Sights in Yegoryevsk (Moscow region)

A little history about Yegoryevsk

Yegoryevsk is an ancient Russian city located near Moscow on the Guslitsa River. It is separated from the capital by only 101 km. You can cover this distance by car or bus in 2-3 hours.

This small town has a rich history. The village of Vysokoye was previously located in its place. There are records about him in documents of 1462 by Prince Vasily the Dark. One of the legends tells that at the beginning of the 14th century the people of the Chernigov gentleman Byakont settled in it. And in the papers of Ivan Kalita, the Guslitsky volost was mentioned back in 1328. Its location coincides with the current location of the Yegoryevsky district.

The name of the river means “witchcraft”. Translated from the ancient Slavic language “gusl” means “sorcerer”. It was believed that in the villages along the banks of the Guslitsa, residents were engaged in conspiracies.

Later Vysokoye was renamed Grigorievskoye. It was only in 1778 that it became a city. They named him Yegoryev in honor of Saint Yegory (aka St. George the Victorious). There is a more interesting version about the origin of its name. At one time, the borders of 3 principalities converged in the city: Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir. When their envoys tried to receive tribute, they were told that they had already given it to another principality. This is how the residents managed to outwit all the messengers.

View of the old city

Yegoryevsky began to call it much later. Only 575 people lived in it, mostly small traders, artisans, day laborers, and merchants. The 19th century is the time of its heyday. Built at that time:

• Weaving manufactory by merchant Kartsev (1825).
• Paper spinning mill by the Khludov brothers (1847). Its buildings have survived to this day. The pride of the residents is the clock tower.
• Iron line to neighboring Voskresensk (1869).

During the same period, Yegoryevsk became the center of the Old Believers, since most of the population adhered to such views and traditions.

At the behest of Catherine II, a coat of arms and a development plan for the city appeared, which became famous for its annual grain fairs. Thanks to Catherine’s German meticulousness, the streets were laid out in such a way that they formed regular squares whenever possible.

According to the plan, the axial street was Moskovskaya (now Sovetskaya).

Nowadays in Yegoryevsk the city center has remained in the same form as it was formed at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.

Buildings with carved shutters and gates made of wood convey the historical appearance of the provincial town. New buildings are being erected closer to the outskirts.

Noticeable changes in Yegoryevsk occurred under mayor Bardygin. In the history of the city, this time was marked by the construction of:

• water supply;
• libraries;
• shopping establishments;
• Church of the Holy Trinity, and later a monastery.

There was lighting on the streets. His son also made his contribution to the development of Yegoryevsk. With his participation, a mechanical and electrical engineering school was built.

Anyone who enters the city, moving from Moscow, will see a famous monastery at the end of Vladimirskaya Street.

