, a new mosaic floor was made (instead of the old one made of limestone). The owner of Serednikov, merchant Ivan Grigorievich Firsanov, donated money for the mosaic floor.

1878 - Father Nikolai was awarded a leg guard;

1886 - an amateur choir at the church was founded;

1890 - 1892 - the warm church was expanded. The temple was expanded in diameter, but the church money was only enough for rough work. The landowner Vera Ivanovna Firsanova took on the interior decoration, and she gave 500 rubles for the iconostasis for the new chapel;

October 1891 - the chapel of the Martyr Paraskeva was renewed. Although the work on expanding the temple had not yet been completed, the walls were still damp and had not stood, the updated chapel in the name of the martyr Paraskeva was consecrated by the local dean I.A. Sokolov with the priest of the temple, Father Nikolai (Troparevsky). The mahogany iconostasis was made in the local furniture workshop of V.E. Karaseva (village Podolino).

Nikolai Troparevsky died on May 19, 1892, and was buried opposite the altar of the Paraskievsky chapel of the Alexievsky Church.

On September 17, 1872, Nikolai Mikhailovich Orlovsky was appointed sexton of the Alexievsky Church, replacing his father-in-law P. Bazhanov. Before that, after graduating from the higher department of the Andronievsky School in 1871, he served as a sexton in the Odigitrievskaya Church in the village of Old Mozhaisk district. A. Ternovsky in his book (1908) notes: “It has served to this day.”

Around 1866, church warden V.S. Zenin became seriously ill, and from that time on, his son Ivan Vasilyevich Zenin actually performed the duties of church warden. It was thanks to his efforts that a new walnut iconostasis was made in the church in 1876.

On January 1, 1881, Ivan Zenin, elected the day before at a congress of parishioners, officially assumed the position of church warden of the Metropolitan Alexy Church. In 1890-1892, under his leadership, the warm church was expanded. For his service I.V. Zenin was awarded a large silver medal on the Stanislav ribbon. Upon leaving the service in 1899, grateful parishioners presented him with an icon of St. John and Mary of Egypt, in a silver frame.

Alexievskaya Church to the priesthood of Father Alexei (Ternovsky)
(since 1892)

Alexey Alekseevich Ternovsky, the son of a priest, graduated from the first department of the Moscow Theological Academy in 1885 (he was registered first in the second category). After graduation, he was assigned as a psalm-reader to the church in the village of Karacharovo, Moscow district, where he was a free teacher of church singing at the zemstvo school.

In 1889, he was ordained a deacon and transferred to the deacon's place in the church of the village of Arkhangelskoye-Nikolskoye, Moscow district, where he was a teacher of the law of God at a private elementary school. At the same time, he served as regent in the church in the village of Serednikovo, organizing an amateur choir.

After the death of the priest of the Alexievskaya Church, Father Nikolai (Troparevsky), the parishioners petitioned to appoint Alexei Ternovsky as their priest, and in May 1892 he was ordained to this title.

For some reason, the young rector of the Alexiyevsky Church interested the Chief Prosecutor of the Synod, Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev, and in early June 1892, immediately after Father Alexei was ordained a priest, he visited the Church of Metropolitan Alexy in Serednikov and had a conversation with the new priest.

Father Alexey (Ternovsky) taught the law of God in three parish schools: at the zemstvo school in the village of Ligachevo (permanently), at the school in the village of Golikovo (1897-1906) and at the school in the village of Podolino (since 1907).

In 1892, the Smolensk chapel of the church was renewed. It was consecrated on August 9, 1892 by Dean I.A. Sokolov with the rector of the temple Alexei Ternovsky in the concelebration of priests from local villages. From that time on, the Alexievskaya Church became three-altar.

In 1891, Father Alexey was awarded a legguard, and in 1906 - a skufiya. Skufya is a headdress, usually of a dark color, which all clergy and clergy have the right to wear outside of worship.

Purple skufia - priest's reward; it is worn during worship as part of the vestment and is to be removed at some of the more exalted moments of the church service.

Father Alexei also had secular awards - a silver medal in memory of Emperor Alexander III, a bronze medal for participation in the 1896 national census.

For many years he collected materials on the history of the village of Serednikovo and surrounding villages. Naturally, he was more attracted to the history of the church in Serednikov. His book “The Church of St. Alexy the Metropolitan in the village of Serednikov” was published in Moscow in 1908.

