The stone church dedicated to all saints was built in 1817 and consecrated a year later, in 1818. The funds for its construction were provided by merchant Alexei Fyodorovich Ochkina two years before his death; his family owned several houses on Moscow Street. The church was located in an oak grove, where a cemetery had been situated since 1765, which was closed in 1903.
Over time, a residential settlement emerged near the church, named Grafovka, now known as "Manchuria."
Poet Mikhail Ivanisov described this place as follows:
The oak forest, divided into three groves, lined up along the meadow. Among one of the groves, next to the cemetery, rises a temple dedicated to all saints, offering solitude for worship and a refuge for travelers seeking peace from life's storms.
Opposite, on a sandy glade at the bend of bright waters, stands a sugar factory, resembling a miniature city with minarets and gardens, as if embodying fantastic dreams. On both sides, two water mills with thirty-two grain milling installations can be seen.
However, it is not these buildings that attract attention, but the special beauty reflected in the bright waters. In the midnight silence, when everything around freezes, the surroundings are deafened by the wild noise of water in the oak groves, creating majestic harmonic chords, like a choir of spirits, soothing nature and granting sweet dreams.
The church was closed in 1931 and later destroyed. The remnants of its foundation can still be found by the Sura River, near the railway bridge in the area of Mayakovsky Street, previously called All Saints Street.
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