The village of Romanovo is located 40 versts from Vladimir and 7 versts from Suzdal. It is mentioned in the royal charter to the Suzdal Protection Convent from 1606, in which Tsar Vasily Ivanovich confirms the monastery's ownership of estates granted by previous tsars and various individuals. Later, in 1623, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich issued another charter confirming the monastery's rights to the village of Romanovo. In 1764, after the abolition of the monastery's estates, Romanovo came under the jurisdiction of state properties.
The village has a stone church with a bell tower, built in 1795 through the efforts of the parishioners with the blessing of Bishop Viktor of Suzdal and Vladimir. Until 1851, the church had one cold altar in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and in 1852 a warm chapel was arranged with an altar in the name of the holy martyrs Flora and Lavra. The church is poorly supplied with vestments, utensils, and holy icons.
Church documents have been preserved in full: copies of the metric books since 1802, confession lists since 1810, and an inventory of church property compiled in 1881 is kept in the church. The church land includes 20 square fathoms of homestead, 3 desyatinas of hayfields, and 30 desyatinas of arable land. There is no regular clergy; services and church rites are performed by clergy from the villages of Menchakovo and Omutskoe. These clergy receive an annual income from the Romanovo parish: 88 rubles in silver from the clergy capital, 200 rubles in silver from the land, and up to 70 rubles in silver from rite corrections, totaling up to 360 rubles in silver. The village of Romanovo has 48 households, with 111 men and 137 women living there.
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