The history of the Ryabina desert is closely linked to the fate of the holy martyr Adrian of Poshekhonye, who founded a monastery in honor of the Dormition of the Mother of God near Poshekhonye. In 1540, the monastery was attacked by peasants from the neighboring village of Beloye, who looted it, and the abbot Adrian was killed after brutal torture, crushed by the runners of sleds. Adrian's body was never found.
In the vicinity of the Dormition Monastery, on a peninsula formed by the confluence of the Ushloma River into the Uhra, rowan trees grew, which the locals attributed miraculous properties. People gathered here to pass the sick through the branches of the rowan for healing. To eradicate this superstition, the deacon Ivan Prokhoriev from the village of Guzhnevo restored the long-lost church in the name of the Holy Prophet Elijah in 1612 and became its priest, later founding a monastery. In 1626, monk Jonah, a native of the village of Beloye, died, and before his death revealed to the abbot Lavrenty a secret kept in their family: under the rowan, considered miraculous, were buried the relics of Adrian, saved by his grandfather from robbers. The abbot informed the patriarch about this, and by his order, searches for the relics began. Lavrenty indicated the place for excavations, and soon the incorrupt relics of Adrian were discovered, which were transferred to the Adrian Poshekhon Dormition Monastery on November 16, 1625.
In the 18th century, the Trinity Monastery was abolished, and in 1777, the wooden church was replaced by a stone temple funded by the landowners Bibikovs. The temple had altars in the name of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Prophet Elijah, and the Venerable Zosima and Savvatiy of Solovetsky.
Unfortunately, the village has not survived, and only the elegant three-tiered bell tower remains from the Trinity Church.
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