Eldigino. Church of the Life-Giving Trinity. A little away from the royal path Temple in Eldigino schedule of services

The famous Trinity Road leading to the Lavra is well-trodden and traveled by thousands of pilgrims. But next to her there are many interesting places, where pilgrims rarely visit.

What is Pravda famous for?

Our route starts from the village of Pravdinsky, Pushkinsky district. At the turn of the 1920s–1930s, this area was chosen for country holiday leadership of the main printed organ of the CPSU Central Committee. Since then, both the village and the nearby platform bear the name of the most famous newspaper in the country of the Soviets.

The outstanding journalist Mikhail Koltsov, captivated by the beauty of these places, then came up with the grandiose idea of ​​creating a so-called “Green City” in the natural reserve - an extensive network of sanatoriums, holiday homes, boarding houses, and pioneer camps. The construction was colossal, but the funds were ultimately redirected to the creation of the Moscow metro.

Now the village of Pravdinsky is known mainly for its industrial and scientific institutions. But we are interested in the St. Nicholas Church, which was built with the blessing of Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsky and Kolomna in 2006 on the site of a wooden chapel of the same name, destroyed under Soviet rule.

For the first Liturgy, one of the parishioners donated several ancient icons in icon cases to the temple. One of them is the image of St. Nicholas, prayers before which have already revealed cases of miracles. When entering the church, be sure to bow to the icon of St. George the Victorious. She was accidentally found in a house slated for demolition and brought to the temple. Soon the icon became myrrh.

Another revered shrine is the image of the Mother of God “Three-Handed,” which was brought from Holy Mount Athos a year ago. This icon was painted specifically for the St. Nicholas Church by Athonite icon painters.

In the "Tatar" village

About seven kilometers from the village of Pravdinsky is the ancient village of Eldigino, whose name suggests Tatar roots. Perhaps there was once a camp here for one of the detachments of the Golden Horde Khan Edigei, who besieged Moscow in the winter of 1409.

In the middle of the 17th century, the village passed to the princely family of the Kurakins. Under Boris Ivanovich Kurakin, a major military figure and diplomat, in Eldigin, on the high bank of the Vyaz River, the construction of a stone temple in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity with chapels of Elijah the Prophet and the Holy Great Martyr Anastasia began.

But in 1727 the prince dies in Paris. Before his death, he bequeaths 20 thousand rubles for the temple and instructs his son Alexander to complete the construction. Kurakin Jr. carried out his father’s will exactly, and in the small village of Eldigino a beautiful church built in the style of Peter the Great’s Baroque appears.

Later, Yevgeny Armand, a hereditary honorary citizen of Moscow, manufacturer and philanthropist, became the owner of Eldigin. Having bought the estate, he renovated the temple not only outside, but also inside - the walls of the church were painted anew in the spirit of academicism.

Services in the Trinity Church continued until 1937, then it was closed and turned into a warehouse. When the building was returned to believers in the early 90s, it, according to priest Alexander Gruzinov, was a sad sight: without a roof or floor, without windows and doors, without a porch or bells.

The First Trinity was met under umbrellas, and since there was no roof, the rain generously poured down on everyone and everything. But the temple is full of people! Parishioners with candles in their hands stood on the remains of the basement vaults, like on islands. Gradually, through the efforts of the rector, parishioners and benefactors, the Eldigin church rose from the ruins. The prayer began to sound again and the candles lit up in front of the holy images.

Having crossed the threshold of the temple, venerate the revered icons of the Holy Trinity, Our Lady of Jerusalem and the Great Martyr Anastasia.

Above the water surface

But Eldigino is left behind, the road winds along a dense spruce forest. Four kilometers of travel - and we are in the picturesque village of Tishkovo, which is washed by the waters of the Pestovsky reservoir on almost all sides.

The village was first mentioned in documents from the mid-16th century as the patrimony of Stepan Kvashnin-Tishkov. Then it was granted to the boyars Sobakin - relatives of the third wife of Ivan the Terrible.

Under Peter Sobakin, the village underwent restructuring in the then fashionable gothic style. The Church of the Most Merciful Savior was also built at the same time. Although it seemed small, it nevertheless accommodated one and a half hundred people. Not only residents of Tishkov, but also the nearest villages - Kstinin, Rakova, Uteshkina - came here to pray.

