The village, also known as Bogoroditskoye, is located on a plain near the Ushloma River, next to the "Mokhovskoye Swamp." In this village, there was an estate of the noble Medvedev family, from which only the alleys of old poplars, birches, linden trees, and two overgrown ponds have survived to this day. During the Soviet period, the estate building housed a hospital. At the beginning of the 20th century, a zemstvo school was opened in the village.
In 1788, Captain Akulina Nikitichna Medvedeva, a local landowner, built a stone church of the Resurrection of Christ in the village. It has survived to this day and has altars in honor of the Resurrection of Christ, the Assumption of the Mother of God, and Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The church was surrounded by an iron fence with stone pillars, and there was a stone chapel at the gates. However, neither the fence, nor the gates, nor the chapel have survived to our time. The church also suffered greatly: after its closure in 1935, the outer walls of the refectory were destroyed. The decorations of the surviving square structure are minimal, with only a row of dry bricks along the cornice. The bell tower is more interesting from an architectural point of view: the first tier is covered with rustication. An active cemetery surrounds the temple.
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