Forgive the sinful fool that I once called Verizino and YuZ-8 an architectural and urban disaster. I confess, I was wrong, so scolding modern comfortable housing of the European level, in fact, no, typical miserable sleeping bags. But just yesterday I saw the light. Here it is - the most terrible and terrible residential new building in the Vladimir region.

So, meet - the area of ​​residential buildings along Zarechnaya Street in the village of Snovitsy! In the nearest suburb of Vladimir! Getting there you will experience pain, horror, suffering and humiliation.

Houses are like warehouses.

Between them, the complete absence of the slightest improvement, as if only yesterday the troops of the self-proclaimed CHP (Snovitsky People's Republic) were shelling here.

And of course, the picture of what is happening is complemented by the persistent smell of shit from the local shit pump, which stupidly cannot cope with the increased load on it (on the right in the photo).

But first things first, let's take a walk around this area together and see what's wrong with it. From the satellite, the area looks quite decent - a small branch from Centralnaya Street, the houses are not high-rise anthills. The river Sodyshka flows nearby, through it there is a bridge that leads to a steep hill with a church and a rural cemetery.

By the way, the view of the area from the cemetery is not so bad.

It would seem that in such a picturesque place, take it and create something beautiful. But no, it didn't work. Crapped so that it stinks in the truest sense of the word. I honestly searched the Internet for information about this area, about the developer, and judging by the materials that I found, this is a typical Russian story of gouging because of which such shit appears. But a story with a lot of meaning and a couple of very beautiful metaphors.

Even on the way to the first houses, I had a question - why are they sheathed with paving slabs ?!

How could this material be used in the construction of apartment buildings?! It's bad taste and just looks bad. It would be suitable for a warehouse or a production workshop. True, this, of course, is not a tile, but a rubberized or plastic lining.

The complete absence of any kind of improvement. The whole yard is one large parking lot, where, apparently, they just razed construction debris to the ground.

Surprisingly, there is a playground here, like the whole area is saturated with pain and humiliation.

Dirt, construction waste...

People, intuitively feeling the need for at least some beauty, do their own landscaping, which in fact only adds strokes to this picture of the Snovitsky post-apocalypse.

But here, apparently, the effect of "broken windows" worked, seeing all this fucked up around, people began to multiply it by various outbuildings, hanging satellite dishes, air conditioners and other crap. It looks in the best traditions of the Makhachkala squatter.

In general, seeing all this around, one wonders if there was a project for each house or was it built by eye?!

It is sometimes difficult to understand the logic of the designer, as, for example, with this balcony.

Or with such entrances.

Nearby there are houses that look a little better, but they win only against the background of the "red horror".

Now the very salt - the general atmosphere in this area is complemented by notes of shit hovering in the air, as if hinting at something. But the point here is that the Snowitz sewage pumping station was not designed for such a number of new residents.

And here I came across an interesting TV6-Vladimir story from July 2014, where the problem of stench and constant flooding of these houses with shit was discussed.

Here we find out that most of the houses were built illegally, a quote from a news story:

"Natalya Dyomina, head of the legal department of the Novoaleksandrovskoye MKU:" As for the commissioning, it actually did not exist. All the houses - property rights were recognized through the court. made no claims."

Those. the developer on his plots built dick knows what, the administration of Novoaleksandrovsky (which includes Snovitsy) simply could not control the compliance of the initial permit documentation with the construction, including the issue with networks. And the most honest and humane court legalized all these buildings.

By the way, the developer of his own person, Mr. Grant Sahakyan, also pops up in the plot, we will return to him later.

But the fact that a town-planning disaster began in Snovitsy was known for a long time, for example, where it is said about complete lawlessness during the construction of these houses and connecting to networks.

To be honest, after all that I had read and read, there was a desire to look Mr. Sahakyan in the eye and ask - how and why?! But it's' too late.

On a beautiful and picturesque hill, there is a memorial of Hrant Sahakyan, who passed away on December 31, 2014. The memorial is beautiful, with expensive granite and marble angels. Still, the last refuge, here it would not be humane to finish with cheap building materials.

I would not want to offend the memory of the deceased, and judging by the messages on the forum, they say he was a good person, but Sahakyan left, but the district remained and we will live even further with him ...

As a result, we have an ancient village (the first mention, already in the 15th century), a suburb of Vladimir, in which extremely low-quality housing was built, reminiscent of a squatter ghetto with an environmental quality at the level of provincial Africa. Honestly, I would exile the stealing officials from the construction there without the right to leave. But for now, ordinary people live there.

P.S. As a bonus, I want to show a house standing a couple of meters from this area, I don’t know who the developer is there, but I feel the succession of styles)))

Vladimir region of Russia, is part of the Novoaleksandrovsky rural settlement.
The village is located on the left bank of the Sodyshka River near the highway P74 Vladimir - Pereslavl-Zalessky, 9 km southeast from the center of the settlement of the village of Novoaleksandrovo and 4 km north from the city of Vladimir.
At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century, the village was part of the Bogoslovskaya volost of the Vladimir district.
Since 1929, the village was part of the Bogoslovsky village council of the Vladimir region, since 1965 - the center of the Snovitsky village council of the Suzdal region.
Population: in 1859 - 650 people; in 1897 - 799 people; in 1926 - 884 people; in 2010 - 1765 people.

