D dreamers. Snovitsy village. Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

In the book “Bibliography of the Vladimir Province” for 1905, two documents are mentioned, numbered 296 and 297, respectively, which characterize some historical moments:

At the request of the brethren, depositors and parishioners of the Synoidal Snovitsky Monastery - about the appointment of the hieromonk of the St. Petersburg Alexander Nevsky Monastery Matthew Golovashkin as abbot, with the deduction of this monastery from its registration with the Synoidal Bogolyubov Monastery. March 28, 1727 - April 18, 1730. Description document and affairs of St. Synod, vol. 7, from no. 122.

On the restoration of independence of the Snovitsky Monastery. August 2, 1727. Full collection regulation and spacer according to Vedas. Orthodox confession vol. 6, no. 2015.

Since ancient times, a monastery existed on the site of the parish church. In the spiritual letter of the Simonovsky monk Andrian Yarlyk, certified by the village. Metropolitan Jonah in 1461, the Snovitsky monastery is called metropolitan, and in the charter of Grand Duke John III in 1504, this monastery was given no jurisdiction. The monastery was governed first by abbots, and then by archimandrites, and had 750 peasants. Abolished in 1764

It is unknown when the existing stone church was built. The church is two-story; formerly there were cells below and covered passages around the church on three sides; Now these passages are broken, and on the northern side a chapel church was built in them in 1758 under Anthony, Archbishop of Vladimir and Yaropolch, as can be seen from the inscription on the temple cross.

In connection with the church, a high bell tower was built on the western side: its bottom is quadrangular, its middle is octagonal and its top is hipped. Two inscriptions have been preserved on the bells: - “in the summer of 7149 (1641) this bell was exchanged in the Volodymyr district for the Snovitsky Monastery of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary under Abbot Euphemia, and Elder Macarius gave three rubles to repair it”; - “in the summer of 7149 Ivan Fedorovich Sobolev placed a bell in the Snovitsky Monastery.”

The interior of the temple has by now, due to various amendments, lost its ancient character to a significant extent. There are three altars in the church: the main one, on the top floor - in honor of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Above this throne is a canopy on iron chains depicting the coronation of the Mother of God. On the same floor, in the former gallery, there is a throne in honor of St. Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess in 1758; the third aisle is warm - in honor of the conception of John the Baptist, it was built on the lower floor, in the former fraternal cells.

Among the sacred objects of antiquity, the church has preserved: an antimension for the throne of the temple in honor of St. Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess. The antimension does not have the bishop’s handwritten signature and does not indicate the church where it was consecrated; in the lower aisle there is a linen antimension on which is printed: “this antimension... has the power to officiate in the church of the honorable prophet John the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, which is in the Snovitsky Monastery. Officiated by Pavel, Bishop of Vladimir and Murom in 1764.”

Church documents are kept intact: copies of parish registers from 1803 and confessional paintings from 1828. The church has land: about 1 dessiatine of estate land, 30 dessiatines of arable land. and haymaking 3 des. Until 1876, the church of the abolished Snovitsky monastery had a special parish and a special clergy; in the same year, the Ascension Church in the village of Snovitsy with its parish was assigned to it. Thus, one united parish was formed at the Annunciation Church. Clergy staff: priest and psalm-reader.

V.G. Dobronravov, V.D. Berezin “Historical and statistical description of churches and parishes of the Vladimir diocese” issue 1. Gub. mountains Vladimir, Typo-Lithography V.A. Parkova, 1893

There is a legend, recorded in a number of sources of the 19th century, which claims that Tsar Ivan the Terrible stopped in Snovitsy in 1552, going on his last, victorious Kazan campaign. And as if resting, the sovereign saw a dream in which he beat the Kazan Tatars and captured their capital city. The dream came true, and, returning to Moscow, Ivan Vasilyevich ordered the founding of a monastery in Snovitsy and the construction of a stone temple in it. According to this legend, the toponym Snovitsy (Dreamers) itself recalls the prophetic dream of the Terrible Autocrat. The will of the elder Simonov monastery Adrian Yarlyk has been preserved, in which there is a mention of the Snovitsky monastery: “Yes, I ordered you to give to your father Archimandrite Afanasy according to your soul... to the Snovitsky monastery a metropolitan ruble. Summer 6968” (1460 from the Nativity of Christ). Thus, it turns out that the Snovitsky monastery existed in 1460 - almost a century before the third Kazan campaign of Ivan the Terrible and was metropolitan.

It is reliably known that in 1640, on the very spot where the stone church now stands, its wooden predecessor stood. In the second half. XVII century it was replaced by a stone temple, which, after numerous reconstructions and rebuildings, has survived to this day. Pre-revolutionary sources list a number of relics kept in the Annunciation Cathedral before the Bolshevik defeat. Among them are contributions from local nobles the Sobolevs; In addition, next to the temple there was their family cemetery, deposits of the nun Elena, the former Tsarina Evdokia Feodorovna, the first wife of Peter I, and finally deposits from the time of Patriarch Joachim, who occupied the primatial department from 1674 to 1690. It is known that for the consecration of new stone churches, high church and state authorities, as a rule, donated liturgical literature and precious utensils to the churches. The 1676 service books mentioned in pre-revolutionary books were precisely such gifts for this church.