Yegoryevsk is one of the oldest cities in the Moscow region

Yegoryevsk is one of the oldest cities in the Moscow region. Today we talk about his past and present, as well as the real estate market and future prospects. Past The city of Yegoryevsk arose on the site of the ancient village of Vysokoye, known since 1468. In the 16th century. a wooden church of St. George the Victorious was built here and the village was renamed Yegorye - Vysokoye. In 1778 it was transformed into a district town of the Ryazan province and in honor of St. George received the name Yegoryevsk. The main occupations of local residents then were grain trading and wood carving. Later, home weaving began to develop. In 1825, the merchant Kartsev built the first weaving factory. 20 years later, the Khludov brothers founded a large spinning factory on the left bank of the Guslitsa, which flows through Yegoryevsk, which was equipped with the most advanced English equipment at that time. The railway line laid in 1869 from Voskresensk to Yegoryevsk accelerated the development of the city. By the end of the 19th century. More than three dozen factories and factories were already operating here, and the city became one of the large industrial centers of Russia. At the same time, it was known as one of the main strongholds of the Old Believers. In the second half of the 19th century. The merchant and major entrepreneur Nikifor Mikhailovich Bardygin became the head of the city. Thanks to his efforts, energy and funds, decent roads appeared here, the first city water supply system in the county was built, a public garden, a club with a library were organized, and street lighting was installed. At this time, the ensemble of the Trinity-Mariinsky Monastery with a church, the multi-tented Church of Alexander Nevsky, and the Alekseevskaya Church with a carved gilded iconostasis were built. In 1909, at the expense of the merchant, the Yegoryevsk Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School was built. Tsarevich Alexei, with an educational and administrative building, a dormitory for students and houses for teachers. These buildings, as well as the Old Believer Church of St. George the Victorious, still adorn the city today. In 1922, Yegoryevsky district was transferred to the Moscow province, which in 1929 was transformed into the Moscow region. During the Soviet period, new enterprises appeared in the city. Residential buildings were built, educational and medical institutions were opened, and infrastructure was developed. However, this ancient merchant city has retained its identity and unique flavor. Information The administrative center of the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow region is the city of Yegoryevsk, located 100 km southeast of the center of Moscow, 80 km from the Moscow Ring Road. It is connected to the capital by the Moscow-Kasimov highway. Railway communication is carried out along the Kazan direction of the Moscow Railway. The population is about 67 thousand people. The present Today Yegoryevsk is a well-maintained city with picturesque green streets, where ancient merchant houses and small provincial houses coexist with modern multi-storey buildings. The most noticeable changes have occurred in recent years. In the second microdistrict there is a park with a fountain. A public garden along Gagarin Street and the area around the Yegoryevsk Sports Palace and shopping center have been developed. On the boulevard. Laryushin and Pobeda Street new flower beds and lawns appeared. A modern, comfortable bus station has been built. School No. 6 has an extension with a gym, a canteen, production workshops and classrooms. Internal roads are being repaired in the city. They are building new shops, cafes, and residential buildings. More and more well-equipped children's playgrounds are appearing in local areas. Infrastructure In Yegoryevsk, as in most cities near Moscow, the education system is well developed. Yegoryevsk Aviation Technical College of Civil Aviation named after. the legendary pilot Valery Chkalov, a graduate of this school. It trains aviation technical personnel not only for Russia, but also for abroad. Since March 1, 2009, the college has been a branch of the Moscow State Technical University of Civil Aviation. The city also hosts the Moscow Regional Pedagogical College, a textile technical school, a medical school, and several vocational schools. Higher education can be obtained at the Yegoryevsk Technological Institute "Stankin" and at branches of Moscow universities: the State Academy of Public Utilities and Construction and the State Humanitarian University. M. A. Sholokhova. Residents have access to the youth center, culture and leisure center “Pegasus”, Palace of Culture named after. G. Konina, House of Culture "Lad", several libraries. Children can engage in various sports sections of the Yegoryevsk Sports Palace, at the Meshchera stadium, and at the Master-Saturn Olympic Reserve School. The necessary medical care is provided to the population in several clinics, central district and children's hospitals. The city has rehabilitation centers for people with disabilities, as well as citizens with disabilities, commercial medical and dental institutions. Food, clothing, furniture and other necessary goods can be purchased in shopping centers and stores of the Dixie, Pyaterochka, and Kopeika retail chains. Jobs for residents of the city and region are provided by numerous enterprises in the food, light, manufacturing industries, and companies engaged in publishing and printing activities. The glorious traditions of Yegoryevsk textile workers are continued by Yegoryevsk-Textiles LLC. The oldest enterprise in the clothing industry, JSC Lyubava-2, has been operating on the Russian market for more than 80 years. Egoryevsk-Obuv OJSC is well known. The company logo in the form of a running cat Kotofey in boots and a wide-brimmed hat has become a symbol of comfortable and high-quality children's shoes. The supplier of spare parts for the rolling stock of Russian Railways is Tekhos CJSC. Spare parts and units for grain harvesting machines are produced by the Yegoryevsk Mechanical Plant. Food industry enterprises operate successfully: Egoryevsky Bread Processing Plant CJSC, Pobeda Confectionery Factory LLC, Egoryevsky Meat Processing Plant. Since the beginning of the 2000s. The district administration is pursuing an active policy to attract foreign investment. During this period, more than ten enterprises with foreign capital were opened. Among them are “Gedeon Richter” (Hungary), “San-Gaben-Isover” (France - Finland), “Chibo” (Germany), “Kronospan” (Austria), “Green Mama” (France), “Bella” ( Poland) and others. Housing construction. Primary market From 2004 to 2008, a dozen and a half apartment buildings were commissioned in Yegoryevsk. The volume of housing construction here in comparison with the cities of the near Moscow region is low, but the changes taking place in this area are obvious. Even in the difficult years of 2008–2009. housing construction did not stop. For example, it commissioned four apartment buildings 4, 4a, 6 and 8 on Sosnovaya Street and a nine-story brick building in the first microdistrict of the city. In 2010, the company completed the construction of a three-section, ten-story brick-panel residential building in the fourth microdistrict of the city and two similar facilities on Mekhanizatorov Street. All apartments have a cold and hot water supply system with metering installed, heating appliances are installed, electrical wiring is done, walls are screeded and plastered, windows and loggias are glazed. Most apartments are sold at the construction stage, but today you can purchase housing from the developer in ready-made houses at the following addresses. Sosnovaya street, house 8a. The area of ​​one-room apartments is 47 square meters. m, two-room apartments - from 78 sq. m. Spacious, at least 10.5 sq. m. m, kitchens. Cost of 1 sq. m - 40 thousand rubles. Sosnovaya street, house 4a. Only two-room apartments with an area of ​​78 sq. m. remain for sale. m. They can be purchased in installments according to the scheme offered by: 50% of the cost of the apartment should be paid immediately, and the price of 1 sq. m. m is fixed, the remaining amount is paid over five years. Cost of 1 sq. m - 35 thousand rubles. Fourth microdistrict, building 15. One-room apartments with an area of ​​44 sq. m. are for sale. m, two-room apartments - from 55 sq. m, three-room apartments - 74 sq. m. Kitchens at least 10.5 sq. m. m. Cost of 1 sq. m - 40 thousand rubles. Fourth microdistrict, Profsoyuznaya street, nine-story building of standard series I-1724. Developer - Voskresensky house-building plant. The house contains one-, two-, three-room apartments ranging from 42 to 81 sq. m. m. Only one-room apartments remain for sale. Cost of 1 sq. m - from 37.5 thousand rubles. Ryazanskaya street, building 29, 12-storey monolithic brick residential building. The developer is Conversion Military Technologies LLC. One-room apartments with an area of ​​44 square meters remain for sale. m and two-room apartments with an area of ​​66.5 sq. m. Kitchens - 10 sq. m. Cost of 1 sq. m - 32.5 thousand rubles. Mekhanizatorov Street, four-entrance, eight-story building. Developer - . The area of ​​the apartments is from 39 to 73 sq. m. m. Kitchens - from 10.5 sq. m. Planned completion date - III quarter of 2011. Cost of 1 sq. m. m - 36 thousand rubles. Secondary market Most offers on the secondary housing market are apartments in old buildings. The merchant buildings of the 19th - early 20th centuries have been preserved in the city center. On the outskirts there are many five- and nine-story standard panels, built in the 1960–1980s, and private houses. There are also offers of housing in six to ten-story brick and panel houses of improved series, built in the last decade. About 80% of transactions on the secondary market are carried out through real estate agencies. There are several of them in Yegoryevsk. The Guild of Realtors of the Moscow Region, which accepts reliable companies, includes only one - Yegoryevsky Real Estate House LLC. According to Elena Logvina, head of the consulting department of the residential real estate department of analytical consulting, from September 2007 to November 2008, 1 sq. m of housing on the secondary real estate market in Yegoryevsk has risen in price by almost 50%. However, the onset of the crisis changed the situation. Viktor Satalkin, head of the sales department of the Yegoryevsky Real Estate House, notes that in 2009, prices for urban housing decreased by 25–30%. In 2010, the cost of 1 sq. m has stabilized and now in Khrushchev-era buildings averages 35 thousand rubles, in more modern houses with an improved layout - about 40 thousand rubles. This is approximately 20% lower than it was at the peak of sales - in the fall of 2008. “More than half of the housing in the city,” says V. Satalkin, “is purchased by local residents, about 25% by Muscovites and the same amount by visitors from other regions. Most often, transactions are alternative: they sell an old apartment, add their own savings, or take out a loan and buy a more comfortable home. In Yegoryevsk, 30–40% of transactions are now carried out using mortgage loans.” Options for offers to sell apartments on the secondary market

• 1.3 million rubles. — price of a one-room apartment with an area of ​​28 square meters. m, located on the first floor of a nine-story brick building. Sovetskaya street.
• 1.5 million rubles. — the price of a one-room apartment with an area of ​​42 square meters. m, located on the eighth floor of a nine-story panel building. Sosnovaya street.
• RUB 1.65 million — price of a two-room apartment with an area of ​​48 square meters. m, located on the first floor of a two-story house. Telman Street.
• RUB 2.8 million — price of a three-room apartment with an area of ​​71 sq. m. m, located on the eighth floor of a nine-story building in the fifth microdistrict.
• RUB 2.9 million — price of a three-room apartment with an area of ​​77 square meters. m, located on the third floor of a nine-story brick building. Sosnovaya street.

Rent The city has a well-developed rental market. According to V. Satalkin, apartments are mainly rented by young families, as well as employees of foreign companies located throughout the area. The rate, as elsewhere, depends on the location, condition of the house and the apartment itself, as well as on the furnishings and availability of household appliances. Now for a one-room apartment you will have to pay from 6 to 10 thousand rubles/month, for a two-room apartment - from 9 to 14 thousand rubles/month, for a three-room apartment - from 12 to 17 thousand rubles/month. For those who come to the city for a short period of time, the Yegoryevsk Hotel in the city center, as well as the new Berezhki Hall Hotel, are available. Options for apartment rental offers

• 10 thousand rubles/month. — the cost of renting a one-room apartment with an area of ​​30 square meters. m, located on the second floor of a five-story panel building in the first microdistrict.
• 12 thousand rubles/month. — rental price for a one-room apartment with an area of ​​35 square meters. m, located on the third floor of a nine-story brick building in the third microdistrict.
• 10 thousand rubles/month. — the cost of renting a two-room apartment with an area of ​​40 sq. m, located on the third floor of a five-story panel building in the fourth microdistrict.
• 15 thousand rubles/month. — rental price for a two-room apartment with an area of ​​40 sq. m, located on the sixth floor of a nine-story panel building in the sixth microdistrict.

