Photo: Church of St. Nikita the Martyr in Luzhki

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The first mention of the Nikitsky Church in Luzhki dates back to the 20s of the 17th century. As the legend says, an icon depicting St. Nikita was found in a juniper tree growing in a swamp. Local residents decided to build the Nikitsky Church on a hill located not far from the place where the image was found. The icon was transferred to this hill, but it miraculously returned to the juniper bush in the swamp. This happened several times. As a result, the temple was erected on the spot where the image of St. Nikita was returned.

The first church was wooden. It stood for several centuries. By the middle of the 19th century the building had fallen into disrepair. A stone temple was built and two winter chapels were installed in it. The iconostasis, decorated with carvings and gilding and painted with carmine, has survived to this day. The largest bell on the bell tower weighed over two hundred pounds. At the end of the 19th century, houses for the clergy were built. A parochial school was opened at the temple.

In the 20s of the 20th century, all valuables were confiscated from the church. The bells, made of bronze, were removed from the bell tower. They were sent to be melted down. However, services in the church did not stop. Its doors were closed to parishioners at the end of the 30s, but already in the early 40s the temple was opened again.

In the 80s of the 20th century, restoration work began on the building. The wall paintings and wooden carvings that decorated the iconostases have been restored, and the domes are covered with gilding.

Near the temple there is the Nikitsky spring. In the old days, water blessing prayers were held here.

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Church of the Great Martyr Nikita of Goth Nikitskaya Church; Nikita the Martyr Church; Nikita Gotfsky Church
A country	Russia
Location	Moscow region, Ramensky district, village of Luzhki
Confession	Orthodoxy
Building type	Church
Architectural style	pseudo-Russian
Date of foundation	no later than the 16th century.
Main dates: Closed at the end 1930s, opened in 1942.
Side chapels	Nikolsky and Mikhailo-Arkhangelsky

Temple of the Great Martyr Nikita of Goth (Nikita Church) in the village of Luzhki - Temple of the Russian Orthodox Church near the village of Strokino, Ramensky district.

Story

According to the Scribe Book, in 1623-1624. The church in the name of the martyr Nikita was located in the Kamensky camp of the Moscow district “in the Luzhok churchyard, in the estate of the Pokrovsky nunnery in Suzdal, wooden” and stood “without singing.”

Nikitsky Church in the village of Strokino was built on a wetland. Popular legend says that once upon a time an Icon of the Holy Great Martyr Nikita was discovered in a juniper bush in a swamp. Local residents wanted to build a church nearby on a more elevated place, but the icon miraculously returned back. The temple was erected where the image of the Saint originally appeared. The earliest information about the Church of the Holy Martyr Nikita dates back to the beginning of the 17th century. The church was wooden and stood without singing. In the mid-19th century, the church fell into disrepair. The parishioners, led by the church warden, began to bother about the construction of a new stone church. A new church, which still exists today, was built by 1864 with two winter chapels: in the name of St. Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas. The carved, gilded and carmine-painted iconostasis has been preserved. The temple received a large bell weighing 209 pounds 10 pounds. Through the efforts of the clergy, by 1893, their own wooden houses were built for the clergy. There were buildings attached to the church: a parochial school, a gatehouse and a barn. Nikitsky Church was transformed at the beginning of the 20th century. to the center of education for the entire region.

Not far from the temple there is a source of the Holy Great Martyr Nikita, where water blessing prayers were previously served. At the beginning of the 20th century, Nikitsky Church became a center of education and a house of prayer for parishioners from all over the area. They gathered for services on Great Holidays. The Great Martyr Nikita, Michael the Archangel and St. Nicholas were especially revered.

The first persecution of the Nikita Church began after the Bolshevik revolution. In 1922, a large silver crucifix and valuable icon frames were confiscated from the church. The bronze domes were also sent for melting down. The 209-pound bell was broken by the Bolsheviks. In such a situation, the life of the Nikitsky parish became very difficult. Many local residents were afraid to go to the temple. But the names of those parishioners who saved the church from closure and destruction have reached us. One of them is the Servant of God Elizabeth. After the war, the Nikitsky Church is again under the close attention of the authorities. Soviet officials would like to completely stop the life of the church; for them, closed churches were the best, and the most trustworthy priests were those who did not pray or preach. The mid-80s saw a revival of the Church of the Great Martyr Nikita in the village of Strokino and spiritual life in the area. Young people flocked to the temple. Through the efforts of the abbots and parishioners, the exterior of the temple was restored, the domes were gilded, the wall paintings and wooden carvings of the iconostases were restored. All these works would have no meaning if there were no main thing - worship and true prayer. More than three and a half centuries ago, the first Nikitsky Church was erected. It becomes bright and joyful for every Orthodox heart when, around the bend of the road, the snow-white Church of the Holy Great Martyr Nikita emerges from the forest.

