Rodnya (village)

On the river bank Volga near the village Relatives preserved a state natural monument - the remains of a park with an area of ​​about 3 hectares (2000 x 150 m.). On the slope of the root bank, individual oaks , lindens , spruce , and birch have been preserved. In the central part there are sparse birches 20–25 m high with trunks 30–50 cm in diameter, as well as a young apple orchard. Spruce trees with an unusual crown shape deserve special attention: the lateral branches bend upward and form second-order trunks. The park, located on a high bank, is a decoration of the landscape and serves as a place of organized cultural recreation for the local population.

Near the village of Rodnya there are barrows of Slavic origin, which date back to the 9th-10th centuries.

In 1844, a stone Assumption Church was built in the village, with funds from the local landowner Evgraf Nikolayevich Lansky. The temple has two chapels : the right - in the name of the Epiphany of the Lord and the left - in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker . The painting in the church was done by the old artist P.E. Zhukov in 1903. Near the church there is a stone chapel (there is still a wooden one in the village) of Ilya the Prophet , built by the peasant Artemy Zhukov, in memory of the deliverance of Emperor Alexander II from attempts in 1866 and 1867. This chapel was built on the site of the former Elias Church .

The village of Rodney was first mentioned in the Tver Chronicle under 1368, when the prince “ Andrei Olgerdovich fought Harvach and Roden ”. Rodninskaya fortress was a barrier on the western border of the Tver Principality . In the 16th century, Rodney was referred to as a palace village. In 1608, there was a fierce clash of local residents with Polish-Lithuanian invaders. In the 19th century, Rodney was owned by three landowners.

In 1839, at the river. Volga , while cleaning the ancient well, at a depth of about 10 meters, a stone hatchet, two stone arrows and a stone knife were found. Excavations carried out here have revealed traces of the Fatyanovo culture . The skeletons of dead people in a crouched position, which is a typical phenomenon for the Bronze Age, were found in burial grounds.

In 1859, Rodnya was the owner's village, which was part of the Rodninskaya volost of Zubtsovsky district: 62 households, 456 inhabitants (228 men and 258 women).

In 1867, a rural zemstvo one-class school was opened in the village, with a term of study of 4 years. The school trained 32 students (28 boys and 4 girls).

Data for 1886: in s. Relatives - 105 farms, 622 people lived (298 men and 324 women). Near the village there was a birch forest and alder shrub, up to 3 acres. The village was divided into 4 parts.

In the first part of the village, peasants are the former owners of the landowner Sukhachev, 73 revision souls in total, and as many land plots. Each arable peasant field was divided into 25-30 “horses”. "Kon" was divided into 6 "shares", "share" - 12 souls. The land was cultivated with iron harrows . Peasant society annually bought cabbage for 5 rubles. This part of the village belonged to the wastelands of Glinsky, Gorshikovo and Stepurino. The peasants used their firewood to heat the hut and barn.

The second part of the village is located on level ground, near the river. Volga, which approached the manor lands. The peasants are the former landowner Eugraph of Lansky, 36 revision souls in total, and so many peasant allotments. Two plots were bought by the peasant Makarii Kuzmin in 1888. Peasants rented land from the landowner Benzeman for 10 years, 170 acres for arable land, for which they paid 250 rubles to the whole society. in year. The peasants of this unit belonged to the wastelands of Chernichkino, Wet Pozhnya, Morshikhino and Voronovo. The Voronovo Wasteland is an endowment land that was sold to Sergey Vasiliev for 1000 rubles. “This land is located in two places: the wasteland Roundwood 5 tithing 819 fathoms and the wasteland Voronovo 14 tithing 554 fathoms . There is land bought from the entire village in the Loktevo wasteland at 20 miles , which is called Wet Land, only 2 tithing 842 fathoms, Round Pine 2 tithing 1094 fathoms , the village of Zaprusovets and the village of Davydovo 5 dessiatines . ” All 3 fields stretched a narrow strip to the northeast. Haymaking was divided by lot. The peasants Vinogradov had bees. Forge at Yakov Alekseev, which brought in revenue per year by 25 rubles. The inn at Evgraf Fedorovich Vinogradov. The whole peasant society borrowed money from the landowner Volynsky 800 rubles. at 11% and Sergei Vasiliev 500 rubles. at 10%, "give in mutual responsibility." To heat the hut and barn, peasants bought firewood and shrubs from different landowners.

