Zagorodie (Tver region)

Presumably, the name Zagorodie is derived from the combination "outside the city" In the IX — XIII centuries AD e. in the southern part of the village, in the place of the cemetery, there was a city mentioned in different sources under the names "Settlement" and "on Moloze Gorodets". The settlement was examined by an archaeologist Yu. N. Urban, who discovered stucco and pottery from the 9th-13th centuries. Particularly famous among historians Gorodishche acquired thanks to the treasure found there kufic coins VIII-IX centuries. The settlement was included in the List of Historical and Cultural Heritage Objects of All-Russian Value by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 176 dated February 20, 1995

The first mentions of Zagorodye are associated with the 9th century AD. e. According to one of the legends, serfs who fled from Novgorod settled here. At the time of the Tatar-Mongol yoke, these lands were completely devastated. Although some kind of life glimmered to famine and plague of the mid-17th century. The history of the modern Zagorodie begins approximately from the middle of the 17th century, when a massive resettlement of Karelians from Lake Onega occurred on these lands.

XIX century

Sergei Georgievich Petrovsky, the son of priest Georgy Petrovsky (since 1871, the priest of the Transfiguration Church of the Suburb of Zagorodia) describes the lives of the suburbs of the XIX century most fully. According to S. G. Petrovsky's description “... in the 60s of the XIX century, the Suburban was a dull bearish angle. It was a forested, rarely populated region, far from even small, seedy provincial cities like Bezhetsk and Vyshniy Volochek. ”

An important event in the history of the suburbs is the construction of the church. In 1868, construction was completed and the temple was consecrated.

Also one of the most important events was the fire of 1884. It was in the summer immediately after Petrov day, July 2, old style. In Zagorod'e more than 30 houses were burned out. The source of the fire was a leaky pipe in the house of one lumberjack. The roofs of the houses were thatched, occasionally with a yoke, the street was narrow, the houses stood close to each other. Therefore, both posada from the church to the moat burned. In the suburbs there was no serfdom and landlords. In general, there was economic equality of the peasants. Certainly, there were more prosperous families with several adult workers and there were very lonely bays, leading a poor lifestyle. The Tver Diocesan Statistical Collection of 1901 indicates that there were 68 courtyards in Zagorod'ye at that time, 174 men and 181 women.

20th century, Soviet times

In Soviet times, Zagorodie was a large and thriving village. In the 40s-70s of the 20th century, an elementary school functioned in Zagorodie. The spouses Yemelyanov taught in her. The school director was Emelyanov Georgiy Emelyanovich. In the village there was a club that gathers local youth in the evenings. On an ongoing basis acted shop. In the 70s a new road was built from Maksatikhi to Zagorodzhya. Unlike the old forest road that runs along the coast, the new one was wide, straight, allowing to drive freight transport, including large logging trucks. Near the village was a farm for cows and a stable. In the 80s, the farm was rebuilt, equipped with an automated water supply system and milking machines. Two farm buildings housed up to 200 cows. The fields around the village were actively used; they grew rye, wheat, flax, peas, and corn. At the dawn of collectivization, local peasants worked on the Zagorod'e collective farm, and later a collective farm appeared in several Pobedy villages already with the Board in the village of Ruchki. In the postwar years, the departure of the peasants to the cities was difficult, so until the 70s a small part of the population left. The situation changed significantly in the late 70s, when the vast majority of young people left. The next generation, born in the late 70s and 80s, already came to Zagorodie to visit their grandmothers for the summer. Therefore, the summer population of the suburban area often exceeded the winter one at times.

XXI century

Despite the complete disappearance of collective farms and the departure of a whole generation to the cities, the Zagorod'e remains one of the most promising villages of the Maksatikhinsky district. In 1999, the village paved asphalt. Later installed a payphone with mobile communications. There is a cellular communication signal of the main mobile operators, 3G coverage. In 2013, a complete replacement of all electrical communications was carried out. The current economy of Zagorodie is supported by the residents of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tver, who bought houses here for country use.

In 1868 a wooden Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya church was built. For over 145 years, the church has operated continuously, including Soviet times. A fire on the night of January 7-8, 2015 completely destroyed the church.

• Handles (4 km)
• Parja (1 km)
• Hill (1.5 km)
• Korgovo (5 km)
• Khabary (2 km, on the other side of Mologa)
• Mokshitsy (3 km, on the other side of Mologa)

• M.N. Tikhomirov . "List of Russian cities far and near"
• Tver Diocesan Statistical Collection, 1901
• Memories of S. G. Petrovsky at www.zagorodie.ru