Church of the descent of the holy spirit in the village of shkin. Shkin

A narrow asphalt road leaves the Ryazan highway to the right. She leisurely runs through the fields, bordered almost on the horizon by open woodland, accompanied by the blue ribbon of the Severka River ....

Early June 2012. Standing on the platform of the Kurovskaya station, I notice that they are serving some too long train. It turned out to be ED4M-0230, washed from the outside and polished from the inside, in Yaroslavl colors with 11 cars. For these regions, it was somehow strange, considering that all these ring locomotives of Kurovskaya went in a six- (sometimes in four- (EM2-005)) carriage version.

Well, since I first went then from Kurovskaya to O.-Zuevo, it was quite possible to relax, drink a beer and think about incomprehensible oddities. However, it was then that the question arose to visit Ratmirovo and….

year 2012. End of June. The required section left at 9:32 am from Voskresensk. At 10:06 I had to get off at the platform called Shkin. But first things first.

Voskresensk greeted me with a completely jam-packed with commodity track development. The speakerphone announces that Zhilevskaya is at least 30 minutes late. Well, nothing, there is time to take pictures. For starters, a great trio led by ED4M-0197. She was accompanied by VL11-m-322B and VL10-k-1032.

Behind them, ChMukha with onboard 2034 is busy with cars, and VL11 is thinking whether to go further.

ER2K-1184 departs on schedule from the high Yegoryevskaya platform.

After her, VL10-u-595 is released, which we then outstripped in Nepetsino.

And after it, about 15 minutes later, tacking along the arrows, my "electric locomotive" also drives up. That's all, there is no turning back. While the cool air of a sunny morning has a beneficial effect on the surrounding space. There is a good atmosphere around.

Outside the window, beautiful landscapes of morning nature sweep through the night, rested from yesterday's heat.

Soon we got to Shkini. The compressed air hissed, the doors on the right side did not open. An interesting journey, especially when it is not clear which doors have closed and you drove on. It turns out that the landing was on the other side. Well, okay, somehow I got out. I begin to explore the surroundings. The platform here is different, not like everywhere else, however, like any other place on the ring in its own way.

Here again you can argue, but there is no time. The silence of the surrounding nature was broken by VL11-m-304B and went home.

It's time to stop wandering along the paths. The road is not close now. The plan, or rather its first part, was as follows:

And in total it was necessary to overcome about 11 kilometers. There were several sandwiches and two liters of cold coffee in stock. I do not miss the opportunity to photograph the panorama of the surroundings from the railway.

October 6, 2013. After long rains and always cloudy weather, a warm, bright, sunny day finally turned out. While still in the city, I watched as huge clouds of cloudy humidity dump into the area. The sun begins its journey across the clear sky, and only rare clouds do not obscure the star much.

There is nothing to think about. I get ready quickly, start the heart of my iron horse, and now the sun is peacefully peeping through the windshield into the car with its bright ray. The road runs as usual, soon a sign appeared, which means to the right - to Shkin.

Incredibly beautiful places. The fields are crossed by strips of forest, and behind them are fields again, and all this is in bright warm light.The road here is worn out today. The wheels now and then bump into the "washing board" made by passing caterpillar tractors, and right at the entrance to the BMO, the Zhilyov section from Nepetsino left from under the nose. Before moving to BMO, a freight train stopped.

I decide to hang around here for a bit and shoot. Time passed, but nothing came from Nepetsino.

And at the entrance to the Shkin platform, a BTSnik suddenly appeared with a liquid tanker and it was like that. Well, nothing, something else will go. And off we go. So, it is inconvenient to shoot against the sun. BTS again and again with bulk. And after it there is a dead silence.

One of the paths was changed recently.

Well, that was not given to me the movement today.

There is a lonely schedule on the ground nearby. This time they did not paste over the pillar. There were fewer electric trains in it.

I examine the views from the railway. In the distance you can see the grandiose in its beauty Temple of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles (marked on the map: "1").

A visit to this shrine will be the first point of my journey.

And even the pillar meat does not interfere with contemplating the autumn forest.

There was a noise in the distance.

An asphalt road passes into the village next to the platform of the same name, which, passing under the tunnel, which is indicated by the sign in the photo above, goes into the fields on the opposite side of the railway.

