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Chapel of the Icon of the Mother of God 'Joy of All Who Sorrow' in Verderyevshchino

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The village of Verderyevshchino was founded in 1719 by dragoons and landowners Yegor Filippov, Nikita Barashev, Osip Yeskov, and landowner Ivan Mikhailovich Verderyevsky, after whom it was named. Documents from the second revision of 1745 mention that the village, located in the Tambov province of Kirsanov district, had 289 households and 1314 residents. In 1889, a tallow factory operated here, producing 1800 poods of products worth 9000 rubles with the participation of four workers.

The village has two icons of 'Joy of All Who Sorrow.' The first icon was brought in 1824 by landowner Chikhachyov from Moscow and placed in a church built with his funds. The church was named in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord. This icon, a copy of the Moscow icon from Bolshaya Ordynka, was considered miraculous and celebrated on the first Thursday after Pentecost.

The history of the second icon, which appeared around the 1860s, was passed down orally. A soldier from the village of Lyubovka, returning home through Verderyevshchino, found a copper folding icon at the site of the current well and chapel. In a dream, the Mother of God asked him to take the icon to the church and build a well and chapel at the place of her appearance. This was fulfilled, and the celebration of the second icon was combined with the feast of the first.

In 1936, the church and chapel were destroyed, but the residents took the icons home. The first icon, brought from Moscow, disappeared. In the post-war years, residents restored the chapel by the well, and annually on the first Thursday after the Feast of the Trinity, pilgrimages were made there. In 1954, three to four thousand believers came to the well. An official document dated April 3, 1953, mentions that up to 500 people gathered at the site of the destroyed chapel for prayers. The icon was kept by Vasily Ivanovich Yermakov, the chairman of the church council's revision commission.

In the 1980s, residents rebuilt the chapel and placed the icon revealed to the soldier in it. In 2009, the icon was restored. The fate of the first icon, brought from Moscow, is unknown, but in 2010, an icon resembling the lost one was found in an abandoned house in Ivanovka. It is now located in the chapel.

Between 2010 and 2012, the chapel was reconstructed into a prayer house, on which a cross was erected. By the blessing of Bishop Theodosius, the first Divine Liturgy was held with the participation of parishioners and residents of the village of Verderyevshchino.

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Часовня иконы Божией Матери “Всех скорбящих Радость” в Вердеревщино

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