The village of Ivanovskoye on the Volga was named Ivanovskoye-Prozorovskikh, as it was owned by the Prozorov princes from the 17th century for 185 years. Initially, the village was a palace estate, and in 1624, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich granted it to the boyar, Prince Semyon Vasilyevich Prozorovsky, for defending Tikhvin and the Tikhvin Monastery from the Swedes in 1613. In difficult times for Russia, the prince showed courage by repelling the Polish army from Dorogobuzh in 1617 and serving as a voivode in Moscow, Ryazan, Astrakhan, Vyazma, and Putivl.
The prince died in 1660, having taken monastic vows before his death at the Tikhvin Assumption Mother of God Monastery. The village passed to his son, Prince Pyotr Semyonovich Menshoy Prozorovsky, and then to his son, Prince Nikita Petrovich Prozorovsky, who was married to Princess Maria Mikhailovna Golitsyna. He was succeeded by his son, Prince Alexander Nikitich, the father of General Field Marshal Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Prozorovsky. The latter participated in the Seven Years' War, the conquest of Crimea in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774, governed the Oryol-Kursk governorate from 1780, and was the commander-in-chief in Moscow and a senator from 1790. In 1808, while appointed commander-in-chief of the army in the new Russo-Turkish War, he died in camp.
The prince began the construction of a stone church in honor of the Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God. First, a heated refectory was built with altars of the Life-Giving Trinity, consecrated in 1815, and St. Nicholas. The main altar was consecrated in 1835. The ancient Tikhvin Icon of the Mother of God, located in the church, was considered miraculous among the local residents.
Until the beginning of the 19th century, there stood a wooden church of the Life-Giving Trinity in the village, built in the mid-17th century, with chapels of the Most Holy Theotokos Odigitria and St. Nicholas, first mentioned in documents from 1654. In 1794, a wooden cemetery church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God was built. The parish clergy included a priest, a deacon, and a psalmist. Since 1887, a church-parish school operated in the village.
Until 1870, Vasily Ilyich Preobrazhensky served as a deacon in the church of Ivanovskoye-Prozorovskikh, a church writer and historian. In 1860, he graduated from the Vladimir Theological Seminary, was ordained as a deacon, and served in Ivanovskoye. After being ordained as a priest, he served in the Sorrowful Church of Vladimir, and from 1890, he was a priest at the Assumption Knyaginina Monastery in Vladimir. In 1893, he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon. His sermons and articles about the life of the clergy were published in the 'Vladimir Diocesan News.' In 1900, his work 'Historical Description of the First-Class Knyaginina Assumption Women's Monastery in Vladimir' was published. On November 18, 1937, priests of the Tikhvin Church Dmitry Ivanovich Rudakov and Sergey Mikhailovich Rufitsky were arrested on charges of counter-revolutionary agitation. Three days later, they were sentenced to execution, and six days later, the sentence was carried out. During the Soviet era, the church was closed and looted. In the 1990s, the building was handed over to the community of believers, and the church began to be restored.
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