In the preface to the book, Alexey Ternovsky writes:

“At the beginning of my work, I took advantage of the favorable instructions of the deceased archaeologist Archpriest Mikhail. Sim. Bogolyubsky, who kindly presented me with historical materials about churches and villages of the Moscow district of the 16th-18th centuries, on country tithes...”

Archpriest Mikhail Simonovich Bogolyubsky (+1902) - served in Moscow churches, master of the Moscow Theological Academy, church writer, one of the chairmen (in 1894-1902) of the Society of Lovers of Spiritual Enlightenment (OLDP). On his initiative, a description of valuable ancient manuscripts was begun, as well as the compilation of a systematic catalog of the OLDP library.

When writing the book, Alexey Ternovsky also used historical materials of the Kholmogorov brothers; a lot was gleaned from clergy, income and expense books, metric books and from marriage search books - these records were kept in the church from the beginning of the 19th century. A.A. Ternovsky recorded the stories of local residents and critically compared them with other data.

In his preface, A. Ternovsky continues:

“Having set out to write a description of the local parish church from the time of its inception to the present day, and studying for this purpose the documents at hand, I came to the conclusion that, in restoring church antiquity, it would not be out of place to touch upon those persons with whom I am closely associated the life of the temple, that is, the parish in general, pastors, ktitors and all persons who have taken and continue to take part in the life of the temple both through personal labor and through their donations at the present time and in days long past...”

Today, one hundred years after its writing, the materials in this book are an important source in studying the history of our native land.

In 1895, by decree of the Right Reverend Nester, Bishop of Dmitrovsky, the prosphora player Paraskeva Nikolaevna Troitskaya, the widow of the deceased psalm-reader of the Assumption Church in the village of Chernevo, Moscow district, was assigned to the church of Metropolitan Alexy. She died in 1899, and her daughter, the maiden Maria Grigorievna Troitskaya, was appointed in her place.

Church elder Alexey Yurasov

In 1899-1902 The church warden was hereditary honorary citizen Alexey Ivanovich Yurasov. He lived in Moscow. This is how A.A. characterizes him in his book. Ternovsky:

“A young man, extremely energetic. Under him, church life moved at an accelerated pace. He reinforced the foundation of the temple with rubble, installed drainage, and painted the outside of the church; I redid the heating so that the oven began to serve the former cold part as well. He invited the Pashkov brothers, who used his funds to complete the wall painting.

To support the local amateur choir, he hired a regent for the summer from those who graduated from the conservatory in a special class. He also prepared boys and girls for the choir. "

Spirit heating was made in 1899. The money for it was allocated by: V.I. Firsanov - 1000 rubles, church - 300 rubles, A.I. Yurasov - 300 rubles. The art workshop of the Pashkov brothers began painting the church in the winter of 2001 and finished four months later. The temple with updated wall paintings was consecrated on May 21, 2001 (on Spiritual Day) by the new dean A.A. Nikitsky in front of a huge crowd of residents of the surrounding villages.

“Upon the proclamation of the usual many years and many years by Protodeacon Rozov to the patron of the temple, the servant of God Alexy and his wife Tatyana (Fedorovna), the parishioners, with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Nester of Dmitrov, in consideration of the cares and labors of beautifying the temple and for personal donations, presented to the patron A.I. Yuras icon of St. Alexy and martyred. Tatiana…” writes A. Ternovsky.

In 1902, Aleksey Petrovich Glazov, a peasant from the village of Odolino, was elected church warden. Before that, he was assistant to the headman A.I. Yurasova. Alexey Glazov was an economical owner. When during the revolution of 1905-1907. Robberies and arson of churches became more frequent, he got up almost every night to check the safety of the church, sometimes together with his son.

Other donors. In 1901, Marfa Nikiforovna Basanova donated 150 rubles to the church to purchase a velvet shroud with silver (94th standard) embroidery. In 1902, she donated 600 rubles for the construction of chasubles (a type of frame) for local icons in the iconostasis. Four gilded vestments with enameled decorations were made in the workshop of N.I. Vasilyeva.

After the discovery of the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov, at the request of the priest Father Alexei, parishioner N.V. Dokin acquired an icon of St. Seraphim, executed in Epanichnikov’s art workshop; The iconostasis for the icon was made in the local furniture workshop of Karasev.

The vestments were donated to the sacristy by the Stolypins, V.I. Firsanova, parishioners - Baklins, Gavrilovs, Panovs.

Three altars of the Alexievskaya Church

First, a little explanation... The altar is the eastern part of the church, separated by the iconostasis and the royal doors. The table in front of the main altar is called the main altar; the sacrament of the Eucharist (communion) is celebrated on it. There may be several altars in a church (an additional altar is called a chapel).