Being a metropolitan monastery, the Snovitsky monastery was under the protection and tutelage of the Moscow metropolitans before the establishment of the patriarchate. A variety of benefits are recorded in the surviving metropolitan charters of that time. Several small monasteries were assigned to the Snovitsky monastery. There were salt boilers at Sol Velikaya near Yaroslavl. The monastery was visited by the first wife of Peter I, Evdokia Lopukhina, who was forcibly tonsured as a nun by her husband, and who lived in the Suzdal Intercession Monastery not far from Snovitsy. In 1725, the monastery underwent its first abolition, or rather, it was assigned to the Bogolyubov Monastery, where the small brethren were transferred along with Abbot Victor. All the significant monastery shrines and relics also “moved” there, after which the Annunciation Cathedral was literally orphaned. True, not for long - in 1727 the Snovitsky monastery was restored on the initiative of A.D. Menshikov. During secularization in 1764, the Snovitskaya monastery was closed again, and the Church of the Annunciation was designated as a parish church.

Until the 19th century, the covering of the temple remained covered with mosquitoes (traces of mosquitoes are still preserved on the facades of the main quadrangle). As a result of the “renovation,” the mosquito roof was eliminated and replaced with a characteristic “utilitarian” hipped roof. After the revolution of 1917, the ancient temple, which was already over two hundred years old, was desecrated and closed. Soon it was not a warehouse, not a club, not a workshop, but residential apartments. The residents, however, occupied only the first floor - for the simple reason that it was heated. The bell tower turned into a formal hayloft, where hay was stored for livestock. During the Great Patriotic War, a military unit was located on the territory of the former monastery. At the end of the war, it was removed from here, returning the useful “space” to the residents. At a time when people started talking about the need to protect the monuments of the past, the Annunciation Church was restored, correcting only the horrific appearance of the building, which did not stop him in the 1980s. to be left to the mercy of fate. The first floor was littered with garbage, the windows were gaping, and on the second floor, in the former Simeon-Anninsky chapel, there was, by and large, no roof. In this state, the Annunciation Church was returned to the believers in 1990.

In the currently operating temple, the only relic from the pre-revolutionary decoration of the church has miraculously survived to this day - this is a sculptural carved image of the “Crucifixion of Jesus Christ” in the lower aisle of the Annunciation Church. All the rest are of recent origin. Among modern images, we note the carved icons in the lower church, which invariably attract the attention of visitors - with their good artlessness, artistic unpretentiousness and religious reverence of execution. They were created by a parishioner of the Annunciation Church, a former famous athlete. The same amateur artist also painted the upper summer church. In conclusion, let us turn to a quote from the famous expert on Russian architecture N.N. Voronin from his book “Vladimir, Bogolyubovo, Suzdal, Yuryev-Polskoy” (M., 1967): “And in this abandoned building in the wilderness, the amazing sensitivity of ancient Russian builders to the beauty of the landscape, the ability to choose a “red and slender place” for construction was revealed.

Magazine "Orthodox Temples. Travel to holy places." Annunciation Church of Snovitsa (Vladimir region). Issue No. 214, 2016

Forgive the sinful fool that I once called Verizino and YuZ-8 an architectural and urban planning disaster. I confess, I was wrong, so cursing modern comfortable housing of the European level, in fact, no, typical poor sleeping bags. But just yesterday I saw the light. Here it is - the most terrible and terrible residential new building in the Vladimir region.

So, meet the area of residential buildings along Zarechnaya Street in the village of Snovitsy! In the nearest suburb of Vladimir! When you get there you will experience pain, horror, suffering and humiliation.

The houses are like warehouses.

Between them there is a complete absence of the slightest improvement, as if just yesterday the troops of the self-proclaimed People's Republic (Snovitsa People's Republic) were conducting artillery shelling here.

And of course, the picture of what is happening is complemented by the persistent smell of shit from the local shit pumper, who stupidly cannot cope with the increased load on her (on the right in the photo).

But first things first, let’s take a walk around this area together and see what’s wrong with it. From a satellite, the area looks quite decent - a small branch from Tsentralnaya Street, the houses are not high-rise anthills. The Sodyshka River flows nearby, and there is a bridge across it that leads to a steep hill with a church and a rural cemetery.

By the way, the view of the area from the cemetery is not that bad.

It would seem that in such a picturesque place, take it and create something beautiful. But no, it didn't work out. They shit themselves so much that it stinks in the literal sense of the word. I honestly searched the Internet for information about this area, about the developer, and judging by the materials that I found, this is a typical Russian story of carelessness, which is why shit like this appears. But a story with a lot of meaning and a couple of very beautiful metaphors.