The rain poured down on everyone and everything. Parishioners with candles in their hands stood on the surviving fragments of the basement vaults, as on the islands

It is known that in this temple at the end of August 1854, a young botanist Andrei Beketov and Elizaveta Karelina, the future grandparents of the poet Alexander Blok, got married.

Alas, in the 1930s, almost all Tishkovo buildings were dismantled into bricks. For many years, local residents dreamed of reviving spiritual life in the village. And this dream has already acquired visible forms. In December 1996, a majestic snow-white church in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, consecrated by Archbishop Gregory of Mozhaisk, rose above the wide expanse of Tishkovsky Bay.

However interior work The decoration of the church has not yet been completed. The artist Valentina Eliseeva has been working tirelessly on painting the walls for sixteen years. Most of the frescoes are already ready. Both the icon painter’s style and the special coloring of the painting, it must be said, make a strong impression.

Now we see in the temple a carved three-tiered iconostasis, which was replaced by the original one - small in size. Thanks to sponsorship, beautiful icon cases for the Mother of God icons (Bogolyubskaya and Assumption) appeared, and the set of bells was almost completely renewed.

“Our community, although small, is very united,” says the rector of the church, Archpriest Sergius Kuptsov. – And not all parishioners are local residents. Many come from Pushkin, Pravdinsky, even from Moscow. They say that in our church there is a special grace.

It has already become a tradition in the parish to make one-day pilgrimage trips, and parishioners, as a rule, propose routes themselves and take on the organizational troubles. They have already visited the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Optina Pustyn, Yaroslavl, Vladimir.

…The ringing of the bells of the St. Nicholas Church in any weather reminds the area of ​​God’s love for people and of repentance. And the road to the once destroyed Tishkov Spasskaya Church is indicated by the linden alley of the ancient manor park.

Memorial sign in Mikhalev

The parishioners of the temple in Tishkov have long been the peasants of the village of Mikhalevo. Once upon a time there was its own small church in the name of Christmas Holy Mother of God, but it burned down in 1839 and its lands passed to the Tishkov clergy. A few years later, a wooden chapel was erected in Mikhalevo, where icons of the burnt temple were placed. This structure stood until the 1930s.

Some time ago, on the initiative of local residents and with the blessing of Archpriest Sergius Kuptsov, a memorial sign was erected on the shore of Mikhalevsky Bay. Now every year on September 21, the priest performs prayer services here in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and prays for those who perished in Stalin’s camps during the construction of the Pestovsky reservoir.

The Eldigino estate is located north of Pushkino, there are two main routes through the village. Zelenogradsky or Aleshino, which is next to the “small concrete ring"A107. This little-known corner of the Moscow region has an interesting past. The name of the village Eldigino (Eldegino) is of Vyatka origin. "Eldyzhiit" meant getting involved in a quarrel or dispute. Perhaps it was because of the land feud that these places received such a harsh name for Russian ears. In 1630, the village was listed under the steward, Prince Yuri Andreevich Sitsky. By this time there already existed a wooden church in honor of the Nativity of the Virgin.

In 1662, the estate was acquired by Prince Grigory Semyonovich Kurakin, after which it belonged to this noble family for more than one hundred and fifty years. “The Kurakin princes are undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and cultural aristocratic families of Russia, dating back, according to legend, to the Lithuanian prince Gedemin and the Kyiv prince Vladimir the Saint. Many of its representatives were European educated and went down in history thanks to their brilliant diplomatic talents” - Maria gives this description to the Kurakins Nashchokina. In 1694, Boris Ivanovich Kurakin (1677-1729), a major diplomat who played a significant role in the formation of the estate ensemble, took over the inheritance rights. Despite being very busy in the civil service, participating in Peter’s battles, and diplomatic travels around Europe, the prince tried not to deprive him of attention to his estate near Moscow, which at that time consisted of a mansion, a Dutch garden and a dam with ponds. The burnt Nativity Church was bequeathed to be restored by a descendant - son Alexander Borisovich, an embassy adviser, and later a plenipotentiary minister at the French court. Being in the service at the French court, it can be assumed that A.B. Kurakin ordered the design of a temple near Moscow to someone from the workshop of court architects. “The centric core, completed by an octagon, is surrounded by a lowered octagonal bypass. Another feature is noticeable in Eldigin: the octagon here is formally and proportionally close to the baroque drums characteristic of the architecture of Rome at that time,” writes Vladimir Sedov.