By the end of the 19th century, the church in the village of Serednikova had three altars. The main altar - with the throne of St. Metropolitan Alexy (1693, iconostasis - in the early 1780s), the right altar (chapel) - Smolensk (icons of the Mother of God of Smolensk, 1892, iconostasis - 1892?), left altar ( chapel) - Pyatnitsky (Paraskevsky, around 1814, iconostasis - 1892).

The chapel of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa was formed around 1814 at the request of Ekaterina Alexandrovna Saltykova (nee Kheraskova), the wife of the owner of the village of Serednikovo, Count G.A. Saltykova.

The name Praskovya (Paraskeviya, Paraskeva) was a family name for the Kheraskovs. The founder of the Kheraskov family, Konstantin Khereskul, was a Moldavian boyar at the end of the 16th century. One of his daughters was called Praskeva, the great-granddaughter of the ancestor had the same name (see: P.N. Petrov. History of the families of the Russian nobility, vol. II. St. Petersburg, 1886, p. 311). Therefore, it is not surprising that E.A. Saltykova (Kheraskova) wanted to name the chapel of the church after Paraskeva.

Another chapel - the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God - was most likely named after the Church of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God in Podolino, which existed in 1677-1771. After the church was closed, its parish passed to the Alexievskaya Church in the village of Serednikovo (for more details, see: I. Bystrov. The village of Serednikovo (Church of Metropolitan Alexis), in the newspaper “Zelenograd Today”, No. 4 (1343), January 15, 2008). According to Orthodox tradition, the abolished church does not disappear: its image remains either in the form of a chapel of the successor church, or in the form of a chapel with the same name. Moreover, in the Serednikovskaya church, according to legend, two icons of the same letter have been preserved to this day: the icon of the Smolensk Mother of God and the icon of St. Nicholas.

It is curious that already in our post-Soviet time, the church in Podolino has been revived. In the summer of 1992, with the personal funds of farmer Vladimir Aleksandrovich Griev, the construction of a church began in Podolino based on models of ancient Russian wooden architecture. The logs were harvested near Novgorod, and the log house was erected there. On August 10, 1993, on the feast of the Smolensk Most Holy Theotokos, the church was consecrated and the first service was held in it. Consecrating the new church, Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsky and Kolomna presented Vladimir Griev with the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, II degree. In October 1993, a bell tower was erected above the church.
In May 1999, the church burned down as a result of arson. Vladimir Griev soon built a new church in the same place, stone, but very similar to the old wooden one.

photo from website: ​pmvd.info

In 1623, the village of Serednikovo on the Goretovka River belonged to the steward, Prince Nikita Ivanovich Egunov-Cherkassky (voivode in Tomsk in 1632-1634). In the village there was one landowner's yard, in which the courtyard people lived.

In 1639, it was already owned by its son, Prince Mikhail Nikitich Egunov-Cherkassky, and in 1666 - by the steward of Tsars John and Peter, Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Egunov-Cherkassky (shared with his stepmother, Princess Praskovya Fedorovna).

After 1678, he settled peasants in Serednikovo and in 1693 received permission to build a stone church with altars “at the bottom - Metropolitan Alexy - warm, at the top - the Holy Image of Spasov - cold.”

However, for some reason he built a one-story church, in the form in which it currently exists (later chapels and a bell tower were added). Since he asked for permission for a two-story building, in the parish books of the Patriarchal Prikaz it was listed (1696-1740) as “the Church of the Holy Image of the Savior,” and the village itself retained the name Serednikovo-Spasskoe for a long time, which was forgotten only in the late 1870s. After Ivan Mikhailovich, the village belonged to his son Ivan.

In 1724, the owner submitted a petition to the State Order for permission to consecrate the church and issue an antimension.

After the death of the prince, the village in 1748 went to his son Timofey Ivanovich Egunov-Cherkassky in a division with his brother Lev and their mother Praskovya Stepanovna.

In 1767, the estate of Timofey Cherkassky was described for debts to various persons.

In 1770, the village was bought at auction by Nikita Afanasyev Kamynin, and in 1775 he sold it to Vsevolod Alekseevich Vsevolozhsky (Vsevolodsky, 1732-1796), senator, privy councilor to the actual chamberlain, owner of two metallurgical plants in the Urals.

In 1775, in the parish of the village. Serednikovo had 54 households, 300 souls, there was no church land, instead of it, the patrimony of Vsevolzhsky gave 100 rubles, 20 kopecks of hay, there was a priest at the church, but there was no sexton and sexton.

