The Trinity Church in the village of Chistukha is associated with the Kazan Church in the village of Palashkino. The wasteland of Chistukha is mentioned in a charter by Grand Prince Ivan III Vasilyevich, issued to the Suzdal Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery in 1749. In this charter, the prince allowed the monastery to relocate people to Chistukha and exempted them from taxes and duties for ten years.
Later, Chistukha became part of the possessions of the Vyazemsky princes. In 1694, the local landowner, chamberlain Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Vyazemsky, built a church in Chistukha, consecrated in 1695 in honor of Saint Martyr George. In 1772, with the funds of Princess Vyazemskaya, a stone church was erected to replace the wooden one, which has survived to this day along with a stone tent-shaped bell tower. The church has two altars: in the cold part, in honor of the Holy Trinity, and in the warm part, in honor of Saint Martyr George.
Church documents, including copies of metric books from 1802 and confession lists from 1829, have been fully preserved. The land associated with the church consists of 1 tithe of homestead land, 33 tithes of arable land, and 1 tithe and 300 square fathoms of haymaking land. There is no regular clergy at the church, but there is a vicar priest and a psalmist who receive an income from the parish of about 200 rubles a year. A public wooden house is available for the vicar priest. In the combined parish of Palashkino and Chistukha, the clerical records list 402 men and 451 women in Palashkino, and 296 men and 336 women in Chistukha.
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