Korostyn

The area where the village is located today, like the entire coast of Lake Ilmen, has been inhabited by people since ancient times. This is indicated, in particular, by the results of excavations of the late 19th century near Korystyn. During archaeological surveys led by A. Putyatin and N. V. Myatlov, several round flat elevations lined with stones were discovered on the lake. These were ancient pagan burials - reapers .

The official history of Korostyn begins in 1471, when, after the Battle of Shelons lost by the Novgorodians, in Korostyn, after the end of the Moscow-Novgorod war in 1471, the Korostyn peace was concluded between Ivan III and Novgorod the Great , after which the Novgorod Republic finally lost its independence ^[4] .

In the future, the history of the village can be traced according to reports of scribe books of the XV — XVII centuries.

The records of 1498 indicate the names of the Novgorod boyars who owned lands and villages in the Korostyn graveyard . Subsequently, the lands of Novgorod feudal lords were confiscated in favor of the Moscow prince.

In 1499, the lands of the Korostynsky churchyard were in common possession of the Moscow prince and landowner Dmitry Trusov. At the same time, the wooden church of Great Nikola was first mentioned.

In 1629, the Korostyn churchyard belonged to the village of Golino .

In the book of 1645-1646, the yard of the gardener Ofromeiko Selivetov, nicknamed Murza , is mentioned. Selivetov received a state salary and was engaged in three state-owned gardens, delivering fruit and pastille to the princely table. At the beginning of the 18th century, Korostyn was still a palace estate. At the same time, as directed by Catherine I , the construction of the stone Assumption Church began.

In the 1820s, military settlements were actively created in the Novgorod province . In Korostyn, the headquarters of the settled regiment of Barclay de Tolly is located . The construction of new facilities for military settlers required a large amount of building materials. By order of Count Arakcheev in Korostyn large quarries were arranged.

On July 12, 1831, an uprising of military settlers began in Staraya Russa. Three days later, it reached Korostyn. To subdue the rebels, two battalions with guns arrived under the command of General Tomashevsky. The uprising was crushed and subsequently its participants were brought to a military field court. Only in the districts of the Old Russian destiny of military settlements 129 people were killed to death. The instigators of the riot were sent to Siberia for hard labor .

Nevertheless, the result of the uprising was the reorganization of the districts of military settlements (including Korostynsky) in the district of arable soldiers, and then, in 1857, these districts were liquidated.

Lieutenant General of Aviation Viktorin Ivanovich Lebedev was born in the village.

During the Great Patriotic War, Korostyn a month after the invasion of Germany in the Soviet Union was occupied by German troops. The battles with the Nazis in 1942-1943. parts of the 11th Army of the North-Western Front fought in this area. In Korostyn itself, in addition to the regular parts of the Wehrmacht , there was a German hospital and a sanatorium .

The village has a secondary school ^[5] , a post office, and a shop.

Streets of Korostyn ^[6] :

• Cherry
• Lakeside
• Green
• Park
• Youth
• Garden
• New
• School

There is a Travel Palace in the village (it is often mistakenly associated with the name of Emperor Alexander I). The small house was built by architect V.P. Stasov and is a two-story building with a stone first and wooden second floor. First of all, it is noticeable by the presence on the facade of a loggia with four wooden Doric columns.

A barn made of cobblestone and brick has been preserved near the palace.

In 2017-2019, as part of a joint project of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development “Preservation and Use of Cultural Heritage in Russia”, restoration work of the Travel Palace was carried out with the adaptation of the architectural monument to the object of the museum display. The building was renovated in 1953 for use as a hostel, and in the late 1980s, restoration work was not completed, and the facility was mothballed ^[7] .

In Korostyn there is also an active church of the Assumption of the Virgin, built in 1726 by order of Catherine I. The project was designed by Italian architect Gaetano Chiaveri in 1721. Throughout its history, the temple has not undergone significant restructuring, it functioned as an Orthodox parish also in Soviet times.

On the main street there is an obelisk to Soviet soldiers who fell in the Great Patriotic War.

In the summer of 1997, a German military cemetery with the graves of soldiers who died in the vicinity of the village and died in the hospital in 1941-1944 was put in order on the Korostynsky shore.

• Secretary L.A., Filippova L.A. According to Priilmen. Guide. Lenizdat, 1991

• Korostyn
• Assumption Church in the village of Korostyn (inaccessible link)
• Church of the Assumption in the village of Korostyn