Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo. Story. Social activities of the temple

Temple Holy Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo ​​is located in the Southwestern region of Moscow, included within the city in 1960. Previously, the village of Konkovo ​​was in the Sosensky camp of the Moscow district, 14 versts from Moscow along the Old (Bolshaya) Kaluga Road. The temple was called Sergievsky, and only in 1991, during its renewal, was it consecrated in the name of the Holy Trinity.

In the 12th century. on the site of modern Konkov there was a Slavic settlement.

In the 17th century on the sides of the Old Kaluga Road there were two villages - Konkovo-Sergievskoye (Serino) and Konkovo-Troitskoye, and each of them had its own church. In the first - in the name of St. Sergius, the Wonderworker of Radonezh, and in the second - in honor of the Life-Giving Trinity.

The earliest known owner of Sergievsky, which at that time was called the village of Serino “on the enemy,” was the boyar Pyotr Nikitich Sheremetev, appointed governor of rebellious Pskov in 1606. There, in the fall of 1609, he was strangled in prison. In 1619-1620 the village of Serino was granted to the steward Fedor and Dmitry Mikhailovich Tolochanov. According to the inventory carried out in 1621-1627, in the village there was “a courtyard of landowners, and in the courtyard live the clerk Romashka Grigoriev and business people Osipko Stepanov and Mishka Afonasyev.” Since 1652, only F.M. Tolochanov remained the owner of the estate. His son, Semyon Fedorovich Tolochanov, in 1690, built the current church, consecrated in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh. The village began to be called Sergievsky after the church.

There is an entry about this in the incoming salary book of the Patriarchal Treasury Order, stored in the Moscow Archives of the Ministry of Justice: “last May 7198 on the 21st day, by decree of the Great Sovereigns<Иоанна и Петра>and according to the note on the extract of Andrei Denisovich Vladykin, the newly built church of St. Sergius of Radonezh the Wonderworker, which was built by the okolnichy Semyon Fedorovich Tolochanov in the Moscow district, in the Sosensky camp, in his patrimony, in the village of Serina, was ordered to put tribute on the priest with the clergy, according to the specified article, with Popov's households 4 money, deacon's and prosvirnitsyn's for money, from Votchinnikov's 6 money, from 20 households of business people for money from the yard, and from memory from the Local Prikaz, with the signature of clerk Anisim Nevezhin, which was sent to the Stone Prikaz, about a certificate to that church from church land, from 10 quarters, 3 money per quarter, from 10 kopecks of hay, 2 money per hay, total tribute 13 alt. 1 day Check-in hryvnia. And in the current year 7202 (1694), by decree of the patriarch and according to an extract from the treasurer, Elder Paisius Siiskago, it was ordered to take this money from that church from 7202 (1694). And on the 20th day of February, the given money for the current year 7202 (1694) was taken; Joseph Yakovlev, a protege to the priesthood, paid to that church, and Ivashko Neustroev received it.”

The church was an estate church, built in the “Naryshkin Baroque” style, characterized by an abundance of decorativeness, pomp and grandeur. It included a small quadrangle of the temple, bearing an octagon and a dome on a drum; in the northeast there was a rectangular altar, and, as experts believe, the same rectangular porch was with opposite side. There was no refectory; There was no special bell tower, and the bells hung on the western wall of the church. Inside the wall there were choirs and on them on the western side a window from which the bell was made; in addition, there was a stone staircase to the choir. The temple was placed with an altar in the northeast, on the Trinity-Sergius Lavra - the place of the labors and exploits of St. Sergius, where his relics rest. According to legend, the Reverend visited the place where the village of Serino was located and consecrated it with his prayers, wanting to found a monastery here. But following a revelation from above that there would be a lot of people here, he went to Mount Mokovets.

Manor buildings at this time and later were wooden. In 1808, a warm refectory was added to the temple.

Subsequently, the village belonged to the granddaughter of Semyon Tolochanov, Princess Nastasya Vasilyevna Golitsyna, whose husband, Prince Sergei Alekseevich Golitsyn, was the Moscow governor under Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Later the estate passed to their children.

Initially, there was no parish at the Sergius Church. Until 1771, the church was called a house church, and from 1772 it became a parish church, since two villages were assigned to it - Belyaevo-Dolneye and Derevlevo, which previously belonged to the Church of the Holy Trinity, on the Sparrow Hills. Due to the remoteness and inconvenient communication, the parishioners of these villages asked the Moscow diocesan authorities to assign them to the church in the village of Sergievskoye.

The population of the village of Sergievskoye in 1790 consisted of the courtyard people of the landowner Colonel Fyodor Ivanovich Boborykin, a total of 29 people in one yard, and three church courtyards. The parish included 19 courtyards in the village of Belyaevo and 20 courtyards in the village of Derevlevo, a total of 116 male souls and 142 female souls.

In 1803, after the abolition of the state clergy of the church. Konkova, her parishioners were also assigned to the village of Sergievskoye. According to the Economic Notes of 1769 of the Moscow district, No. 248 states: “the village of Konkovo ​​is the property of Her Imperial Majesty: 13 households, 101 male souls. A stone church in honor of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity. A stone house with services, a regular garden and a menagerie.” This estate was purchased by Empress Catherine as a result of the request of the peasants and their complaints about the cruel treatment of them by the landowner, and, in memory of their liberation, a stone obelisk was erected in the village of Konkovo, which was installed on the very spot where the Empress accepted the petition of the peasants. (The white stone obelisk stood until 1972, then moved to the Museum of Architecture in the Donskoy Monastery).

In the difficult time of 1812, Trinity Church. Konkova was destroyed by the French retreating along the old Kaluga road and, due to the impossibility of amendment, in 1813, with the permission of the Moscow Diocesan authorities, it was dismantled to the ground; the remaining material from the Trinity Church was used to build a bell tower, a fence with holy gates and a church gatehouse at the church in the village of Sergievsky. The utensils and land were also transferred to the temple of the village of Sergievsky.