And to me in Shkin on the asphalt before turning to the village. The same cowsheds, but a year later, are still in an incomprehensible, indeterminate state.

June 2012 Well. Having walked along the paths, I came out on such an asphalt road. In the photo in the distance you can see the height limiter - this is the entrance to the above-mentioned tunnel. It is necessary to go to it from the platform along the paths towards Yaganovo 700 meters. From here the journey begins to the edge of the fields, to the edge where the grandiose Temples were once built, which stand to this day.

Potatoes are growing in the field, which is very encouraging. It's good to see that. Especially in our time. The fields near Moscow are either abandoned or given over for development, and this is not always good. Of course, people need to live somewhere, but they also need to eat. And here, albeit small, but a corner of life.

The same old cowsheds are on the way. With them it is not clear whether there is life in them or not.

There is no need to find out, and I pass by, capturing the rarities "not the all-seeing eye."

In one story I already wrote that each place of the ring has its own unique image, atmosphere, sights. The interests of the community members, of course, also vary, but one thing unites us all - the BMO. Therefore, I consider it necessary to talk about this epastasia of the ring.And here it is necessary to delve into history.

Shkin. There is such a village in the Nepetsinsky rural settlement of the Kolomensky district of the Moscow region. The village is located on the banks of the Severka River, opposite the village of Borisovo, located on the opposite bank. The village of Shkin is relatively small in size, with only one street.

The village of Shkin on the Severka River has been known since the 15th century, when it was bequeathed by Vasily Temny, the Grand Duke of Moscow, to his wife Maria Yaroslavna. Under Ivan III, the village again became a grand ducal.

The village was significant and commercial, according to documents at the beginning of the 18th century. in it stood the Church of the Archangel of God Michael. In the XVIII century. the village was owned by engineer-lieutenant general Ilya Aleksandrovich Bibikov (1698-1784), one of the most learned generals of that time. The Bibikovs are a historical family that has done a lot for Russia and Russian culture. The son of the steward Alexander Borisovich Bibikov, Ilya Alexandrovich received a good education, and in 1715 began service in the engineering department under the command of General Feldzheichmeister Count Yakov Vilimovich Bruce, who treated him with great affection. In 1749 I.A. Bibikov was promoted to major general.

When you go along the river. Severki on the road from Nepetsino, the temple of the village of Shkin is already visible from afar. A magnificent sight: a temple, in everything similar to the Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg. Here is the border of the Kolomna district. In Prusy, in Sapronovo, where there was a wooden Church of the Sign, destroyed in Soviet times, only country roads lead to Gorodnya and other villages.

Who built a huge temple among the fields? The customer for the construction was Major General Gabriel Ilyich Bibikov (1746-1803), the son of Lieutenant General Ilya Alexandrovich Bibikov (d. 1784), head of the Tula arms factory, which owned the village.

Gavriil Ilyich Bibikov, a Moscow philanthropist who built palaces in Moscow and Grebnevo near Moscow, had his own theater. All of Moscow gathered for concerts of his serf orchestra, directed by the serf conductor and composer Daniil Kashin.

Instead of a dilapidated wooden one, in 1794, at the expense of Gabriel Ilyich Bibikov, the construction of the now existing stone church began.

It went slowly, by 1800 the side-altars of the Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas of Mirlikia were consecrated. A man like Gabriel Ilyich could entrust the construction of the temple only to an experienced architect. This was probably one of the best students of M.F. Kazakova Rodion Rodionovich Kazakov (1758-1803), who built about three dozen buildings in Moscow.

The construction was carried out under the supervision of the provincial architect I.A. Selekhov, who was working in Shkini at the time.

The temple was painted in the early and middle of the 19th century. The iconostasis and most of the stucco decoration perished during the Soviet era after the church was closed and destroyed in the 1930s, and the adaptation for a warehouse in the 1960s.

Some of the openings were hewn for the entry of tractors. After Gavriil Ilyich, the village was owned by his son Dmitry Gavrilovich Bibikov (1792-1870).

D.G. Bibikov died on February 22, 1870 and was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. His wife Sofya Sergeevna, together with her sister Elizaveta Sipyagina, received a large fortune from her mother, part of the colossal butcher's wealth, which formed the basis of Bibikov's fortune.