The Trinity Church, which has survived to this day, was built in 1735 by Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin according to a promise given to his father Boris Ivanovich Kurakin. Prince B.I. Kurakin was an outstanding diplomat and writer of his time; he owned the village since 1684. He inherited the village from his grandfather, Prince Grigory Semenovich Kurakin. At that time, in the village of Eldigin there was a wooden church in the name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, old and dilapidated, with chapels of St. Prophet Elijah and St. Macarius of Zheltovodsky. After the death of his grandfather, Prince Boris Ivanovich puts the estate in proper order, and in the place of the dilapidated church he builds a new wooden one, maintaining the same name. At the request of the prince in the same year, the synodal government order listed permission for Kurakin to build a new church. For this purpose, Boris Ivanovich allocated 30 acres of land and hay fields from his estate. In 1727, the prince dies and in his will transfers money in the amount of 20 thousand rubles. After the death of his father, his son Alexander builds a new stone church in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity with chapels of St. Prophet Elijah and St. Great Martyr Anastasia. In the same 1735 the temple was consecrated. In 1802, the village was owned by nobleman Nikolai Mikhailovich Gusyatnikov. In 1842, the new owner of the estate, actual state councilor S.I. Lyubimov (he was married to Tatyana Gusyatnikov’s daughter) added a bell tower to the temple, and in 1877 the estate was sold to honorary citizen Evgeniy Ivanovich Armand. In 1883 the walls are painted in the spirit of the academic direction of Russian religious painting.

Services in the temple were performed continuously until 1937, then the temple was closed and used as a warehouse. Since 1992, the doors of the temple have been reopened to parishioners, but services are held temporarily in the left aisle, since currently the temple in the name of the Holy Trinity is in a dilapidated state and restoration work is underway.

Since 1992, Father Alexander Gruzinov came to the destroyed temple (his grandmother went here, his father was baptized here, his grandfather went to the front from here, his name is engraved on the local obelisk among the dead). Already in 1994, a parish newspaper called “Parish News” was published, and a Sunday school was opened. The temple was restored from ruins. Since 1995, at the request of the command of the military town of Sofrino-1, the priest began to care for the people living there. With the blessing of Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsky and Kolomna, construction began on an ascribed church in the name of the blessed Prince Dmitry Donskoy.

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The temple in Eldigin (Eldygin) has been known since the 16th century and was made of wood. In the first half of the 18th century, in the village there was a wooden church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary with chapels in the name of the Holy Prophet Elijah and St. Macarius of Zheltovodsk "and at the votchinnik courtyard the church of St. Anastasia the Pattern Maker." , built by Prince B.I. Kurakin, a prominent figure of the Petrine era. The existing church in the name of the Holy Trinity was built according to his will by the count's son, chief of horsemen and senator Prince A.B. Kurakin. The temple was a personal one. Construction began in 1730, the church was consecrated in 1735. The side altars were consecrated in the name of the Holy Prophet Elijah and SMC. Anastasia the Pattern Maker. In 1842, a two-tier bell tower was added to it, at the expense of the actual state councilor N.S. Lyubimov. The interior was decorated with a carved iconostasis; wall paintings appeared later. In 1937, the temple was closed and looted. By the time the church was transferred to the community of believers in 1992, all the interior decoration was lost. The church is an interesting example of the so-called. "Anninsky" Baroque. It is a tiered centric temple, completed with an octagonal figure with a dome. The massive figure of eight rests inside on four pillars. The austere external decoration is typical of its time. The attached bell tower is stylistically neutral and does not play a significant role in the temple ensemble. The Trinity Church in the village of Eldigino, Pushkinsky district, is a cultural heritage site of regional significance (originally a historical and cultural monument of local significance (Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR dated August 30, 1960 No. 1327, Appendix No. 2).