In 1818, through the zeal of the landowner Alexei Fedorovich Ladyzhensky, on the left side of the refectory church of St. Sergius of Radonezh, a chapel was built in honor of the position of the Venerable Robe of the Mother of God in Blachernae; Before the refectory was built, the landowner's parents were buried in this place. The second chapel in the name of St. Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow, was built in 1848 at the expense of the Moscow merchant Ivan Filippovich Baklanov.

From the inventory of the month of October 1813 of the property of the church in the village of Sergievsky, it is clear that in 1813 there was a stone bell tower, on which there were 5 bells, of which the large one weighed 25 pounds, the 2nd weighed 4 1/2, and the others were smaller than each other. . From the same inventory it is clear that until 1842 the donors for the temple and its decoration were: Elena Aleksandrovna Solekhenova, Ivan Mikhailovich Bonakov, Stepanida Fedorovna Anisimova, Pavel Nikolaev, Moscow merchant Maremyana Vasilievna Zhiltsova.
In 1821, a brick fence was built around the church.

There was 1 dessiatine of land at the church. 1150 sq. soot., arable 28 des. 1098 sq. soot, mowing 2052 sq. sazh., under a birch grove 2 des. 400 sq. sazh., and in the same birch grove under the cemetery 1 des. 50 sq. s., under Bolshaya Kaluga Road 1160 sq. soot., under the half-source 780 sq. sazh., and the total of comfortable and inconvenient land is 33 dessiatines. 1940 sq. sazh., excluding inconvenient places of convenient land, 31 dessiatinas remain. 1150 sq. soot
The famous historian I. Tokmakov clarifies that as of 1893, “the clergy’s own wooden houses were built on church land. The parish of the church in the village of Sergievskoye consists of parishioners of the said village (i.e. Sergievsky-Konkov) and the villages: Dolnee-Belyaevo, Derevlevo, Brekhovo (Bryukhovo), contains 159 courtyards, 439 residential units, 454 residential units.<...>Among the shrines especially locally revered is the icon of St. Sergius, on which in the ark there is part of the relics of the mentioned saint, placed on those praying during prayer singing." As the same I. Tokmakov notes: "In the cholera years of 1830, 1847, 1848, the disease mercilessly destroyed people. And in the parish of the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh there were only 3 people who died. Since then, in memory of the deliverance and preservation of the inhabitants from misfortune, annually the parishioners performed a prayer service to the locally revered image of St. Sergius of Radonezh not only in the squares, but also in the houses of parishioners. The icon of St. Petersburg was especially revered. Sergius by the inhabitants of those villages where cholera raged cruelly."

In 1895, the owner of the estate was Lieutenant General N.F. Ladyzhensky. The last owners of the estate were the hereditary honorary citizens Iroshnikovs.

A colorful description of Sergievsky at the end of the 19th century. left by historian D.O. Shepping: “On the right side of the high road, opposite the Konkovsky courtyards, there is a birch grove on an elevated place with properly planted alleys, which probably belonged to the park of Count Vorontsov; now part of it is turned into a village cemetery. In the middle of the grove there is a large mound, and on the other side , on the slope of a large ravine, there are many low prehistoric mounds... In this grove there is a folk festival on July 5. Next comes the estate, now of the merchant Iroshnikov, and the Church of Sergius with church houses, but without peasant estates. On the walls and doors of the church are visible to this day traces of French bullets of 1812".

Sergievskoye and Konkovo ​​were famous for their apple and cherry orchards, “very rarely, as the same D. O. Shepping wrote, found in such abundance among our peasants near Moscow; and probably owe their origin to the former lordly gardens.”

In 1928 the temple was still operational. Unique photographs dating back to 1935 captured the appearance of the temple shortly before its closure. In addition to the temple itself, the photographs show a two-story priest's house standing next to the south side, in which a parish school was opened in 1880, and a primary zemstvo school in 1884, the trustee of which was the owner of the village. Narrow Prince P.N. Trubetskoy.

In the first years of Soviet power, the fate of the temple became similar to the fate of most churches: destruction, confiscation of valuables, desecration.

During these bitter times of atheism for our Fatherland, 28 items of church utensils were removed from the church: three crosses (large, medium and small), a monstrance, paten, spoons, stars, bowls, etc.

In 1939 the temple was closed. Appearance it was completely disfigured: the upper two tiers of the bell tower were destroyed, the dome with the cross and the fence were dismantled. Bells, church utensils, icons and Holy books. The temple building was used as a state farm warehouse; the Konkovo ​​state farm office was located in the priest's house.

In 1960, the temple was included in the state lists of architectural monuments as a monument of the 17th century of federal significance under No. 402: “Trinity Church in Konkovo.”

In 1967-1972 Inside the temple there was a warehouse for the Television and Technical Center.

In 1972-1973 The church was examined by specialists from the All-Union Production Research and Restoration Plant of the USSR Ministry of Culture, at the same time a restoration project was completed (the main architect of the project is S. Kravchenko) and restoration work began.

In 1982, the Television Center refused to lease the temple building and was released from responsibility for the safety of this monument, which was assigned to the regional authorities.

For a long time, the district authorities did nothing to preserve the church building, the destruction of which continued. In 1989, the temple was going to be transferred to the laboratory of the Institute of Physics of the Earth, which had already begun restoration, based on considerations of adapting the building for its purposes. At this time, all communications were carried out to the temple.

In 1991, the temple was returned to believers.

Talking about the history of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo, one cannot fail to mention those clergy whose painstaking and selfless work built up the parish for more than two centuries, whose prayerful feat attracted pious donors, those who brought the light of the Gospel truth to the residents of the surrounding villages, who worked in the field public education, spiritually supported his flock in difficult years for our Fatherland.

The first protege to the priesthood of the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh the Wonderworker from 1694 to 1717. there was, according to the parish and census books of the Moscow district, a priest Joseph Yakovlev. Had sons John (also a Sergius priest from 1717 to 1756); John the Younger and Timothy (deacon of the church of St. Sergius). Died in 1717

According to the same parish and census books, in these same years Gabriel Evtikheev served as a priest of the Sergius Church.