In the 2nd half of the 19th century. Priest Gabriel Voskresensky served in the Holy Spirit Church for about 50 years. It was Blessed Daniel who helped him in the repair of the temple.

In 1906, a priest of the church with. Shkin became Mikhail Mikhailovich Ostroumov (36 years old), the son of a priest of the Kolomna district. Since 1905, a peasant from the village of. Shkin Dmitry Ivanovich Trushkin (53 years old), received a salary from the peasant society.

During the Soviet era, the church was closed. The large bell from the northern bell tower of the temple was dropped.

The bell aperture was widened to let in the dropped bell, which, falling, knocked off the white-stone cornice of the temple.

The church was left without service for a long time after the arrest of the priest, but everything was whole.

A local resident said that they began to take away the church after the war, everyone walked around in rags, there was nothing to wear, they dragged, ashamed, quietly. In the 1960s. the church outside was intact.

In our time, the devastated temple was returned to the believers, and its restoration began.

In 1991, in the attic of one of the houses of the village, a large image of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov was found.

The monk himself, appearing in a dream to a resident of the village Seraphima Ivina, indicated where the icon was. In 2003, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his glorification, a procession with the icon of the monk was performed throughout the entire Kolomna land.

In 1996, in the church with. Shkin began regular services in the side-chapel of St. Nicholas of Mirliki.

Nothing remained of the Bibikovs' estate.A beautiful house opposite the church was built at the beginning of the 20th century. and belonged to the merchant Kvasov.

In 1852, in the village. Shkin had 99 households, in which 348 peasants and 405 peasants lived.
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The village of Shkin ... once life was in full swing here - the busy country roads of the vast Kolomensky district were connected in the village. Laconic documents from the beginning of the last century describe Shkin as follows: "The peasants are on a quitrent, practice arable farming, and they have a craft by carriage along different roads, and are quite wealthy with their property." But now it is quiet here and only the majestic Church of the Holy Spirit, standing on the banks of the Severka River and towering over small village houses, brings a solemn and ringing, a little nostalgic note to your soul.

The Spiritual Church surprises and perplexes with its gigantic size. The huge rotunda crowning the temple with the same large dome and high paired bell towers reign over the treeless, slightly hilly area, like a sailing ship walking on a light swell.
The extraordinary church, as if transferred to the unknown Shkin from the St. Petersburg avenue, can be seen entirely from a wide, similar to the avenue, rural street. The striking resemblance of the temple of the distant Shkini with the majestic cathedral of the St. Petersburg Alexander Nevsky Lavra invariably amazed all connoisseurs of Russian antiquity who dared to travel to this suburb of Moscow.
The building of the village church began in 1794 and took only six years to build. In 1800 the Spiritual Church was consecrated. The main contributor GI Bibikov, who by birthright belongs to the highest capital of the world, was also present at the consecration. G.I.Bibikov undoubtedly ordered the project of a church for his village to a major architect, whose name, unfortunately, is not revealed to us by the noble archives. But the authorship hardly belonged to the famous builder of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral I.E. Starov. Rather, we have before us an imitative version of a Moscow master who is close to him in spirit - some researchers attribute the project of the temple to R.R. Kazakov.
The building of the temple with white stone details in the architectural composition goes back to the samples of basilica temples. The interior of the temple is represented in the scheme by a Latin cross with a massive rotunda placed on the middle cross. The loggia of the western entrance is flanked by paired bell towers, the arms of the cross are treated with porticoes. The semi-rotunda of the altar ledge surrounded by a colonnade is extremely effective. The temple has two chapels: the Archangel Michael and the holy martyrs Florus and Laurus.

Like many Russian churches, the temple of the Holy Spirit was desecrated and plundered during the fight against God and persecution of Christians. A rare photograph of the 1930s shows a breach in the belfry towers, which was formed when the atheists, attaching a cable to a tractor, destroyed the church bells.

After the closure of the temple, along with the entire Russian people, it endured innumerable troubles and misfortunes from the godless authorities. It began to deteriorate especially strongly since the 60s, when pesticides for agriculture began to be stored here. Quite recently, many already thought that the temple was lost forever.

But for everything - the providence of God; and in our years, the revival of the Church of the Holy Spirit began in the village of Shkin, on the Severka River. The recovery is slow, difficult, but it is progressing! And where are those wicked - desecrators of the temple, haters of the Russian land?

