Pokrovskaya Tserkov'

The Church of the Protection of the Holy Virgin stands on the southern outskirts of the village in a cemetery lined with old birches. In the 2nd floor. XVIII century There were two wooden churches in the village: the Nativity of the Virgin with the annex to Metropolitan Philip, burned down in 1779 and rebuilt in 1794, and the Intercession of the Holy Virgin with the annex to Nicholas the Wonderworker, built in 1777 (burned down in 1820). The stone church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary with two aisles - St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Grieving Mother of God - was built several tens of meters south of the wooden church. The initial project, drawn up in 1860, was a four-pillared hipped-roof temple with a semicircular apse and a three-tier hipped bell tower, connected by a porch. Approved in the same year by the Tver Construction and Road Commission, this project was not implemented, since the church was too large for a poor parish. In 1865, one of the parishioners, Major Nikolai Ivanovich Zemlyan, carried out a new project corresponding to the size and means of the parish. This project, after being corrected in 1866 by the former provincial architect I.F. Apparently, Lvov was also used in the construction of the existing church, which, due to lack of funds, began no earlier than 1869, and was completed by October 1886, when the church was consecrated. The bell tower and the narthex connecting it to the temple were built in the 1900s. In Soviet times, the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin and the wooden bell tower (dismantled in the 1930s), iconostases in the Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin were lost. A brick plastered building with a basement made of granite blocks is a typical example of a rural parish church in the form of eclecticism with the prevailing features of the Russian style in volumetric composition. Closed in 1937. Reopened in 1991.