- Settlement 2 (11th-13th, 14th-17th centuries) located on the left bank of the river. Sodyshka. Monument area approx. 3.5 ha., height above the river 18-20 m. Old Russian pottery with linear and wavy ornament, dated 12-13 centuries, and late medieval, mainly 14-16 centuries.
- Settlement 1 (14th-17th centuries) located on the territory of the village, on the left bank of the river. Sodyshka. dimensions approx. 250x200 m., height above the river 4-6 m. The territory of the monument is occupied by buildings. Late medieval pottery, including gray-clay ceramics of the late 13th-14th centuries. and red clay with burnished 14-15 centuries.

The origin of the name Snovits is not documented anywhere, but a legend has been preserved among the people: when Tsar Ivan the Terrible went to war against Kazan, he stopped at this place and saw the Mother of God in a dream, who predicted to him that he would defeat the Tatars and return with great glory. In gratitude for Heavenly help, the tsar ordered the foundation of a monastery here, which he named Snovitsky from the recollection of his dream, and the temple - Annunciation, for the good news.
There is another legend. “In ancient times, a monk lived here, nicknamed the Dreamer, or the Dreamer. Maybe that monk had prophetic dreams. By his nickname, they called the monastery Snovitsky, and the village - Snovitsy.

In the boundary book of the village of the Theologian, it is referred to as Sodoshka, in the tables for calculating the land with. Snovits - as Sotovka, in the list of populated places for 1863 - as Sodochka. And now there is a pronunciation Sodushka.

Snovidsky or Snovitsky-Annunciation Monastery

In the spiritual charter of the Simonovsky monk Andrian Yarlyk, attested to p. Metropolitan Jonah in 1461, the Snovitsky monastery is called metropolitan, and in the charter of the Grand Duke John III in 1504, this monastery was given jurisdiction, "besides murder and robbery."
The village of Snovitsy in the charter of Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich of 1504 is mentioned among the villages that belonged to the Snovitsky Monastery.
In the charter of Grand Duke Ivan Vasilyevich of 1504, the village of Volodimirskoye was mentioned among the villages belonging to the Snovitsky Monastery. The village of Vladimirka apparently used to be a village, the church in it could disappear for various reasons.

Several white tombstones with half-erased inscriptions testify that there was a family cemetery of the Sobolevs at the Snovitsky Monastery. These stones were mostly used on the platform of the church porch, on one of them the inscription was preserved: “In the summer of 7120 (1612) the servant of God reposed ... Anastasya Soboleva.”
The monastery was managed first by abbots, and then by archimandrites, later it was administered by S. Pravo. Synod.

Investigation on the visits of Empress Evdokia to the Patriarchal House Snovitsky Monastery

