Spas-Konino

The name of the village may have Finno-Ugric roots. These horse nations were considered sacred animals. Horse was the subject of religious celebration. Near the village is a monument of nature - a large boulder stone. At the time of paganism, such stones were cult sanctuaries - a place of worship and were called horses-stones . The church called such stones "blue" (from the word sinets -bes) ^[2] . From such a stone could come the ancient name of the settlement. The second word-increase "saved" - from the temple, built in honor of the Savior . The local legend interprets the origin of the name from the sentinel equestrian detachments located in these border areas of the Moscow State to monitor and warn about the danger of Tatar raids ^[3] .

It is located on the left bank of the Krushma stream (Malaya Krushma), 15 km from the district center - Aleksina , 10 km from the village of Bolshoe Shelepino - a rural administrative center.

Previously, the village was located about a kilometer from the current one and was called “Selivanovo”. It was burned by the Tatars together with the church. Today’s village is located on the spot where an observant equestrian picket (outpost) stood and became known as Spas-Konino (Selivanovo Tozh). In the XIX century, the village was the center of the camp district.

Presumably, the Selivanovo settlement was formed no later than the first half of the 16th century. The first wooden church in the village was burned by the Tatars, the second, also wooden (already at a new location), existed until 1765 and was replaced because of dilapidation by a new (also wooden - the third one), which burned down in 1795. At the beginning of the 19th century, a stone church in the name of the Savior Transfiguration of the Lord (Transfiguration of the Savior) was laid at the same place with the chapels of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (consecrated in 1817) and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (consecrated in 1827). The main building of the church, due to lack of funds for the construction, was completed and consecrated only in 1860 with the participation and donations of the local landowner M. A. Frolov. The special object of church utensils was the ancient Gospel , presented to the wooden church in 1686 by Marfa Matveevna , the wife of Tsar Fedor Alekseevich ^[3] . The temple has been preserved in its original form up to the present. Since 1956, it did not function and was used as a fertilizer warehouse. Now (2019) is almost restored ^[4] .

The parish consisted of: the village itself; rural areas : Berezovka , Larino (Larinskaya, Larinsky settlements), Manshino ; villages: Small Bizyukino (Upper Bizyukino), Bolshoy Bizyukino (Lower Bizyukino), Esipovo (Esipova), Pincer , Naryshkino (Naryshkina), Zheludevka (Zheludovka), Zakharovka (non-existent, Zakharovka gist), Merlyovo (natural, natural). Merleev), Torchkovo (Tarchkova, Torkhkovo) with a total of 2344 peasant parishioners (as of 1857) ^[5] . Since 1885 there was a parochial school in the village.

In 1859, there were 29 peasant households in the village ^[6] ; in 1915 - 60 yards ^[7] .
Nowadays the street network of the village consists of eight streets: Ageeva, Kolkhoznaya, Makarova, Machine Operators, Field, M. Polivanova, Builders, Yubileynaya ^[8] .

* peasants serf landowners

• Military topographic map of the Russian Empire (F. F. Schubert) / Page 13-15 (Unidentified) . This is a place . The appeal date is March 23, 2019.