Source: Archpriest Oleg Penezhko "Temples of Pushkino and the surrounding area, Korolev, Ivanteevka." Vladimir, 2003. Catalog "Architectural Monuments of the Moscow Region", vol. 2. Moscow, 1975.

The brick Church of the Holy Trinity was built in 1730-1735. at the estate of the Chief of the Horse and Senator Prince A.B. Kurakin. A four-pillar temple of the “octagonal figure on a petal base” type, planar decoration in the Baroque traditions of Anna’s time. The stylistically neutral two-tier bell tower was built in 1842 at the expense of the actual state councilor N.S. Lyubimov. Not used for religious purposes from 1937 to 1991. The Church of the Holy Trinity in the village of Eldigino, Pushkinsky district, is an object of cultural heritage of regional significance (Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR dated August 30, 1960 No. 1327, Appendix No. 2)

In the village of Eldigin in the 16th century. In the Moscow district there was a church in the name of the Intercession of the Virgin Mary; when and on what occasion it was abolished is unknown. Church land that belonged to the Church of the Intercession was given as quitrent and in the parish books of the Patriarchal State Order for 1638 it was written: “from the church land of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Mitropolya in the village of Eldegin on the steward Prince Yuri Andreevich Sitsky, quitrent 18 altyn, and for 1635- 37 18 per year."

In Eldigino, a wooden church was built in the name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the first information about it is in the census books for 1646: “behind the widow princess wife of Yuri Andreevich Sitskov, the estate of the village of Eldigino, and in the village the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is wooden, near the church in the yard priest Ilya."

In 1662, “he beat the great sovereign Alexander Metropolitan with his forehead about the church land of the Intercession, which was listed on the quitrent of Prince Yuri Sitsky, so that this church land in the parish quitrent books of the state order should be cleared and no longer be written for the fact that the church of January was erected on that land Day 22, according to the discharge, I was told to clean up the litter and not write in the future.” In the receipt book of the state order of “residential churches” it is written: “in 1662, according to an extract from the clerk Perfiliy Ivanov, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the estate of Alexander Metropolitan in the village of Eldegin was included in the receipt book from empty church lands into a residential area for rent; for the quitrent, a tribute of 17 altyns and on January 24, that money was paid by Alexander Mitropolitov’s man.”

The wife of Prince Yu. A. Sitsky, the widow Princess Fitinya Vladimirovna, after the elder of the Ascension nunnery in the nuns Fedosya, bought the patrimony of her husband - the village of Eldigino, according to the spiritual will of 1655, refused to the Empress Princess and Grand Duchess Evdokia Alekseevna, and in 1662 it was given Prince Grigory Semenovich Kurakin and after him in the same year it was approved by a refusal book, which mentions “in the village the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, and the chapels: St. Prophet Elijah and Rev. Macarius of Zheltovodsk and Unzhensky, and at the patrimonial courtyard the Church of St. much Anastasia the Pattern Maker; at the churches in the courtyard there is priest Fyodor, sexton Grigory Andreev.”

After the death of Prince G.S. Kurakin, the village of Eldigin was owned in 1694 by his grandson, Prince B.I. Kurakin. The Synodal government order carried out the matter of building a church again in the village of Eldigin. The case began at the request of Prince B.I. Kurakin. In a petition submitted to the state order on May 3, 1705, he wrote: “in the Moscow district, in my patrimony in the village of Eldigin, there was a wooden church in the name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in past years that church of God burned down; Yes, in the same village there is a wooden church in the name of Anastasia the Pattern Maker even now; sir, I promised the wooden church of St. much Anastasia the Pattern Maker, having dismantled, cut down and old logs without belting, build a church in the name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the former church site of the Nativity, and on that church site of the martyr Anastasia build again a church in the same name, a stone throne and so that the decree was commanded: an old wooden one Church of St. much Anastasia, having dismantled, build on the former Nativity site in the name of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary and in that church put a new robe on the throne and issue a new antimension and consecrate that church, also about the construction of a new stone church of the VMC. To give Anastasia a blessed letter”... Resolution by the Reverend. Stephen, Metropolitan of Ryazan and Murom: “to give a blessed charter to build a church”, marked: “given”. After the death of Prince B.I. Kurakin, the village of Eldigino belonged to his son Alexander. The Synodal State Order carried out the matter of building a stone church in the village of Eldigin at the request of Prince A. B. Kurakin, submitted to the State Order on June 16, 1730.

