The village of Spasskoye is located 16 versts from the district town and 105 versts from the provincial capital. The first mentions of the church in Spasskoye date back to the early 17th century. The land books of 1628 indicate that there was a wooden church in the village in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord with an altar in the name of the venerable Sergius of Radonezh. This church is also mentioned in the census books of 1678, where a priest named Andrey served.
In 1683, the nobleman Mikhail Nikitich Chemodanov built a new wooden church in Spasskoye, which has survived to this day after several repairs. This is evidenced by the remnants of an inscription in the church. At the end of the 18th century, there was a wooden bell tower above the refectory, which now stands separately. The church has two altars: the main one in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord and an altar in honor of the venerable Sergius of Radonezh. A special attraction is the icon of the venerable Sergius, carved from white stone, located in the iconostasis of the Sergius altar. In this same iconostasis, under the image of the Savior, there is an inscription stating that the nobleman Mikhail Nikitich Chemodanov built this holy image in his estate in the village of Spasskoye in the church of the venerable Sergius in the year 7191.
In 1822, a stone church with a similar bell tower was built next to the wooden church with the funds of the landowner Ekaterina Ivanovna Vasilchikova, which still exists today. It also has two altars: the main one in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord and an altar in honor of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. Above the main altar, there is a canopy supported by four pillars. The church is well supplied with utensils, a vestment room, holy icons, and liturgical books. A particularly revered relic is a small gilded silver cross with particles of holy relics, embedded in a board with images of the saints whose relics are on the cross. This cross was donated by landowner Vasilchikova. All church documents are kept in order: there are copies of the metric books since 1805 and confession lists since 1821.
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