Even as I approached the first houses, I had a question: why are they lined with paving slabs?!

How could this material be used in the construction of apartment buildings?! It's in bad taste and just looks bad. It would be suitable for a warehouse or production workshop. True, this, of course, is not tile, but rubberized or plastic covering.

Complete lack of any type of improvement. The entire yard is one large parking lot, where, apparently, construction debris was simply leveled to the ground.

Surprisingly, there is a playground here, like the entire area, saturated with pain and humiliation.

Dirt, construction waste...

People, intuitively feeling the need for at least some kind of beauty, do their own landscaping, which in fact only adds touches to this picture of the Snovitsky post-apocalypse.

But then, apparently, the “broken windows” effect worked, seeing all this fucked up around, people began to multiply it through various extensions, hanging satellite antennas, air conditioners and other crap. It looks in the best traditions of Makhachkala squatter construction.

In general, seeing all this around you wonder, did each house have a design or was it built by eye?!

It is sometimes difficult to understand the designer’s logic, as, for example, with this balcony.

Or with such entrances.

There are houses nearby that look a little better, but they benefit solely from the backdrop of the “red horror”.

Now the salt - the general atmosphere in this area is complemented by the notes of shit in the air, as if hinting at something. But the point here is that the Snowitz sewerage pumping station was not designed for such a number of new residents.

And then I came across an interesting TV6-Vladimir story from July 2014, where the problem of the stench and constant flooding of these houses with shit was discussed.

This is where we find out that most of the houses were built illegally, quote from a news story:

"Natalya Demina, head of the legal department of MKU Novoaleksandrovskoye: “As for commissioning, it actually did not happen. All houses - property rights were recognized through the court. Accordingly, the administration as such gave the connection to these networks, but taking into account the fact that the residents made no claims."

Those. the developer built who knows what on his plots, the administration of Novoaleksandrovsky (which includes Snovitsy) simply could not control the compliance of the initial permitting documentation with the construction, including the issue with networks. And the most honest and humane court legalized all these buildings.

By the way, the plot also includes the developer of his own person - Mr. Hrant Sahakyan, we will return to him later.

But the fact that an urban planning catastrophe began in Snovitsy has been known for quite a long time, for example, where they talk about complete lawlessness in the construction of these houses and connecting to networks.

Honestly, after everything I had seen and read, I had a desire to look Mr. Sahakyan in the eyes and ask - how and why?! But it's' too late.

On a beautiful and picturesque hill, there is a memorial to Hrant Sahakyan, who passed away on December 31, 2014. The memorial is beautiful, with expensive granite and marble angels. After all, it’s the last refuge; it would be inhumane to decorate it with cheap building materials.

I wouldn’t want to insult the memory of the deceased, and judging by the messages on the forum, they say he was a good man, but Sahakyan left, but the area remained and we will continue to live with him...

As a result, we have an ancient village (first mentioned in the 15th century), a suburb of Vladimir, in which extremely low-quality housing was built, reminiscent of a ghetto-squatter construction with environmental quality at the level of provincial Africa. Honestly, I would exile construction officials who had stolen there without the right to leave. But for now, ordinary people live there.

P.S. As a bonus, I want to show a house located a couple of meters from this area, I don’t know who the developer is there, but the continuity of styles is felt)))

Vladimir region of Russia, part of the Novoaleksandrovskoye rural settlement.
The village is located on the left bank of the Sodyshka River near the P74 Vladimir - Pereslavl-Zalessky highway, 9 km southeast of the center of the settlement of the village of Novoaleksandrovo and 4 km north of the city of Vladimir.
At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, the village was part of the Bogoslovskaya volost of the Vladimir district.
Since 1929, the village was part of the Bogoslovsky village council of the Vladimir region, since 1965 - the center of the Snovitsky village council of the Suzdal region.
Population: in 1859 – 650 people; in 1897 – 799 people; in 1926 – 884 people; in 2010 – 1765 people.

- Selishche 2 (11-13, 14-17 centuries) located on the left bank of the river. Shortness of breath. The area of the monument is approx. 3.5 hectares, height above the river 18-20 m. Old Russian pottery with linear and wavy patterns, dated 12-13 centuries, and late medieval, mainly 14-16 centuries.
- Selishche 1 (14th-17th centuries) located on the territory of the village, on the left bank of the river. Shortness of breath. dimensions approx. 250x200 m, height above the river 4-6 m. The territory of the monument is occupied by buildings. Late medieval pottery, including gray clay from the late 13th-14th centuries. and red clay with polishing of the 14th-15th centuries.

The origin of the name Snovits is not documented anywhere, but a legend has been preserved among the people: when Tsar Ivan the Terrible went to war against Kazan, he stopped at this place and saw the Mother of God in a dream, who predicted to him that he would defeat the Tatars and return with great glory. In gratitude for Heavenly help, the Tsar ordered the founding of a monastery here, which he named Snovitsky after the memory of a dream he had, and the temple - Annunciation, for the good news.
There is another legend. “In ancient times, there lived here a monk nicknamed Snovid, or the Dreamer. Maybe that monk had prophetic dreams. It was after his nickname that the monastery was named Snovitsky, and the village was named Snovitsy.”