In 1720, the clerk of the Secret Chancellery Timofey Palekhin, by personal decree sent from St. Petersburg, from the Secret Chancellery, was ordered to go to Vladimir and Suzdal to conduct.
Hegumen Markel testified that he was placed in this monastery as hegumen 4 years ago and the tsarina never came under him, but before him she came, she doesn’t know and hasn’t heard from anyone.
Hieromonk Victor testified that the tsarina came to the monastery once about 7 years ago, in the summer "at half a day"; she came with nuns (she doesn’t remember their number) and ministers, of whom there were 10 or more people (she doesn’t know ranks and names); was in the church and with her Abbot Vincent (already dead in the year of interrogation) served a prayer service, at which there were none of the monks, because the servants of the queen forbade the monks to go to church from their cells. After the prayer service, the queen, with all the nuns and servants who were with her, was with the hegumen in the cell, and the hegumen brought her bread and fish, crucian carp and piskariki, “and she, the former queen, ate in the front cell with the nuns, and the servants ate in another hallway cell, and at that time he was not the hegumen of the former tsarina in that cell, but was in another cell, and those ministers were subdued by the former treasurer of that monastery, Varsonofy Kudryavtsev, who is now living in Moscow in the patriarchal court, and he is Victor on the orders of that the former treasurer Barsanuphius was in distribution, went for food and drink. After dinner the queen left.
Again, one of the main witnesses, the monk Barsanuphius Kudryavtsev, did not appear on the face, and again Palekhin had to write to Moscow, already to the Metropolitan of Krutitsa, about the investigation of Barsanuphius and about keeping him under guard.
“In the Snovitsky monastery, under the former abbot Vikenty, who died, they were in that monastery in passing, from other monasteries after mass, and sang a prayer service, and dined in that monastery in the abbot’s cells; in the Nikolaev Volosov Monastery under the hegumen, about whom they heard that he was retired from the abbess, and lived in the same monastery as a simple monk, near the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which is reputed to be on Kusunov, which is three or four versts behind Vladimir, twice, winter time, including one day of January in the first day, and from there they drove to Vladimir, and were in the cathedral church, sang a prayer service, and twice in the summer, at the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which is on the Field; three times in summer time, at the Church of the Kazan Mother of God, which is on Undol, once in the village of Nenashevsky, which is close to Yuryev once, in winter time.
“The abbot of the Snovitsky monastery was the former queen before her, and brought bread and fish to the living scribblers, in a ladle; at the same time Ivan Zhirkin was with his wife.
The monk of the Snovitsky monastery, Viktor, testified that during the stay of the tsarina in the Snovitsky monastery, Ivan Zhirkin “with her, the former tsarina was with his wife and he dined in the front cell with her servants, and his wife Zhirkina was and dined with her former tsarina; and after dinner he went Zhirkin and his wife, the former queen, behind her.
“And after the Liturgy, how that former queen came out of the church, and she Praskovya followed her former queen into the tent, and during the meal she stood Praskovya at that table, and this former queen favored her from her table and servings, and in at one time, the former queen and her husband came into that tent to her, and brought a bottle of cherry juice, and she, the former queen, gave him vodka from her hands.
The queen visited the Snovitsky monastery before traveling to the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Kusunov and to the Fedorovsky monastery. The husband sent his man after her after mass, soon after Praskovya found the queen after dinner, "and with her the former queen stood in those cells." After dinner, she and her husband accompanied the queen to Suzdal and spent the night in the cells of the former queen in the Intercession Monastery, and her husband spent the night in the stable yard; the next day she dined in the cells of her former queen, and after dinner she went to Vladimir.
“According to the report of Archimandrite Iosifov of the Volokolamsk Monastery Joachim, about the misconduct of hegumen Matvey Golovashkin. April 13, 1730 – January 22, 1731
The archimandrite reported that on April 7, 1730, hegumen of the Snovidsky monastery in the Vladimir district, Matthew Golovashkin, who was sent under command to Joseph Volokolamsky Monastery, said the sovereign’s word behind him on April 7, 1730.
By order of the Holy Synod, Abbot Matthew was sent on April 20 to the Governing Senate, where he could not show anything during interrogation, except for a quarrel with the monk Dionysius, who said that “the devil sent you here with a decree,” and was sent to the Holy Synod along with a heading with letters found on it.
Having written out decrees on December 23, 1713, January 27, 1724, April 16, 1730, the 21st canon IV of the universe for a certificate of word-tellers and informers. Chalkis. Cathedral, the conduct of the Senate on July 7, 1725 and the Synodal decision on the exile of the hegumen of November 10, 1729, - the Most Holy Synod on May 16, 1730 determined: this black Golovashkin for his swindle and new idle treachery instead of deprivation of monasticism and exile to Siberian factories , for the all-prosperous coronation of Her Majesty, inflict a cruel punishment with whispers and send him to Bishop Lavrenty of Veliky Ustyug for determination in a monastery that feeds on fraternal labors until the death of his life; the letters found in the heading of the sale of peasant girls by Archimandrite Joachim should be sent to the College of Economy for consideration.
On December 22, 1730, the stewards of the Veliky Ustyug Archbishop's House reported that the monk Golovashkin had been appointed to the Teplogorsky Monastery of the Ustyug diocese.
On January 22, 1731, the soldier who drove the monk Golovashkin announced in the Holy Synod that the monk had been ill for a month in Moscow and then walked quietly from beatings, 5 miles a day, eating alms, and in the city of Vladimir he, a soldier, was blind and lived 6 weeks, and then at 10 weeks we reached Ustyug, where he lived for a week and made the return trip in 4 weeks.
Before the abolition in 1764, the monastery had 750 souls of peasants and a siege yard inside the city of Vladimir, as can be seen from the census books of 1715 compiled by Landrat Prince Artemy Stepanovich Ukhtomsky.

Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin. With. Dreams. 1501 and 1899

In the church of the dream monastery “an image of St. Sergius of Radonezh with an inscription on the board behind: “Semyon Fedorovich Sobolev put this icon in the monastery in Snovitsky” (beginning of the 17th century).
The church library of the Snovidsky Monastery kept two service books from 1676; on each of them there is a signature on the sheets: on one: “185 March on the 27th day, by decree of the Great Lord His Holiness Joachim, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, this service was done in Volodimir from the Patriarchal Tithes of the court to the Nativity Monastery under Archimandrite ... Ivanov”; on the other: “This missal was given from Volodimer from his Holiness Patriarch of the tithe court and the Volodimer district in the Snovitsky monastery instead of the old missal free of charge. Podyachy Yakushko Petrovskaya. On the back board of the same service book there is an inscription: “This service book of the Snovitsky Monastery was bought with state money in 1676.”

