Six kilometers east of the village of Yurino lies the village of Burtsovo, where the stone Church of the Resurrection of Christ still stands, featuring two altars and a bell tower on the western side. The address calendar of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese for 1888 states that there was a wooden church in Burtsovo built in 1780, but this is not entirely accurate. In the list of parish churches of the Balakhna district from 1652, it is already listed as existing. In addition to the main altar in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, the church has two more: in honor of the prophet Elijah and the holy fathers Zosimas and Savvatiy, the Solovetsky miracle workers.
The Zharskaya volost, the ancestral estate of the Pozharsky princes, passed to the younger son, Ivan Dmitrievich Pozharsky, after the death of D. M. Pozharsky in 1642 and his son Peter in 1647. The last of the line, Yuri Ivanovich Pozharsky, died in 1682 without heirs. In 1692, when the Church of the Resurrection of Christ burned down, the new owner of the village, the chamberlain Ivan Vasilyevich Volzhinsky, restored it with the previous chapels, and it was consecrated in May 1707. The chapel of Zosimas and Savvatiy was built warm.
Archimandrite Makary, in his book "Monuments of Church Antiquities," describes that the church was built during the reign of Tsar Peter Alekseevich and had two altars: a cold one in honor of the Resurrection of Christ and a warm Zosimo-Savvatievsky one. An illustration in the book shows the church's facade from the northern side. When the church became stone is unknown, but its facade resembles the wooden church depicted by Archimandrite Makary. The Resurrection Church in Burtsovo has been preserved quite well, but it is currently inactive and in need of repairs.
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