Transport Within the city there are two railway stations: Yegoryevsk-1 (freight) and Yegoryevsk-2 (passenger). Every day, passenger electric trains depart from the Kazansky station of the capital with a transfer at the Voskresensk station and direct Moscow - Yegoryevsk, passing through the Kurovskaya station. Travel time is about two hours. By car you can get there along the Yegoryevskoye Highway (road P105), which passes through many large settlements. Along the entire route there are boarding houses, sanatoriums, and sports complexes. Buses run from the Vykhino and Shchelkovskaya metro stations. Travel time depends on the presence or absence of traffic jams.

Getting to know the Holy Trinity Mariinsky Convent

It appeared around the Holy Trinity Church. Bardygin allocated funds for construction work. They lasted 20 years. Its opening took place in 1900. The monastery was named in honor of his wife Maria, on whose initiative the church was built. She planned to open a nunnery and live in it after the death of her husband. But she didn't have to live in it. By the time of her death, after a sudden illness, the monastery was unfinished.

Her husband made her dream come true. He was buried in Trinity Church. With the advent of Soviet power, the burial sites were destroyed.

The main temple was superior in luxury to many Moscow churches. A golden-domed temple could be seen in the center of the buildings.

Holy Trinity Mariinsky Convent Yegoryevsk

At one time, the monastery housed the Civil Air Fleet Aviation School. Now it is located near the monastery. Hero of the Soviet Union Valery Chkalov came from this school.

After restoration work was carried out in the monastery:

• services resumed;
• Sunday school is open.

Several nuns live within its walls. The sisters bake bread in their own bakery. They are involved in charity work and organizing pilgrimage trips. It has its own museum.

There is a wall with towers around the monastery buildings. It is similar to the fences of the Moscow Kremlin in a reduced form. At one time it was assigned a defensive function.

The vaults of the Trinity Church are painted on a gold background.

The monastery is open daily from 7.00 to 18.00. Address: Vladimirskaya street, 2. You can walk from the bus station in 20 minutes.

Yegoryevsk

Several large churches have survived in Yegoryevsk, and below I will talk about the most significant of them. It is curious that among them are not only Orthodox churches, but also the Church of the Old Believers, who have long lived in these parts.

Holy Trinity Mariinsky Monastery

Erected in the 1880–1890s at the request of Maria Bardygina, the wife of the then mayor. Nikifor Mikhailovich (who managed to make Yegoryevsk one of the best cities in the country with street lighting and a plumbing system at the end of the 19th century) was much older than his wife, and the woman planned to retire to a monastery after his death. However, the temple was not built before the death of Mary herself, and therefore she never lived here. Bardygin himself, by the way, was buried in the Trinity Church, located on the territory of the monastery. During the Soviet years, the burial sites were razed to the ground, and eyewitnesses of those events said that human bones and skulls were visible through the monastery gates.

My favorite thing is the red brick wall of the monastery, it looks like a fortress. However, earlier monasteries also had such a function: defensive. After severe frosts, the wall becomes covered with white frost: this is how frost comes out of it.

During the Soviet years, the Civil Air Fleet aviation school was located on the premises of the monastery (it is still located here behind the fence; many Yegoryevites, having studied there, connect their lives with aviation), and there is a club in the main cathedral.

If you look through the gap in the fence (on the left side of the cathedral), you can see a small white monument to Valery Pavlovich Chkalov: the future great pilot and Hero of the USSR studied in Yegoryevsk.

Opening hours: the monastery is active, entrance to it is open from 7:00 to 18:00. Liturgies are celebrated at 8:00, all-night vigil at 17:00.

How to get there: it is located on Vladimirskaya Street.

From the bus station to the monastery it is a 20-minute walk.

Temple of St. Alexander Nevsky

Construction of the temple began in 1881 according to the design of the Moscow architect Kaminsky, who at that time fell out of favor in Moscow: the building he designed for the Apartment House of the Moscow Merchant Society on Kuznetsky Bridge in the capital collapsed, and people died.

The first 3,000 rubles for the construction of the temple were donated by the mayor Nikifor Mikhailovich Bardygin. They decided to name the temple in honor of the blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky. This saint was the heavenly patron of Emperor Alexander II, who until a certain point miraculously escaped during numerous assassination attempts.

Construction of the temple took 16 years. In 1941, they wanted to convert it into a cinema (perhaps this would have been a good decision, because at present there is no cinema in Yegoryevsk), but in the end the temple was simply looted and closed for 5 years. In 1962, bell ringing was even banned in Yegoryevsk, and bell towers and churches remained silent for several years.

Opening hours: Now the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is the main one in the city. It is open to parishioners daily from 8:00 to 19:00. There is a Sunday school and library at the cathedral. Temple servants develop the traditions of church singing.

How to get there: located on Alexander Nevsky Square, 1.

You can get to the cathedral from Yegoryevsk station on foot or by bus No. 3.

Church of St. George the Victorious (Old Believer Church)

It is important to remember that several blocks not far from what is now Sovetskaya Street (formerly called Moskovskaya) were inhabited by Old Believers merchants, the Brekhovs. It was a wealthy family that owned local apartment buildings, shops, workshops, and agricultural land. There are stories about how one of the Brekhovs invited beggars to his dacha so that they would pick berries and mushrooms for him to sell.

Not far from Sovetskaya, behind house number 117, there was a secret prayer room. At the beginning of the 20th century, when the Old Believers were legalized, it was rebuilt into a full-fledged church and called St. George’s. You can still meet bearded men in shirts here: it immediately seems that you have found yourself in the past.

Now Old Believers from surrounding cities, including Moscow, come to the Church of St. George the Victorious.

Opening hours: the temple is open to the public from 8:00 to 18:00, and you can easily go inside even if you are not an Old Believer.

How to get there: you can get from the station to the temple on foot or by bus No. 3 (it travels along the entire Sovetskaya Street).

Walk along the main street

On Sovetskaya Street, which stretches across the entire city, most of its attractions are located.

At its intersection with Profsoyuznaya Street there is a memorial in the form of a stone dedicated to the victims of political repression.

The further path runs to the square. It has the original basket installed.

She is a symbol of fertility

In the same park you can see the house of the merchant Kulakov, which houses the Historical Department of the Historical and Art Museum. The museum itself is located one block further in the beautiful 2-story mansion of the merchant Nikitin.

The central square of Yegoryevsk has the same name - Sovetskaya. Previously it was called Sobornaya. It was decorated with the majestic (for 5,000 people) Assumption Cathedral, built in 1839. Unfortunately, it was blown up in 1935. The formal reason is obstruction to traffic. Two shops are located in preserved shops.

As in most Russian cities, an invariable attribute of the central square is the monument to Lenin.

Its peculiarity is that it is very similar to the portrait of the original.

The perimeter of the square is occupied by buildings from the late 19th century. They housed shops. Bardygin's house is also located there.

In another park there is a monument to the liberating warrior.

On the main street there will also be a monument to D.I. Khludov, who distinguished himself by his charity. Churches and monasteries, shelters, and parochial schools were built with his donations, and not only in Yegoryevsk.

