The village of Troitskoye in the Syzran district is known as the birthplace of the outstanding Russian poet and statesman Ivan Dmitriev. A small museum was established a few years ago at the local library, where one can learn a lot of interesting facts about the life and work of Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev, his family, and the history of the village. Valentina Usova, a native of Troitskoye, conducts tours in the museum. She has gathered an interesting exhibition with the help of fellow villagers, including ancient items, coins, books, and paintings that tell about the village's past. The Dmitriev estate survived robbers and Pugachev's troops, but in the 1930s, the house burned down.
Descendants of Ivan Dmitriev made a significant contribution to the development of the village. His great-grandson Sergey Fedorovich, a dedicated doctor, built a hospital here, which has survived to this day. Next to the park stands the Bogorodskaya Church, the family burial place of the Dmitrievs. Now, only the remains of the main altar, overgrown with trees and shrubs, are left. Valentina Usova mentioned that the church was not only a parish church but also a family church, with beautiful icons in gold and silver frames. In the early 1920s, when the communists began confiscating church property, about twenty pounds of gold and silver were taken from here. In the 1930s, the church was closed and turned into a grain storage facility. In the main altar, where the altar used to be, a small dairy factory was opened. Later, the building was used as a fertilizer warehouse and then abandoned. It was not profitable to blow it up, as it was built solidly. Now, the remains of the main altar stand as a monument to barbarism, and a rural school was built next to the church.
Under the altar of the Bogorodskaya Church was the family burial place of the Dmitrievs, where the poet's father was buried. This burial site is now likely located right under the road that runs near the former altar. Not only the Dmitrievs are resting there. When the road was being built, eyewitnesses recalled that the vault of one of the graves collapsed, and a boy found a church book, a Psalter, which were usually placed in the graves of clergymen.
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