On March 20, 1717, the passing memory of the signature of the petition by His Grace Metropolitan Stefan of Ryazan and Murom to the Sergius Church in the place of his deceased father was given to John Joseph.

Initially, in 1716, John Josephov was ordained a priest to the Kazan Church Holy Mother of God, to the village of Bogorodskoye-Voronino, Moscow district of Pekhryanskaya tithe, to the estate of Prince I.A. Golitsyn. His Eminence Alexy, Bishop of Sarsk and Podolsk, gave him a priestly letter signed by His Eminence Stefan, Metropolitan of Ryazan and Murom.

In 1728, Father John was widowed. On April 27, 1733, he received the third Epitrachelion memory for three years at the request of Prince S.A. Golitsyn.

On August 14, 1739, he was given the Epitrachelion memorial for six years at the request of Prince S.A. Golitsyn.
In 1756, priest John Josephov was tonsured at the Moscow Znamensky Monastery.

During these same years (1717-1756), the priest’s brother Timofey Osipov served as a deacon of the Sergius Church.

From 1756 to 1771 The rector of the temple was priest Vasily Ivanov, who had previously been the sexton of the upper Church of the Savior of the Image Not Made by Hands in the village. Pokrovskoe (Fili) Zagorodskaya tithe. On March 18, 1756, dedicated by His Grace Philemon, Bishop of Georgia, at the request of the Privy Councilor and Moscow Governor, Prince S.A. Golitsyn. He corrected the requirements at the request of the peasants of the villages of Derevlevo and Belyaevo, who were in the parish of the village of Vorobyov, Zagorodskaya Tithe, and the palace Kolomenskaya volost. Died with his wife November 14, 1771.

On March 6, 1772, Ioann Alekseev, the son of the deacon of the Kazan Church in the village of Bogorodsky, Pekhryansk tithe, Alexei Timofeev, was appointed priest to the Sergievskaya Church. On June 19, 1765, he was appointed sexton of the Sergius Church: he was dedicated to the surplice by a member of the Synod, His Eminence Timothy, Metropolitan of Moscow. In 1772, His Grace Metropolitan Nicholas of Georgia promoted him to deacon on February 16 in the parish of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi; ordained as a priest - February 15 in the Church of the Savior of the Image Not Made by Hands in the village of Spassky (Katovo), Moscow district of Seletskaya Tithe. He was married to the daughter of priest Vasily Ivanov, Marya, and the orphaned daughters of priest Vasily Ivanov were in his care.

From 1781 to 1792 Alexey Petrov served as the priest of the church in the village of Sergievsky. In the Clergy Gazette of 1785 there is an entry: “Priest Alexei Petrov is 31 years old, has not studied at school, has a literacy, is good at reading and singing, married, in good condition.” In 1792 he left for the Church of the Savior on Prechistenka. Died 1799

From 1792 to 1842 Archpriest Dimitry Yakovlev Vozdvizhensky served in the Sergius Church. His parents were the priest Yakov Ivanov and Aksinya Yakovleva, the daughter of a priest. After completing several classes, he studied at Trinity Seminary: poetry, rhetoric, philosophy, theology and languages: Latin, French and German. In 1791 he graduated from the theological course at the Lavra Seminary. On February 1, 1792, he was ordained a priest at the Church of the Transfiguration in the village of Savina, Vokhonsky Tithe. On October 21, 1792, he was transferred to the Church of St. Sergius in the village of Sergius, Moscow district, and was appointed deputy. On December 17, 1796 he was approved as dean. In 1812-1813, after the invasion of Napoleonic troops, he consecrated the following churches: Borisoglebskaya in the village of Zyuzino, Nikolaevskaya in Kotly, Nikolaevskaya in the village of Saburovo, Kazanskaya in the village of Kolomenskoye, Trinity in Teply Stany, Znamenskaya in Sadki, the Life-Giving Spring of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village Tsaritsyno, Troitskaya in the village of Cheryomushki, Kazanskaya and the chapel of John the Baptist in the village of Bogorodskoye (Uzkoye).

In 1830, during the raging cholera in Moscow, he sent the priests of the Sergiev deanery: A.I. Sinaisky to correct the requirements in the hospitals of the Riga and Tula infantry regiments due to the non-existence of a regimental priest during the entire continuation of the cordon of the capital, S.I. Maksimovsky - for parting words in a temporary hospital established in the village of Kizhunova at the observation outpost above the water communication. He presented reports to the deanery about children born who were vaccinated with smallpox in the second half of 1830.

On January 16, 1834, he was promoted to archpriest by order of His Eminence Philaret Metropolitan of Moscow by His Eminence Nikolai Vicar of Moscow for long-term holding of the deanery position in the Intercession chapel of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Zubov Prechistensky forty.

He had insignia: a bronze Cross in memory of 1812, a purple skufia (January 20, 1827).
Of his 14 children born, four died in infancy. Three of his sons accepted the priesthood.

In May 1842 he was dismissed from the staff. He died on April 10, 1843 at the age of 72 and was buried by the spiritual father of the Znamensky Monastery, Hieromonk Jonah, in a designated cemetery.

In 1843, the priest John Ioannov Zercheninov took over the rectorship of the Sergius Church. He was born in Moscow on January 4, 1818. His father, John Gavrilov, was the sexton of the St. Nicholas Church of the Prechistensky Forty, his mother, Natalya Timofeeva, was the daughter of the sexton of the St. Nicholas Church in Vagankovo ​​of the Nikitsky Forty. The future priest studied at the Spasso-Androniyevsky district school. Then he studied at the Moscow Seminary in the sciences: theological, philosophical, rhetorical, historical, mathematical; languages: Latin, Greek, German and Hebrew. After completing the course of science in 1840, he was graduated with a 2nd category certificate. Promoted to the priesthood of the Sergius Church by His Eminence Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow on February 26, 1842, consecrated by His Eminence Vitaly, Bishop of Dmitrov on May 21, 1842. The diploma was given after the signature of His Eminence Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow.