He had a house in Moscow, so he abandoned it. Gave it to an orphanage. In order not to depend on anyone, to manage his own funds independently, he left the family business - the Trading House, which he owned together with his brothers. He believed that it is better to engage in charity during life, rather than bequeathing your capital after death.

The meeting with the main temple of Yegoryevsk will take place at the intersection of two streets - Sovetskaya and Alexander Nevsky.

New Year, 60s, Yegoryevsk

The more childhood is removed, the more magically it is remembered. My Yegoryevsk childhood was very happy, prosperous and completely patriarchal. In the sense that I was not “prepared for school”, I was not forced to do anything, I was not taken to any classes. I just lived as I lived. The only thing I achieved before school was virtuoso jumping over a rope. Well, the classics, of course, but it’s mediocre.

Back then it was even believed that there was no need to learn to read before school: they would learn it at school. True, I somehow learned, but it was my personal initiative. Yegoryevsk is a city in the Moscow region, 85 km southeast of Moscow. In the 60s, my father worked there as the director of a plant called Komsomolets, my mother worked at the same plant in a design bureau. We lived in the so-called director's apartment - in a three-room “Stalinist” apartment; the apartment was a service one: the one who at that moment was the director of this plant lived in it. The apartment is wonderful: with high ceilings, with a balcony overlooking the green garden in front of the house, and beyond - into the so-called. Gorsad. There were two rooms leading out there. And another one, a kitchen and a bathroom (it had a window) overlooked the courtyard, where there were woodsheds, with slides between them, which were flooded in winter and slid down them on plywood. This is if you come close to the window. And if you didn’t come close, you could see a beautiful red-brick monastery - the local Kremlin. In those distant times, the Kremlin housed the Civil Air Fleet (Civil Air Fleet) School, where, among others, blacks studied, bringing pleasant variety to our quiet life. The blacks were polite and friendly, the people sympathized with them. Today the Kremlin has become a monastery again.

We lived on the main street - Sovetskaya. You could walk a little and get to a square with a park and a monument to Lenin. There you could also catch buses going to neighboring villages; in Yegoryevsk itself there was no transport: where to go, everything was close. In the section of Sovetskaya from our house to the square there is all the most interesting: various shops, where there is so much attractive, bright, colorful stuff.

It is believed that in Soviet times there were the notorious “empty shelves,” but I remember that there was a lot of interesting things in the stores. For example, there was some kind of store that sold beautiful dresses and nightgowns for girls, I wanted one with lace, with some kind of pleats and gathers. But my mother didn’t buy it for me: she sewed such little things herself from chintz on a beautiful Singer machine that belonged to her grandmother. For the summer, the dresses were made of cotton, for the winter - flannelette. I was cold and put on my grandmother’s knitted sweater. My mother’s skill was, of course, useful in the household, but it deprived me of some happy moments. Then everything made of nylon came into fashion in our town, in particular, nylon dresses for little girls. (Today this material is called organza - one to one). Maybe in Moscow this fashion has already passed, but here all the girls dreamed of a nylon dress. But they didn’t buy me this: probably my mother thought that it was self-indulgence, nonsense, there was no point in spending money, a sitchik was much better. (I think synthetics were more expensive than natural materials back then). It was announced that walking in nylon was harmful. It's a shame, but oh well.

But they bought me Christmas tree decorations without question. We began to thoroughly prepare for the new year - from the beginning of winter, from the end of November, it seems to me. Mom came home from work quite early, they finished at four o’clock (but they worked half a day on Saturday). Having quickly eaten, she took me, I took the sled and we went “on the circle” - i.e. to the center. In Yegoryevsk in those days, the sidewalks were not cleared down to asphalt, and the snow was simply trampled down. Then on the streets you could see horses harnessed to sleighs, on which collective farmers brought goods to the market, where I also loved to go with my mother on Sunday mornings, but that’s a separate story. So it was possible to drive on a sled on the sidewalks of that time with complete comfort.

So we walked down the street, I was pulling a sled. On my feet I had felt boots with galoshes; these were normal shoes for winter. Mom had beautiful boots - a combination of felt and leather, with a small heel - I remember them. And in general, my mother is beautiful, dressed smartly, and has a huge fox hat on her head. And I’m wearing a blue coat, to which my mother sewed a white sheepskin fur lining, made from the sheepskin coat that I grew out of. I took off the lining and the coat became demi-season. That sheepskin turned out to be almost eternal. I was already in tenth grade, and I had a very beautiful crimson winter coat - fitted and very flared, quite long - that was the fashion. So the collar of this coat was made of the same sheepskin, and along the hem there was a fur strip from that former fur coat. This fur was washed with powder, and my mother somehow treated it so that it would not turn yellow, I suspect, with a solution of hydrogen peroxide for 2 kopecks. This was the habitat. Please note: I belonged to the upper layer, not the very top, but, in today’s terms, the upper middle class. But things were preserved and remade - and it seems to me that this is right. However, I digress. Let's return to New Year's Yegoryevsk in the 60s.

My mother and I were heading to the Cult Goods store. I didn’t understand that these were “cultural goods” - for me they were just mysteriously beautiful cultural goods. I didn’t understand why that was and for some reason I didn’t ask. I wasn’t much of a “why” person at all: I liked to think for myself. Cult goods was a long narrow store located along the entire facade of the house. What was not there! And all sorts of school things: briefcases, notebooks, pencils, pens, and fountain pens, which were supposed to be used to start learning to write. In real life, we wrote everything with fountain pens, but at school, in the first grade, for some time (until spring) we wrote with dipping pens - to develop handwriting. I eagerly looked at school goods and imagined how they would buy it for me and I would go to school. There was a beautiful box with a picture called “Gift for a First-Grader”; it contained things necessary for starting school. But for now, Kul-Tovars only buy me albums, paints, pencils, and plasticine. Occasionally, I went to Kul-Tovary with my dad to buy photographic supplies, they were also sold there. Dad took good photographs, although he had very little time, except on vacation. I learned to take photographs when I was born. I was a late child, they didn’t think that anyone would be born - and then I appeared.

“Printing cards” was a special pleasure. Dad and I locked ourselves in the bathroom, hung an old flannelette blanket on the window, on which we ironed, sat on a table with drawers (probably it would be more correct to call it a chest of drawers), developed the cards, washed them, secured them, and threw them into the bathtub. Then they hung it on a rope, securing it with clothespins, to dry. It was uncomfortable to sit because... there was nowhere to put my feet, but it was terribly interesting. A red lantern illuminated the field of our activity. Scenes of summer holidays appear on photographic paper in a black bath. It seems like it was so long ago, but here it is all here. Dad taught me some techniques: you can darken some things more, highlight others... Many of those photographs have survived, but, unfortunately, have faded. Only pre-revolutionary ones do not fade. They say that the photographic materials of that time contained silver, and then it was replaced with something and photographs, amateur ones, in any case, are dying. It's a pity…

At the end of the Cultural Goods, to the right of the entrance, there is a toy department. What's not there! Dolls, doll dishes, well, of course, red and blue balls (half red, half blue). The dolls were expensive - with hair, closing eyes and “talking”, i.e. making certain sounds when changing position. My first serious doll was made of papier-mâché, her name was Katya, she had an angelic face, clearly painted by hand. Then there were already plastic ones, with factory-made, not that ugly, but simply no, industrial, faces.