In 1777, with the permission of the Synodal Office, Vsevolozhsky carried out repairs to the Church of St. Alexis, Metropolitan of Moscow, and demolished the bell tower.

The current bell tower was built in 1865 (the upper tier was destroyed during Soviet times).

Vsevolozhsky bought Serednikovo and two more villages with their parishes - Podolino and Blagoveshchenskoye, in which the churches under him were abolished, the parishioners were added to the church of the village. Serednikovo.

In 1899, during the construction of an oven, the remains of coffins were found near the arch separating the main church from the refectory.

The estate was built at the end of the 18th century. financed by V.A. Vsevolozhsky (it is believed that the architect I.E. Staroe took part in its creation). On a high hill, sloping steeply down to a pond with two artificial islands, stands a two-story main house with a belvedere - a round open turret - and four two-story outbuildings connected by a covered colonnade. All buildings cover a central courtyard, enclosed by a lattice with gates. On the sides of the driveway leading to the gates of the front yard, there are buildings of horse and livestock yards.

The ensemble of the equestrian yard includes a carriage house, built in pseudo-Gothic style, and a round arena building (late 19th century). The park facade of the manor house faces a pond, to which a wide stone staircase descends - the most beautiful and poetic place in Serednikov.

The hill on which the estate stands is covered with trees, mainly pine, spruce, and larches. Nearby there is a deep ravine with a system of cascading ponds. The ravine is crossed by arched bridges with beautiful latticework between stone parapet pillars.

In 1805, Serednikovo belonged to Sergei Alekseevich Vsevolozhsky.

In 1762, he, then an ensign of the Izmailovsky regiment, contributed to the accession to the throne of Catherine II, in 1763 he was appointed to the Senate as secretary, from 1765 he was a chamberlain cadet, subsequently an actual chamberlain and lieutenant general.

In 1771, he married maid of honor Ekaterina Andreevna Zinovieva, with whom, after 10 years of his life, he was on the move, moving in together a year before his death (d. 1822).

In 1806, the village was owned by Lieutenant Colonel Afanasy Aleksandrovich Nesterov, in 1814 by the court councilor, Count Grigory Alekseevich Saltykov (1776-1829). His wife Ekaterina Alexandrovna (née Kheraskova) built a chapel in the church in the name of the martyr Paraskeva, building it on the western side. Alekseevskaya Church was cold, the chapel was warm.

In 1823, the estate was owned by court councilor and gentleman Ivan Zakharovich Malyshev, and in 1825 by Major General Dmitry Alekseevich Stolypin (1785-1826). An artillery officer, he took part in the wars of 1805-1807.

In the Southern Army, he commanded a corps, was familiar with P. Pestel, and the Decembrists intended him to join the Provisional Government. Stolypin died suddenly in Serednikov at a time when the Decembrist conspirators were being arrested in Moscow.

The village was left to his wife Ekaterina Arkadyevna (nee Annenkova, 1791 - 1853). She was an educated and hospitable hostess and played the piano excellently. Her husband’s sister Elizaveta Alekseevna Arsenyeva (1773-1845) visited here with her grandson, Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841).

He first came to Serednikovo on July 1, 1829 and then visited it several times during his years of study at the Moscow University Noble Boarding School and at Moscow University. He may have visited here in 1832. The romantic period of his youth, with his first hobbies and disappointments, is associated with this village.

In the summer, many young people gathered in Serednikovo; the Lopukhins, the Bakhmetev sisters, and the Stolypin cousins ​​came here. Not far away, in the village of Fedorovka, lived Alexandra Mikhailovna Vereshchagina (1810-1873, in 1836 she met and soon married the diplomat Baron Hugel and lived in Germany), she is the daughter of the sister of the wife of the owner Serednikov, D.A. Stolypin, was a close friend of Lermontov.

In 1831, he dedicated the poem “Angel of Death” to her. Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Sushkova (1812-1868, married to Khvostov) lived in Bolshakovo (next to Fedorovka). The beautiful, ironic Sushkova became the subject of Lermontov's youthful passion. A cycle of poems from 1830 dedicated to unrequited love is associated with her name. According to Sushkova’s stories, the young ladies treated Michel Lermontov like a boy, although they did full justice to his mind.