On April 15, 1860, he opened a school at the church, in which the children of parish peasants (34 boys) who were in the appanage department were taught free of charge: reading, writing, the Law of God, arithmetic and musical singing. In 1873, the school was closed due to the publication by the Moscow District School Council of a new program that was unsuitable for rural parish priests as teachers. He was the confessor of the deanery from 1865 to 1889.

In 1873, at the request of His Eminence Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, he received permission to cut 12 fathoms of firewood from the church forest every year for heating his houses. This forest was grown "by the diligence of the real parish priest, Father Zercheninov, and was preserved by his care and vigilant protection from kidnappings during the 31st year of his priesthood."

In January-February 1887, based on his information, a church metric was compiled for the Imperial Archaeological Society. Died June 7, 1889 from paralysis.

In 1889, the priest of the temple, St. Sergius was appointed Archpriest Gabriel Shumov, the son of a priest of the Baptist Church in the village. Yarogulcha Volokolamsk district Fedot Georgiev.

He graduated from the course of study at the Bethany Theological Seminary in 1860 in the 2nd category. In 1861, His Eminence Metropolitan Philaret appointed him a priest to the Church of the Intercession in the village of Osheinika, Volokolamsk district.

In 1889, His Eminence Metropolitan Ioannikiy transferred to the village of Konkovo, Moscow district. He served as a law teacher at the Osheininsky zemstvo school from 1874, and from 1889 at the Konkovsky school.
Awarded for service: in 1872 - for public education - 25 rubles, in 1874 - with the blessing of the Holy Synod; in 1874 - a leg guard; in 1885 - skufya; in 1886 - Order of St. Anne, 3rd class. On September 11, 1893, he was presented to the kamilavka by the dean, since “he worked a lot on the renewal and decoration of the parish church and on the path of public education.”
In May 1898 he was promoted to archpriest.

On July 26, 1911, parishioners of the village of Sergievsky-Konkov, Moscow district, with the permission of His Eminence, solemnly honored their pastor, Fr. Archpriest G.F. Shumov on the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary of service in the priesthood. Priest of the Moscow Archdeacon Stefanovskaya, at the Noble Almshouse, Church of N.G. Shumov spoke a deeply felt word about the many difficulties of pastoral service in general, and in our villages in particular, and at the same time mentioned the merits of the hero of the day for the parish.

Church warden - landowner M.N. Iroshnikov presented the hero of the day with a holy icon depicting St. Sergius, built at his own expense and collected from parishioners, in an expensive silver-gilded robe, with a respectful request to accept it as a sign of gratitude of the spiritual children for the zealous, reverent service of the hero of the day at the Throne of God in their parish church.

In August 1912, he was dismissed from the staff. Sons: Sergei, Archpriest of the Moscow Mother of God, which is at the Haas hospital, the Church of the Ivanovo Forty; Nikolai, priest of the Moscow Archdeacon Stefanovskaya, at the Noble Almshouse, church; Vasily, Sergievsky priest (since 1912). Gabriel Shumov died on March 3, 1914 at the age of 78, and was buried near the church.

The last rector of the temple before its closure was the son of Sergievsky Archpriest Gabriel Shumov, priest Vasily Shumov.

He graduated from the Bethany Theological Seminary in 1901. From January 1902 he was a teacher at the Poltev parish school, from September 1, 1902 to May 1903, he was a teacher at the Erin parochial school in Podolsk district.

On May 28, 1903, His Eminence Vladimir Metropolitan of Moscow appointed him a priest to the Trinity, village of Eldigina, church in Dmitrovsky district. July 12, 1912 His Eminence Vladimir Metropolitan of Moscow transferred to the Sergius Church.

Awarded: on May 6, 1910, with a nabedrennik - for the zealous teaching of the Law of God, on May 6, 1915, with a purple skufiya - for diligent and useful service for the church; for Easter 1918 with kamilavka; in 1921 with a pectoral cross.

In 1927, his sons took part in the work of the bakery of the Konkovo ​​agricultural production artel "Kulttrud".

Palamarchuk P. G. Forty forty. T. 4: Outskirts of Moscow. Heteroslavism and heterodoxy. M., 1995, p. 98-99

Church of St. Sergius in the village of Konkovo

Profsoyuznaya st., 116

"The owners of the village: the first half - the Tologanovs - 1627-1710; the Golitsyns - 1710-1757; A. N. Zinoviev - 1766; the palace - 1769; the second half - the Bezobrazovs - 1627; the Golovkins - 1689-1752; M. M. Vorontsov - 1752-1767; I. N. Zinoviev - 1767."

"The Church of St. Sergius in Konkovo ​​was built in 1694. The second tier of the bell tower and the refectory are from 1808. The fence is from 1831. The interior decoration is from the beginning of the 19th century." ( - that is, in 1928 the temple was still operational - P.P.).

"Left chapel of the Position of the Robe of the Mother of God in Blachernae, 1818. Right chapel of St. Philip the Metropolitan, 1848.

Although the church was built in 1694, taxes began to be taken from it already in 1682. Until 1772, it was a house church, and from 1772 it became a parish church.”

"From the ancient Konkovo ​​estate, the remains of a park and a small manor church from 1694 have been preserved. The owners of the village erected a three-part church, in composition reminiscent of the gateway Church of the Intercession of the Novodevichy Convent, but without domes on the altar and vestibule. The church is remarkable for the white stone carving of the details of the external decoration. The Konkov Church is one one of the most attractive examples of Russian stone architecture of the late 17th century."

In 1967, a warehouse was located inside the temple. In 1980, the warehouse no longer existed, the church building was in complete disarray, the doors were open and the wind was blowing through the bare walls. There are no chapters, the bell tower is broken down to the first tier. The plaster and white stone carvings were crumbling. There was a wooden fence around it. The roof is leaky. The church gave the impression of desperate ruin, although it was listed under state protection under No. 402.

The remains of the park were destroyed during new construction on Profsoyuznaya Street. Until 1972, a stone obelisk from the mid-18th century stood across the road from the temple. - M. Ilyin assumed that it was installed to commemorate the intention to build a palace in Konkovo, in connection with the transfer of the estate to the palace department. Now the obelisk has been moved to the Donskoy Monastery.

