Cherkutino

The village is located 60 km northwest of the regional center of Vladimir on the highway P75 Vladimir - Kolchugino and 27 km from the regional center of Sobinka .

In the XVII century the village of Cherkutino was a palace estate; in the 18th - 19th centuries, the surnames of the Saltykov princes belonged. In the books of the patriarchal government order under 1628 and the scribe Vladimir books "scribe Prince Grigory Shekhovsky" of 1645-46, the church of the holy wonderworkers Cosmas and Damian is recorded; this church is mentioned in the census books of Vladimir in 1703 . Kozmo-Damian wooden church in the village of Cherkutin existed until 1727 ; this year the stone church was built in the zeal of the owner of the village and parishioners and the church was consecrated in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with a chapel in the name of the holy disinterested Kosma and Damian. The stone church in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built in 1801 by the owner of the village, Prince N.I. Saltykov . There are three thrones in it: in the cold - in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the warm aisles - in the name of the disinterested Cosmas and Damian and the holy apostles Peter and Paul. The church has a stone bell tower. In addition, there were two more churches in the village: the Assumption Cemetery and the attributed Nikolaev. In 1736, the landowner, adjutant of the Life Guards of the cavalry regiment, Prince Ivan Alekseev Saltykov, instead of the dilapidated wooden Nikolaev Church, built a stone in honor of the same Saint. The parish consisted of a village and 25 villages. In 1893, all yards in the parish - 596, male souls - 2020, female - 2242.

In the village of Cherkutin there were two schools: the Zemstvo and the parish, opened in 1885; the latter was placed in a separate house built by Prince Saltykov ^[2] .

Until the beginning of the XVIII century it was part of the Vladimir district of the Zamoskovsky Territory of the Moscow kingdom ^[3] .

In the late XIX - early XX centuries, the village was the center of Cherkutinsky volost of Vladimir district .

Since 1929, the village was the center of the Cherkutinsky Village Council of the Stavrovsky District , from 1965 and until 2005 - the Sobinsky District .

Migrants

In the 1770s , the owner of the villages, N. I. Saltykov , resettled his peasants from Cherkutino in the Voronezh province , where he founded the village of Novocherkutino .

Famous People

• Golyachkov Leonid Dmitrievich (1919-1993) - Hero of the Soviet Union. Member of the Great Patriotic War .
• Zotov, Dmitry Ivanovich (XIX century) - a peasant , churchwarden (in 1885 he built a stone chapel at his own expense, in 1890 he built a zemstvo school, surrounded the cemetery with a stone fence). ^[12]
• Nikitin, Alexander Andreevich ( 1823 - 1867 ) - Russian merchant and statesman.
• Nikitin, Nikita Alekseevich (1783-1866), founder of the Vladimir merchant family Nikitins.
• Saltykov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1736-1816), military and statesman, Field Marshal. He had a manor in Cherkutino.
• Speransky, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1772-1839) - public figure and statesman of the times of Alexander I and Nicholas I, reformer and lawmaker. Born in the village.

• The bell tower (1801) of the current church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
• The cemetery church, consecrated in honor of the Assumption of the Virgin (1798, destroyed).
• Unknown chapel at the cemetery (1885, not preserved) and the former Assumption Church (not preserved), date of construction between approximately the end of the 19th century.
• Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (1736).
• The Saltykov estate ensemble (1730s); in the 20th century, the second floor was built on instead of the estate mezzanine. For many years, an orphanage first functioned in it, then Cherkutinsky neuropsychiatric boarding school.
• Sister's House M.M. Speransky (presumably) (street Speransky (Soviet), 18).
• Peasant House (st. Soloukhina, 34).
• Monument to those killed in the Great Patriotic War.

• V.A. Soloukhin about the village of Cherkutino (neopr.) . lubovbezusl.ru . Date of treatment February 2, 2019.
• Razumov V. Manor Cherkutino, Vladimir region, Sobinsky district (Neopr.) (2013). Date of treatment February 2, 2019.
• Folk catalog of orthodox architecture
• Virtual city Vladimir