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“We were told,” Princess Marya interrupted her, “that you lost two million in Moscow.” Is this true?
“And I became three times richer,” said Pierre. Pierre, despite the fact that his wife’s debts and the need for buildings changed his affairs, continued to say that he had become three times richer.
“What I have undoubtedly won,” he said, “is freedom...” he began seriously; but decided against continuing, noticing that this was too selfish a subject of conversation.
-Are you building?
- Yes, Savelich orders.
– Tell me, did you not know about the death of the Countess when you stayed in Moscow? - said Princess Marya and immediately blushed, noticing that by making this question after his words that he was free, she ascribed to his words a meaning that they, perhaps, did not have.
“No,” answered Pierre, obviously not finding the interpretation that Princess Marya gave to his mention of her freedom awkward. “I learned this in Orel, and you can’t imagine how it struck me.” We were not exemplary spouses,” he said quickly, looking at Natasha and noticing in her face the curiosity about how he would respond to his wife. “But this death struck me terribly.” When two people quarrel, both are always to blame. And one’s own guilt suddenly becomes terribly heavy in front of a person who no longer exists. And then such death... without friends, without consolation. “I’m very, very sorry for her,” he finished and was pleased to notice the joyful approval on Natasha’s face.
“Yes, here you are again, a bachelor and a groom,” said Princess Marya.
Pierre suddenly blushed crimson and tried for a long time not to look at Natasha. When he decided to look at her, her face was cold, stern and even contemptuous, as it seemed to him.
– But did you really see and talk with Napoleon, as we were told? - said Princess Marya.
Pierre laughed.
- Never, never. It always seems to everyone that being a prisoner means being a guest of Napoleon. Not only have I not seen him, but I have also not heard of him. I was in much worse company.
Dinner ended, and Pierre, who at first refused to talk about his captivity, gradually became involved in this story.
- But is it true that you stayed to kill Napoleon? – Natasha asked him, smiling slightly. “I guessed it when we met you at the Sukharev Tower; remember?
Pierre admitted that this was the truth, and from this question, gradually guided by the questions of Princess Marya and especially Natasha, he became involved in a detailed story about his adventures.
At first he spoke with that mocking, meek look that he now had at people and especially at himself; but then, when he came to the story of the horrors and suffering that he had seen, he, without noticing it, became carried away and began to speak with the restrained excitement of a person experiencing strong impressions in his memory.
Princess Marya looked at Pierre and Natasha with a gentle smile. In this whole story she saw only Pierre and his kindness. Natasha, leaning on her arm, with a constantly changing expression on her face, along with the story, watched, without looking away for a minute, Pierre, apparently experiencing with him what he was telling. Not only her look, but the exclamations and short questions she made showed Pierre that from what he was telling, she understood exactly what he wanted to convey. It was clear that she understood not only what he was saying, but also what he would like and could not express in words. Pierre told about his episode with the child and the woman for whose protection he was taken in the following way:
“It was a terrible sight, children were abandoned, some were on fire... In front of me they pulled out a child... women, from whom they pulled things off, tore out earrings...
Pierre blushed and hesitated.
“Then a patrol arrived, and all those who were not robbed, all the men were taken away. And me.
– You probably don’t tell everything; “You must have done something…” Natasha said and paused, “good.”
Pierre continued to talk further. When he talked about the execution, he wanted to avoid the terrible details; but Natasha demanded that he not miss anything.
Pierre started to talk about Karataev (he had already gotten up from the table and was walking around, Natasha was watching him with her eyes) and stopped.
- No, you cannot understand what I learned from this illiterate man - a fool.
“No, no, speak up,” said Natasha. - Where is he?
“He was killed almost in front of me.” - And Pierre began to tell the last time of their retreat, Karataev’s illness (his voice trembled incessantly) and his death. The village of Strokino (Luzhki churchyard).

Since ancient times, at the Nikitsky churchyard in Luzhki, near the Kasimovskaya road, there was a wooden church of Nikita the Martyr.

A village appeared nearby. Strokino. In 1623 the churchyard and the village were in possession Pokrovsky Monastery in Suzdal.

Since 1764, after the secularization of the monastic estates, the village was governed by the College of Economy; in the 19th century. was under the jurisdiction of the Department of State Property.