In the third part of Rodney, peasants lived - the former owner of the landowner Benzeman. This part was connected to the village of Zaprusovo. The estates of both villages were located separately through a stream. Located on the high bank of the river. Volga, and Zaprusovo - a little in the valley, near the river. Prusovo. The subsoil on the mountain is clayey, under the mountain of sandy loam. Water on the ground stagnates. There are 35 revision souls in total, and as many land plots. 2 plots were bought from the peasant Maria Nikiforova. The land was cultivated with iron harrows , there was 1 iron plow . In Zaprusov there was a petty shop of the peasant Yakov Vasiliev. To heat the hut and barn, peasants bought firewood from different landowners for 10 rubles. per year per homeowner.

In the fourth part of the village lived peasants - the former owner of Prince Gagarin. This part was located on the high bank of the Volga River. The fields around are all mountainous. The soil is sand, the subsoil is clay. Water on the earth does not stagnate for long. There are 79 revision souls and as many land plots. The peasants, together with the village of Sukhoplachevo, had 440 acres and 5 acres of uncomfortable land. And when they went free, they received up to 492 tithes , that is, 124 tithes of gift. “At the estate, 4 tithes were cut off, which were sold to the owners of the peasant Eustache Martynov. They have a deed of purchase: Alexei Okhotnikov in the wasteland of Alyoshino 28 dessiatins and Anatoly Burenkov in the wasteland of Alyoshino 18 dessiatins . Near the fourth part of the village of Rodney were the wastelands of Kostinovo, Varaksino, Loktevo, Petrovo, Kleshchino and Khokhlovo. Only one peasant had 4 hives. To heat the hut and barn, the peasants bought firewood from different landowners for 10-15 rubles. per year per homeowner. The buildings of Rodney were not crowded, all wooden. Children studied at a local volost school, for which they paid the teacher 45 kopecks each. from the student.

Many men earned money as caulkers in St. Petersburg , and also “go to Kronstadt , where they work on state-owned ships. Daily fee 90 kopecks. - 1 rub. Kharchi and his apartment. She is hired by an artel person 6. They pay 1 rub. 75 kopecks per person; cooks up the mistress. They work 5.5 months from April 1 to September; per month receive 22-24 rubles. They are also hired to St. Petersburg to the contractor on a monthly basis for 10–18 rubles. on host grub; 45-100 rubles are received at the finished content. ”

At the end of the XIX century. in s. Relatives were three abandoned cemeteries: at the end of the village - Ilyinskoe, according to the former church of the prophet Elijah; in the middle - in the possession of the landowner Benzeman - Borisoglebskoe and on the river. Volga - Resurrection.

In the academic year 1910–1911, 82 students (47 boys and 35 girls) studied in the new school building. Galina Fedorovna Izmailova and Natalya Vasilievna Sintsovskaya worked as teachers at this time.

After the revolution, the church was closed.

According to the census of 1926 with. The relatives were part of the Staritskaya volost, the Rodninsky village council. There were 168 peasant farms in the village, 802 people lived (367 men and 435 women), in addition, 77 people lived on the side (45 men and 32 women). 1021 tithes of land were assigned to the village, including: arable land 548 acres , hayfields 273 acres , other lands 200 acres . All arable land was divided into 3–6 fields. In peasant society, there were 1 linen box and 8 winnowers. In the village worked 1 mill with an oil engine. In the local industry worked: 4 sheepskin, 2 shoemakers, 1 tailor, 1 carpenter, 1 blacksmith, 1 felter.

In 1929, in the village. Relatives at the village gathering was organized by the Iskra collective farm . Philip Mikhailovich Serumkin was elected its first chairman.

In 1933, a kindergarten was opened in the village of Rodnya.

According to the 1936 All-Union Census, 404 people lived in Rodn, 101 peasant farms were on the Iskra collective farm. During this period of time, Pavel Petrovich Arsenyev worked as the collective farm chairman. There was a reading room in the village, in which there were 190 books, 1 librarian worked. In the Rodninskaya rural incomplete secondary school, 308 students studied. The school had 10 teachers.