In 1989, they were going to transfer the temple to a laboratory; a subway shaft was being dug nearby, which caused public objections. Finally, in 1990, the church was returned to the believers, and the restoration cooperative "Istarkh" actively began its restoration, recreating the interior and exterior decoration, fencing, grilles and crosses. Services resumed in 1991.

“In 1994, the church was given an adjacent plot of land with an area of ​​0.25 hectares.”

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Holy Venerable Sergius of Radonezh.

At the end of the 17th century, the Serino estate in the area of ​​modern Konkovo ​​(then the area was called Sosensky Stan) was owned by the son of the steward Fyodor Tolochanov, Semyon. It was he who, in 1690, started the construction in his village of a stone house church in the Naryshkin Baroque style, completed by 1694 and consecrated in the name of Sergius, the Wonderworker of Radonezh. Thanks to this temple, the village began to be called Sergievsky.

There was no bell tower in the temple at that time, but this does not mean at all that there were no bells. The belfry was simply located right on the southern wall of the church, with a staircase leading to it from the choir. The altar of the Sergius Church was directed strictly to the northeast, towards the Trinity-Sergius Monastery.

Some historians attribute the construction of this temple to G.I. Golovkin, pointing to his possession of the Konkovo ​​wasteland in 1689. However, the Life-Giving Trinity already stood in Golovkin’s possessions at that time, so he had no need for another temple. It is to the existence of this church that I owe Trinity of the Life-Giving in Konkovo by its current name and consecration.

Before painting

In 1772, due to the increase in peasants assigned to the parish of the Sergius Church, the Church of Sergius of Radonezh became a parish church. At the beginning of the 19th century. (around 1808) a warm stone refectory and a three-tiered stone bell tower were added to it, which had classicist features that were clearly dissonant with the Baroque building of the main temple. During construction, the graves of the former owners of the village, the Ladyzhensky spouses, were discovered, buried near the western wall of the church. Their son A.F. Ladyzhensky in 1818 built a chapel over the grave of his parents on the left side of the refectory in honor of the Deposition of the Venerable Robe of the Mother of God in Blachernae (Deposition of the Robe), the altar of which was located directly above the graves.

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Before transmission to believers

In 1803, the Konkovskaya Holy Trinity (Life-Giving Trinity) was assigned to the Sergius parish. In 1812, it suffered so much from the French invasion that there was no point in restoring it. Therefore, the remains of the building were dismantled in 1821 and the resulting bricks were used to build a fence around the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh.

In 1848, the Moscow merchant Ivan Filippovich Baklanov donated a rather large sum to the Sergius Church for the construction of another (right) chapel - in the name of Metropolitan Philip of Moscow, who was the patron saint of Baklanov’s father .

In the Sergius Church there was a particularly revered icon of St. Sergius with a piece of his relics. It is she who is credited with the miraculous deliverance of the residents of Konkovo ​​from the cholera epidemic that raged in those places in 1848. In the villages of the parish, only 3 people died from the disease, while in the neighboring ones entire households died out.

In 1939, the godless authorities closed the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh and used it as a warehouse (first for a state farm, then for a television center). Its appearance was disfigured, the altar was desecrated, and the very name of the church was completely erased from people’s memory, so that when Konkovo ​​became part of the city in 1960, no one remembered in whose honor it was there. Attempts to restore it as an architectural monument were sluggish and ineffective.

In 1990, when the temple was handed over to believers, no one remembered that Konkovo ​​consisted of two parts - Konkovo-Sergievsky and Konkovo ​​itself (Konkovo-Trinity), and all ancient sources indicated that the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity stood in Konkovo. This is how it happened that the Sergius Church was mistaken for something completely different. So it was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church - as the Church of the Holy Trinity in Konkovo. And only later the truth was revealed. Now the main altar of the temple is consecrated in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity, and the chapels - in the name of St. St. Sergius of Radonezh and the Deposition of the Robe.

The first liturgy was celebrated on Easter 1991. The restoration of the temple lasted for many years. In 1994, when the temple celebrated its 300th anniversary, one of the Moscow clergy painted a temple image of St. Sergius. Only in 1998 did gilded crosses shine over the restored temple and bell tower and bells began to sound.

In 1993, a sisterhood was created at the church in the name of the Blachernae Icon of the Mother of God, whose special concern was Children's Home No. 9 for orphans with disabilities nervous system and musculoskeletal system and boarding school No. 7.

Until the 17th century, the area, located approximately 15 kilometers from Moscow along the Old Kaluga Road, was almost uninhabited. WITH right side On the road one could see the Serino wasteland, and on the left - the Konkovo ​​wasteland. But in the scribe books of the reign of Mikhail Fedorovich, a record appeared that: “..... is listed as the steward, for Fedor and for Dmitry Mikhailov, which was formerly for the boyar for Pyotr Nikitich Sheremetyev, the village of Serino on the enemy, and in it the yard of the landowners, and in the yard live the clerk Romashka Grigoriev and the business people Osipko Stepanov and Mishka Afonasyev... and they Tolochanovs own that estate under the import document, registered by clerk Andrei Vareev since 7129.” A few clarifications need to be made here.

* Dates at that time were indicated from the “day of creation of the world.” A new style of chronology (since the birth of Christ) was introduced only during the time of Peter I. The difference is 5508 years.

* Estates - were distributed to serving people for food as a salary and were taken away (“signed off to the Sovereign”) if they evaded service.

* Patrimony - family estates granted as hereditary property or acquired by purchase.

In 1652, Dmitry Tolochanov gave his part of the estate and all rights to it to his brother Fyodor Mikhailovich. After the death of Fyodor Mikhailovich, this estate - village. Serino - passed into the possession of his son Semyon Fedorovich. By this time the village. Serino has already become his own patrimony. Semyon Fedorovich - the okolnichy - was quite a prominent figure among the Moscow nobility. He had houses in Moscow, and used the village of Serino as a country dacha. He continued to improve it. Cascade ponds were built (the pitiful remains of these ponds exist to this day opposite houses No. 16 and 18 on Artsimovicha Street). From the manor house (stood in place modern school No. 20) walked in different directions of the alley, lined with various trees. Some of these trees, planted later but continuing to mark the previously existing alleys, can still be seen today.