In 1850, priest Vasily Iosifovich Velichkin served in the Church of the Great Martyr Nikita. He was born in 1816, in the Moscow province, the son of a sexton.

In 1838 he graduated from the Moscow Theological Seminary with a 2nd class certificate and was ordained as a priest by Metropolitan Philaret to the church of the Luzhki churchyard.

Back in the early 1860s. in the Luzhki churchyard there was a single-altar wooden church of the Martyr Nikitas with a wooden bell tower. The church clergy consisted of a priest, sexton and sexton, and from 1823 also a deacon.

In the parish of the Nikitsky Church in 1855 there were 211 households in which 683 peasants and 759 peasant women lived.

The parishioners were zealous for the church both in winter and in summer. On holidays, up to 300 people visited the church; on weekdays, only those who either commemorated the dead or honored the day of their angel visited the church. Priest Vasily Velichkin reported that all the parishioners of his church were “quite prosperous.” In October 1858, a petition was sent to the Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna Philaret, by the parish priest Vasily Iosifovich Velichkin, with the clergy, church warden and parishioners: “Our parish church of the Great Martyr Nikita, a wooden building, existing for a long time, has fallen into disrepair, and Therefore, we set out to build, instead of the old one, a new stone church in the name of the Holy Great Martyr Nikita, with warm chapels: St. Nicholas and St. Archangel Michael. The estimated cost of building the temple was 20,000 rubles. Funds for construction 1) church sum of 1,500 silver rubles, 2) parishioners voluntarily donated 1,000 silver rubles for church construction, 3) parishioners took upon themselves the obligation to freely deliver materials to the construction site on their carts: brick, rubble, lime, 4) for for the production of bricks, they intend to build wooden sheds, with the consent of the peasants of the village of Strokino, on their land, 5) to burn it, apply to the Moscow Chamber of State Property for permission to use the forest.”

For the construction of the church, a peasant from the village. Aksenovo (Princess M.A. Prozorovskaya-Golitsyna) Spiridon Grigoriev donated 200,000 bricks. By the resolution of the Moscow Ecclesiastical Consistory of April 28, 1858, the construction of a new church in the Luzhki churchyard was allowed, and a charter was issued. The current stone church was built in 1864 “through the diligence of willing donors.” There are 3 altars in the temple: the Holy Great Martyr Nikita, Michael the Archangel And Saint Nicholas of Myra.

A parochial school was opened at the church in its own building “for the establishment in 1899, at its own expense, in the Luzhki churchyard of the Bronitsky district of a parish school and its maintenance from that time.” Pyotr Grigorievich Vrunov in 1901 was awarded the Order of St. Anna, 3rd degree .

Beginning in 1886, for 15 years, he was a church warden and made large contributions to the Church of the Great Martyr Nikita in the Luzhki churchyard.

In the Luzhki churchyard, a parochial school was opened in 1889 through the efforts of the local priest, Fr. Popova.

The school was initially located in a rented house, and in 1903, at the expense of the Bogorodsk merchant Brunov, who was the school’s trustee for some time, a special wooden building, very spacious and comfortable, was built for it.

By January 1, 1909, the school had 39 students. The head of the school since 1903 was priest P.P. Voznesensky, the trustee since 1903 was the peasant K. M. Martynov.

The priests of the Nikita Church taught the Law of God in the zemstvo primary schools of the village. Aksenovo and Khripan.

In 1916, priest Pavel Petrovich Voznesensky served in the Nikitsky Church; at that time he was 50 years old. The son of a psalm-reader, he studied at the Moscow Theological Seminary, from the 3rd grade he was fired for three years as a teacher at a parochial school in the village. Ivoylovo, Ruza district.

In 1891 he was ordained to the rank of deacon at the Nikitsky Church of the Luzhki churchyard. He taught Church Slavonic language and church singing at a local parochial school.

In 1903, he was ordained a priest at the Nikitsky Church, taught at the Aksenovsky (from 1903 and Khripansky (from 1909)) zemstvo primary schools. Father Pavel and his wife Yulia Yakovlevna (born 1866) had six children: Nikolai (born 1892 , graduated from the Synodal School in 1907, from the Moscow Theological Seminary in 1913), Alexey, Vasily (born 1895, graduated from the Perervinsky Theological School in 1911, and in 1917 from the Moscow Theological Seminary), Fyodor, already in Soviet times was the rector of the Nikitsky Church, Maria, Alexander. Deacon Nikolai Ivanovich Orlov and psalm-reader Ivan Ivanovich Karpov co-served Father Paul, the church warden was Kodraty Maksimovich Martynov.