In the petition, Prince A. Kurakin wrote: “my patrimony is in the Moscow district, in the Bokhov camp, the village of Eldigino, and in that village the wooden church in the name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is dilapidated; and my promise in that village of Eldigin to build a real stone church of the Life-Giving Trinity, and two chapels: St. Elijah the prophet and St. VMC. Anastasia the Pattern Maker and so that by decree it was commanded to give me a decree on the construction of a stone church from the chapel in the village of Eldigin.” The same year, on July 1, a decree was issued from the Synodal Treasury Order to Prince A.B. Kurakin, ordering: “in the village of Eldigin, to build again a stone church in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity, and in the chapels of St. Prophet Elijah, yes VMC. Anastasia; duties are 10 altyns, the most necessary 1½ cheti have been taken.”

He, Prince Kurakin, entered the Synodal Treasury Order on August 29, 1735 with a petition: “in his estate, in the village of Eldigin, near the wooden Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a stone Church of the Life-Giving Trinity with chapels of St. Prophet Elijah and St. VMC. Anastasia and in readiness for consecration and that the decree commanded the consecration of the above-described real church with the chapel of St. much Give a decree to Anastasia and issue the consecrated antimensions.” In the book of outgoing papers of the Synodal Treasury Order for 1738 it is written: “On the 7th day of March, the decree on the consecration of the church of the Great Assumption Cathedral to Archpriest Nikifor Ivanov, according to the petition of the actual Privy Councilor of Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin, his servant Ivan Solovyov, was ordered: in the Moscow district, in the village of Eldigin, at the present Trinity Church, a chapel of St. the Prophet Elijah to consecrate his archpriest on the consecrated antimension issued from the Synodal House.”

In the village of Eldigin, according to the census books, there were: in 1646, a boyar courtyard, a cattle courtyard, 7 courtyards of courtyard people, 18 people in them, 19 peasant households, 49 people in them; in 1678 - the courtyard of Prince G.S. Kurakin, the courtyards of clerks and the cattle barn, there were 5 people in them. business, 11 peasant households, with 33 people, and 20 bobyl households, with 39 people; in 1704 - the courtyards of patrimonial owners, clerks, a stable, and in that village there is a settlement, there are 5 courtyards in it, enslaved people live in them: a cook, a blacksmith, a gardener and a forester, 20 peasant households.

After Prince A.B. Kurakin, this estate was owned in 1754 by his wife, the widow Princess Alexandra Ivanovna, with her son Boris, and passed from the latter in 1765-88. to his son Prince Alexei Kurakin, in division with his brothers Stepan and Alexander.

Kholmogorov V.I., Kholmogorov G.I. “Historical materials about churches and villages of the 16th - 18th centuries.” Issue 5, Radonezh tithe of the Moscow district. Publication of the Imperial Society of Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University. Moscow, in the University Printing House (M. Katkov), on Strastnoy Boulevard, 1886.

In 1638, the village was in the possession of a boyar (since 1638), Prince Yuri Andreevich Sitsky (d. 1644).

In 1618-1622. At royal dinners he “looked at the big table and dressed up the wine,” in 1619-1620. was a bell at the receptions of the ambassador of the Bukhara Khan, the Swedish envoy and the ambassador of the Chinese Bogdykhan, in 1620, 1633 and 1635. - charioteer for the king on hunting trips and pilgrimages.

In 1635 he was a cup maker, in 1638 a boyar, in 1639 a governor in Astrakhan.

In 1640, as governor of Nizhny Novgorod, he received the Danish ambassador, in 1642 - governor in Venev, in 1642-1643. was present in the Robust Order.

In 1643, Prince Sitsky met the Danish prince Valdemar. The prince was married to Fetinia Vladimirovna, née Princess Bakhteyarova-Rostov. After her husband's death, she owned the village and built a new church.

In 1651 she was the mother of Princess Evdokia Alekseevna, and then accepted monasticism and schema in the Ascension Monastery in the Moscow Kremlin with the name Theodosia, and died in 1672.

