The village of Zinovyevo is located on the Zinovyevka River, which flows into the Bachevka River. In 1628, there was a wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker here. In the mid-17th century, the village belonged to the chamberlain Prince Samoil Shaysunov, who built a new church in 1650. By the end of the 18th century, the village passed to the Solennikov family. In 1788, the landowner and entrepreneur N.V. Solennikov began the construction of a stone church with a bell tower, consecrated in 1794 as the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God. The parish included the villages of Zinovyevo, Berestyanki, Skopino, and the village of Podatnevo. From 1885, the church of Zinovyevo was assigned the church of the village of Irkovo. From 1856 to 1896, A.V. Tsvetaev served as the priest of the parish, who was the cousin of the poetess M. Tsvetaeva, and later became a protodeacon and the dean of the churches of the 1st district of the Alexandrovsky district. The church was closed in 1929. The last priest was Father Nikolai Avivich Zhdanov, who then served in the Nikolaev church of the village of Myachkovo. The church operated until the 1940s, and in July-August 1941, it was blown up. The temple was looted, and vestments were sewn into costumes for participants of a noise orchestra organized in the village in the early 1930s. A policeman in a white uniform was present during the removal of the bell. The bell cracked during loading and was sent for scrap metal. Around the church yard was a fence with several gravestones made of black and red marble, the fate of which is unknown. The pillars from under the slabs were used for the construction of a barn. A kindergarten was arranged in the warm chapel of the church, while the cold room was used as a club. The temple has now been returned to the believers and is being restored.
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