In the land survey book of the village of Bogoslova it is mentioned as Sodoshka, in the tables for calculating land in the village. Snovits - like Sotovka, in the list of populated places for 1863 - like Sodochka. And nowadays the pronunciation Sodushka is found.

Snovidsky or Snovitsky-Blagoveshchensky Monastery

In the spiritual letter of Simonovsky monk Andrian Yarlyk, attested to. By Metropolitan Jonah in 1461, the Snovitsky monastery is called metropolitan, and in the charter of Grand Duke John III in 1504, this monastery was given non-jurisdiction, “beyond murder and robbery.”
The village of Snovitsy in the charter of Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich dated 1504 is mentioned among the villages that belonged to the Snovitsky monastery.
In the charter of Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich dated 1504, the village of Volodymyrskoye is mentioned among the villages belonging to the Snovitsky monastery. The village of Vladimirka apparently used to be a village; the church in it could have disappeared for various reasons.

Several white tombstones with half-erased inscriptions indicate that there was a Sobolev family cemetery at the Snovitsky Monastery. These stones were mostly used on the platform of the church porch; on one of them there is an inscription: “In the summer of 7120 (1612) the servant of God reposed... Anastasia Soboleva.”
The monastery was governed first by abbots, and then by archimandrites; later it was under the jurisdiction of S. Prav. Synod.

Investigation into the visits of Queen Evdokia to the patriarchal house Snovitsky monastery

In 1720, the clerk of the Secret Chancellery, Timofey Palekhin, by a personal decree sent from St. Petersburg, from the Secret Chancellery, was ordered to go to Vladimir and Suzdal to conduct.
Hegumen Markel testified that he was appointed abbot to this monastery 4 years ago and that the queen never came under him, but she came before him, he doesn’t know and hasn’t heard from anyone.
Hieromonk Victor testified that the queen came to the monastery once about 7 years ago, in the summer “at half a day”; she came with nuns (he doesn’t remember their number) and ministers, of whom there were about 10 or more (he doesn’t know their ranks and names); was in the church and with her Abbot Vincent (who had already died during the year of the interrogation) served a prayer service, at which none of the monks were present, because the queen’s ministers forbade the monks to leave their cells for church. After the prayer service, the queen, with all the nuns and servants who were with her, was in the abbot’s cell, at which the abbot brought her bread and fish, crucian carp and minnows, “and she, the former queen, ate in the front cell with the nuns, and the ministers ate in another hallway cell, and on that date he was not the abbot of the former queen in that cell, but was in another cell, and those servants were subdued by the former treasurer of that monastery, Varsanofiy Kudryavtsev, who is now living in Moscow at the patriarchal court, and he is Victor on the orders of that the former treasurer Barsanuphius was in exile, went for food and drink.” After lunch the queen left.
Again, one of the main witnesses, the monk Barsanuphius Kudryavtsev, was missing, and again Palekhin had to write to Moscow, this time to the Krutitsky Metropolitan, about the search for Barsanuphius and about keeping him under guard.
“In the Snovitsky monastery under the former abbot Vincent, who died, we were in that monastery passing through, from other monasteries after mass, and sang a prayer service, and in that monastery we dined in the abbot’s cells; in the Nikolaev Volosov monastery under the abbot, about whom they heard that he had been dismissed from the abbess, and lived in the same monastery as a simple monk, near the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which is reputed to be on Kusunovo, which is three or four miles beyond Vladimir, twice, in winter at times, including once on the first day of January, and from there we went to Vladimir, and were in the cathedral church, sang a prayer service, and twice in the summer, at the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which is on the Field; three times in summer time, at the Church of the Kazan Mother of God, which is on Undol, once in the village of Nenashevskoe, which is close to Yuryev, once in winter time.”
“The abbot of the Snovitsky monastery was the former queen before her, and offered bread and fish to living minnows in a ladle; at the same time Ivan Zhirkin was with his wife.”
The monk of the Snovitsky monastery, Victor, testified that during the queen’s stay in the Snovitsky monastery, Ivan Zhirkin “was with her, the former queen, and he dined in the front cell with her servants, and his wife Zhirkina was there and dined with her, the former queen; and after dinner he went with Zhirkin and his wife, the former queen.”
“And after the liturgy, as that former queen came out of the church, and she Praskovya followed her, the former queen, into the tent, and during the meal she stood Praskovya at that table, and that former queen rewarded her with food from her table, and in At one time, the former queen and her husband came into that tent and brought her a bottle of cherry juice, and she, the former queen, gave him vodka from her hands.
The queen visited the Snovitsky monastery before traveling to the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Kusunovo and to the Fedorovsky monastery. The husband sent his man for her after mass soon and Praskovya found the queen after dinner, “and the former queen stood with her in those cells.” After dinner, she and her husband accompanied the queen to Suzdal and spent the night in the cells of the former queen in the Intercession Monastery, and her husband spent the night in the stable yard; the next day she dined in the cells of her former queen and after dinner went to Vladimir.
“According to the report of Archimandrite Joseph of the Volokolamsk Monastery Joachim, about the misconduct of Abbot Matvey Golovashkin. April 13, 1730 - January 22, 1731
The archimandrite reported that on November 12, 1729, hegumen of the Snovidsky monastery of the Vladimir district, Matthew Golovashkin, who was sent to the Josephov Volokolamsk monastery, on April 7, 1730, said the Sovereign’s word for himself.
By order of the Holy Synod, Abbot Matthew was sent to the Governing Senate on April 20, where during interrogation he could show nothing except a quarrel with the monk Dionysius, who said that “the devil sent you here with a decree,” and was sent to the Holy Synod along with a header with letters found on him.
Having written out decrees on December 23, 1713, January 27, 1724, April 16, 1730, 21st rule IV universe for information about word-speakers and informers. Chalcis. cathedral, the jurisdiction of the Senate on July 7, 1725 and the Synodal decision on the exile of the abbot on November 10, 1729, - the Holy Synod on May 16, 1730 determined: to this monk Golovashkin for his trickery and novel idle deceits instead of deprivation of monasticism and exile to the Siberian factories , for the all-prosperous coronation of Her Majesty, inflict cruel punishment with whispers and send him to Bishop Lawrence of Veliky Ustyug to be assigned to a monastery that feeds on fraternal labors until the end of his life; those found in the heading of the letter about the sale of peasant girls by Archimandrite Joachim should be sent to the College of Economics for consideration.
On December 22, 1730, the stewards of the Veliky Ustyug bishop's house reported that the monk Golovashkin had been assigned to the Teplogorsk monastery of the Ustyug diocese.
On January 22, 1731, the soldier who was taking the monk Golovashkin announced in the Holy Synod that that monk was sick for a month in Moscow and then, from beatings, walked quietly, 5 miles a day, eating alms, and in the city of Vladimir he, the soldier, became blind and lived 6 weeks, and then at 10 weeks we reached Ustyug, where he lived for a week and made the return journey at 4 weeks.”
Before its abolition in 1764, the monastery had 750 peasants and a siege court inside the city of Vladimir, as can be seen from the census books of 1715 compiled by Landrat Prince Artemy Stepanovich Ukhtomsky.

Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. With. Snovitsy. 1501 and 1899

In the church of the Snovitsky monastery there is “an image of St. Sergius of Radonezh with an inscription on the plaque behind: “This icon was placed in the monastery in Snovitsky by Semyon Fedorovich Sobolev” (beginning of the 17th century).
The church library of the Snovidsky Monastery contained two service books from 1676; on each of them there is a signature: on one: “On the 27th day of March 185, by decree of the Great Lord, His Holiness Joachim, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, this service book was sent to Volodymyr from the Patriarchal Court of the Ten to the Nativity Monastery under Archimandrite ... Ivanov”; on the other: “This service book was given from Volodymer from his Holiness the Patriarch of the tithing court and Volodymer district in the Snovitsky monastery instead of the old service book without money. Podyachey Yakushko Petrovskaya.” On the back board of the same service book there is an inscription: “this service book of the Snovitsky Monastery was purchased with government money in 1676.”

It is unknown when the existing stone church was built. The church is two-story. Previously, there were cells below, and on three sides above them there were covered passages around the church. They were called "gulbische". On the second floor of the walkway there were four exits and four doors. These passages were broken off long ago, and on the northern side a chapel church was built in them in 1758 under Anthony, Archbishop of Vladimir and Yaropolch.

In 1713, the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in the village of Seslavsky burned down and a new one was built in its place and in 1715 it was consecrated by the abbot of the Snovitsky Monastery, Vincent.
On March 16, 1718, Dosifei, the former archimandrite of the Snovitsky Monastery, died on Red Square in Moscow.
In the beginning. XVIII century The queen from the Suzdal Intercession Monastery came here on a pilgrimage. The church kept a gilded copper altar cross with parts of St. relics donated to the monastery by Queen Evdokia; Altar clothes of crimson velvet were also donated to her.