In 1904, Armand joined the RSDLP. Vladimir, according to those who knew him, a rare soul, a well-educated man, accompanied Inessa into exile and took care of her. He lost his health and died in 1909. In the same year, Inessa Armand met V.I. Lenin and became a person close to him.

The Armands loved Inessa and retained good feelings for her until the end of their days, but she brought them a lot of grief.

Inessa’s divorce from Alexander was not formalized, the children were raised together, they corresponded constantly, Alexander paid bail and rescued Inessa from prison, where she ended up for revolutionary activities, and helped set up underground work in Pushkino.

In 1907, Evgeniy Evgenievich Armand and his wife visited their daughter-in-law, who was detained in the Prechistensky police house. During the years of the first revolution, Alexander left his job in the zemstvo and the city Duma. IN Japanese war he was on Far East authorized to manage the sanitary detachment of the city of Moscow. During the December uprising, he delivered a shipment of weapons to the rebels.

In 1907 he became director of the Pushkin factory, in 1908 he was arrested and sat near three months in Tagansk prison on charges of organizing a strike at his factory. Upon leaving prison, he and his eldest sons went to France, where he studied dyeing (1909-1910). Upon returning to Russia, he worked at a factory in the dyeing department. Inessa, who returned illegally to Russia, was arrested in 1911 by A.E. Armand paid bail for her and helped her escape abroad.

In 1915, he worked in the Zemstvo Union as the head of an automobile repair plant; after the February Revolution, he left the plant.

In 1918, at the invitation of the workers, he worked at the same plant as an elected manager.

In 1918, due to impossible living conditions and illnesses of family members, he moved to live in Aleshino

Since 1918, Inessa Armand headed the department of women workers under the Central Committee of the RCP (b). In the fall of 1920, she was sent for treatment to the North Caucasus, where she fell ill with cholera and died, and was buried on Red Square in the Kremlin wall.

Angelika Balabanova, secretary of the Comintern, described her impressions of the funeral of Inessa Armand: “I looked sideways at Lenin. He seemed to have fallen into despair, his cap was pulled down over his eyes. He was short in stature, he seemed to have wrinkled and become even smaller. He looked pathetic and depressed. I had never seen him like this before. It was more than the loss of a “good Bolshevik” or a good friend. It seemed like he had lost something very dear and very close to him and made no attempt to disguise it.. "His eyes seemed to disappear into painfully suppressed tears. Whenever the movement of the crowd pressed against our group, he offered no resistance to the pushing, as if he was grateful that he could get close to the coffin."

In 1937 the temple was closed and was used as a warehouse.

In 1992 it was returned to believers and restored.

A few kilometers from Eldigin is the village. Semenovskoye, in which until the 1970s. there was a wooden Church of the Epiphany, built in 1673 on the Podberezniki wasteland near the village. Arkhangelskoye-Tyurikovo (village of Novoarkhangelskoye, Mytishchi district). The church is of the "cage" type.

At the beginning of the 18th century. in Arkhangelskoye they built a new one, and the old one was given to a “burnt place” in the village. Semyonovskoe.

In the 19th century the frame was sheathed with planks, a bell tower was added to the refectory, and the temple was covered with iron.

In the 1970s and the church itself was taken to the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery, to the Museum of Wooden Architecture, and rebuilt beyond recognition (the bell tower was broken, a gallery and a new chapter were added.

On the road from Eldigin to Tishkovo, at the confluence of the Olyianka and Vyaz rivers, in the village of Rakovo in 1896, a stone chapel was built by the architect Boris Nikolaevich Schnaubert (1852-?) at the expense of the Armand family (destroyed in Soviet times).

The village of Eldigino is 500 years old. A friendly, active parish has developed here, which will soon celebrate the church’s 280th anniversary! The name of the village is associated with the surname of the Eldegins, famous metropolitan subjects who served the metropolitan house from generation to generation. The deed of sale for 1525 indicates that the Eldegins sold half of this village to Metropolitan Daniel. Their surname is of Vyatka origin from “eldyzhit”, which means “to argue”.

This ancient village is located on both banks of the Vyaz River. Over 1000 residents live here. The attraction of these places is the estate of the princes Kurakins, which was later sold to the industrialist Armand. What remains of it is a dying 18th century linden park with ponds and ruins Church of the Holy Trinity, built in the traditions of the early Peter the Great Baroque in 1735: Its walls were painted in the spirit of the academic direction of Russian religious painting. Services in the temple were held until 1937, then the temple was closed and used as a warehouse.

