Vorzha

Since the beginning of the XIII century. The lands near Lake Nero, on the coast of which the village was later formed, became part of the Rostov Principality , which existed from 1207 to 1474.

According to legend (from Artynov’s records) In the 15th century (around 1430), the tower of Prince Vasily Yuryevich Shemyaki (who was the ruler of Rostov three times: the first time in 1428, the second - in 1430-1435 and 3rd time - upon arrival from Galich in 1462), among princely fields sown with rye. Here Shemyaka performed various atrocities, as a result of which the stream, on the bank of which stood the Shemyaki tower, is even called by people today an obscene nickname imposed by Shemyaka. Whoever had a wife or daughter disappear at that time would usually say to people searching: “look for a princess in the rye!” Not far from Shemyaki’s tower was the tower of Princess Anna, the daughter of Prince Konstantin Mikhailovich Korotkin, who was beautifully called “Raspberry”. After the expulsion of Shemyaki from Rostov by Prince Vasily the Dark , Anna bought the land of Shemyaki and founded the village, calling it "Vorzh". This village, after her death, for commemoration of her soul, was attached to the Rostov bishop’s house, and the Archbishop of Rostov Vassian 1 (1468) ordered to dig a pond in the village, which exists to this day.

Although it can be seen from this manuscript that the name “Vorzh” comes from the word “in rye”, it can also come from the word “spell”. The Meryansky settlements were along the shore of Lake Nero, and the Meryans belonged to the Finnish tribe and have long been famous for witchcraft and magic. Scandinavians, Greeks and Icelanders revered Finns as the greatest sorcerers and sorcerers, and the very name Finn meant the same as a sorcerer; and finally, the very name "Vorzh" is of pure Meryan origin.

The village of Vorzh is located on the southeastern shore of Lake Nero and with two rivers: Shestakovka and Pazderina, the location is flat and low. The inhabitants of the village in (according to the beginning of the XX century) were engaged in gardening on a large scale. In the middle of the village there is a pond with fairly steep banks, whose width is about 8, and the length is 40 sazhen. From the pond flows into the lake stream, the water of which has a mineral beginning, although the present way, and it has not been investigated. This pond is called "Princess", and in the XVI century. the river flowing from it was called the "Prince"). At the present time, he also has another, common name, which, however, out of decency, we do not consider to be convenient to cite ^[2] .

In the 14-15 centuries. the territory of the former Rostov principality was gradually annexed to the Moscow principality, which was gaining power, and under Ivan III, it finally became part of it.

In the ХѴI century, fishermen lived in the village of Vorzhe who fished fish for the great Moscow Palace in Rostov Lake. Tsar Ivan the Terrible ordered these fishermen to “catch the sixth fish” (1551) for the “pilgrim of his” archbishop of Rostov Nikandr.

Then Ivan the Terrible village Vorzhu "attached" Rostov bishop's house "at the mention of his soul."

In 1608, on October 1 of the first day, a gang of Lyakovs of Lysovskago looted the neighboring village of Ugodichi (two versts from Vorzhi); but for some reason Vorzh was bypassed and left completely untouched.

In memory of this event, the Rostov Metropolitan Filaret Nikitich Romanov and built in Vorzha, in 1609, a wooden church in the name of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos. In the scribal book of Rostov district for 1629-1631. The following records are available about the village of Vorzhe:

In Yakimovskiy, I will be behind the Rostov metropolitan Varlam:

The village of Vorzh near the Rostov lake on the river on the Vorzh. And in the village of the Church of the Intercession of the Most Pure Virgin, wooden dumplings. And the church, and in the church, images and candles, and books, and robe, and church vessels, and the bell tower, and every church building is metropolitan and worldly. The church priest Larion Joseph, sexton Senka Mihayov. The arable land of the church middle land is ten chety in the field, and in two by the same way. Sena at the Pyatnitskaya street one hundred fifty kopins. Yes, in the village, the yard of the prikashchiki is empty, the yard of the metropolitan gardener and peasants. Well in the village there were plowed lands, plowed lands are not plowing, the catcher is fishing. In the same village White settlement.

The arable land of the plowed lands of the middle five of the devil of the treacher, and of the fallow and the forest overgrown thirty-five of the tretnik in the field, and in the two along the same. Hay to the village at different places in the reaping of three hundred kopens and reaping mowing for the metropolitan people: reaping Meshkatnaya, reaping Yakimovskaya and reaping Peredelnaya, and reaping Shchetkovna, and the hay in those reaping stavitsa one hundred and twenty kopen. And the pay of the village of Vorzhi by the peasant and the bearer was condemned to submit to the letter from five couples a tertiary arable land. Yes, that village in the Rostov Lake is fishing from the well-fed trout fishing, and from the village of Porechye, the Tverdinskaya River ^[3] . In the same book, the village of Vorzh also has the name Dvorzh.

According to Titov ^{[4], the} wooden church in Vorzh was rebuilt by Metropolitan Ion Sysoevich (1652–1690). What happened to the church further data is not preserved.

With the advent of orders - the central government bodies in the Russian state, in charge of a special kind of state affairs or certain areas of the state (otherwise chambers, huts, courtyards, palaces, thirds or quarters) of the land near Lake Nero from 1645 the land became part of the Kostroma quarter .

In 1708, Peter I , dividing the state in the province , abolished orders and ranked Rostov to Moscow province.