At the beginning of 1831, Lermontov visited the estate of the widow of the playwright F. Ivanov, Ekaterina Ivanovna, and was in love with her daughter Natalya. Encouraged at the beginning of their acquaintance by her attention, he soon met coldness and misunderstanding; their relationship that same summer ended in a break, which gave a gloomy character to many of the poet’s youthful poems; the experiences of this summer also had a connection with Lermontov’s drama “The Strange Man.” Having survived the breakup with N.F. Ivanova, Lermontov in the same 1831 fell passionately in love with the “young, sweet, smart... absolutely delightful” Varvara Aleksandrovna Lopukhina (1815-1851, married to Bakhmeteva).

Lermontov's move to St. Petersburg in 1832 prevented the development of his hobby, and military service and social entertainment temporarily obscured the image of his beloved girl. The cruel outcome of Lermontov’s affair with Sushkova probably influenced Varvara Alexandrovna’s decision to marry N.F. in 1835. Bakhmetev, an elderly man. Many of Lermontov's poems are dedicated to Lopukhina.

Then the owner of Serednikov was the son of Dmitry Alekseevich Stolypin, Arkady Dmitrievich (1821-1899), adjutant general in 1878. At the age of 16 he was assigned to military service in the horse artillery, in 1841 he was promoted to officer and soon retired. During the Hungarian campaign of 1849 he returned to service. Participated in the Crimean War of 1853-1856, for military distinctions near Sevastopol in 1855 he was promoted to aide-de-camp. At the end of hostilities, he served under the Governor-General of Orenburg and Samara.

In 1857-1862. - Ataman of the Ural Cossack Army, promoted to major general and included in the emperor's retinue. Upon retirement, he lived on his estate. In the estate church, the bells were placed on a separate belfry, and in 1865 Arkady Dmitrievich gave the church the stone sheds and barns located opposite it, they were dismantled and the current bell tower was built from the bricks obtained in this way.

In 1877, Stolypin received the court rank of equestrian and had the rank of privy councilor. Participated in the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878. At the end of hostilities from 1878 to 1879. was governor-general of Eastern Rumelia and Adrianople Sanjak.

In 1879-1886. commanded the 9th Army Corps, from 1886 to 1889. - Grenadier Corps.

Since 1889 - member of the Alexander Committee for the Wounded.

Since 1892 he was in charge of the court department in Moscow. In 1897 he was promoted to chief chamberlain. For his service he was awarded the highest Russian orders, up to and including the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky with diamond insignia. “Tall, slender and thin, always cheerful and sociable,” he did not confine himself to military matters: he composed music, played the violin, was fond of sculpture (participated in an academic exhibition in 1869), was interested in theology, history and literature (wrote “History Russia for people's and soldiers' reading", a number of articles and memoirs). According to contemporaries, Stolypin was not distinguished by concentration and purposefulness. He was a great lover of life and a player. Once he won an entire estate, Kolnoberge near the city of Kovno, and Stolypin liked it so much that for many years it became their main place of residence.

During the Crimean War, Stolypin became friends with L.N. Tolstoy, however, gradually moved away. After the death of his first wife, Ustinova, he married Princess Natalya Mikhailovna Gorchakova (1827-1889), daughter of the governor of the Kingdom of Poland, Prince M.D. Gorchakova. From his second marriage he had sons Mikhail, Alexander (1864-1927) and Peter (1862-1911), a famous socio-political reformer, Minister of Internal Affairs and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, who was killed by an secret police agent. He left memories of his stay in the village. Serednikovo in childhood.

In 1869, the village was purchased by Ivan Grigorievich Firsanov. He came to Moscow from Serpukhov as a boy and initially worked as a delivery boy in a jewelry store, then became a clerk and, having learned to evaluate gold and stones, set out to start his own trading business and became rich. He began buying plots of land in Moscow with dilapidated buildings and jewelry, and later with his brother Peter he organized a trade in houses and timber.

His property included more than 20 houses in Moscow, including the building where the Prague restaurant is now located: Petrovsky Passage, Sandukovsky Baths. The Firsanovka station was named in honor of I.G., who built it. Firsanova. He was also the first presenter of the orphan's court; P. G. Firsanov founded an almshouse in Serpukhov.

For their great charitable deeds, the brothers were awarded the title of hereditary honorary citizens.

Their nephews Nikolai, Alexey, Mikhail and Sergey Alekseevich continued the business and purchased several apartment buildings in Moscow. After the death of Ivan Grigorievich, Serednikovo passed in 1881 to his daughter Vera Ivanovna Firsanova, who completed the construction of a large house for widows and orphans in Moscow for 700,000 gold rubles and, with the highest approval, handed it over to the Committee of the Brotherly Loving Society in 1893.