It is not known when the present stone church was built. The church has two floors. Previously, there were cells below, and on three sides above them there were covered passages around the church. They were called "the abyss". On the second floor, there were four exits, four doors to the abyss. These passages have long been broken off, and on the north side a chapel was built in them in 1758 under Anthony, Archbishop of Vladimir and Yaropolch.

In 1713, the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in the village of Seslavsky burned down and a new one was built in its place, and in 1715 it was consecrated by Vikenty, abbot of the Snovitsky Monastery.
On March 16, 1718, Dositheus, the former archimandrite of the Snovitsky Monastery, died on Red Square in Moscow.
In the beginning. 18th century the queen from the Suzdal Intercession Monastery came here on a pilgrimage. The church kept a copper gilded altar cross with parts of St. relics donated to the monastery by Queen Evdokia; an altar garment of crimson velvet was donated to her.

There are three thrones in the church: the main one, on the top floor, in honor of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos. Above this throne was a canopy on iron chains depicting the coronation of the Mother of God. On the same floor, in the former covered gallery, an altar table was built in honor of St. Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess in 1758. The third aisle - warm - in honor of the conception of John the Baptist was arranged on the lower floor, in the former fraternal cells.
“The altar is divided into three parts: on average, a five-tiered stone place with chairs; a smooth iconostasis with icons of Greek painting testifies to its ancient existence. In the first belt on the bow is the image of the blessing Lord Almighty, in the left hand with a book opened in words; “I command you to love one another”; on the robe of the Savior at the edges of the words: "Come, bless my Father, and inherit the kingdom of God." On the other hand, the image of the Pochaev Mother of God. The royal doors are deaf in the hallmarks of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos and the Evangelist with symbols in the crowns and with an inscription above each symbol of the name of the Evangelist; in both hallmarks, the Savior is depicted in a golden chiton on the right side of the royal doors, serving with both hands parts of the holy bread to the six Apostles next to each other, one after the other, approaching with an obedient look to accept the taught bread; above them are inscribed the Eucharistic words: "Take, eat" ... On the left side is another image of the Savior, giving the cup to the other six Apostles in the same form as on the right side suitable. Above these Apostles is another similar inscription: “Drink from her all”…
Among the sacred objects of antiquity in the church in the XIX century. were kept: “1) an antimension on the throne of the temple in honor of St. Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess with the inscription: “this antimension was celebrated by His Grace Dositheus, Bishop of Rostov and Yaroslavl. This was under the power of the most pious sovereign, the tsar and Grand Duke Peter Alekseevich of all great and small and white autocrats of Russia between the patriarchate of the summer of 7220. of the Holy Spirit, for this reason he has the power to serve as a priest in the church of the honorable and glorious Prophet Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, which is in the Snovitsky Monastery. By the command of the most pious and most autocratic queen, the sovereign of our Empress Ekaterina Alekseevna. Served by Paul, Bishop of Vladimir and Murom" in 1764. 3) The Gospel, printed by order of Tsars John and Peter Alekseevich under Patriarch Joachim in 1689. 4) Copper, gilded altar cross, granted to the monastery by Evdokia Feodorovna, the first wife of Tsar Peter I. It contains particles of the relics of many Saints named in the inscription. 5) Missal, printed under Tsar Feodor Alekseevich and Patriarch Joachim in 1676; there is an inscription on it: “this missal of the city of Volodymyr was given from his most holy patriarch of the tithe court to the Snovitsky monastery instead of the old one.”

From the Church of the Annunciation, the entrance through the northern doors to the chapel in the name of St. Rights. Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess... This chapel is very small and does not contain anything remarkable; only in the altar there was an old door with mica instead of glass, leading to the altar of the Church of the Annunciation. On the lower floor, on the right side, there is a warm church, and on the left side, under the bell tower and the chapel, there are bakery and other monastic cells. In the circumference of the church you can see the place of the former stone fence and the holy gates. On the left side of the western entrance, a low bell tower adjoins the church, of which the bottom is quadrangular, the middle is octagonal with spans, and the top is hipped; like other ancient ones, it is lower than the church itself. The head of the bell tower, covered with tiles, is crowned with such an exactly ancient cross, which was on the Forerunner Church in the Moscow Kremlin. Small crosses are attached to its three ends. Of the bells, two are remarkable with the following inscriptions:
1) “in the summer of 7149 (1641) this bell was exchanged in the Volodymyrsky district for the monastery of Snovitsky to the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos under Abbot Euthymius, and Elder Macarius gave three rubles to repair” (The inscription is cut in depth);
2) “In the summer of 7149, Ivan Fedorovich Sobolev placed a bell in the house of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos in the Snovitsky Monastery.”

In 1764 the monastery was abolished.

Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Six versts from the city of Vladimir on the way to the city of Yuryev, when going down the mountain from Maryinnaya Grove, picturesque surroundings open up. On the one hand, a grove turns black and wide fields sown with bread spread out behind it, and on the other hand, along a high mountain, cut in places by ravines overgrown with dense trees, a small village is spread out, and below the small river Sodyshka bends, - further along it is the village of Snovitsy , and half a verst from it, at the tip of a rather large hill, looking like an artificial scree, a vast temple of ancient architecture stands alone - this is the church of the abolished Snovidsky monastery.

Annunciation Church of the abolished Snovitsky Monastery. Engraving. 19th century

Until 1876, the church of the abolished Snovitsky Monastery had a special parish and a special clergy. In the same year, the Ascension Church in the village of Snovitsakh was assigned to it with a parish belonging to it. Thus, one united parish was formed at the Church of the Annunciation.
State clergy: priest and psalmist.
In the description of the temple, compiled by K. Tikhonravov, “remarkable things in the church” are mentioned: 1) two ancient icons “quarterly and one of Michael the Archangel is overlaid with silver with a carved crown with enamel, the other is of the Monk “Semyon of Serbia”. 2) Icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh, an ancient letter, with an inscription on the back: “Semyon Fed put this icon to the monastery in Snovitskaya. Sobolev. 3) Antidorno pewter dish; hallmarks are visible on the lower part, of which in one coat of arms and under it the inscription "Moscowiae", and in the other a stork and under it 1616. 4) Raspberry velvet altarpiece; the contribution of "Empress Evdokia Feodorovna, wife of Peter I".

“In the fence of the former monastery, a parish school was sheltered. There was an inscription on the school that it was built in memory of October 17, 1888. Passing soldiers broke the board with stones. As a result of this fun, in addition to the broken board, the windows in the school were also knocked out” (newspaper “Vladimirskaya Zhizn”, 1917).

Church of the Ascension

Snovitsy village. Church of the Ascension. 1827 and 1857

In the patriarchal salary books of 1628, it says: "The Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the patriarchal estate in the village of Snovitsky Snovitsky monastery." But according to the decree of the patriarch of 1626, it was not ordered to take tribute from this church. In 1656, tribute was paid to the church of the village of Snovitsky "ruble 19 altyn 3 dengi", but in 1657 it was again canceled. In 1670, in the affairs of the palace order, it was noted: “in the village of Snovitskoye, the church is wooden, the kletski with porches are covered with boards, and in the church there is Divine Mercy, and books, and vestments, and all church utensils and on the bell tower, the structure is worldly; at that church priest Ivan.
In 1717, this church burned down, and the parishioners had no funds to build a new one. Seeing their “ruin from the fire time and poverty, the Ascension Church in the mountains. Vladimir priest Andrei with his parish people donated his wooden church in honor of the Ascension of the Lord to the village of Snovitskoye.
In 1718 the church was moved and consecrated, but not in the name of Nicholas the Wonderworker, but in honor of the Ascension of the Lord.
This wooden church is in the second floor. 18th century burned down. On the site of the burnt one, a wooden church was built again in 1775, bought in Vladimir from the Ilyinsky church.
The stone Ascension Church was built in 1827 at the expense of parishioners. The bell tower was built in 1857. There are two thrones in the church: in honor of the Ascension of the Lord and in the chapel - in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker - the chapel was built in 1863.

Vladimirsky district with. Snovitz, the peasant Abram Illarionov Myzin, for donating a bell weighing 100 pounds to the Ascension Church, was given the blessing of the Holy Synod, October 30, 1865.
On February 12, 1889, a modest jubilee celebration took place in the village of Snovitsakh - 50 years of serving as a priest in the village. In 1838 he graduated from the VDS in the 2nd category. From 1839 he was a priest of the village of Snovitsy, Vladimir district. In 1887 he was dismissed from the staff. Died September 2, 1889, aged 50; buried in the village of Snovitsy, Vladimir district, at the Church of the Annunciation.

There is no special clergy at the Ascension Church: the liturgy and rites were corrected by the clergy of the Annunciation Church. The parish consisted of the village of Snovits, the village of Sushcheva (in the middle of the 17th century it belonged to the Trinity-Sergius Monastery), the village of Sushcheva, the village of Faleleevka (the village of Faleleevka belonged to the Bogolyubov Monastery in the 17th century; the allocation of the special village of Bogolyubki happened probably later) and the village of Verezina.
In the parish in 1897, there were 615 male souls and 641 female souls, of which 4 souls were schismatic Austrians, and 7 souls were priestless.
The stone bell tower and the fence are completely lost.

Church of the Ascension

Belfry of the Church of the Ascension

“In our village there is a “pastor-father” Aleksey, who is extremely “spiritual” and his spirit is so cheerful that he is not averse to messing around, especially “drinking”. He once married the son of a mill tenant. The wedding was rich, there was a lot of wine. “Father” “took communion” so much that he dragged “Korobushka” to the “seventh tone”, and the deacon pulled him up. They led him home by the arms, since his legs “didn’t work” anymore. All Snovitsky old women probably still consider him "God's anointed" (The newspaper "Call", June 3, 1923).

