The village of Kuz'madino, located on the banks of the Koloksha River two kilometers from Yuriev-Polsky, was known as Koz'modamianskoye in the early 20th century. It is one of the oldest settlements in the Suzdal region, founded in the 13th-14th centuries. In the 14th century, it was mentioned in documents as the estate of the Moscow princes. Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy bequeathed the village to his son Yuri Dmitrievich, Prince of Zvenigorod, in his will of 1389, who became the Grand Prince of Moscow in 1433 and 1434. Grand Prince Vasily Vasilyevich left the village to his wife, Maria Yaroslavovna, as an inheritance in 1462. In 1597, the village was transferred to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery and remained under its ownership until 1764, after which it came under the management of the Collegium of Economy.
In the charters of the 14th and 15th centuries, the village is mentioned as Koz'modamianskoye or Kuz'modemyanskoye, indicating the existence of a church at that time. The patriarchal refusal books of 1612 state: 'In the village, there is a church of Cosmas and Damian, and at the church, there is a priest Sidor, with 7 peasant households and 4 cottager households.' In 1803, thanks to the efforts of the parishioners, a stone church with a bell tower was built to replace the wooden one. The main church was consecrated in honor of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, and the side chapel, in honor of St. Nicholas of Myra.
The clergy consisted of a priest, a deacon, and a psalmist. Since 1893, a church-parish school operated in the village. In 1829, a wooden Toanno-Theological church was annexed to the Koz'modamianskaya church, which was rebuilt in 1866 in Kolokoltsevo but was destroyed during the Soviet era.
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