The village of Zagorie is located on the banks of the Solba River. In the 17th century, it belonged to the Miloslavskys, and in the 18th century, it passed to the Naryshkins. It is also called Old Annunciation, but this name refers to a settlement located 3 kilometers from present-day Zagorie, where a church stood until 1805.
The Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was first built here in 1654 by landowner Ilya Dmitrievich Miloslavsky and stood for 150 years. In 1800, the construction of a stone church began in a new location funded by the village owner Vasily Sergeevich Naryshkin. Vasily, the son of Major General Sergey Mikhailovich Naryshkin and Alexandra Vladimirovna Narbekova, served in the Izmailovsky Regiment and participated in the ascension to the throne of Catherine II. Having risen to the rank of Major General, he retired and lived in the Kaluga province. Vasily Naryshkin died on November 3, 1800, and was buried at the Novospassky Monastery in Moscow.
His wife, Anna Ivanovna Vorontsova, completed the construction of the church, which was consecrated in 1805. In 1842, the refectory part of the church was expanded, and it included side chapels of St. Dmitry of Rostov and the Entry of the Theotokos into the Temple. Among the relics, a silver cross with particles of the relics of 17 saints was especially venerated. The church staff included a priest, a deacon, and a psalmist.
Since 1839, the priest of the village of Zagorie was Nikolai Maximovich Trubin, who graduated from the Vladimir Theological Seminary in 1814. In 1853, he was succeeded by Ivan Nikolaevich Rozhdestvensky, a graduate of the same seminary in 1852. In 1859, Ioann Filippovich Troitsky became a deacon. Pyotr Vasilyevich Kazansky, who graduated from the seminary in 1846, was transferred to Zagorie in 1871.
In 1873, a united Zagorie-Doratnikov parish was created, where the Annunciation Church was considered the main one. The parish included the villages of Zagorie and Doratniki, as well as several villages. The staff consisted of two priests and two psalmists. In 1876, the parish was headed by Pyotr Kazansky, with deacon Ioann Troitsky and sexton Vasily Trostin serving. In the late 1880s, the parishes were divided again. The parish included the village of Zagorie and several villages, totaling 949 men and 1190 women, all Orthodox.
Since 1882, a zemstvo public school operated in Zagorie, where 40 students were enrolled in 1893. Mikhail Mikhailovich Florinsky, who graduated from the Vladimir Theological Seminary in 1885, served as a priest in Zagorie from 1886.
During the Soviet era, the church was closed and desecrated. The building was used as a store, warehouse, and bakery, but some of the frescoes have partially survived.
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