Snovitsy is the birthplace of the founder of Soviet television (b. 15(27).12.1885, village of Snovitsy, Vladimir Province). He lived here until the age of 11. There is a memorial plaque on his house.

One of the descendants of the princes Pozharsky, Ilya Efimovich Pozharsky, in the first half. 19th century lived in the village of Snovitsy. More than one generation of Pozharskys lived here. Among the Pozharskys from Snovitsy were peasants from one palace who traveled to work in Moscow. Some of them were "dispossessed" in 1930, others left their place of residence for various reasons. Representatives of this branch of the genus currently live in the Vladimir region, Nizhny Novgorod and other places. The generational painting of the Suzdal branch of the Pozharskys was based on archival materials from the Administration of the Suzdal district of the Vladimir region, as well as information from the local archive of the village of Snovitsy - according to the metric records of the Annunciation and Ascension churches of this village.

Sodyshka River

The Sodyshka River was named after the ancient Slavic god Rod-Sediya, and the settlement on Sungir in those days was called "Sedysh Grad".

“On February 3, the first graduation of students - collective farmers, in the amount of 31 people, who received the qualification of field farmers and livestock breeders, took place at the Snovitsky Interdistrict Collective Farm School.
The master of high yields, the director of the school, the chairman of the Snovitsky collective farm, M.I. Fedoseev. He said: “Now the collective farms are busy planning agriculture for the whole of 1944. Plan, comrades, so that each collective farm produces as much agricultural produce as possible. Help the Motherland, the front in the speedy defeat of the German invaders. You now have the knowledge, try to use it as fully as possible in practice.
The Secretary of the Republic of Kazakhstan of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, comrade. ON THE. Shmelev.
In the next few days, the second enrollment will begin.
N. Bogoslovsky.” (newspaper "Call", February 1, 1944).
“At the Snovitsk inter-district collective farm school, workers for the cultivation of kok-saghyz are trained in short-term courses. From the collective farms of Seslavsky, Bogoslovsky, Brutovsky and other village councils that sow kok-saghyz, 28 young collective farmers study at the courses” (newspaper “Prizyv”, February 6, 1944).
“On July 27, 1944, farm workers from the villages of Novy, Bogolyubov, Oslavsky, because of Klyazma, as well as livestock specialists and veterinarians, came to the livestock breeders of the Snovitsky collective farm “Znamya Oktyabrya”. They carefully examined the livestock farm of the Snovitsky collective farm. After the inspection, a meeting of the best livestock breeders of the region was held.
- In our region, the number of livestock has grown, its productivity has increased, - said the head of the rayon tov. Miroshnichenko, - But in a number of farms, the recruitment plan has not been fulfilled, the productivity of livestock is low. The task of leading livestock breeders is to develop animal husbandry even faster and more extensively through the mutual exchange of experience, and most importantly, to transfer this experience to lagging farms.
A distinguished livestock breeder - head. Farms of the Novoselsky collective farm "Dawn of a New Life" comrade. Plaksin, as well as the wind worker of the Golovinsky section, comrade. Volkov, head Farms of the Oslavsky collective farm named after Lenin comrade. Kuvaldnya and others said:
- In Snovitsy, we saw exemplary farm premises and buildings under construction. This is good. But we are not satisfied with the livestock feeding system. Here, pasture is not fully used on grazing, which is why even now it is necessary to spend a lot of grass on feeding livestock in stalls, to spend the harvest prematurely, and not from farm plots, but from planned hayfields. It turns out this is because in Snovitsy not only round-the-clock grazing has not been introduced, but even during daylight hours, due to the fault of the shepherd, cattle stand in one place for 5-6 hours.
At the meeting, facts were given about the effectiveness of round-the-clock grazing in the village of Novy.
- 25 days after such grazing, - says Comrade. Plaksin, - milk herd milk yields from 182 liters per day have reached 423. The last few days we have been getting up to 536 liters.
The meeting participants learned that the livestock breeders of the Alferov Collective Farm "Obshchyy Trud", not being able to graze their cattle around the clock due to lack of land, have widely developed near-farm plots and lay a lot of high-quality silage, which is given to cattle in the fall.
The meeting drew attention to the great opportunities for the development of animal husbandry on the Oslav collective farm (Chairman Comrade Kokin). But the kolkhoz administration there still underestimates animal husbandry and pays no attention to it. This explains why the Oslav livestock buildings are the worst in the region.
Discussing the issue of more efficient, but at the same time, careful use of feed, livestock breeders recognized it expedient now, as is done in Alferov, to reserve feed for farms and hand them over to farm managers by weight.
The participants in the meeting believe that socialist emulation is the best engine for the further development of animal husbandry. Here, at the meeting, the Novoselsky and Snovitsky collective farms decided to enter into competition among themselves.
The next excursion of livestock breeders will be organized to Novoselsky and Alferovsky collective farms.
N. Bogoslovsky ”(The newspaper“ Appeal ”, No. 154, August 6, 1944, Sunday).