May it be so!

KOLOMENSKY DANILUSHKA

Twenty years ago, a holy fool with the name Danilushka, who had lived for a long time in the town of Kolomna, died. His life is interesting and instructive.
Danilushka was born in the village of Lykov, Kolomna district. His father was a landowner, a peasant, a wealthy and inveterate schismatic who had a prayer house at his home; his mother was considered the most readable of the old spiritual books. For some reason Danilushka was not a favorite of his parents and grew up somehow lonely, he did not even make friends with the children of his homeland, but for his favorite game of grandmother he went to another village, ten miles away. Since Danilushka was the best player in the money, he played them during the week for a decent amount, which he gave all to the church headman. The latter loved Danilushka for this, loved him for his loneliness, fed him and often left him to spend the night, took him with him to church, where he made him sing in the kliros and trade in candles. Danilushka's father was angry with the headman for this and even complained about him to his landowner. The landowner, having learned that Danilushka was a gentle and kind boy, took him to his house, made him a Cossack (little lackey) and wanted to teach him to read and write; but Danilushka soon, one morning, took off his Cossack clothes and boots and, bringing the landowner, said that he could not walk in this, because all this was falling off him; and since then Danilushka never wore boots and outerwear.
On holidays and weekdays, he constantly went to church for prayer, and when there was no service in his village, he ran two, three and even five miles to neighboring villages. It's still dark in the yard, and Danilushka is already running somewhere for matins, and no matter how early it starts, he will already be in time for it. He was not stopped by any frost, even at thirty or more degrees. In his underwear, with an open head, often knee-deep in snow, he runs through the ravines and fields to the church service. If, as often happened, he comes before the gospel, then he will go to some of the peasants and wait there. He stood in the church on the kliros or near it and sang.
Having reached the perfect age, he left his village and came to the town of Kolomna, the townspeople accepted him joyfully, like a holy fool. Here he walked barefoot through the streets and churches. He especially loved to be at the festive service in the city cathedral. The cathedral was cold, with a cast-iron floor, and Danilushka was standing on the floor with her bare feet in her usual suit and heartily singing along to the chanters or psalmists, standing all immersed in prayer and never turning either back or around. During the day, Danilushka walked around the city - through the squares and shopping stalls. They usually gave him money - he took it and put it in his bosom, where he had a bag, in the evening he took the money to his apartment, which the merchant K. gave him in his house. Every week the church head from his homeland came to Danilushka and took everything. the money he collected. Collecting money, Danilushka liked to joke with merchants. If the merchant was fat, then, patting him on the shoulder, he said: "Hey you, kasholka"; one he called "blue", the other "voiced", and so on. Laughing, they often said to him: "Danilushka, you got frostbitten on your feet," but he kindly answered: "I froze it myself." And, putting his hands behind his back (this is his usual gait), he continued to walk further, singing to himself: "Oh, sung Mati" or "Open the doors of Mercy." So, living for several years in Kolomna, Danilushka managed to collect a significant amount of money - first for the construction of a bell tower in his homeland, and then the entire church itself was painted inside and renovated outside with the donations collected. They said about him that he sometimes predicted. So, they said, three times he predicted a fire in the village of Lyskovo, the last time he said that the fire would be on Great Saturday, and at that time his father's house would also burn down, which came true. Danilushka also visited Moscow quite often. Kolomna merchants brought him here, and in Moscow he was a welcome guest everywhere. Before his death, he was sick and was buried with great honor.

Archpriest Sukharev.