There were also economy class dolls - naked ones, made of plastic. The naked ones depicted a baby about six months old, and those with eyes and hair depicted a girl of eight to ten years old. There were really cheap ones, for little ones - rubber, painted. They had a hole in the back; when squeezed, the doll made a croaking sound. Then GDR rubber dolls appeared, whose hair could be combed, and whose hands were made very precisely; They bought me one at Detsky Mir on Dzerzhinskaya Square on my first trip to Moscow.

And so, having slightly shifted the toys and taken up part of the neighboring counter, before the New Year, the pre-New Year trade in Christmas tree toys began in Kul-Tovary. Probably, the assortment was, by today's standards, poor. But it seemed to me that this was wonderful wealth. There were a dozen options for the beads alone. Glass toys are expensive. They all seemed beautiful to me. Balls with a pattern that looked like they were dusted with snow were especially valued in our circles. Each toy had a small loop, which was not enough to hang on a branch: you had to tie a string or attach a wire. There was a type of clothespin type of toys; they did not hang, but, on the contrary, stood on a branch. The toys sometimes reflected some political realities: there were stars, a rocket, and, I remember, an ear of corn on a clothespin. In Khrushchev’s times, corn was not only popular, but downright some kind of sacred culture. She was called the queen of the fields. Even in our zone, where the climate is not suitable for it, it was sown for silage. Corn flakes with sugar were very common, 7 kopecks. cost; Today Nestlé produces these. In a word, toy craftsmen could not ignore corn. These were glass toys, but there were also cheaper ones - paper, cardboard, and foil. I remember there were these long, long paper accordions that, when unfolded, hugged the whole Christmas tree, but when folded, they looked like a stack of paper. Well, golden shower, serpentine. Either a peak or a star was placed on the top of the tree. The girls and I argued: which is better, more beautiful?

I had a personal piggy bank - a carved wooden barrel. I collected pennies there - 1 kopeck coins, the smallest ones. Sometimes she raked it out and bought something valuable, for example, the most beautiful Christmas tree decoration. This was an extreme measure: when my mother said to my next request: “There is no more money.” With my savings I bought a huge silver ball with a bright crimson flower - it is still alive today. We also bought garlands of light bulbs; they were very unreliable and often burned out.

My mother and I would certainly buy something at Kul-Tovary, then leave the store, I would sit on the sled, tired not so much from walking (I was a strong girl and could walk without getting tired), but from impressions, reflections, what is better to buy, what to choose over what , and my mother took me home. I clutched the bag of loot to my stomach. Then there were no plastic bags, but a shopping bag made of... by the way, what? I remember it externally: this form - a “log” with a zipper - is still used in women’s bags. It was rougher, black. Probably from some kind of “damn leather” or something...

There were also homemade toys. I made endless chains of foil that were placed in tea. I glued and connected the rings - and here you have a chain. For this purpose, I collected foil for a whole year. I also remember making Chinese lanterns.

I don’t know how they bought the tree and where. But I remember the moment of its delivery and installation. They put it in a bucket of wet sand and expressed the hope that it would last longer. I dreamed that it would last until my birthday - January 23rd. But this never happened: they threw it away before; I just lost interest.

They put up the Christmas tree and started decorating. My mother, grandmother and I took part in this. Mom stood on a stool, I served, grandmother advised - in general, everyone was busy, everyone was fussing. Sometimes it suddenly became clear that the beads needed to be rethreaded, because... something is damaged, and from three, let’s say, you need to make two threads. Then they sat down. Everything was terribly serious. And then say: it’s a Christmas tree!

I don’t remember New Year’s Eve at all. They probably forced me to sleep as usual. But on the first day I found gifts under the tree. One main thing, for example, a large doll, and some little things. As far as I remember, I never believed in Santa Claus. But this did not upset me: most of all I was looking forward to gifts and entertainment. And they certainly followed. For example, one day my friend Lyusya and I went to our Kremlin, to the club of the Civil Air Fleet School, to watch a puppet show based on the “Wizard of the Emerald City” we had just read. We were delighted! We also went to the Christmas tree party at the club named after. Koneva. Somehow I didn’t really like this. And when I was six years old, they took me all the way to Moscow to the Hall of Columns. This was presented as the greatest blessing and rare luck. I was even embarrassed that this scarce entertainment did not make much of an impression on me. Many decades later, I found myself in the same Hall of Columns with my daughter. And, you know, everything was very similar - apparently, this is a retro style.

Did you prepare any special food? Yes, we were preparing something. I don’t remember Olivier: it was made, but I remember it not on New Year’s, but at less solemn moments. In general, it seems to me that the indispensable Olivier salad for the New Year in Soviet times is an invention of mayonnaise advertisers today. There was no such thing! They ate it, yes, but so that it wouldn’t happen on New Year’s Day. Grandma baked pies, she did it masterfully, especially with cabbage. I made buns and cheesecakes. I have never eaten anything like this again. Mom made nut cake and meringue. The nut cake seemed fabulously delicious to me, I was ready to eat it as much as I wanted, and one day I ate so much of it that they called the emergency room.

They baked either a duck or a goose - I don’t remember exactly. The Tula grandmother sent the best apples from her garden. I remember these parcels: a plywood box with an address written in crayon. Then I used this plywood to slide down the ice slide between the barns. It was necessary to rip out the nails very carefully: if a nail was found, you would be punished for damaging the ice covering; boys can hit.

Then, of course, there were no New Year holidays for adults. On January 2, everyone went to work and worked like crazy. Christmas was not celebrated. Even in families, privately, none of my friends celebrated it. New Year is understandable, but Christmas is somehow exotic. And we, children, from the second of January lived an ordinary child's life: we walked in the yard, went to visit each other. My friend Lucy often came to see me. We played near the Christmas tree, arranged puppet “Christmas trees”, kind of like in Konev’s club. We played puppet theater.

And then the tree was dismantled, the toys were hidden in boxes and put away, it seems, on the mezzanine, or maybe somewhere else. And the fallen skeleton of the Christmas tree was burned in the stove. We had a stove-stove in the kitchen; That's where they burned it. The heating was central - from the house boiler house, which ran on coal. Then, when the stoves were dismantled and replaced with gas stoves, the Christmas trees, which had become useless, lay in the yard for a long time. One of the boys made a fire out of fir trees, they scolded...

And at school, of course, they celebrated the New Year.

