Since 1877, Eldigino has been in the possession of the Armand manufacturers.

E.I. Armand is a major Russian capitalist who received the title “Honorary Citizen of the Russian Empire” from the Tsar. This Russified Frenchman became the owner of a vast territory from the modern village of Pravdinsky to the city of Dmitrov.

The head of the trading house "E. Armand with his sons" was Evgeniy Evgenievich Armand. Inessa Steffen married one of his children, Alexander Evgenievich, when she was 19 years old. The wedding took place in St. Nicholas Church in the village of Pushkino in 1893. This microdistrict now bears the name Armand.

Inessa's father was the once famous French opera singer Theodore Steffen - he performed under the pseudonym Pesce Erbanville. He and actress Nathalie Wilde, half-French and half-English, had three daughters. Inessa-Elizabeth, the eldest, was born on May 8, 1874 (there is evidence that Natalie was not yet married to Steffen by this time). A few years later, Steffen died, leaving his widow without funds. Natalie left the stage and supported her family by giving singing lessons. But there was not enough money, and the older daughters - Inessa and Rene - were sent to their aunt. To Moscow. My aunt was a governess in the richest family of Russified French Armands - she taught music and French. The Armand family, famous Moscow industrialists and manufacturers, owned a large weaving factory in Pushkin, estates and apartment buildings. The head of the family, Evgeny Evgenievich Armand, a hereditary honorary citizen, belonged to the highest industrial aristocracy of Russia. He had three sons - Alexander, Vladimir and Boris. The Steffen girls were warmly welcomed into the Armand family. Rene and Inessa spoke three languages ​​fluently - French, English and Russian, knew a little German, and played excellent music. They had an excellent education - it was not for nothing that they were raised by an aunt who was a teacher. At the age of 17, Inessa passed the exam for the title of home teacher. In addition, both sisters were extremely pretty and possessed French charm and charm, rare among Russian girls.

The Armand brothers could not resist. Alexander became interested in Inessa, and the younger Boris became interested in Rene. Of course, the Steffen sisters were a completely unsuitable match for the young men from the Armand family: of unclear origin, a foreigner, without a dowry, of a different religion... But the parents of the young men did not object: the Armands were known for their liberal views and fell in love with Rene and Inessa as if they were their own daughters. The wedding of Alexander Evgenievich Armand and Inessa-Elizaveta Stefan (as her last name was written in Russian documents) took place in Pushkin on October 3, 1893. Inessa was 19 years old, her husband was two years older. The charming, full of life young Frenchwoman and the gentle, charming, noble Alexander made a wonderful couple.

The famous Trinity Road leading to the Lavra is well-trodden and traveled by thousands of pilgrims. But there are many interesting places near it, 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 by the leadership of the main printed organ of the CPSU Central Committee for a summer holiday. 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 on almost all sides by the waters of the Pestovsky reservoir.

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 reconstruction 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, the interior decoration work 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 there was its own small church in the name of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 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 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 Feast 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.

Agriculture has been preserved in Eldigino - ZAO Zelenogradskoe, there is its own farm, dairy, potato and corn fields. In the village there is a school, a kindergarten, a cultural center, a cheburek shop, a cafe, a hotel, and 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.

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. During the Japanese War, he was in the Far East authorized to manage the sanitary detachment 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 spent about three months in Tagansk prison on charges of organizing a strike at his factory. Upon leaving prison, he left with his eldest sons for 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 Zemsky 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 shriveled up and become even smaller. He looked pathetic and dispirited. I had never seen him like this before. It was more than the loss of a “good Bolshevik” or a good friend. It was as if 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).

Patronal holiday- Holy Trinity.
Temple rector- Archpriest Alexander Gruzinov, 1959.
Ascribed temples
Temple of the Blgv. led book Dimitri Donskoy p. Sofrino-1
At the temple There is a Sunday school and a library.

Short story.

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 performed 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.