Since 1992, the doors of the temple were reopened to parishioners. All destroyed, without roof and floor, without doors and windows, without porches and bells, haggard and dark - this is how it appeared before Father Alexander Gruzinov, a “hereditary parishioner” of this church. His grandmother went here, his father was baptized here, his grandfather went to the front from these places, and among the dead his name is engraved on the local obelisk. Once shining and majestic, now completely devastated, the temple looked at the priest with its black eye sockets.

The First Trinity was greeted under umbrellas and, since there was no roof, the rain generously poured down on all the parishioners. But they sang Easter near the hot “stove stove”. A temple full of people. Father was very worried: there was no floor! People are standing on the remains of basement vaults, like on islands, holding candles - unusually solemnly, in the light of candles, everything around has been transformed, as if there was no devastation and we are in the 18th century...

Gradually, through the efforts of the rector, parishioners, sponsors and builders, the temple rose from the ruins. For such a village, the church is huge, but the parish is small, there are not enough funds. After all, the temple still requires repairs, and constant maintenance restoration is needed.

Despite the difficulties, services are held regularly. There is a Sunday school “Favor” with a missionary department, a social service and a youth club, along with an adult choir, a children’s choir has appeared, a garden has been planted, and summer family camps are being organized. A children's environmental squad was formed on the basis of the Sunday school, which declared war on garbage throughout the entire settlement. The idea of ​​the eco-team was also picked up by the Eldiginskaya Secondary School, which is in close cooperation with the Sunday School. So, since 2006, integrated lessons in history and literature with in-depth study of Orthodox culture have become possible.

There is a department for helping the poor at the temple. On the holiday of the Nativity of Christ - and this is already a tradition - the Sunday school and the choir organize a Christmas tree with gifts for children, and during caroling, which is organized by the youth of the choir, one of the days is dedicated to visiting the sick and the elderly, who are also given gifts.

Saved in Eldigino agriculture- JSC “Zelenogradskoye” has its own farm, dairy factory, potato and corn fields. There is a school in the village, kindergarten, house of culture, cheburechnaya, cafe, hotel, 5 shops. In general, all conditions for normal living. The village is located very close to Moscow, about 60 km along the Yaroslavl highway. The parish is very friendly. But what can I tell you, come and visit - you will see everything for yourself! Many hiking and cycling routes pass through this area, as very picturesque landscapes open from Pestovskaya harbor.

You can get to the village from Moscow by public transport from the Yaroslavsky railway station to Pravda station, then by bus No. 25 or No. 32. By car you can drive along the Yaroslavskoye Highway to the Pravda sign and cross the railway crossing to Eldigino. Or along the Yaroslavskoe highway to the sign “Zelenogradskaya” through the railway crossing to Eldigino.

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The Trinity Church was built in the traditions of the early Peter the Great Baroque in 1735 by Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin on a promise to his father. At that time, in Eldigino there was a wooden church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with chapels in the name of the holy prophet Elijah and the Monk Macarius of Zheltovodsk, “and at the patrimony’s court the church of St. Vmch. Anastasia the Pattern Maker." The church became dilapidated, and Prince Boris Ivanovich built a new wooden one with the same name. In 1727, Prince Kurakin died in Paris and in his spiritual will he donated money in the amount of 20 thousand rubles to the temple.

Having fulfilled his father's will, the heir to the estate, son Alexander, erected a magnificent stone church in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity with chapels in the name of the holy prophet Elijah and the great martyr Anastasia. In the same 1735, the temple was consecrated.

In 1842, the owner of the estate, Lyubimov, added a bell tower to the temple.

Services in the temple were held continuously until 1937, then the temple was closed and used as a warehouse.

Since its closure, the temple has not been restored, so it has survived to this day in a dilapidated state.

In 1992, the church was handed over to believers. Most of the temple has been renovated. Divine services are held in the temple constantly. Available Sunday school, library.

Abbot- Archpriest Alexander Gruzinov.

Source - http://www.mepar.ru/eparhy/temples/?temple=630