I, an unworthy priest Dimitri Kireev, witnessed some miracles through the prayers of Blessed Daniel.
Being the rector of the Church of Nepets since 1993, I was entrusted with the care of the parish of the Shkin Temple, near the altar of which, on the right side, is the grave of blessed Daniel. It was my responsibility to periodically perform church services and services at the request of the parishioners. Every time I came to the village of Shkin for prayers and requiems, I heard the murmurs of the parishioners that the community in the village of Shkin was registered earlier than in the village of Nepetsino, and that there is still no priest and regular services (Liturgies) are not performed. I tried to console the parishioners as best I could. He spoke about the need to be patient, to intensify the prayer for the revival of the church and the parish. Yes, indeed, the temple is very beautiful and very large in size. It can even be compared to a cathedral. The temple has undergone very strong destruction and it will take a lot of money to restore its former beauty. Realizing this, I, like all parishioners, had a desire to arrange at least one side-altar in the church for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. But nothing worked and did not go well until the feast day of the Day of the Holy Spirit in 1994. On this day, the cleric of the Epiphany Church in Kolomny, Priest Viktor Erokhin, who, in his speech to the parishioners, as if answering their questions and bewilderments about the restoration of the church and the revival of parish life, was present at the festive prayer service, together with the dean: "And you fix the grave of blessed Daniel, and he will help to revive the temple. He helped build this temple during his lifetime and will help you. " After that, the entire community undertook to ennoble the burial place of blessed Daniel. They put a tombstone in place, painted it, made a small fence, and decorated the grave with flowers. And indeed, things went uphill, everything began to go well. Arranged the right side-altar for the celebration of the Divine Liturgy. Through the prayers of Blessed Daniel, people were found who helped and the Lord sent funds. Exactly one year later, in 1995, the Divine Liturgy was served in the church on the feast day, and a year later, in 1996, the rector of the church, priest Oleg Gorbachev, was appointed to the parish.

Temple shrines

And the horse of the Monk Father Seraphim of Sarov has been miraculously acquired already in our days.
It happened like this.
A wonderful old man appeared in a dream to a resident of the village of Shkin, a pious Christian woman named Seraphima. His face shone with extraordinary joy, and God's grace emanated from him. He told Seraphima to find a woman named Mary, who has an icon in her attic that once belonged to the Shkeen church. To the question - who is he and what is his name? - the elder replied: "My name is poor Seraphim."
Getting up early in the morning, Seraphima went around the surrounding villages. He spent more than one day in search, but nevertheless, after long walks - as the elder predicted - in the attic of an old rural house, whose mistress was called Maria, the icon was finally found.
Then, at the expense and funds of the parishioners of the church, the icon was restored and on August 1, 1998, on the day of the uncovering of the relics of the Monk Seraphim, it was consecrated.
At present, those who pray and suffer come to the miraculous icon and receive many different kinds of help flowing from the holy image.

The ancient village of Shkin 'in the 18th century. belonged to the family of the famous boyars Bibikovs. On their estate, on the site of the former wooden church, it was built in 1795 - 1800. by order of Major General G.I. Bibikov is a majestic temple of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, in everything similar to the Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg. The main throne in honor of the Descent of the Holy Spirit was located in the summer church. In the warm church, separated by a glass partition, there were two more thrones: in the name of the Archangel Michael and in the name of St. Nicholas.
The locally revered saint-blessed Danilushka played a special role in the construction and beautification of the shrine. His grave is located near the walls of the temple and is revered by believers. It is known that from childhood Danilushka fell in love with the church service, the temple of God, and was friends with the church elder. The latter often left the boy to spend the night, took him with him to church, where he taught him to sing in the kliros. Danilushka's father, an Old Believer, was angry with the elder for this and even complained about him to the landowner. The landowner soon took Danilushka to himself, made him a servant and wanted to teach him to read and write. But one morning Danilushka took off his outer clothing and boots and, bringing them to the landowner, said that he could not walk in this. Since then Danilushka never wore boots and outerwear. On holidays and weekdays, he constantly went to church, and if there was no service in the village, he fled to neighboring villages, barefoot, in light clothes.

Having reached the age of majority, Danilushka came to Kolomna. Here I walked through the streets and temples. In the city they loved him, revered him as a sagacious one and gladly gave alms. Danilushka did not take the collected money, but he gave everything to the church elder. According to legend, this money was used to repair the belfries in the village of Shkin, a large bell was cast, the whole church was painted anew.

When in 1884 the blessed one died at the age of 62, a very large number of people came to see him on his last journey. The funeral service took place in the Assumption Cathedral. The Kolomna clergy initially set out to bury Daniel in the city, but a testament was found of the blessed one with a request to bury him next to the Shki's temple.

Priest Gabriel Voskresensky served as the rector of the Spiritual Church during these years. It is known that he was a friend of blessed Danilushka, headed the parish for about 50 years and was sincerely loved by the parishioners.

In Soviet times, the temple was closed. The western wall was badly destroyed when a large bell was thrown from the northern bell tower. After the war, the temple was completely ruined and used as a warehouse.