In 1939, there were 109 residential buildings in the village, in which 464 people lived. Workers in Rodn: a wind farm, a flax mill, a creamery, a general store, a pharmacy, a bakery, a post office, a kindergarten, and an incomplete secondary school.

On January 14, 1942, an incomplete secondary school was restored. After the village was liberated from the Nazi occupiers, the Iskra collective farm began working again, and Anna Dmitrievna Ovchinnikova was elected its chairman.

On April 25, 1944, a savings bank agency was opened at the Rodninsky post office. In the same year, the Assumption Church began to work again, the priest sent served in the church until 1949. After that, the church was closed. Until recently, the collective farm used the temple as a granary.

In 1945, in the village of Relatives restored the hospital with 15 beds: first, it was placed in a private house, and later, after renovating the master's house, they transferred it there.

In 1946, a pharmacy began to work again in the village of Rodnya.

In 1950, the village was the center of the Rodninsky Village Council, which included the following settlements: Relatives and dd. Grigorevo , Elizavetkino, Ordino , Ryabtsevo. 465 people lived in Rodn and there were 169 households. In the same year, there was a union of the Iskra, Victory collective farms (dd. Grigorevo and Ryabtsevo) and Udarnik (d. Ordino) into one collective farm named after A. Andreev with the economic center at the village of. Relatives. On June 10, at a general meeting of members of the new collective farm , the charter of the agricultural artel was adopted. On February 13, 2864.52 ha were approved for collective land use by the collective farm . Ivan Yakovlevich Yakovlev was elected Chairman of the united collective farm .

On October 8, 1957, the A. A. Andreev collective farm was renamed the Iskra collective farm . By the decision of the general meeting of collective farmers of December 25, 1958, the Volga collective farms (dd. Bakanovo, Degunino , Leshkovo, Krutitsy, Novo-Sergino) and Iskra merged into the Volga agricultural cooperative with the economic center at s. Relatives.

In 1959, through the efforts of the chairman of the Volga collective farm , Ivan Kuzmich Yadryshnikov, a radio began to work in the village and light was broadcast.

By the decision of the general meeting of collective farmers of January 11, 1960, the collective farms “Progress” (d. Vasilyevskoye, Shelkovo, Sukhoplachevo, Ivanovskoye, Znamenskoye, Zhuravlevo, Navodnikovo and the village of Zhuravlevo) and “Volga” merged into the Volga agricultural cooperative with the economic center with . Relatives.

On January 11, 1965, the Rodninskaya Hospital was reorganized into a feldsher-midwife station.

In 1970, the village was still the center of the Rodninsky Village Council, which included the following settlements: Relatives and dd. Bakanovo, Vasilyevkoe, Grigorevo , Degunino , Zhuravlevo, Znamenskoye, Ivanovo, Krutitsy, Leshkovo, Navodnikovo, Ordino , Shelkovo, and the village of Flax Plant. In sec. Relatives lived 320 people, there were 126 households.

In 1972, an extension was built near the main school building, into which the secondary school moved.

In 1977 Rodninskaya hospital was closed. Medical care began to lead a first-aid post. The doctors Anatoly Nikolaevich Palkin and Maria Petrovna Lukina, who had been working in the hospital since 1945, left a good memory of themselves.

In 1981, in the village of Relatives began to work kindergarten "Sun".

In 1983, Rodninskaya Bakery was closed.

In 1989, the village of Rodnya was the center of the village council, there were 131 households in the village, 282 people lived.

On January 1, 2005, in the village of Relatives: 101 yard, 233 residents, the central estate of the Volga collective farm, an incomplete secondary school, a club, a library, a first-aid post, a post office, several shops.

In 2015, the recreation center "Bosporus in Rodn" began its active work, on the banks of the Volga there are a cafe and a hotel.

Tver village. Staritsky district: Encyclopedia of Russian villages. - Staritsa, 2007.T.II. - 332 p. ISBN 978-5-91229-007-7 (Publishing House "Staritskaya Typography") A. Shitkov

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