As soon as we first-graders entered school and adjusted to our new life, it was time to prepare for the New Year. We prepared thoroughly. While singing, we learned songs about winter, something folk. I remember: “Hello, guest winter, we ask you to have mercy on us/Sing songs of the north through forests and meadows...” It ended like this: “We can’t get used to it, let your frost crack,/Our Russian blood burns in the frost.” I remember my thought: “How good it is that we have such a wonderful, beautiful winter! But there are peoples who never see it.” I thought this thought when I was riding on the ice on the road from school. An icicle is an icy strip on the sidewalk that the boys rolled around. The boys skated, but everyone skated: they ran up and skated. That's what I did. True, this was not allowed for some reason. In the morning, when I went to school with my mother (she took the same route to work, and I took the same route to school), it was dark, I had no time, and there was no time for ice. And she walked back slowly, freely - so she skated. Moreover, they bought me terribly beautiful boots with fur, like an adult’s. They glided excellently, which is bad in principle, but for an icy ice it’s just the thing. The design of these boots has now disappeared, but then the bala was very common: ankle-high, the boot top seems to split in two and is fastened with a strap covering the leg from behind; The strap made it possible to adjust the width of the boot. Boots spread a few years later, and before that women wore such boots - quite beautiful. And they bought it for me - brown, with real fur, I liked it incredibly. Unfortunately, I soon grew out of them, and they were given to the daughter of my mother’s colleague.

In the drawing we depicted winter, bullfinches, and snow-covered trees. The whole class went to the nearest forest to ski. No one bothered that it could be dangerous - going into the forest, that someone might not be able to ski at least at a basic level, fall, break a leg, etc. And nothing like that happened. Our teacher was elderly - and it was okay, she wasn’t afraid to walk through the woods with the whole class. But the classes were nothing like the current ones: 42 people.

Among other winter fun was preparation for the New Year holiday. Our overloaded school had the capacity to host large-scale celebrations. In general, when you remember that school and the current ones, you are amazed at how much richer life has become. And how little, in essence, they used this wealth to improve people's lives. Our school (they said it was the best in the city) was located in a red-brick, two-story building built before the revolution. I don’t know how many students there were, but there were four shifts. It was organized like this. 1st shift started at 8:15. Then came the second shift, which started at, I think, one o'clock. After the second came the 4th, who studied, as far as I understand, from half past three to eight or half past eight. And in some inexplicable way, the second and fourth shifts were superimposed on the third shift. But there were also holidays and everything that was supposed to happen. The celebrations took place in the “hall” on the first floor, where the classes went. There was a stage made of boards there. And in the same “hall” on the second floor, physical education took place. There were gymnastic benches and some equipment there. On the second floor there was some kind of nook fenced off with a glass partition - it was a pioneer room where extracurricular activities were carried out.

How they managed to organize all this purely from a dispatcher’s perspective – I can’t imagine. But neither the teachers nor the students felt this situation as terrible, tragic, beggarly - what else is commonly said today about much more favorable living conditions. Teachers, students, parents respected their lives. And, of course, we tried to improve. And she, life, improved. Children received an education, housing became more spacious, floor lamps were bought - I remember that the object of prestige, fashion, chic in our town at that time was a floor lamp - a thing that was actually quite useless and wasted time cluttering up meager square meters. But it was fashionable. Everyone ate decently - from the market. In collective gardens, those who wished could grow their own apples and carrots; grandmothers made jam, baked pies... And then they stopped respecting their life - and it collapsed. So here it is. Around November we began to prepare for the new year. We learned songs and dances. I remember one more song, a folk one. Something “Vanya was riding in a hurry and fell from his horse. Two girlfriends ran up, they put Vanya on the horse, they put Vanya on the horse, they showed the way.”

And they also performed some kind of New Year's play, where I played the Fox. I was very proud that I was entrusted with this important role, it seems, even the main one. There was an old fox tail on our sofa, quite tattered. Mom fitted it to her also old, out of fashion, fluffy skirt - in the 50s, such colossally wide skirts were common, which suited few people, because... very plump. It was the so-called "sun", i.e. a circle, or “half-sun” (semicircle) plus more gathers around the waist. The skirt was made of cotton with a large bright pattern, something blue and red. They adjusted my skirt this way and that, my tail dangled quite naturally, but what about my head? My friend brought a wonderful papier-mâché mask. It existed for a long time and I really liked it: very finely made and clearly painted by hand. In general, I was beyond praise.

Parents began to worry about gifts. At that time, ready-made candy sets for children were not sold: everything was made by parents, i.e. We bought candy and packaging and packed it ourselves. My mother was actively involved in this. She offered to store ready-made gifts with us, because... there was no physical space at school, and people’s houses were cramped, but we have a large living room. At first we called it the front room, and then simply “the parade”; that was my word. I took part in packing gifts. As far as I remember, they put them in some bags and tied them with a ribbon. I remember that I personally put a tangerine and a small pack of waffles in each bag. I liked that the set was smart, and that they trusted me – I also liked it. A decent group of people appeared in the corner of the room.

Then my friend Valya came from our yard. Her parents worked at the same factory as workers. Her family lived in the next entrance on the ground floor, in a communal apartment, in a narrow room filled with closets (at least, that’s how I remember it). Valya is the same age, but she studied at a different school - No. 15, which is somewhat closer to our home, but No. 2, where I, my best friend, and the sons of my parents’ friends studied, was considered better. Whenever there are several schools in a district, one turns out to be better and more prestigious in the general opinion; it's human nature. Valya saw a mountain of gifts in the corner and froze. “You are rich,” she said with delighted amazement. - Look how many gifts we bought.

I explained that the gifts were public, for the school. But I was struck by the word “rich”, which applied to me personally. The rich, it seemed to me, were some kind of fairy-tale heroes or characters from books about the “pre-revolution”; “our country” was also, as we were told, rich; Russian nature was rich, but for me personally... it seemed strange. When Valya left, I asked my grandmother: “Are we rich?” “There are no rich or poor in our country,” my grandmother answered readily. - But those who work better bring more benefit to the country and the people - they have a more prosperous life, a better apartment, better furniture, clothes and everything else. You see how hard your dad works - for this he is entitled to something that others do not have.

I knew how my dad worked: he always came when I was already asleep. “Everything is fair,” I thought. – And Valka’s dad will finish his shift and be free. Moreover, the gifts are public.” I liked living in a fair world.

And then there was the school holiday itself - for the first two classes. We played our play, they clapped and laughed; I felt like a prima donna. Sang their songs. I was determined that we would continue to play and dance and I could enjoy my stage success, but we were quickly shoved into gifts and told to go home: probably another class needed the “hall.” I felt a little deceived. On the way home I took a ride on the ice. I ate a waffle from a gift: the waffle was just a waffle, nothing special. I tried to be glad that my certificate had all A’s: I was one of two excellent students; the second is Anechka Sorokina, the youngest of the class, the daughter of our postwoman. But the fact that there are two weeks of vacation ahead is what makes me happy, it’s great.

This is what the New Year was like in those distant times.

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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

The date of its construction is 1897. Construction lasted 16 years. The completion of the work was marked by the addition of a bell tower. The initiator of its creation is the city mayor Bardygin. The events surrounding the construction are repeated salvation from attacks on the life of Emperor Alexander III. Therefore, they decided to build a cathedral in honor of its patron saint.

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

The interior decoration of the temple has been preserved almost unchanged. It amazes with its luxury.

The cathedral was not active for a short period of time (1939-1946).

Address: Alexander Nevsky Square, 1. You can walk from the station or take bus No. 3. The cathedral receives visitors every day from 8.00 to 19.00. There is a Sunday school and a library.

Yegoryevsk will celebrate City Day on September 12

This Sunday Yegoryevsk will celebrate its 243rd birthday!