It was believed that normal life in the estate began when the manor house was built and the church erected. And in 1690, Semyon Fedorovich began construction of a village on his estate. Serino stone church. There is an entry about this in the salary book of the Patriarchal Treasury Order: “... in the past in May 7198 on the 21st day, by decree of the Great Sovereigns and according to a note on the extract of Andrei Denisovich Vladykin, the newly built church of St. Sergius of Radonezh the Wonderworker was ordered, which was built by the okolnichy Semyon Fedorovich Tolochanov in the Moscow district, in the Sosensky camp, in his patrimony, the village of Serine... it was ordered to take this money from that church from 7202.” Consequently, the church in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh was founded in 1690, and completed and consecrated in 1694 (you should pay attention to the words “...by decree of the Great Sovereigns.”

Yes, there was a period in the history of Russia when the country was ruled simultaneously by two Sovereigns - Ivan and Peter. It was then that the Sergius Church was built). After the construction of the church in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the village of Serino began to be called Sergievo or Sergievskoe. After some time, the neighboring villages located along the Staro-Kaluga road began to be called Konkovo-Sergievskoye and Konkovo-Troitskoye, respectively, after the names of the churches located in them. In 1772, residents of the villages of Belyaevo-Dolneye and Derevlevo were assigned to the parish of the church in the name of Sergius of Radonezh (previously they were in the parish of the Trinity Church on Vorobyovy Gory). In 1803, parishioners of the village of Konkovo-Troitskoye were also attributed to the parish of the Church of Sergius, since at the end of the 18th century the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was abolished. Both villages began to be often called Konkovo. Thus, the name of the village of Sergievskoye gradually disappeared from use. At the request of village residents. In Brekhovo they are also attributed to this parish - the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh turns from a brownie into a parish with a large number of parishioners. There was a need to expand the Temple building. In the meantime, bells were installed on its western side (the ringing was made from the window in the choir).

At the beginning of the 19th century, expansion of the church building in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh began: a warm refectory was added and a three-tier bell tower with a cross top was erected. This significantly increased the number of parishioners inside the temple building during services. The walls of the main Temple, the refectory and the vaults were decorated with frescoes. There were 5 bells on the bell tower. Of these, the largest is 25 pounds, the second is 4.5 pounds, and the others are smaller than each other. The church in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Konkovo-Sergievsky acquired the appearance of a parish Temple. At the end of the 18th century, Catherine II acquired the Konkovo-Troitskoye estate. She wanted to build her country palace here. But the palace was not built. The building of the abolished church stood abandoned. In 1812, it was destroyed and plundered by the retreating troops of Napoleon. Due to the impossibility of restoring the building of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity, it was dismantled. The brick obtained from dismantling was given for the construction of a fence around the temple in the name of St. Sergius in the village of Konkovo-Sergievskoye.

Among the especially revered shrines of the temple was the icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh with particles of his relics. In 1830 and 1848, when cholera raged fiercely in the surrounding villages, in the parish of the church. Sergius of Radonezh there were only 3 people who died. In memory of deliverance from illnesses, since 1848, an annual prayer service was performed to the miraculous image of St. Sergius, not only in the church, but also in the homes of parishioners. On the left side of the refectory there is a throne in honor of the position of the honorable vestments of the Mother of God in Blachernae. The throne was established in 1818, thanks to the zeal of Colonel Alexei Fedorovich Ladyzhensky (the fact is that his parents were buried near the western wall of the house church: Fedor Alekseevich in 1804 and Lukiya Mikhailovna in 1808 Ladyzhensky. When the refectory was built, the burials turned out to be under its floor, and after the construction of the chapel, their bodies began to rest under the throne of the Holy Altar. On the right side of the refectory there is a throne in the name of St. Philip, Metropolitan of Moscow. The Moscow merchant Ivan Filippovich Baklanov donated a significant amount to the construction of this throne. Apparently, he did this , wishing to honor the memory of his father. The throne was established in 1848. If the longitudinal axis of the temple is depicted on the map, then it will pass through Sergiev Posad and the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. As a sign of deep veneration for the merits and exploits of St. Sergius of Radonezh before the Church, the state and the people - The altar of the temple is directed to the place where his relics rest.

The architectural style of the St. Sergius Church is Naryshkinsky or Moscow Baroque (the Italian word "baroque" in Russian translation means "whimsical"). This style replaced the art of the Renaissance. In Russia, this style arose in the 17th century. It is characterized by an abundance of decorativeness, splendor, and grandeur. Curved lines, spiral curls, twisted and smooth columns, various ridges, etc. prevail over straight lines and calm surfaces. All this is confirmed in the external details decorating the temple. It seems that the carver who made them, feeling the pliability of the magnificent material at hand, tried to give them the most expressive, almost sculptural forms. The temple is one of the wonderful examples of Russian stone architecture. After the abolition and dismantling of the church building in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo-Trinity, the temple in the name of St. Sergius became in the 19th century the only center of spiritual and educational activity in this area.

On November 30, 1850, with the blessing of His Eminence Philaret (Drozdov), Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna, a rural school for the children of parishioners was opened in the house of priest Zerchaninov. In 1874, a school from the Moscow district zemstvo was opened in the same house. The clergy have their own houses, wooden, built on church land. The land at the church: manor, arable, mowing and under the cemetery there were only 33 tithes of 1940 square fathoms. On the territory of the parish of the Church of Sergius in the 18th century, an “OBELISK” was installed at the expense of peasants (in 1971, in connection with the construction of a metro line and the demolition of the village of Konkovo, the historical and cultural monument was transported and installed in the Donskoy Monastery, where it is currently located ).

