In the land books of 1628 and 1629, the village is mentioned as the property of Semyon Korobyin. In 1656, it was acquired by Prince I. P. Baryatinsky from the widow Fetinya Korobina. Soon after, he transferred the village to the Pereslavl Danilov Monastery, where he spent the last years of his life, taking monastic vows. Since 1764, the village became state-owned.
In the early 17th century, there was already a church in Tverdilkovo, as confirmed by the land books: there was a wooden church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary with a porch, but it stood empty and without singing. The church was built by the former owner, Prince Shchetinin.
In 1644, the abandoned church was restored by the village owner Semyon Semyonovich Korobyin and re-consecrated in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It served for 134 years until, in 1778, the parishioners built a new wooden church in honor of the same holiday.
In 1826, a stone temple with a bell tower was erected on the site of the wooden church. It has two altars: a cold one in honor of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and a warm chapel in the name of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity. The church is well supplied with utensils, vestments, holy icons, and liturgical books, among which is an ancient icon of the Vladimir Mother of God.
Church documents have been preserved in full: copies of the metric books since 1800 and confession lists since 1819. According to the staff, the clergy consists of a priest and a psalmist. Their salary amounts to 326 rubles per year, including interest from the clergy's capital, income from land, and services. The clergy also receives income from the assigned village of Luchinskoye, sharing it with the Nasakinsky clergy. The priest lives in a communal house, while the psalmist lives in his own house on church land.
The church owns 2 desyatinas 500 square fathoms of homestead land, 30 desyatinas 783 square fathoms of arable land, and 2 desyatinas 200 square fathoms of haymaking land, but there is no plan or land registry for the land. The arable and haymaking land of the priest is cultivated by peasants for free, while the psalmist cultivates his land himself. The parish includes the village of Tverdilkovo and the village of Sotma, where the parish records list 186 men and 221 women, all Orthodox. Since 1885, a church-parish school has been operating in the village of Tverdilkovo.
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