Krutets (Ustyuzhensky district)

Adjacent to the village was a churchyard of the same name.

In the 16-17th centuries the village and churchyard were called - Pereterg, in the 18-19th centuries - Pereterje.

In the "Scribe book of the camps and volosts of Ustyuzhny Zheleznopolskaya 1628-1630" there is an entry:

"The churchyard Pereterg on the river on the Mologa. And on the churchyard of the Church of Elijah the Prophet and another church Beheading the honest chapters of John Pretteci warm. And in the church there are images and books and vestments and on the bell bell and the whole church building is Votchinnikovo. And on the churchyard: pop Ivan Makoveev, clerk Ignashka Piminov, sexton Timoshka Yeremeyev, mallow Avdotitsa Vasilyeva. "

In the 16-17th centuries, the Pereterg churchyard administratively belonged to the New Camp of Ustyuzhensky Uyezd.

According to the "Memorial Book of the Novgorod Province" for 1858, there were two churches in the village of Pereterye. The first wooden - in the name of the holy Prophet Elijah built in 1780, to which 33 tithes of the earth belonged. The second stone - in the name of the Nativity of Jesus Christ, built in 1852.

At the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX centuries the village administratively belonged to the Krutetsk rural community , the Persian volost of the Ustyuzhensky district of the Novgorod province. Pogost belonged to church land.

The Krutetsk rural community also included the villages of Zavrazhye and Poddubye (adjacent to the Krutets village - across the river)

According to the "List of the inhabited places of the Novgorod province for 1911" in the village there were 19 courtyards occupied by buildings, on which there were 26 residential buildings. Residents of both sexes - 96 people (men - 47, women - 49). The main occupation of the inhabitants is agriculture, an auxiliary occupation is the rafting of the forest. The nearest body of water is the Mologa River and Krutets Lake. In the village there was a bread and spare shop, 3 small shops.

On the churchyard there were 3 courtyards with 3 residential buildings. There were 4 inhabitants (men - 2, women - 2). The main occupation of the inhabitants is church service, the auxiliary occupation is agriculture. The churchyard included two churches (stone and wooden) and a zemstvo school (teacher - V. Sudakov - a graduate of the Novgorod Theological Seminary).

The wooden church of Elijah the Prophet was rebuilt in 1910.

According to the local almanac "Ustyuzhna" (issue VI - 2008), three churches were closed in the village of Krutets in the 30s:

In December 1929 - the decision of the Leningrad Executive Committee closed the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (?)

In February 1930 - the Church of the Prophet Elijah (at the cemetery)

In January 1939, by the decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR in the Vologda Oblast, the Church of the Resurrection of Christ was closed (? - apparently Christmas)

From 1930 until the closing day of the Church of the Nativity of Christ, the priest was Nikolai Tugarinov.

According to the 2002 census, the population is 23 people (11 men, 12 women). The predominant nationality is Russian (96%) ^[2] .

Near the villages of Krutets and Zavrazhye there are a settlement of the XIV-XV centuries ^[3] and mounds of the VI-IX centuries ^[4] - monuments of archeology of federal significance, protected by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR 08.30.1960 as part of the complex “ settlement and six mounds ” ^[5] .

Church of the Nativity of Christ (1852) in the village of Krutets is an architectural monument ^[6] . Currently abandoned and in ruins.

• Krutets (inaccessible link) in the register of settlements of the Vologda region
• [1] Church of the Nativity on the site of the temples of Russia.