The church community was revived in 1991. One local resident once appeared in a dream the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, who told her to “seek,” that is, to find, an icon with his image. The phenomenon was repeated. Soon the image was actually found, and from that time the revival of the church life of the Spiritual Church began.

In 2003, in celebration of the centenary of the glorification of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, a grandiose procession with the Shkinian icon of the Monk Seraphim took place throughout the Kolomna land. On the same days, the first Divine Liturgy took place in the main chapel of the Descent of the Holy Spirit.

The temple is currently being restored, but help is needed. The place is very fertile, services are held in the side-chapel, shrines: the miraculous icon of St. Seraphim of Sarov. grave of blessed daniel

"Oh, the bright and beautifully decorated Russian land! You are glorified by many beauties: you are glorified by many lakes, revered rivers and healing springs, steep mountains, high hills, frequent oak forests, marvelous fields, various beasts, countless birds, great cities, monastery gardens, temples of God and menacing princes - you are filled with everything, Russian land, about the Christian Orthodox faith! "

And a marvelous wonder opens up to our eyes - at the end of the 20th century, a wonderful temple of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles rises from the ruins, which is located on the Severka River, in the village of Shkin. Like a certain sea pearl, the temple is hidden from the eyes of many. As if the great genius architect had joked, placing his creation away from noisy roads and major highways. But, as before, and now people from Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities, scientists and artists, students of architectural universities and sculptors-sculptors and just Russian people go to admire the wonderful temple.
The remarkable temple was built at the end of the 18th century and opened in 1800. It is the only analogue of the Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg. Unfortunately, little remains of the past beauty, former splendor and rich decoration of the temple.
The Spiritual Church surprises and perplexes with its gigantic size. The huge rotunda crowning the temple with the same large dome and high paired bell towers reign over the treeless, slightly hilly area, like a sailing ship walking on a light swell.
The extraordinary church, as if transferred to the unknown Shkin from the St. Petersburg avenue, can be seen entirely from a wide, similar to the avenue, rural street. The striking resemblance of the temple of the distant Shkini with the majestic cathedral of the St. Petersburg Alexander Nevsky Lavra invariably amazed all connoisseurs of Russian antiquity who dared to travel to this suburb of Moscow.
The building of the village church began in 1794 and took only six years to build. In 1800 the Spiritual Church was consecrated. The main contributor GI Bibikov, who by birthright belongs to the highest capital of the world, was also present at the consecration. G.I.Bibikov undoubtedly ordered the project of a church for his village to a major architect, whose name, unfortunately, is not revealed to us by the noble archives. But the authorship hardly belonged to the famous builder of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral I.E. Starov. Rather, we have before us an imitative version of a Moscow master who is close to him in spirit - some researchers attribute the project of the temple to R.R. Kazakov.
Like many Russian churches, the temple of the Holy Spirit was desecrated and plundered during the fight against God and persecution of Christians. A rare photograph of the 1930s shows a breach in the belfry towers, which was formed when the atheists, attaching a cable to a tractor, destroyed the church bells.
After the closure of the temple, along with the entire Russian people, it endured innumerable troubles and misfortunes from the godless authorities. It began to deteriorate especially strongly since the 60s, when pesticides for agriculture began to be stored here. Quite recently, many already thought that the temple was lost forever.
But for everything - the providence of God; and in our years, the revival of the Church of the Holy Spirit began in the village of Shkin, on the Severka River. The recovery is slow, difficult, but it is progressing!

Next to the Temple is the tomb of blessed Daniel.
Having reached the perfect age, he left his village and came to the town of Kolomna, the townspeople accepted him joyfully, like a holy fool. Here he walked barefoot through the streets and churches. Danilushka walked around the city - through the squares and shopping stalls. They usually gave him money - he took it and put it in his bosom, where he had a bag, in the evening he took the money to his apartment, which the merchant K. gave him in his house. Every week the church head from his homeland came to Danilushka and took everything. the money he collected. So, living for several years in Kolomna, Danilushka managed to collect a significant amount of money - first for the construction of a bell tower in his homeland, and then the entire church itself was painted inside and renovated outside with the donations collected. They said about him that he sometimes predicted.