Under V.I. Firsanova on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of M.Yu. Lermontov in the estate there is a bust of the poet by the famous sculptor A.S. Golubkina. In the same year, an obelisk was added to it in the park.

Vera Ivanovna was the last owner of the estate.

In 1876, a new iconostasis (oak with a cypress board) and a new altar were installed in the chapel of the Martyr Paraskeva. At the time of their consecration in the same year, a mosaic floor was installed to replace the limestone one.

In 1880, the church was expanded due to the increase in the number of parishioners and the plan began to resemble a cross. V.I. took over the interior decoration. Firsanova, she gave 500 rubles. on the iconostasis for the new chapel in the name of the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God - in memory of the one abolished in the village. Podolino Smolensk Church. It was decided to place the chapel of the martyr Paraskeva on the left side, Smolensky on the right in the expanded warm church.

The temple was finally completed and consecrated in 1892 by V.I. Firsanova ordered icons for a new iconostasis on a chased gold background. The mahogany iconostasis itself was made by a peasant. Podolino V.E. Karasev. For the day of the consecration of the chapel, Vera Ivanovna donated two small chandeliers, 4 candlesticks for local images, an altarpiece with three candlesticks, metal banners, gilded vessels, full priestly and deacon vestments and vestments for the throne and altar. In gratitude, the parishioners after the proclamation of many years in honor of V.I. During the consecration of the throne, Firsanova was presented with an icon of the Smolensk Mother of God to Vera Ivanovna.

In June 1892, the temple was visited by the chief prosecutor of the Holy Synod (from 1880 to 1905), Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonostsev (1827-1907). He came to visit V.I. Firsanov on her estate and wished to inspect the temple, where he was met by the local clergy. In 1899, church warden A.I. Yurasov installed oven heating, the whole church became warm.

In 1901, on his initiative, the art workshop of the Pashkov brothers completed wall paintings. From private donations in 1901-1905. a shroud, vestments for local icons, a crucifix, a silver girdle, a silver enameled crown for Christ, a crown for the image of the God of Hosts and the Holy Spirit on the same cross were purchased. The peasant I. Zenin, the owner of a sawmill in Ligachev, donated the image of “Joy of All Who Sorrow” and to it a standing walnut wood iconostasis and a silver lamp. Service vessels, a tabernacle, and an altar cross were also donated by V.I. Firsanova. In the chapel of the Great Martyr Paraskeva, two icons - Christ and the Mother of God - are decorated with vestments. According to legend, the icons were presented by Madame Vsevolozhskaya, and she also filled the robes.

The clergy did not have their own houses, but were located in a stone manor house, which was donated by Stolypin in 1861; the courtyards and other outbuildings were their own.

In 1870, at the request of the church, its land, inconvenient for agriculture due to its remoteness, was exchanged for the land of the landowner. In the clergy registers it is written: “There are 33 acres of land at this church, arable and haymaking.”

Until 1904, in the Church of Metropolitan Alexy the holy antimension was old, consecrated in 1782, and only in 1904, due to dilapidation, was replaced with a new one, consecrated in 1903 by Metropolitan Vladimir of Moscow.

From the peasants of the village. Serednikovo is known for Gavriil Zakharovich Pryzhov (1793-1858, born in Serednikovo, died in Moscow), one of the freedmen, participated in the Battle of Borodino, in 1815 he entered the Mariinsky Hospital for the Poor in Moscow as a doorman, in 1817 he was transferred to a vacancy clerk, by the end of his life he received the rank of titular councilor with the right to nobility, in 1856 he was awarded the Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, 4th degree. His son Ivan (1827-1885), a historian and ethnographer, served in the deanery council.

In 1848-1850 he studied at Moscow University, and in 1860 he began publishing: “Beggars in Holy Rus'” (1862), “The History of Taverns...” (1868), “Confession” (wrote about Serednikov).

In 1869 he became a member of the “People's Retribution”, in the case of the Nechaevites (the murder of student Ivanov, which prompted F.M. Dostoevsky to write the novel “Demons”), he was sentenced to 12 years of hard labor and eternal settlement in Siberia. In 1885 he died in the Petrovsky plant (now Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky, Chita region).

Since 1919, the Mtsyri sanatorium has been located in Serednikovo.

The temple was not closed, but the upper tier of the bell tower was destroyed.

The artist Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon (1875-1958) lived in the neighboring village of Ligachevo from 1914 to 1958. He married a local peasant woman, Daria Nikiforova, and built a house in the village.