Memorial of the Victory in the village. Snovitsy




Square in the village Snovitsy


DK s. Snovitsy


Mail with Snovitsy


Shop, hairdresser

The building of the Snovitsky School was built in 1976. The teaching staff of the Theological School became the basis of the educational institution opened on January 12, 1976 in the village of Snovitsy. Based on the decision of the Suzdal District Executive Committee and the Suzdal District, the Theological eight-year school was reorganized into the Snovitsky eight-year school.
In 2009, the school was named after its graduate, an internationalist soldier who died in Afghanistan, Stanislav Nikolaevich Belkin (MKOU "Snovitsk School named after S. N. Belkin").
School website: http://snovici.vladmou.ru/o-shkole/istoricheskaja-spravka.html

Birch grove near the village of Sodyshka

Sodyshka settlement

The village of the Regional Psychoneurological Hospital of the subsidiary farm, Snovitsky Village Council, was renamed the village. Sodyshka by decision No. 1091 of 23.09. 1965 and No. 151 dated February 14, 1966.
The village of Sodyshka is located 26 kilometers from Suzdal. It is part of the Novoaleksandrovsky rural settlement of the Suzdal region.
The population in 2010 is 548 men. and 401 women, total 949 people.
Nearest settlements: village, Snovitsy.

Monument to those who died in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.


River Rpen in the village. sodyshka

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In the book "Bibliography of the Vladimir Governorate" for 1905, two documents are mentioned, numbered 296 and 297, respectively, which characterize some historical moments:

At the request of the brethren, contributors and parishioners of the Sinoidal Snovitsky Monastery - on the appointment of hieromonk of the St. Petersburg Alexandronevsky Monastery Matthew Golovashkin as hegumen, with the expulsion of this monastery from the registry to the Sinoidal Bogolyubov Monastery. March 28, 1727 – April 18, 1730 Description docum. and affairs of St. Synod, vol. 7, from No. 122.

On the restoration of the independence of the Snovitsky Monastery. August 2, 1727. Full coll. decree and spread. according to the ved. orthodox Spanish vol. 6, no. 2015.

On the site of the parish church from ancient times there was a monastery. In the spiritual charter of the Simonovsky monk Andrian Yarlyk, witnessed with. Metropolitan Jonah in 1461, the Snovitsky monastery is called metropolitan, and in the charter of Grand Duke John III in 1504, this monastery was given jurisdiction. The monastery was managed first by abbots, and then by archimandrites, it had 750 souls of peasants. Abolished in 1764

When the existing stone church was built is unknown. The church is two-story, before there were cells below and on three sides above them around the church there were covered passages; now these passages are broken, and on the north side a side-chapel was built in them in 1758 under Anthony, Archbishop of Vladimir and Yaropolch, as can be seen from the inscription on the church cross.

In connection with the church, a high bell tower was added on the western side: its bottom is quadrangular, the middle is octagonal and the top is hipped. Two inscriptions were preserved on the bells: - “In the summer of 7149 (1641) this bell was exchanged in the Volodymyr district for the Snovitsky Monastery for the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos under Abbot Euthymius, and Elder Macarius gave three rubles to repair”; - "In the summer of 7149, Ivan Fedorovich Sobolev placed a bell in the Snovitsky Monastery."

The interior of the temple to date, due to various amendments, has lost its ancient character to a large extent. There are three thrones in the church: the main one, on the top floor - in honor of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos. Above this throne is a canopy on iron chains depicting the coronation of the Mother of God. On the same floor, in the former gallery, an altar in honor of St. Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess in 1758; the third aisle is warm - in honor of the conception of John the Baptist, it is arranged on the lower floor, in the former fraternal cells.

Among the sacred objects of antiquity, the church has preserved: an antimension on the throne of the temple in honor of St. Simeon the God-Receiver and Anna the Prophetess. The antimension does not have the bishop's handwritten signature and the church where he was consecrated is not indicated; in the lower aisle there is a linen antimension, on which it is printed: “this antimension ... has the power to serve as a priest in the church of the honest prophet Forerunner and Baptist of the Lord John, in the Snovitsky monastery. He was ordained by Pavel, Bishop of Vladimir and Murom in 1764.

Church documents are kept intact: copies of registers of births from 1803 and confessional paintings from 1828. The church has land: about 1 dessiatines of manor, 30 dessiatines of arable land. and haymaking 3 dec. Until 1876, the church of the abolished Snovitsky Monastery had a special parish and a special clergy, in the same year the Church of the Ascension in the village of Snovitsakh was assigned to it with a parish belonging to it. Thus, one united parish was formed at the Church of the Annunciation. State clergy: priest and psalmist.

