Church of the Introduction to the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Bolshoi Vorobevo)

The first mention of the wooden church dates back to the second half of the 18th century.

The stone one-domed three-altar church with a long-tiered bell tower (not preserved) was built in the village of Bolshoy Vorobyevo in 1823. The right and left aisles were dedicated to the saints Nicholas the Wonderworker and John the Merciful, respectively.

In the church in the second half of the 19th century, the famous preacher and enlightener Ambrose Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky served.

Bolshevik power closed the temple in 1928.

In Soviet times, the domed part and the bell tower were broken, the building was partially rebuilt and used for household needs.

Before the collapse of the roof in 2013, the building housed an electric mill, a granary.

Tver local historian Natalya Borodulina found an inventory of the temple, compiled in 1846 by the dean of the village of Konstantinovsky priest Peter Ispolatov:

A list of the Vvedensky church and its property in the village of Vorobyov of the Kashinsky district of the Tver diocese, compiled on the model from the Diocesan Authorities prescribed and approved by the Holy Synod. 1846

The church is stone, the height is 10 fathoms, the length is 9 fathoms and 1 ½ arshin, the width is 9 fathoms and 1 ½ arshin. The walls in this church, both inside and out, are plastered and bleached. There are 3 thrones in this church: the Main - in the name of the Entry into the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Squishy on the right side in the name of Saint and Wonderworker Nicholas of Myra. Crafted on the left side in the name of St. John the Merciful. Inside the church there are 3 semicircular walls and 8 pillared pillars, of which 4th in the main iconostasis and 4th support the Arch above the main altar. The floor of the church and the altar is lined with white and blue bricks.

There are 21 windows in the whole church, namely: at the top 8, at the bottom 13. They are reinforced below with iron bars, and at the top with wire bars. At the church, one chapter is studded with Aglitz tin, the middle of the chapter is painted with blue paint, on which are stars of tinplate. On the head of the cross is a wooden 4-terminal, 2 ½ arshin long, upholstered in white Aglitzky tin. The roof of the church is iron on wooden rafters, painted with green paint. Entrance doors to the church from 3 sides are pine. Main on the west side with an interior castle. The stone porch is on the west side, on the south and north side are upholstered with tesa. The porch on the south side is stone, and on the north side is wooden.

This church, with the blessing of Methodius the Most Reverend, was built by the care and support of a parishioner by the Actual Statka of Counselor Maria Ivanova Greven, and was decorated at different times by the general dependency of parishioners. This church was also consecrated at different times. Ambrose, Archbishop of Tver and Kashinsky, celebrated the altar of the church in 1830, May 18.

The bell tower . The stone belfry over the porch was built together with the church, the parishioners and the Acting State Counselor Maria Ivanovna Greven about 3 tiers, and in it 4 semicircular windows boarded up with wooden shields that are painted with wild paint. The door of a pine tree. The bell tower is covered with iron, painted with green paint. The cross is wooden, upholstered with Aglitskoy tin, four-pointed. The height of the bell tower is 10 ½ fathoms. 5 copper bells hang on it: a bell - 31 poods 25 pounds lit. 1791 March 10 bell - 15 pounds a bell - 3 pounds a bell 2 pounds a bell - 1 pood

The fence . It is surrounded by an earthen rampart with two gates on the south and west sides, which are painted with wild paint.

Chapel . The wooden shabby chapel is covered with tesa, 5 ½ arshins long and 5 arshins wide. In it: The Icon of the Savior with ... (nrzb.) Painting, length 1 arshin 2 pins Icon of the Mother of God, length 1 arshine 5 pitches, width 12 peaks Icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Icon of the Martyr Christopher One chapel from the church 2 versts on the big road.

Dean of the Village of Konstantinovsky. Priest Peter Ispolatov, January 1846, 30 days

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Before the October Revolution , the temple had the following address: Tver province , Kashinsky district , the village of Vorobyevo.

• December 4, 2012 - a memorial cross was consecrated near the church at the site of the destroyed cemetery, the first prayer service and lithium were served.
• August 2, 2013 - a moleben at the cross is served.
• July 9, 2014 - a moleben was served in the right chapel cleared of debris.

The restoration began from the day when the inhabitants of the settlement erected a Poklonnaya Cross near the temple. Since the summer of 2014, the voluntary association of young people at the PCRDM of Danilov Monastery Restavros helps to restore the church. The head of the Restavros detachment, Yuri Osipov, a design engineer by profession, having talked with local historian Natalya Borodulina, drew up a restoration plan, received permission to restore and bless the priests. The priorities were identified, and in June 2014, Yuri and his wife Svetlana already placed a volunteer brigade in their summer house.

Thanks to their work, soon double-glazed windows appeared in the windows of the temple, in the places of collapses, supports from the timber were installed, trees were cut and partially uprooted, the construction of the blind area began. There were voids at the corners of the building, in one place there was even no cornerstone . As the locals say, treasure lovers have been here more than once. Knowing the custom of putting jewels in the temple under the foundation, they hoped to profit.

So that there was something to close the gap, one summer resident dismantled her stove and brought bricks to the construction site, another summer resident made beautiful large candlesticks from wood, the third gave a tractor cart, the fourth - boards. There were specialists who helped to carry out professional work.

July 9, 2014, on the feast of the Tikhvin Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary , Father John from the St. Nicholas Church of Kesovaya Gora for the first time since 1930, here, in the right, St. Nicholas chapel, served a water sanctuary with an akathist . After the prayer service at the Poklonnaya Cross, a memorial lithium was served. ^[2]

On June 30, 2014, volunteers of Restavros at the beginning of the clearing of the left aisle of St. John the Gracious from the slithers and oats found a cross - a small piece of the former decoration of the Vvedensky church.

Divine services in the church are performed by priest John Alekseevich Tsyurkalo, who is a full-time priest of the St. Nicholas Church of the village of Kesova Gora. Rector of St. Nicholas Church of Kesova Gora - Archpriest Alexei Nikolayevich Tsyurkalo.

There are no regular divine services in the Vvedensky church, the priest serves water-worshipers several times a year in the right Nikolsky side chapel, after which, on the same day, a memorial service is served at the Memorial Cross at the site of the cemetery. Regular services are held in St. Nicholas Church in the town of Kesova Gora.

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  Church of the Introduction to the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Layout

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  Restoration work, August 2014

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  Excerpt from the Reference Book of the Tver Diocese of 1915

• GATO, F. 160, op. 1 unit hr 18500, l. 1, 2, 3, 29.
• TESS, p. 339, p. 7.
• Kashinsky branch of TGOM, archive, catalog No. 5, p. 216, p. 78/7.
• Borodulina N.V. Temples of the land of Kesovogorsk: Album graphics / Pod. ed. V.M. Vorobyova // Appendix to CITES magazine. Tver: Studio-S, 2003.
• Borodulina N.A., Borodulina N.V. Blagovest of Ancient Kesi: Spiritual Studies of Local Lore.- Tver: Agency "Constellation", 2008.
• Tver diocesan statistical compilation, comp. I. Dobrovolsky, Tver, 1901.
• The reference book on the Tver diocese for 1915.

• Church site
• Volunteer Youth Association Restavros
• Tver diocesan statistical compilation, comp. I. Dobrovolsky, Tver, 1901
• The reference book on the Tver diocese for 1915