Conversations (Leninsky district)

According to archaeological data, the first settlement arose on the site of the village in the middle of the 1st millennium BC. e. ^[3] .

The toponym “Conversations” is quite common. Only in the Moscow region there are three such places ^[4] . The legend of the village is narrated by a folk legend. On the eve of the Battle of Kulikovo, Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy received news of a huge Mamaev army moving to Moscow. After that, he decided on the bank of the Moscow river to throw out a tent and put together a "conversation", that is, a military council. Here the princes and governors developed a battle plan, and in the autumn of 1380 they defeated the Horde. Returning to Moscow, Dmitry Donskoy ordered that the church of the Nativity of Christ be erected in memory of a glorious victory in the place where he had gathered a "conversation" in the spring. The village became known as Conversations.

Reliably the time of the appearance of the first temple at this place is unknown. Information about the Church of the Nativity is available from the end of the XVI century. The present stone church was built in the years 1598-1599 by the Godunovs . Dmitry Ivanovich Godunov received the village of Conversations with adjacent lands. In the Piskarevsky chronicler it is written: “Yes, by the petition of Dmitri Ivanovich Godunov, a temple of stones was erected. The Birth of the Most Holy Theotokos from the borders in his estate, in the village of Besedy, twelve miles from Moscow, down the Moscow river, and made a stone dam” ^[5] . No traces of the dam are now visible - it was hidden by the Besedinsky waterworks and the locks of the Moscow-Oka waterway built in the 19th century.

Since 1619, the village belonged to the boyar Dmitry Timofeevich Trubetskoy (head of the Zemsky government in 1611-1613). According to scribe books , in the village of Besedy there is a stone church "the top is a tent, the building is Votchinnikovo, Ivan Ivanov is in the courtyard of the church, in the courtyard is the church clerk Yakushka Onisimov, in the courtyard is the commander Mitroshka Ivanov" ^[6] . The village at that time was small and poor. In the patrimony of “the wife of the boyar of Prince Dmitry Timofeevich Trubetskoy, Princess Anna Vasilievna, the village was the court of the estate”, in which businessmen lived, a livestock yard, a prikary’s yard, 7 backyard yards and one peasant yard, there were 9 people in them (including their groom , shepherd, fisherman and apiary); “And she owns Princess Anna Vasilievna that patrimony according to the letter of appropriation of 127 (1619)” ^[7] . After the death of Anna Vasilievna in 1646, a year after the accession of Alexei Mikhailovich , Conversations became a palace village, like the neighboring Borisovo and Ostrov .

The village was not important. It was small and stood on poor, not very fertile lands. Through Conversations passed the way from Kolomenskoye , where the famous palace was located, to Ostrov, the royal residence, ten kilometers down the Moskva River. Here were favorite places of falconry, and lay the way to the Nikolo-Ugreshsky monastery . Alexei Mikhailovich visited the Island, passing through Conversations, and sometimes remained in the village in the service. According to the testimony of A. A. Martynov, there was a royal place in the church. According to the Archive of the Moscow Palace Office, during the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich “Village of Conversation, in it there is a stone church in the name of Christmas Nativity. 4 courtyards of church clerks . Gardener's yard, Bobyl's yard. To this there are 7 villages, and in the village and in the villages of 88 peasant households, 3 courtyards of widows for 7 people in them too. They have 256 children and brothers and nephews and relatives. In a living 10 howls with a howl, without a small third of howls. Cash income from peasants 12 rubles, 12 altyn floor 5 money. From a quitrent article on a wraparound 25 rubles, 20 altyn for five money each. Only 38 rubles 1 money. Yamskiy and Polynyachnye 4 rubles 23 altyn 2 money. Table stocks: 11 sheep, 74 goose. New invoice reserves: 50 blizzards, 25 goliks. ” "Sovereign tithes of arable land 50 tithes in the field, and in two for the same." This document was first mentioned “in the village of Besedakh, the pond, but what kind of fish it is and what genera it contains, is not written in scribal books” ^{[8] [4]} . A pond with a holy spring near the church has survived to the present.

In 1765, by the personal order of Empress Catherine II, the village of Besedy and the neighboring village of Ostrov, with villages and villages assigned to them, in which there were 1,500 souls of peasants, were granted to Count Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov-Chesmensky “in eternal and hereditary possession” in exchange for data earlier estates in Serpukhov district ^[9] .

In 1874-1877, the Besedinsky waterworks was built by the French as part of the Moskvorets gateway system .

In Soviet times, Conversations were part of the Lenin state farm . In Conversations there were several dairy farms , a poultry farm, a greenhouse, an agricultural machinery garage, and a stud farm. The village was surrounded by numerous apple orchards and strawberry plantations (now reserved for cottage development) belonging to the state farm named after Lenin. A significant part of the inhabitants worked at the state farm. In 1920-1932, 1961-1972 and in 1983-1989, the hydroelectric complex underwent a comprehensive reconstruction. In the 1930s, it was renamed the Trudkommuna waterworks ^[10] .

Currently, residents work at the Lenin state farm, at enterprises in the village of Razvilka and Moscow .

In the village is the enterprise "Podvodgazenergoservis".

A large industrial complex has been created in the village - the Conversations Innovative Industrial Complex (IPC), on the territory of which there are Moscow Information Automation Plant LLC, Strazh-Laser LLC, warehouses and other enterprises.

Active cottage construction is underway ^[10] .

The village can be reached from the Domodedovskaya metro by bus number 95 to the Besedy stop, then walk about 600 m.

• Church of the Nativity of Christ in Conversations , built in 1598-1599 by the Godunovs .
• A brick laid chapel , consecrated in the name of the prophet Elijah , and a bathhouse built in the early 2000s. They are located next to the temple in a ravine, on the site of a holy healing spring ^[4] .
• The Trudkommuna waterworks on the Moscow river (formerly called Besedinsky waterworks). Located from the south of the city of Dzerzhinsky , below the Besedinsky bridges on the Moscow Ring Road. It is the second hydraulic system of the Moskvorets lock system . The structure of the hydroelectric complex includes a spillway dam, a shipping lock and a cargo pier “Conversations”, where barges with sand and gravel are unloaded ^[10] .

• Conversation residents blog at selobesedy. livejournal .com

• Myachin I.K.On the Moscow River . Rublevo - Conversations. - M.: Moscow Worker, 1977 .-- 336 p., Incl. silt - 50,000 copies.