In 1719, when the provinces were divided into provinces, Rostov was added to the Pereyaslav province .

Until 1764, Vorzh belonged to the Rostov Bishop's House.

In 1777, with the establishment of the Yaroslavl governorship , Rostov made up its separate district, to which Petrovsky district was annexed in 1802, within which the county remained and remained until the revolution of 1917.

Since 1789, in the village stood the five-domed stone Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary built by the diligence of the parishioners. The bell tower was built in connection with the church, above the porch. Between the temple icons, the locally honored icon of the Spanish Mother of God deserved attention. The letter and the size of this icon (2 Ars. Above and 7 Quarter width) indicate its antiquity, but it is not known what time it comes from. There is, however, a legend that this icon and four other local icons: the Lord of the Vsegeragoka, Pokrova Presv. Virgin, of sv. and miracle Nicholas and St. the prophet Elijah, according to the letter and the size of the first one, was transferred to Vorzhu from the church of the village of Semenovsky, which was devastated by the Poles in 1612 and is now non-existent. Another legend says that these icons were transferred to the real church from the formerly former wooden church of Vorzhskoy.

There are five cross processions in the village:

a) on the day of the Pre-Pentecost — around the pond, in memory of God's visitation by fire, in 1863;

b) on the day of the feast of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, on June 26, in memory of the visit of God to the cholera, in 1848, around the village;

c) on August 1 — around the village, in memory of the visit of God to the beasts;

d) on the day of the celebration of the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God, on August 26th, in memory of the visit of God's cholera in 1866, along the villages of the village, with the Spanish Icon of the Mother of God, and

e) The Pokrovsky Passage around the village — with the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God from the Rostov Cathedral.

There are neither manuscripts nor ancient old printed books attached to the church of the village of Vorzhi.

Among the church utensils there is a tabernacle, or an ark in the altar, non-spun silver, built, as can be seen from the inscription, in 1783 by merchant widow Evdokia Semyonovyi Sviridov to commemorate her parents, but which church is the inscription not to say, and how it turned out to be in the Holy Protection Church - unknown. There is also a remarkable weight, size, and seal in the altar Gospel, published by the Moscow Synodal Printing House in 1759; Its height is 1 arsh., its width is 3 quarters, and its weight is more than 2 pounds .; The print is so large that there are only 16 lines on the page. There are no vestments of the ancients.

Church Land 36 dess. The parish consists of one village.

The village of Vorzha (according to 1859) [1] was part of the Rostov district of the Yaroslavl region, 10 versts from the district city of Rostov . The village was owned. 5 chicory enterprises were also located in it ^[5] .

With the formation of volosts, p. Vorzha became the volost center of the Vorzhsk volost, consisting of 11 rural societies: Vorzhskiy, Veksitskogo, Grigorovsky, Zvyaginsky, Kozovsky, Klimatinsky, Karavaevsky, Novoderevenkovsky, Filimonovsky, Chuchersky and Shestakovsky - 6 villages and 13 villages; according to family lists — 2,759 males and 2,946 females, and a total of 5,705 females.

In Vorzhe in 1885 there was a volost administration and, from 1871, a Zemsky school . In May 1882 there was a severe fire that destroyed 90 houses ^[4] .

According to the data of 1908, the same Pokrovskaya church stood in the village, summer and winter. Thrones in the church - 5: in the summer - the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the right side of the chapel of St. Dmitry growth. miracle And on the left side chapel priest. Blasia, in the winter - on the right side of the chapel of the prophet Elijah, on the left - St. and miracle Nicholas.

Church land 36 tithes: Church house for the wooden, two-story. Capital at the church 3996 p. At the new parish cemetery, set aside in 1862, a stone chapel was built. At the chapel there is a wooden belfry with four bells. Parishioners 929 men and 972 women. The parish consists of one village of Vorzhi.

In the parish, the Zemstvo school, founded in 1870, parish trusteeship, in the building of the village government, a free library, reading room and tea room. It is supposed to be a priest, deacon and psalm reader. Share capital in% boom. 2560 r. 85 cop.

In its last form, it was a high double-height quadrangle with a wider lower refectory and four-tiered bell tower. The main volume is completed with a five-domed head. In Soviet times, the church was closed and destroyed.

In 1923, in the course of the enlargement, the Vorzhskaya volost became part of the Ugodich volost of the same county.

In 1929, the Ugodichi volost was liquidated, the villages became part of the Rostov district . In accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of January 14, 1929, the Yaroslavl Province was abolished, and the Ivanovo Industrial Region was created .

In 1936, after the separation of the Ivanovo industrial region into Ivanovo and Yaroslavl villages, Vorzha, together with other neighboring settlements, became part of the Yaroslavl region.

From March 1936, the village of Vorzha entered the Rostovsky district of the Yaroslavl region.

1628-1631 - more than 200 people ^[6] ;

1646 - about 200 families ^[7] ;

end of the XVIII century. - 353 courtyards, 1054 male souls and 1068 female souls ^[8] ;

1859 - 314 yards, 861 male souls and 1019 female souls ^[5] ;

1861 - with two churches, 297 households, in them 896 male souls and 1070 - female ^[9] ;

1885 - 285 yards and 868 male souls with 672 allotments ^[4] ;

1908 - 527 males and 524 females in the Epiphany Church, 609 males and 599 females in the Nicholas Church ^[10] ;

2009 - 663 people ^[11] .

• Vorzha // The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.