In 1912, the Luzhki churchyard and village. Strokino are united into one whole - p. Strokino.

Church of the Great Martyr Nikita of Gotf (Nikita Church) in the village of Luzhki - Temple of the Russian Orthodox Church near the village of Strokino, Ramensky district.

According to the Scribe Book, in 1623-1624. The church in the name of the martyr Nikita was located in the Kamensky camp of the Moscow district “in the Luzhok churchyard, in the estate of the Pokrovsky nunnery in Suzdal, wooden” and stood “without singing.” Nikitsky Church in the village of Strokino was built on a wetland. Popular legend says that once upon a time an Icon of the Holy Great Martyr Nikita was discovered in a juniper bush in a swamp. Local residents wanted to build a church nearby on a more elevated place, but the icon miraculously returned back. The temple was erected where the image of the Saint originally appeared. The earliest information about the Church of the Holy Martyr Nikita dates back to the beginning of the 17th century. The church was wooden and stood without singing. In the mid-19th century, the church fell into disrepair. The parishioners, led by the church warden, began to bother about the construction of a new stone church. A new church, which still exists today, was built by 1864 with two winter chapels: in the name of St. Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas. The carved, gilded and carmine-painted iconostasis has been preserved. The temple received a large bell weighing 209 pounds 10 pounds. Through the efforts of the clergy, by 1893, their own wooden houses were built for the clergy. There were buildings attached to the church: a parochial school, a gatehouse and a barn.

Nikitsky Church was transformed at the beginning of the 20th century. to the center of education for the entire region. Not far from the temple there is a source of the Holy Great Martyr Nikita, where water blessing prayers were previously served. At the beginning of the 20th century, Nikitsky Church became a center of education and a house of prayer for parishioners from all over the area. They gathered for services on Great Holidays. The Great Martyr Nikita, Michael the Archangel and St. Nicholas were especially revered.

The first persecution of the Nikita Church began after the Bolshevik revolution. In 1922, a large silver crucifix and valuable icon frames were confiscated from the church. The bronze domes were also sent for melting down. The 209-pound bell was broken by the Bolsheviks. In such a situation, the life of the Nikitsky parish became very difficult. Many local residents were afraid to go to the temple. But the names of those parishioners who saved the church from closure and destruction have reached us. One of them is the Servant of God Elizabeth. After the war, the Nikitsky Church is again under the close attention of the authorities. Soviet officials would like to completely stop the life of the church; for them, closed churches were the best, and the most trustworthy priests were those who did not pray or preach.

The mid-80s saw a revival of the Church of the Great Martyr Nikita in the village of Strokino and spiritual life in the area. Young people flocked to the temple. Through the efforts of the abbots and parishioners, the exterior of the temple was restored, the domes were gilded, the wall paintings and wooden carvings of the iconostases were restored. All these works would have no meaning if there were no main thing - worship and true prayer. More than three and a half centuries ago, the first Nikitsky Church was erected. It becomes bright and joyful for every Orthodox heart when, around the bend of the road, the snow-white Church of the Holy Great Martyr Nikita emerges from the forest.

One of the attractions of the city of Ramenskoye is the city park, founded in 1788 by Prince Pavel Mikhailovich Volkonsky. Its center is Lake Borisoglebsk, in the waters of which the Borisoglebskaya (18th century) and Trinity (19th century) churches are reflected.

At the beginning of the 17th century in the Moscow district, in the palace parish of Ramenice, on the churchyard near Borisoglebsky Lake, there was a wooden church in the name of St. Boris and Gleb, built in 1628 instead of a dilapidated temple. The churchyard existed until 1911.

In 1710, the village of Novorozhdestveno (now the city of Zhukovsky), with its villages, was granted eternal possession by Peter I to Count Ivan Alekseevich Musin-Pushkin. On the opposite shore of the lake, by the official order of the Synod in 1725, he was ordered to build in the village of Novotroitskoye (as the city of Ramenskoye was then called) instead of the old wooden church - a new stone one in the name of the Holy Trinity; by 1730 it was erected from brick on a high white the plinth is made of limestone and is consecrated. In 1852, a new five-domed church was erected nearby at the expense of the merchant Pavel Semenovich Malyutin, owner of the Ramenskaya textile factory. The throne in the name of the Holy Trinity was moved to it, and in the “small” one there remains a throne in the name of St. Boris and Gleb.