The church has three altars: the main altar, on the top floor, in honor of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Above this throne there was a canopy on iron chains with the image of the coronation of the Mother of God. On the same floor, in the former covered gallery, a throne was built in honor of St. Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess in 1758. The third chapel - a warm one - in honor of the conception of John the Baptist was built on the lower floor, in the former fraternal cells.
“The altar is divided into three parts: on average, a five-tier stone high place with chairs; the smooth iconostasis with icons of Greek painting testifies to its ancient existence. In the first belt in the bow is the image of the Lord Almighty blessing the Lord, in his left hand with a book open in words; “I command you to love one another”; On the Savior’s robe along the edges are the words: “Come, the blessing of My Father, and inherit the kingdom of God.” On the other side is the image of the Pochaev Mother of God. The royal doors are blind in the marks of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Evangelist with symbols in the crowns and with an inscription above each symbol of the name of the Evangelist; in both stamps the Savior is depicted in a golden tunic on the right side of the royal doors, giving with both hands parts of the holy bread to the six Apostles next to each other, approaching with a reverent look of reverence to accept the bread being taught; above them are inscribed the Eucharistic words: “take, eat”... On the left side is another image of the Savior, giving the cup to the other six Apostles in the same form as on the right side. Above these Apostles there is another similar inscription: “Drink from her, all of you”...
Among the sacred objects of antiquity in the church in the 19th century. were kept: “1) an antimension on the throne of the church in honor of Saint Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess with the inscription: “This antimension was celebrated by the Right Reverend Dosifei, Bishop of Rostov and Yaroslavl. This happened under the power of the most pious sovereign Tsar and Grand Duke Peter Alekseevich of all great and small and white Russia, the autocrat between the patriarchate of the summer of 7220. 2) In the lower aisle there was kept a linen antimension, on which is printed: “this antimension, this is a sacred meal, sanctified by grace The Holy Spirit, for this reason, has the authority to officiate in the church of the venerable, glorious prophet John the Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord, which is in the Snovitsky Monastery. By order of the most pious and autocratic queen, our Empress Ekaterina Alekseevna. Officiated by Paul, Bishop of Vladimir and Murom" in 1764. 3) The Gospel, printed by order of Tsars John and Peter Alekseevich under Patriarch Joachim in 1689. 4) A copper, gilded altar cross, granted to the monastery by Evdokia Feodorovna, the first wife of Tsar Peter I. It contains particles of the relics of many Saints named in the inscription. 5) The service book, printed under Tsar Theodore Alekseevich and Patriarch Joachim in 1676; there is an inscription on it: “This service book of Mr. Volodymer was given from his Holiness the Patriarch of the Tithe Court to the Snovitsky Monastery instead of the old one.”

From the Annunciation Church, the entrance is through the northern doors to the chapel in the name of the Holy Right. Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess... This chapel is very small and does not contain anything remarkable; only in the altar there was an ancient door with mica instead of glass, leading to the altar of the Annunciation Church. On the lower floor, on the right side, there is a warm church, and on the left, under the bell tower and the chapel, the bread room and other monastery cells have been preserved. In the circumference of the church one can see the site of the former stone fence and holy gate. On the left side of the western entrance there is a low bell tower adjacent to the church, the bottom of which is quadrangular, the middle is octagonal with spans, and the top is hipped; like other ancients, it is lower than the church itself. The head of the bell tower, covered with tiles, is crowned with exactly the same ancient cross as was on the Church of the Baptist in the Moscow Kremlin. There are also small crosses attached to its three ends. Of the bells, two are remarkable with the following inscriptions:
1) “in the summer of 7149 (1641) this bell was exchanged in the Volodymyr district for the Snovitsky Monastery of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary under Abbot Euthymius, and Elder Macarius gave three rubles to repair it” (The inscription is cut deep);
2) “in the summer of 7149, Ivan Fedorovich Sobolev placed a bell in the house of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Snovitsky Monastery.”

In 1764 the monastery was abolished.

Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Six miles from the city of Vladimir on the road to the city of Yuryev, when descending from the mountain from Maryinnaya Grove, picturesque surroundings open up. On one side there is a black grove and behind it there are wide fields sown with grain, and on the other side along a high mountain, cut in places by ravines overgrown with dense trees, there is a small village, and at the bottom the small river Sodyshka bends - further along it is the village of Snovitsy , and half a mile away from it, at the tip of a rather large hill that looks like an artificial scree, a vast temple of ancient architecture stands alone - this is the church of the abolished Snovidsky monastery.

Annunciation Church of the abolished Snovitsky Monastery. Engraving. XIX century

Until 1876, the church of the abolished Snovitsky Monastery had a special parish and a special clergy. In the same year, the Ascension Church in the village of Snovitsy with its parish was assigned to it. This is how one united parish was formed at the Annunciation Church.
Clergy staff: priest and psalm-reader.
In the description of the temple compiled by K. Tikhonravov, “remarkable things in the church” are mentioned: 1) two ancient icons “quadruple and one of the Archangel Michael overlaid with a silver base carved crown, with enamel, the other - of the Venerable Semyon of Serbia.” 2) Icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh, ancient letter, with the inscription on the back: “This icon was placed in the monastery in Snovitskaya by Semyon Fed. Sobolev." 3) Tin anti-dorm dish; stamps are visible on the lower part, of which in one there is a coat of arms and under it the inscription “Moscowiae”, and in the other there is a stork and under it 1616. 4) Altar robe of crimson velvet; contribution of “Empress Evdokia Feodorovna, wife of Peter I.”

