The village of Tulino was founded in the 17th century by runaway peasants from Ryazan, although the first traces of human settlements in these areas date back to the 4th millennium BC. In 1824, a stone church was built on the grounds of the Tulino Women's Monastery with the funds of merchant Tulino in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, with a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
The architectural ensemble of the temple is designed in the classical style and includes a tall square base supporting a massive rotunda with a helmet-shaped dome and a small cupola. An altar apse adjoins it from the east, while from the west, there is a rectangular refectory with a gabled roof and a three-tiered bell tower with a high spire. The northern and southern facades are adorned with four-column porticos and a triangular pediment, which gives the building a special solemnity and severity. After the arrival of Soviet power, the monastery, which existed for only 38 years, was closed. In 1998, the surviving Assumption Church was returned to the faithful and is currently in operation.
The village has 200 households, with 587 men and 601 women living there, mostly Great Russians working at the local wool factory and having no land. The parish includes the hamlet of the Tulino Women's Monastery, located two versts from the church. There is also a spring and the Smirnova estate.
The village has two zemstvo schools and a church school for literacy, where the law teacher is paid 40 kopecks per lesson. Records of church property and metric books have been preserved since 1824. The staff includes a priest and a psalmist, receiving state salaries of 300 and 100 rubles respectively. The parish capital amounts to 2800 rubles, while the church capital is 400 rubles. The houses belong to the clergy, and they have no land.
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