Since the 17th century, the village belonged to the noble family of Shubins from Yaroslavl. There is a tragic story associated with one of the estate's owners in Vakhtino, Alexei Yakovlevich Shubin. When Empress Anna Ioannovna learned of the conspiracy involving the guard officer Alexei Shubin and the Tsarevna Elizabeth, daughter of Peter I, she ordered his exile to Kamchatka. However, when Elizabeth Petrovna ascended the throne in 1741, she ordered that Shubin be found and brought back to St. Petersburg. After he was located in Siberian prisons, Elizabeth's envoys brought him to the capital. Showered with ranks and favors, Shubin left Petersburg and settled in his estate in Vakhtino.
The cousin of Elizabeth Petrovna's favorite, Colonel Ivan Alekseevich Shubin, built the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the estate in 1768, which has survived to this day. It gave the village a second name, Uspenskoe, and became the main dominant feature of the estate complex. In addition to the altar of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the church housed altars in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Tolga Mother of God.
The Assumption Church stands out with its slender, elongated proportions of the octagon and its vault. Its exterior decor, although flat, is distinguished by elegance. The southern and northern facades of the square base are adorned with a triangular pediment. The church has three entrances: northern, southern, and western. The baroque-style portal frames are topped with two slanted shelves with a wide indentation between them. The window frames have similar outlines, but instead of shelves, they feature triangular and arched pediments at their tops. The corners of the square base and the refectory are decorated with rusticated pilasters.
Since 1937, the church has been inactive. In the 1940s, it housed a mill, and from the 1970s, it served as a grain storage and grain grinder. The stone church fence and chapel, built by Shubin simultaneously with the church, have been lost. To this day, a overgrown pond and a thinning estate park remain near the church. Until the early 20th century, there were a church-run almshouse and the Shubino-Vakhtino agricultural school in the village. Now, only the foundations of the school and almshouse remain.
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