Sovetskaya Street will be blocked from the intersection with the street. Ryazanskaya and to st. Lieutenant Schmidt from 8.00 to 23.00. At 15.00, the entertainment program “RECORDS IN EGORIEVSKY!” starts on an improvised platform near the Zolotoy Uley shopping center.

On this site, anyone can try to set their own personal record in the following categories: - “The widest smile”; - “Widest hugs”; — “Heroic strength” (the largest biceps girth in men); — “Kulachische 2021” (the largest fist girth for men); — “World standard legs” (the longest foot in men); — “Rich Soul” (the largest chest girth in women); — “Thin nature” (the smallest waist circumference in women); - “Russian braid” (the longest hair for women). Record holders will be awarded and included in the Yegoryevsk book of records! Another interesting site will be located near the building of the Znamya Truda newspaper. A friendly team of librarians will be waiting for you here. And not to read books, but to draw, create and exchange... flowers and books.

On this day, you, dear residents of Yegoryevsk, will be able to choose your favorite book from the “book sale”, you will be able to exchange your smile for your favorite houseplant (from those offered), you will be able to depict your mood and decorate a magic tree with it.

The site will be interesting for both children and adults. Start of work from 15.00. The Mosregband orchestra will perform at the Eternal Flame with the festive program “City of Good Mood”. The program starts at 15.00. Here, from 16.00 - a concert program of creative teams of cultural institutions. The ensemble “Indian Summer”, the folk ensemble “Meshcherskaya Box”, the ensemble “Russian Soul”, the ensemble “Song of the Russian Soul”, the ensemble “Aquamarine” will perform for you. On the Cathedral Square on City Day from 15.00 there will be master classes on creating cartoons in various techniques, a master class on pottery, and a military historical site with an exhibition of weapons, armor and equipment of 18th century warriors. You will find master classes from the Yegoryevsk Museum on Guslitsky painting and the birth of a doll, a master class on creating a Guslitsky cockerel, a game of Skittles, and a shadow theater. The annual youth meeting “Egorievsk city open” will be held at the swing, there will also be good games from , a performance by strongmen and the game “Adventure” from the art studio “Rancho”. On Cathedral Square there will be sites for the public organization “Young Traffic Inspectors”, the Moscow Region Road Safety Union and a speed reading school. Children will find a face painting area and numerous photo zones for children and adults! What about in the evening? From 18.00 to 19.00, soloists of the youth theater studio “Violet of Montmartre” of the G. Konin Palace of Culture will perform on the central stage on Cathedral Square with the program “Melodies of Soviet Operettas”. From 19.00 the evening concert program starts with the participation of creative groups of the Palace of Culture named after. G. Konin, namely the folk ensemble “New Music”, the vocal group “Bams” and the choreographic ensemble “Grace”. Guests of the evening are Maxim Lidov and the Strelki group.

Fireworks at 22.00.

Source:

https://inegorievsk.ru/novosti/novosti-gorodskogo-okruga-egorevsk/egorevsk

Old Believers Church

Your sightseeing route can include a visit to the Old Believer Church of St. George the Victorious.

The history of its creation is interesting. The fact is that many Old Believers lived in the Guslitsky region. They moved to this area, persecuted for professing the old faith and maintaining its traditions. Their common activities:

• casting copper crosses, icons;
• writing icons.

Most merchants and factory owners come from their surroundings. Near the church you can see a red brick house. Its former owner was the merchant Brekhov, who distinguished himself by the charity of the Old Believers.

The Brekhov family owned 18 residential buildings and two retail premises. The first floor of their house was given to a shelter for girls aged 12-13 years. Pupils who reached the age of 18-20 were given a dowry. They were married off.

On a table in the courtyard, the poor people found 300 rolls and coins in the morning. In the summer, homeless people were provided with shelter at Brekhov's dacha. They helped the owner in collecting mushrooms and berries for sale. For which they received hearty lunches.

A golden-domed temple could be seen in the center of the buildings.

Today the church is active

Old Believers strive to get into it not only from nearby cities, but from Moscow. Visitors are greeted by an Old Believer with a long beard, inviting them to go to the bell tower.

Temple opening hours: daily from 8.00 to 18.00. Not only Old Believers can visit it. A mandatory attribute for women who come to the temple is a skirt and a headdress. You can get to it by walking from the station or taking bus No. 3.

Khludovskaya manufactory

The Khludov merchant dynasty became famous for the creation of spinning factories and the improvement of the stages of fabric production. The family business was started by Ivan Khludov. He settled in Moscow and started dyeing yarn and weaving sashes. He sold his products in shopping arcades on Red Square. Later, children began to work with him. Incomes were growing.

They made a risky decision - to create a paper spinning factory in Yegoryevsk. At that time, Russia did not have the necessary equipment. England was the only supplier of yarn. And choosing specialists is not an easy task. However, the created manufactory soon became one of the largest in the center of Russia. There was even a telephone connection between the buildings.

With the advent of the new government, changes occurred:

• in 1918 the factory was nationalized;
• a year later the production was closed;
• and in 1921 the enterprise began work with a new name - “Leader of the Proletariat”.

Nowadays, fabrics are produced there in several buildings, some of which are rented out. The workers' barracks have been converted into a residential building. In the building of the dispensary for workers on the other side of the river, a hotel is equipped.

Confirmation of the commitment to the English style of one of the Khludov brothers - the clock on the tower, reminiscent of the famous Big Ben

On the other side of the river you can see the original wall with turrets. It's hard to believe, but this is a prison fence.

Main museum of the city

The History and Art Museum consists of two branches located in:

• the house of the merchant Kulakov - historical;
• the mansion of the merchant Nikitin is artistic.

It was founded in the distant past - in 1911. The basis was the collection collected by the son of the city mayor Bardygin, and then donated to the city. Restoration work of the museum lasted 10 years. Yegoryevsk ligature was used to decorate the interior rooms.

2010 is the date of the museum’s triumph. It was included in the list of the 30 best museums in Europe.

In the historical branch, visitors get acquainted with two exhibitions: about the history of the city and the nature of the region.

Some of the layouts were made by a local craftsman. There are a lot of materials telling about the Khludovs and Bardygins. Interesting facts about them:

• One of the parks in Sochi was created with the participation of V.A. Khludov. He was active in the development of the resort.
• The Khludovs provided assistance to Bardygin, an aspiring baker, in the form of loans.

The museum displays a sculpture of Bardygin made of wood. Famous personalities who lived in the city are mentioned: writer Eduard Uspensky, artist Igor Grabar.

In the art museum, visitors are presented with several halls with rich collections consisting of objects of all types of crafts:

• glass of different colors and crystal from Russian factories;
• ceramic and glassware;
• painting;
• embroidery;
• wood and bone carvings;
• forging;
• icons

Patterns found in Old Believer books were used for decoration.

Objects are illuminated with multi-colored rays. Visitors are given the opportunity to choose the program they like.

In addition, museum workers introduce advanced technologies: a singing book, a fortune teller, a talking picture, the fourth dimension, which attracts new visitors.

Exhibitions are presented to guests. The art salon sells souvenirs from local craftsmen. In museums you can buy a map of the city with historical places marked and books dedicated to Yegoryevsk.