“The parish school is nestled within the fence of the former monastery. There was an inscription on the school that it was built in memory of October 17, 1888. Passing soldiers broke the board with stones. As a result of this fun, in addition to the broken board, the glass in the school was also broken” (newspaper “Vladimirskaya Zhizn”, 1917).

Church of the Ascension

The village of Snovitsy. Church of the Ascension of the Lord. 1827 and 1857

In the patriarchal salary books of 1628 it appears: “the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the patriarchal estate in the village of Snovitsky of the Snovitsky monastery.” But according to the decree of the patriarch of 1626, tribute was not ordered to be taken from this church. In 1656, a tribute was imposed on the church of the village of Snovitsky “ruble 19 altyn 3 dengi,” but in 1657 it was canceled again. In 1670, in the affairs of the palace order, it was noted: “in the village of Snovitsky there is a wooden church, the cages with porches are covered with planks, and in the Church of Divine Mercy, there are books, and vestments, and all kinds of church utensils and on the bell tower there is a secular structure; near that church there is priest Ivan.”
In 1717, this church burned down; the parishioners did not have the funds to build a new one. Seeing their “ruin from the fire time and poverty, the Ascension Church in the mountains. In Vladimir, priest Andrey and his parish people donated their wooden church in honor of the Ascension of the Lord to the village of Snovitskoye.”
In 1718, the church was transported and consecrated, but not in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, but in honor of the Ascension of the Lord.
This wooden church is in the second floor. XVIII century burned down. On the site of the one that burned down, a wooden church was built again in 1775, purchased in Vladimir from the Ilyinskaya Church.
The stone Ascension Church was built in 1827 at the expense of parishioners. The bell tower was built in 1857. There are two altars in the church: in honor of the Ascension of the Lord and in the chapel - in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - the chapel was built in 1863.

Vladimir district village. Snovits peasant Abram Illarionov Myzin, for donating a bell weighing 100 pounds to the Ascension Church, was given the blessing of the Holy Synod, October 30, 1865.
On February 12, 1889, a modest anniversary celebration took place in the village of Snovitsy - 50 years of service in the priesthood of the village priest. In 1838 he graduated from the VDS in the 2nd category. Since 1839, the priest of the village of Snovitsy, Vladimir district. In 1887 he was dismissed for staff. Died September 2, 1889, age 50; buried in the village of Snovitsy, Vladimir district, at the Annunciation Church.

There is no special clergy at the Church of the Ascension: the services and services were corrected by the clergy of the Annunciation Church. The parish consisted of the village of Snovits, the village of Sushcheva (in the half of the 17th century it belonged to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery), the village of Sushchevoy, the village of Faleleevka (the village of Faleleevka in the 17th century belonged to the Bogolyubov Monastery; the allocation of a special village of Bogolyubka probably occurred later) and the village of Verezina.
In the parish in 1897 there were 615 male souls and 641 female souls, of which 4 souls were schismatic Austrians, 7 souls were non-priests.
The stone bell tower and fence are completely lost.

Church of the Ascension

Belfry of the Church of the Ascension

“In our village there is a “shepherd father” Alexei, who is extremely “spiritual” and his spirit is so cheerful that he is not averse to mischief, especially “when drunk.” He once married the son of a mill tenant. The wedding was rich, there was a lot of wine. “Father” took communion so much that he began to play “Korobushka” on the “seventh tone,” and the sexton pulled it up for him. They led him home by the arms, since his legs were no longer working. All the old women of Snovitsky probably still consider him “God’s anointed” (Newspaper “Prazyv”, June 3, 1923).

Snovitsy is the birthplace of the founder of Soviet television (b. 12/15/27/1885, village of Snovitsy, Vladimir province). He lived here until he was 11 years old. There is a memorial plaque on his house.

One of the descendants of the Pozharsky princes, Ilya Efimovich Pozharsky, in the first half. XIX century lived in the village of Snovitsy. More than one generation of Pozharskys lived here. Among the Pozharskys from Snovitsy there were peasants from the same household who went to Moscow to work. Some of them were “dispossessed” in 1930, others left their place of residence for various reasons. Representatives of this branch of the clan currently live in the Vladimir region, Nizhny Novgorod and other places. The generational painting of the Suzdal branch of the Pozharskys is based on archival materials of the Administration of the Suzdal District of the Vladimir Region, as well as information from the local archive of the village of Snovitsy - according to the metrical records of the Annunciation and Ascension churches of this village.

Sodyshka River

The Sodyshka River was named in honor of the ancient Slavic god Rod-Sedyi, and the settlement on Sungir in those days was called “Sedysh Grad”.