V.G. Dobronravov, V.D. Berezin "Historical and statistical description of churches and parishes of the Vladimir diocese" issue 1. Gub. mountains Vladimir, Typo-Lithography V.A. Parkova, 1893

There is a legend, recorded in a number of sources of the 19th century, which claims that Tsar Ivan the Terrible stopped in Snovitsy in 1552, going on his last, victorious, Kazan campaign. And as if resting, the sovereign had a dream in which he beat the Kazan Tatars and captured their capital city. The dream came true, and, returning to Moscow, John Vasilyevich ordered the foundation of a monastery in Snovitsy and the construction of a stone temple in it. According to this legend, the toponym Snovitsy (Dreamers) itself recalls the prophetic dream of the Terrible Autocrat. The testament of the elder of the Simonov Monastery, Adrian Yarlyk, has been preserved, in which there is a mention of the Snovitsky Monastery: "Yes, I commanded you to give your father, Archimandrite Athanasius, according to your soul ... the metropolitan ruble to the Snovitsky Monastery. Summer 6968" (1460 from the Nativity of Christ). Thus, it turns out that the Snovitsky monastery existed in 1460 - almost a century before the third Kazan campaign of Ivan the Terrible and was a metropolitan.

It is reliably known that in 1640, on the very spot where the stone church now stands, its wooden predecessor stood. In the second floor. XVII century it was replaced by a stone temple, which, after numerous reconstructions and rebuildings, has survived to this day. Pre-revolutionary sources list a number of relics that were kept in the Annunciation Cathedral before the Bolshevik defeat. Among them are the contributions of the local nobles Sobolev; in addition, next to the temple was their family cemetery, the contributions of the nun Elena, the former tsarina Evdokia Feodorovna, the first wife of Peter I, and finally the contributions of the time of Patriarch Joachim, who occupied the primatial department from 1674 to 1690. It is known that before the consecration of new stone churches, high church and state authorities, as a rule, donated liturgical literature and precious utensils to the churches. The service books of 1676 mentioned in pre-revolutionary books were just such gifts for this church.

Being a metropolitan monastery, the Snovitsky monastery was under the protection and guardianship of the Moscow metropolitans until the establishment of the patriarchate. A variety of benefits are captured in the surviving metropolitan charters of that time. Several small monasteries were assigned to the Snovitsky monastery. There were salt pans near Great Salt near Yaroslavl. The monastery was visited by the first wife of Peter I Evdokia Lopukhina, forcibly tonsured by her husband as a nun, who lived in the Suzdal Pokrovskaya monastery not far from Snovitsy. In 1725, the monastery underwent the first abolition, or rather, it was assigned to the Bogolyubovsky monastery, where a few brethren were transferred along with Abbot Victor. All significant monastic shrines and relics "moved" there, after which the Cathedral of the Annunciation was literally orphaned. True, not for long - in 1727, the Snovitsky Monastery was renewed on the initiative of A.D. Menshikov. During the secularization of 1764, the Snovitsky monastery was again closed, and the Church of the Annunciation was assigned to be a parish church.

Until the 19th century, the covering of the temple remained zakomar (traces of zakomar are still preserved on the facades of the main quadrangle). As a result of the "renewal", the mosquito cover was eliminated, replacing it with a characteristic "utilitarian" hipped roof. After the revolution of 1917, the ancient temple, whose age had already exceeded two hundred years, was desecrated and closed. Soon they arranged in it not a warehouse, not a club and not a workshop, but residential apartments. The tenants, however, occupied only the first floor - for the simple reason that it was heated. The bell tower turned into a uniform hayloft, where hay was stored for livestock. During the Great Patriotic War, a military unit was located on the territory of the former monastery. At the end of the war, she was taken out of here, returning the useful "area" to the residents. At the time when they started talking about the need to protect the monuments of the past, the Annunciation Church was restored, correcting only the horrifying appearance of the building, which did not prevent it from being restored in the 1980s. to be left to the mercy of fate. The first floor was littered with rubbish, the windows gaped with holes, and on the second floor, in the former Simeon-Anninnsky aisle, there was, by and large, no roof. In this state, the Church of the Annunciation was returned to believers in 1990.

In the current church, the only relic from the pre-revolutionary decoration of the church has miraculously survived to this day - this is a sculptural carved image of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the lower aisle of the Annunciation Church. All the rest are of the latest origin. Of the modern images, we note the carved icons in the lower church, which invariably attract the attention of visitors - with their good artlessness, artistic unpretentiousness and religious trepidation of execution. They were created by a parishioner of the Annunciation Church, a former famous athlete. The same amateur craftsman also painted the upper summer temple. In conclusion, let us turn to a quote from a well-known connoisseur of Russian architecture N.N. Voronin from his book "Vladimir, Bogolyubovo, Suzdal, Yuryev-Polskoy" (M., 1967): "And in this abandoned building in the wilderness, the amazing sensitivity of ancient Russian builders to the beauty of the landscape, the ability to choose for construction "a red and harmonious place" was manifested.

Magazine "Orthodox Temples. Journey to Holy Places". Church of the Annunciation Snovitsy (Vladimir region). Issue No. 214, 2016