In the early 19th century, the site of the modern village of Novoaleksandrovskoye was a wasteland, which was purchased by Lieutenant Alexander Mikhailovich Naryshkin. In the 1830s and 1840s, he built a manor house, outbuildings, laid out a park, and dammed the Bolva River. He named this place after himself, Novoaleksandrovskoye.
The family happiness of the Naryshkins did not last long. After Alexander's unexpected death in 1846, the estate he had arranged passed by inheritance to his wife, Anastasia Yakovlevna, née Kazarina, and their young children.
Having buried her husband with honors in the family tomb of the Spaso-Borodinsky Monastery, founded by Naryshkin's sister Margarita Mikhailovna, the young widow decided to build a stone church in Novoaleksandrovskoye in memory of her husband. This idea of creating a parish church had often occurred to her late husband as well.
Anastasia Yakovlevna's dream came true in 1861, when services began in the new church. The ringing of the bells spread across the estate and surrounding villages. Earlier, thanks to the efforts of the kind hostess, one of the first schools in the province opened in Novoaleksandrovskoye, where peasant children learned literacy and writing under her patronage.
After the revolution, the Orthodox church was closed. Few know that it housed a rich family tomb of the Naryshkins, where the mistress of the estate herself was buried in 1872. Later, her son, Lieutenant Nikolai Alexandrovich Naryshkin, who died at the age of 37 and held the position of the Mosalsky district leader of the nobility, was laid to rest here. For a long time, an inscription remained at the burial site: "Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to You."
Now the ancient crypt is completely destroyed, and one can only guess at its former splendor. Only the ruins of the outbuilding, stables, and the Church of Alexander Nevsky remain from the estate.
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