Once a priest said: "And you fix the grave of blessed Daniel, and he will help to revive the temple. He helped to build this temple during his lifetime and will help you." After that, the entire community undertook to ennoble the burial place of blessed Daniel. They put a tombstone in place, painted it, made a small fence, and decorated the grave with flowers. And indeed, things went uphill, everything began to go well.
Now people come to the grave of blessed Daniel and ask him for help. From the stories of parishioners, many miracles happened at the grave through the prayers of Blessed Daniel.

Before going to take pictures of churches in neighboring villages, I naturally googled where I was going:

1. Maryinka- if in 1616 the daughter of the then owner of the estate Marya became, as planned, the wife of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, Russian history might have taken a different path. Bazhenov's horse yard remained from the estate.
2. Gorodnya- one of the first tent-roofed stone temples. 1530s, XVI century.
3. Nepetsino- a beautiful temple in the style of classicism in the spirit of the masters of the Kazakov school.
4. Shkin- grandiose a temple built by one of the best students of M.F. Kazakov - R.R. Kazakov.
5. Prussians- - tent-roofed stone temple 1575-1576
6. Mescherino- the serf Ermakov started a manufactory, bought himself out, then bought the village and the house of Field Marshal Count Boris Petrovich Sheremetyev, an associate of Peter I, dismantled this house, and built an almshouse from bricks to the Temple ... According to rumors, wealth came to them after a successful raid on the French train in 1812 ... In 1895 Flor Yakovlevich Ermakov bequeathed over three million rubles for distribution to the poor "in commemoration of his sinful soul."
7. Pokrovskoe- the temple was built at the end of the 16th century. and belongs to the manor churches of the "Godunov type".
8. Avdotino- Enlightener-Mason Novikov, dug underground passages to neighboring villages (Troitskoye, Marinka). He built stone huts for his serfs.

02 The village is located on the right bank of the Severka River, opposite the village of Borisovo, located on the opposite bank. The village of Shkin is small in size, there is only one street in it - Novaya.

03 The village of Shkin is connected to the center of the rural settlement by the village of Nepetsino by an asphalt road 9 km long. There is a bus service between the villages. There is also a railway connection with Moscow - electric trains run to the Shkin station

04 In the village there is the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit (the full name is the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles). This church is also called the Holy Spirit Church, the Spiritual Church and the Spiritual Assumption Church. The church is a functioning Orthodox church as well as an architectural monument of the 15th-18th centuries and a landmark of the village.

05 Driving along the Severka River from Nepetsin, from afar you can see the temple of the village of Shkin - an example of the capital's architectural style and scope, similar to the Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg.

06 The customer of this construction was Gavril Ilyich Bibikov (1746-1803) - a famous Moscow patron of the arts who built palaces in Moscow and Grebnevo near Moscow, the owner of a popular Moscow theater at that time, a man with a refined taste, and importantly, a significant fortune.

07 In 1794, at his expense in the village of Shkin, instead of a dilapidated wooden church, a grandiose construction of the now existing stone church began.

08 Construction proceeded slowly, and by 1800 only the side-altars of Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas of Mirliki were completed and consecrated.

09 The construction of such a large-scale structure was entrusted to one of the best students of M.F. Kazakov - Rodion Rodionovich Kazakov (1758-1803), who by that time had built about three dozen buildings in Moscow.

10 All work was carried out under the supervision of the provincial architect I.A. Selekhov, who at that time worked in Shkini

11 The temple was painted in the early and middle of the 19th century during the reign of G.I.Bibikov's son. As of 1852, 348 peasants and 405 peasants in 99 yards lived in the village.

12 The iconostasis and most of the stucco decoration were destroyed during the Soviet era. In the 1930s, the temple was closed, but not ravaged.

13 According to the stories of a local resident, they began to take away church property after the war, when everyone walked in rags, there was nothing to wear, so the saved church property came in handy. In the 1960s, the temple was converted into a warehouse. At the same time, part of the openings for the entry of tractors and loading equipment were hewn. When the bell was dropped, the bell tower opening was cut. When falling, the bell knocked off the white-stone cornice of the temple from its western side. The famous, revered and still blessed Daniel (1825-1884) is buried near the walls of the church - in the last years of his life he lived in the village of Shkin, who took part in the repairs and collected funds for the maintenance of the temple.

14 The temple was returned to the believers and is slowly being restored.