The Pogost of Semenova Gora, located by the Pechuga River 41 versts from Vladimir, likely existed as early as the 16th century. An ancient road to Vladimir passed through Pechuga, so there were two pogosts here for a long time: Veretevsky and Semenovogorsky. In the tax books of the Patriarchal Treasury for the year 1628, there is mention of the "Church of the Passion-Bearer Christ Egory by the Semenova River on Pechuga" with a tribute of seven altyns and four dengas. A document from 1653 states: "At this church, there is a priest's yard, in the parish there are 4 noble yards, 25 peasant yards, 14 cheti of plowed church land of medium soil, and 14 cheti overgrown with fallow and forest in the field, and in the same yard, hay by the river Pechuga and in the ravines 40 bundles, and a forest of rambling along half a verst, and across the same." In 1659, the land rent for the church land was paid by the nobleman Sergey Matveevich Vladykin, in 1661 by the nobleman Semyon Borisovich Fedorov, and in 1668 by the patriarchal noble son Ilya Opuchin. In 1700, a new wooden "Church of the Martyr George on Semenova Gora, on Pechuga at the pogost" was built to replace the old one. In 1710, in the "Bogolyubovo stan at the church of the Great Martyr George of the Semenova Gora pogost," priest Tikhon Mitrofanov and deacon Ivan Stefanov served. Between 1780 and 1782, a new wooden George Church was built at the pogost to replace the old one. By the early 1830s, this wooden church had fallen into disrepair, and thanks to the efforts of the local priest Andrei Vasilyevich Belin, who had previously served as a clerk at the Vladimir Theological Seminary, the construction of a new stone church began. In 1828, the stone altar was completed, and by 1843, the stone church in honor of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary with warm chapels in the name of St. Great Martyr George and in honor of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as well as a stone bell tower, was finished. The clergy had 237 desyatins of homestead, arable, haymaking, and forest land. By 1873, the Semenovogorsk Assumption Church had the Cross Exaltation Church attached to it, located 8 versts from the village of Koverino. In 1885, a church-parish school opened at the pogost. The pogost of Semenova Gora was a small settlement, as only the families of the church clergy lived there. In 1873, about 15 people lived here, and by 1904, 8 people in 4 yards. During the Soviet era, the church of the pogost was robbed, in 1937 ancient documents and books, as well as ancient church vessels, were confiscated.
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