The temple in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh was closed in 1939. At the same time, it was disfigured - the crosses were removed, the central dome and drum were destroyed, the bells were thrown down and taken away, part of the bell tower collapsed, sacred images and books were confiscated. After its closure, the temple building housed a warehouse for various property belonging to the local state farm. In 1962, the building was transferred to the Television Center for storage. From 1984 to 1987, the temple was ownerless, not guarded, the doors were open. From 1987 to 1990, the building was rented by the Institute of Earth Physics to set up a research laboratory. In the 1960s, by the time it was included in the list of historical and cultural monuments subject to State protection, only the name of the village of Konkovo ​​was preserved. And in all the old directories published before the 19th century, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was listed in the village of Konkovo. Therefore, it was mistakenly decided that the partially preserved building was the Trinity Church (although it was a church in the name of St. Sergius of Radonezh). This is how the error crept into all subsequent government documents.

The church was registered and transferred in 1990 to the Orthodox community under the name: Church of the Holy Trinity in Konkovo. Not far from the Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh there is another attraction - a spring. This is what Alexander Ivanovich Starostin said. In 1968, he met an old local resident, Dmitry Ivanovich Korolev, at this spring. Working together to clear and revive the spring, Dmitry Ivanovich told the belief passed down from generation to generation that in this place, previously deserted and wooded, St. Sergius was going to found his own monastery. But he had a vision that this place would subsequently be “very crowded” and that a monastery should not be built here. But the spring remained and is called Sergievsky. This spring has always been used by numerous pilgrims coming from the South-Western regions of Russia. They walked along the Old Kaluga Road through Moscow to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra to worship St. Sergius of Radonezh.

For the Easter service in 1991, the temple was put in order: a temporary iconostasis was installed, Holy books, necessary utensils, etc. were purchased. The first Easter service has taken place! Parishioners who often visit the temple see: the bell tower has been recreated and the bells have been raised to it, the drums and domes on the altar, the bell tower and the main church have been restored, the creation of a carved iconostasis has begun, the restoration of the white stone decor has been completed, etc. The clergy house is being built. In 1998, for the holiday of the Holy Resurrection of Christ, gilded crosses were raised and installed on the altar, the main church and the bell tower.

Based on materials from the site http://trinity.defender.ru

The previously existing Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the village of Sergievskoe, Serino also.

Sergievskaya Church was built in 1694 in the village of Serin. There is an entry about this in the incoming salary book of the Patriarchal Treasury Order for 1694: “in 1690, on May 21, by decree of the great sovereigns and according to the note on the extract of Andrei Denisovich Vladykin, the newly built church of St. Sergius of Radonezh the Wonderworker was ordered, which was built by the okolnichy Semyon Fedorovich Tolochanov in the Moscow district, in the Sosensky camp, in his patrimony in the village of Serin, to put a tribute on the priest and the clerk, according to the decree ... 13 altyn 4 money, arrival hryvnia. And in 1694, by decree of the patriarch and according to an extract from the treasurer, Elder Paisius of Siysk, it was ordered to take the given money from that church in 1694, and on February 20 that given money for the current year was taken; Joseph Yakovlev, a protege to the priesthood, paid to that church, and Ivashko Neustroev accepted it.”

The village of Sergievskoye according to scribe books of 1627 - 28. - the village of Serina, on the enemy, Moscow district, Sosensky camp, the estate of the steward Fyodor and Dmitry Mikhailov, children of the Tolochanovs, which formerly belonged to the boyar Pyotr Nikitich Sheremetev, in the village there is a courtyard of landowners, a clerk and 2 people live in it. business people, and the Tolochanovs own that estate under an import document, signed by clerk Andrei Vareev. In 1652, Dmitry Tolochanov gave his estate to his brother Fyodor Mikhailovich, and from him it passed to his son Semyon.

Der. Serina was located between the village of Troparev - the patrimony of the Novodevichy Convent and village. Balazhutina, Bryukhovo is also the patrimony of the wife of Prince Ivan the Lesser Golitsyn, the widow Princess Marya. In 1678 in the village. Serina was a votchinniki yard with 4 people, but no peasants. In 1704, Serina - the village of Sergievskoe church, in the village there was a courtyard of patrimonial estates, in which the clerk and business people lived.

After Semyon Fedorovich Tolochanov, who died in 1708, the estate went to his granddaughters Marya and Nastasya Vasilyevna Tolochanov, they divided the estates among themselves, and the village of Sergievskoye went to Nastasya Vasilyevna, who married Sergei Alekseevich Golitsyn. In 1757, the village was owned by princes Nikolai and Alexey Sergeevich Golitsyn with their sisters, princesses Anna and Tatyana.

Trinity Church in the village of Troitsky Konkov (Konkovo) was built in 1694. About this under 1694. it says this: “in 1692, on June 20, by decree of the patriarch and according to the note on the extract of Andrei Denisovich Vladykin, the newly built Church of the Holy Trinity, which was built by the bed-keeper Gabriel Ivanovich Golovkin on his estate and the steward Fyodor Ilyich Bezobrazov on his estate in the Moscow district, in Chermny I will, in the village of Stepanovskaya, Emelenskaya and Besova, also, put tribute on the priest and the clerks according to the decree article... 12 altyn 4 money, check-in hryvnia, and that money, by decree of the patriarch, was ordered to be had since 1694, and a decree was sent to the priest’s elder about taking that money "

According to scribe books of 1627 - 28. Moscow district, Chermnev camp it is written: “behind the steward Ilya and Vasily Bezobrazov on the estate are the villages of Stepanovskaya, Emelinskoye and Besovo, and in it live business people, 2 courtyards, wastelands: Konkovo, on both sides of the enemy, and the wasteland of Gavrilkovo, on the enemy, and they own that estate according to the import document of 1617.”

In 1689, half of the village that was the village. Stepanovskaya, belonged to the bed servant Gavriil Ivanovich Golovkin, which was granted to him from the Order of Investigative Cases Andreevo Bezobrazov's estate... According to the census books of 1704, it is listed “belonging to Gavriil Ivanovich Golovkin the village of Konkovo, and in the village the Church of the Holy Trinity, the votchinniki yard and the cattle yard; and the newly settled village of Konkova, on the big Kaluga road, and there are 9 peasant households in it, and the peasants were transferred from its various villages in Borovsky and Kashirsky districts.”