Both buildings are located on Sovetskaya Street under numbers: 58/11 and 73/20. Opening hours: daily, except Mondays, from 10.00 to 17.00. Tickets are sold at the box office until 16.30. In the summer, on Sundays at 12.00, excursions are held in the art department. There is a fee for visiting museums. An exception is for preschool children. Photography costs extra.

Yegoryevsk and Bardygins: for the benefit of the native city

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October 13, 2022 4 minutes Author: Anna Geronimus 183

Ancient Yegoryevsk is located in the southeast of the Moscow region. You can get to it by train, which runs from the Kazansky railway station, or by bus 325 from the Kotelniki metro station. A lot of materials are devoted to the past of Yegoryevsk, but I would like to dwell on the history of the Bardygin family, which played a very important role in the life of the city.

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Historical documents mention that Yegoryevsk was founded in the second half of the 16th century on the site of the village of Yegorie-Vysokoe (named after the parish church). In 1778 it became the city of Yegoryevsk.

One of the main city attractions today is the city’s historical and art museum, located on the former cathedral square in the mansion of the Nikitin merchants. This museum appeared in 1911 thanks to Mikhail Bardygin.

The building of the Historical and Art Museum in Yegoryevsk
The former estate of the Bardygin family is located on Oktyabrskaya Street. The house is not a centuries-old noble nest, and therefore reflects the tastes of the last owners. At the beginning of the 19th century, the estate was built with money from the Knyazev merchant family. Then, at the beginning of the 20th century, Mikhail Bardygin purchased it from the previous owners and underwent a major reconstruction. On the territory of the estate, a manor house, an outbuilding with a stable, a fence and a garden have been preserved to this day. The two-story mansion is one of the most beautiful buildings in Yegoryevsk.

On the second floor of the main house there were state rooms, elongated halls and a wide central staircase - the entire space was decorated in the fashion of the time in the Art Nouveau style. While walking around the estate, pay attention to the wrought iron fence around the front garden and the preserved brick wall with a wicket and gate running along the garden. In Yegoryevsk, on Sovetskaya Street, another merchant mansion, which belonged to the father of Mikhail Bardygin, has survived to this day.

The Bardygins were large textile manufacturers. They lived and worked according to the laws of that time: wasting money on entertainment was considered a sin, and therefore father and son preferred to spend their finances on charitable causes.

Nikifor Mikhailovich Bardygin was born and raised in a peasant family. His father, having moved to Yegoryevsk, took up trade, and young Nikifor helped him from childhood: he worked in the shop and at home, and went to Kolomna to buy flour. Gradually, the family's affairs went uphill. In the 50s of the 19th century, the family was elevated to the rank of merchants, and in the 1870s Nikifor Mikhailovich was elected mayor. During his reign, he brought order to the city: a water supply system was built here and lighting was installed. In the 1880s, Nikifor Mikhailovich built a textile factory (located on the current street of the Paris Commune). The red brick building is decorated with a clock tower, but, unfortunately, the local Big Ben is in terrible condition.

Nikifor Mikhailovich Bardygin

In addition to the factory building, the elder Bardygin built with his own money the Trinity-Mariinsky Monastery and the Church of Alexander Nevsky in Yegoryevsk. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Bardygin Sr. was an intelligent and decent person who never betrayed people. It was he who was the first to lend a helping hand to the architect Alexander Kaminsky, who was fired due to the collapse of a house built according to his design. The architect Nikifor Mikhailovich, who found himself in a difficult situation, was entrusted with overseeing the construction of the Trinity-Mariinsky Monastery, thereby returning his good name.

After the death of N.M. Bardygin in 1901, his second son became his heir. Mikhail Nikiforovich, unlike his father, received an excellent education. In his adolescence, he studied at the local gymnasium, opened at the request of his father. After graduating from high school, young Bardygin was sent to study at the famous Moscow Katukov School named after Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich. Afterwards, the young Bardygin continued his studies in Western Europe, and after returning to Russia, he took over the management of the family business. Having become the sole owner of the factory and trading establishments, Mikhail Nikiforovich established an industrial and commercial partnership.

Temple of Alexander Nevsky

In addition to entrepreneurial activities, Mikhail Bardygin was also involved in public life, becoming a member of the board of the Moscow Merchant Bank and a deputy of the Third State Duma from the Ryazan province. I would like to note that Mikhail Bardygin kept pace with the times. Over the years of his active entrepreneurial and social activities, he managed to build a comprehensive boarding-type Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School and a Women's School in Yegoryevsk. Again, according to the recollections of the Bardygin workers, because of the humane attitude of the owner towards them there were never strikes at the factory.

Mikhail Nikiforovich Bardygin

But, despite the creative deeds of the Bardygin family, the October Revolution did not spare them either. After the events of 1917, all the property of the Bardygins was nationalized, and Mikhail Nikiforovich himself was forced to emigrate to France with his family. They say that family business there was also going well and Mikhail Nikiforovich even opened a small textile enterprise.

In 1933, M.N. Bardygin died. He was buried in Nice, where his wife and children found their final resting place. And in Yegoryevsk, already in our time, opposite the Alexander Nevsky Church, a monument to him was erected by grateful townspeople.

The human soul is infinite, and the stones of Yegoryevsk preserve the historical memory of those who made its glory. That is why you can peer endlessly at the outlines of the city, guessing behind them those without whom Russian history is unthinkable.

Photo: photobank of the Moscow region, hram-gorki.cerkov.ru

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Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School

Profsoyuznaya Street runs perpendicular to Sovetskaya. It’s worth walking along it because of the beautiful architectural structure – the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School. It was erected in 1909 under the leadership of the Moscow architect Baryutin.

The appearance of the building is reminiscent of Oxford colleges or a medieval castle with turrets

The founder of the school, Mikhail Bardygin, sought to attract first-class specialists and use the best materials. New machines were purchased in Germany, teachers were trained abroad.

The project included the construction of buildings for students and teachers, and the creation of a garden with a pond.

Now it houses the Yegoryevsk Technical Institute.

Attractions in the vicinity of Yegoryevsk

The outskirts of the city are also rich in attractive places. Let's look at the more interesting of them:

1. Nikolo-Radovitsky Monastery in the village of Radovitsy was founded in 1584. Ivan the Terrible himself gave consent to its creation. This monastery was mentioned by Sergei Yesenin in the poem “Anna Snegina”. He visited there several times. The monastery was subjected to great destruction, so a global restoration was needed. His shrine is the image of St. Nicholas.
2. In the village of Kolychevo, 16 km from the city, the Kazan Convent . Lovers of antiquity will be pleased with the visit. The originality of the architecture of the Kazan Cathedral, the Transfiguration Church, and the gate church of St. Juvenal attracts attention. Its creation was started by the monk Macarius, who bought the noble estate and organized a shelter in it. Orphans and rootless women were accepted there.
3. Literally five kilometers from the city limits you can get acquainted with the Temple of the Sign . His story is again intertwined with the fate of the philanthropist Bardygin. It was he who sponsored its construction and decoration of the church premises. The interior decoration was luxurious. The church is active.

So you got acquainted with the sights of Yegoryevsk. We hope that our stories have helped you in planning your future itinerary for your planned trip. Having a plan in advance helps you save time while traveling.