“On February 3, at the Snovitsky interdistrict collective farm school, the first graduation of students - collective farmers, in the amount of 31 people, who received the qualifications of field and livestock breeders, took place.
The master of high yields, the director of the school, the chairman of the Snovitsky collective farm, M.I., delivered a welcoming speech. Fedoseev. He said: “The collective farms are now busy planning agriculture for the whole of 1944. Plan, comrades, so that each collective farm produces as much agricultural produce as possible. Help the Motherland, the front, in the speedy defeat of the German invaders. Now you have the knowledge, try to use it as fully as possible in practice.”
The secretary of the RK VKP(b) comrade spoke about the political tasks now facing collective farms. ON THE. Shmelev.
The second enrollment at the school begins in the coming days.
N. Bogoslovsky." (Newspaper “Prazyv”, February 1, 1944).
“At the Snovitsky interdistrict collective farm school, workers in the cultivation of kok-saghyz are trained in short-term courses. From the collective farms of Seslavsky, Bogoslovsky, Brutovsky and other village councils, sowing kok-sagyz, 28 young collective farmers are studying at the courses” (newspaper “Prizyv”, February 6, 1944).
“On July 27, 1944, farm workers from the villages of Novy, Bogolyubov, Oslavsky, from beyond Klyazma, as well as livestock specialists and veterinarians came to the livestock breeders of the Snovitsky collective farm “Banner of October”. They carefully examined the livestock farm of the Snovitsky collective farm. After the inspection, a meeting of the best livestock breeders of the region took place.
“In our region, the number of livestock has grown, its productivity has increased,” said the head of the district administration, Comrade. Miroshnichenko, - But in a number of farms, the acquisition plan has not been fulfilled, and livestock productivity is low. The task of leading livestock breeders is to develop livestock farming even faster and more widely through mutual exchange of experience, and most importantly, to transfer this experience to lagging farms.
Notable livestock breeder - head. Farms of the Novoselsky collective farm “Dawn of a new life” comrade. Plaksin, as well as the veterinarian of the Golovinsky district, Comrade. Volkov, head Farms of the Oslav collective farm named after Lenin comrade. Kuvaldnya and others said:
- In Snovitsy we saw exemplary farm premises built and under construction. This is good. But we are not satisfied with the livestock feeding system. Here, pasture for grazing is not fully used, which is why we already have to spend a lot of grass to feed livestock in stalls, and prematurely waste the harvest, and not from the farm areas, but from the planned hayfields. This happens because in Snovitsy not only is 24-hour grazing not introduced, but even during daylight hours, due to the fault of the shepherd, the cattle stand in one place for 5-6 hours.
At the meeting, facts about the effectiveness of round-the-clock grazing in the village of Novy were presented.
“25 days after such grazing,” says Comrade. Plaksin, - the milk yield of the dairy herd has gone from 182 liters per day to 423. In recent days we have reached 536 liters.
The meeting participants learned that the livestock breeders of the Alferovsky collective farm “Common Work”, unable to graze livestock around the clock due to lack of land, have widely developed farm areas and lay a lot of high-quality silage, which is given to livestock in the fall.
The meeting drew attention to the great opportunities for the development of livestock farming on the Oslav collective farm (chairman Comrade Kokin). But there the collective farm board still underestimates livestock farming and does not pay attention to it. This explains that the Oslav livestock buildings are the worst in the area.
Discussing the issue of more efficient, but at the same time careful consumption of feed, livestock breeders considered it advisable now, as is done in Alferovo, to reserve feed for farms and hand them over by weight to farm managers.
The meeting participants believe that the best driver for the further development of livestock farming is socialist competition. Here, at the meeting, the Novoselsky and Snovitsky collective farms decided to enter into competition among themselves.
The next excursion of livestock breeders will be organized to the Novoselsky and Alferovsky collective farms.
N. Bogoslovsky" (Newspaper "Privo", No. 154, August 6, 1944, Sunday).

Victory Memorial in the village. Snovitsy

Square in the village Snovitsy

DK s. Snovitsy

Post office s. Snovitsy

Shop, hairdresser

The building of the Snovitsy school was built in 1976 by the teaching staff of the Theological School and became the basis of the educational institution opened on January 12, 1976 in the village of Snovitsy. Based on the decision of the Suzdal regional executive committee and the Suzdal region, the Theological eight-year school was reorganized into the Snovitsky eight-year school.
In 2009, the school was named after its graduate, an internationalist soldier who died in Afghanistan, Stanislav Nikolaevich Belkin (MKOU "Snovitsk School named after S. N. Belkin").
School website: http://snovici.vladmou.ru/o-shkole/istoricheskaja-spravka.html

Birch grove near the village of Sodyshka

Sodyshka village

The village of the Regional Psychoneurological Hospital of the Subsidiary Farm, Snovitsky Village Council, was renamed into the village. Shortness of breath by decision No. 1091 of September 23. 1965 and No. 151 dated 02/14/1966.
The village of Sodyshka is located 26 kilometers from Suzdal. It is part of the Novoaleksandrovskoye rural settlement of the Suzdal region.
The population in 2010 was 548 men. and 401 women, total 949 people.
Nearest settlements: village, Snovitsy.

Monument to those killed in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

River Rpen in the village. Shortness of breath