After the death of Count G.I. Golovkin, the village was owned by his son Alexander and it was approved by him in 1747 with a refusal book, which says: “the village of Konkovo, that there was a village of Stepanovskaya, Besova, also, on the enemy, and in the village there is a stone church the name of the Life-Giving Trinity with all church utensils, and in the village there are 8 ponds with all kinds of fish, a landowners’ yard with a stone structure.”

In 1752, this village was sold by Count A. Golovkin to Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Vorontsov; in 1767 it was purchased by N.I. Zinoviev’s wife Avdotya Naumovna from the wife of Count M.M. Vorontsov, widow Anna Karlovna and her daughter Anna Mikhailovna, wife of Count Alexander Sergeevich Stroganov.

Kholmogorov V.I., Kholmogorov G.I. “Historical materials about churches and villages of the 17th - 18th centuries.” Issue 8, Pekhryansk tithe of the Moscow district. Moscow, University Printing House, Strastnoy Boulevard, 1892

The throne of the Life-Giving Trinity is considered one of the most famous in the Moscow region. The temple in Konkovo, located in the southwestern part of Moscow, is directly related to St. Andrew's deanery. It is one of the most beautiful Orthodox cathedrals in Moscow.

Historical reference

The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo ​​has a rather long history. The first mention of the church was recorded in the salary book of the Patriarchal Treasury Order. It is here that the exact date is indicated when the construction of the house temple was started and completed.

The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo ​​was built in 1690. There is still no exact information about who is the founder of the building. According to various sources, efforts were made to the construction of the religious institution - G.I. Golovkin and S.F. Tolochanov. The main altar of the Orthodox cathedral was consecrated in honor of Sergius of Radonezh, and the chapels of the temple were consecrated in honor of St. Philip and the Deposition of the Robe.

Initially, the parish was absent from the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity. The temple in Konkovo ​​had the status of a brownie. However, at the end of the 18th century, or to be precise, in 1772, the cathedral became a parish. This became possible after two small settlements were assigned to the religious building: Belyaevo-Dolneye and Derevlevo.

IN Soviet period time of devastation, partial destruction and confiscation of valuables awaited the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity. The temple in Konkovo ​​was closed in 1939. Orthodox crosses were knocked off the head and the drum was completely destroyed. Bells and church books were removed from the belfry and confiscated.

The modern stage in the history of the church

The restoration of the temple took place only in 1990. With funds and donations, the original appearance was reconstructed. For the first ceremony, the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo ​​was restored in accordance with all church foundations. In particular, foreign objects and materials were removed from the building, a temporary iconostasis, belfry and bell tower were installed, Holy Scriptures and additional Orthodox books were purchased.

Worship in the temple

Divine services in the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo ​​take place both on Orthodox holidays and memorial days. On the territory of the religious building, both matins, vespers and general vigils are held with the participation of the rector of the church - Hegumen Maxim (Ryzhov). Anyone can visit the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo ​​at any time. The schedule of services can be found on the official website of the Orthodox institution. For the convenience of parishioners, the hours of services are scheduled two months in advance with a description of what is happening.

Temple Sunday School

Since 1992, the religious institution has been engaged in educational activities. The reason for this was the open Sunday school of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity. The temple in Konkovo ​​has currently accepted 111 Orthodox believers for training, of which 66 are adults, the remaining 45 are children of various ages.

Classes are held on the territory of secondary school No. 113, with which the temple administration has close relations. The two organizations provide mutual assistance to each other, helping to organize various events, meetings and educational classes.

In Sunday school educational activities led by 14 teachers. Lessons take place on Saturday, from 10 am. The educational course includes both general church subjects and additional creative lessons. Students gain knowledge about the Holy Scriptures, the conduct of divine services, liturgy, and study Old Slavonic language, history of the Orthodox Church. Increased attention devoted to iconology, patrolology and church singing.

Sunday school pays great attention to the creative development of students. In particular, during classes there are lessons in handicrafts and acting. Students take part in Orthodox performances and perform spiritual chants on major religious holidays.

Social activities of the temple

The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo ​​also takes an active part in the social life of society. Feedback from parishioners about the church allows us to talk about the cathedral as one of the main Orthodox institutions in Moscow. In particular, cathedral employees take an active part in meetings of clergy that take place on the territory of the monastery.

Meetings of religious officials are aimed at clarifying existing social problems in places that may cause a decrease in the number of parishioners in orthodox churches. Besides, a large number of attention is paid to the prospects for the development of Christian teaching on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Another sector that the administration of the temple in Konkovo ​​has chosen for itself concerns helping the children of Donbass. On May 10, the fifth campaign ended, which was aimed at collecting funds for needy residents of south-eastern Ukraine. During the entire existence of the “Small Mite” campaign, more than 2 tons were donated food products, essentials and children's clothing and shoes.

The clergy of the church in Konkovo ​​pay increased attention to children who find themselves in an orphanage. Thanks to active social activities, Orthodox concerts dedicated to major religious holidays are held annually in Orphanage No. 9: the Nativity of Christ, Easter, Epiphany.

In 2015, with the blessing of the parish rector Ryzhov, Sunday school students took part in the Easter concert. The artists not only acted out an Easter scene, but also performed unique Orthodox works, accompanied by a guitar, trumpet and violin. The festivities were completed by joint round dances of Sunday school students and children from Children's Home No. 9, as well as the presentation of sweet gifts.

Where is the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity located, how to get there?

Official address Orthodox church: Moscow, Profsoyuznaya street, building 116. You can get to the religious institution both by your own car and by public transport. If the route is paved by your own car, then the easiest way to get from the center of the capital is along Profsoyuz Street. If the path is laid from the Moscow Ring Road, then you should drive along Profsoyuznaya Street all the way to the Belyaevo metro station. After this, it is recommended to turn around and drive 700 meters in the opposite direction and turn right, in the direction of the church.

The easiest way to get there by public transport is to use the metro. The Konkovo ​​metro station is located 530 meters from the church, the Belyaevo station is 650 meters away.

The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Konkovo ​​is not just an Orthodox building, but also a unique institution with active social activities.