Driving along the Severka River from Nepetsin, from afar you can see the temple of the village of Shkin - an example of the capital's architectural style and scope, similar to the Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg. The customer of this construction was Gavril Ilyich Bibikov (1746-1803) - a well-known Moscow philanthropist who built palaces in Moscow and Grebnev near Moscow, the owner of the Moscow theater popular at that time, a man with a delicate taste, and, importantly, a significant fortune.

In 1794, at his expense, in the village of Shkin, instead of a dilapidated wooden church, the grandiose construction of the current stone church began. Construction proceeded slowly, and by 1800 only the aisles of the Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas of Myra were completed and consecrated. The construction of such a significant structure was entrusted to one of the best students of M.F. Kazakov - Rodion Rodionovich Kazakov (1758-1803), who by that time had built about three dozen buildings in Moscow. All work was carried out under the supervision of the provincial architect I.A. Selekhov, who at that time worked in Shkini.

The temple was painted in the beginning and middle of the 19th century already under the son of G.I. Bibikov. According to the data for 1852, 348 peasants and 405 peasant women lived in the village in 99 households.

The iconostasis and most of the moldings perished in Soviet time. In the 1930s The church was closed but not destroyed. According to the stories of a local resident, church property began to be taken away after the war, when everyone walked in rags, there was nothing to wear, so the saved church property came in handy.

In the 1960s, the temple was converted into a warehouse. At the same time, part of the openings for the entry of tractors and loading equipment were cut. When the bell was thrown down, the opening of the bell tower was torn apart. When falling, the bell broke off the white-stone cornice of the temple from its western side.

The temple has been returned to believers and is slowly being restored. In 1991, in the attics of one of the local houses, an icon of the church was found - a large image of Seraphim of Sarov. Regular services have been held since 1996.

The well-known, revered and still blessed Daniel (1825-1884) is buried near the walls of the church - last years living in the village of Shkin, who took part in the repair and collected funds for the maintenance of the temple.

Based on the book by O. Penezhko “Kolomna and surroundings. Churches of the Kolomna region»

The ancient trading village of Shkin in the 18th century. belonged to the genus of famous Moscow boyars Bibikovs. There was a wooden church on the estate.

In 1795-1800. with the care of Major General G.I. Bibikov and the Priklonsky family, a new stone church was built. Researchers believe that the project was created by Rodion Kazakov, and the temple was built under the direct supervision of I.A. Selekhov. The monumental building is decorated with twenty powerful white stone columns. The loggia of the western entrance is crowned with two belfries. The summer church has five light tiers. The main throne - in honor of the Descent of the Holy Spirit - was located in the summer temple. In the warm church, separated by a glass partition, there were two more thrones: in the name of the Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas.

The building was constantly decorated and updated. Blessed Daniel of Kolomensky (1825-1884) played a special role in decorating the shrine. The perspicacious Danilushka willingly gave alms. The holy fool gave whole mountains of copper coins to the Shkin temple. The belfries were repaired with donated money, a large bell was cast, and the whole church was repainted. The blessed one is buried at the altar of the church. His spiritual mentor and friend, rector of the Holy Spirit Church, priest Gabriel Voskresensky, led the parish for 50 years, enjoying the great love of the surrounding residents.

Services were interrupted in the 1930s. Until the 1960s the temple stood intact. Then the temple was destroyed and used as a warehouse. Until 1991, the church was in disrepair. And then a miraculous event happened. A resident of Shkini, Seraphim Ivina, in a dream appeared the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, who ordered her to find an icon with his image, and then again appeared, directing the search. And, finally, a large magnificent image was indeed found, hidden in the attic of one of the Shkin houses. From that moment began the revival of the Holy Spirit community. In April 1996, regular worship was restored in one of the three aisles - Nikolsky.

In 2003, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the glorification of Seraphim of Sarov, a grand procession was held with the Shkin icon of the saint throughout the Kolomna land. On the same days, the first Divine Liturgy took place in the main, summer church - the Descent of the Holy Spirit.

Source: http://www.mepar.ru/eparhy/temples/?temple=340

Shkin was first mentioned in documents of the 15th century - in the first spiritual letter of the Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich (1462) and in one of the acts of the Simonov Monastery (mid-15th century). Until 1671, the village was listed as a palace, and in that year "it was granted to the patrimony of Prince Yuri Andreevich Dolgorukov for his outstanding role in suppressing Razin's rebels." In the 18th century, the village of Shkin, Kolomna district, Moscow province, located on the right bank of the Severka River, belonged to Major General Gavrila Ilyich Bibikov. A participant in the Suvorov campaigns, G. I. Bibikov was better known as the owner and builder of the luxurious Grebnevo estate near Moscow, in which the stone summer church was consecrated in the name of the Grebnev icon Mother of God. And three years later - on August 25, 1794 - the nobleman received from Kolomna Bishop Athanasius a new charter for the construction of a church, now for construction in the village of Shkin. Bibikov planned to build a stone temple with three altars, the main of which was dedicated to one of the most important events in Christian history - the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles, revered as the day of the formation of the universal Church.

The document that marked the beginning of construction said: “By the authority given to us by God, we bless instead of this wooden church again to build a stone church in the name of the Descent of the Holy Spirit with two aisles. overlay with proper prayers, and report to us, and to the petitioner, in the likeness of other holy churches, build it, and supply it with everything decent. will be accomplished, and will be provided with utensils, as well as with books and silver vessels, then this dean must describe the weight and present to them. Therefore, we will not leave the sacred antimensions and our consecration to supply that church with blessing. This letter is given for the signing of our hand with the seal attached in the city of Kolomna, which, after the construction of a new stone church, will always be kept in it. new temple erected on the site of the former, consecrated in the name of the Archangel Michael and called Arkhangelsk in the documents of the 18th century. However, the attempt to build in stone was not the first time.

In 1762, Ivan Andreevich Drutsky-Sokolinsky turned to Bishop Porfiry of Kolomensky and Kashirsky for permission to build a stone church in Shkini, since the wooden one was "very dilapidated" and the church service was performed "in no small need." The temple was supposed to be erected not far from the wooden one, on the same churchyard, and named after the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, with a chapel of the Archangel Michael, about which a certificate of the temple was received. But the construction was not destined to begin, and the new owner of Shkini, Prince Lieutenant-General Vasily Vladimirovich Dolgorukov, in 1775 sending a request to the bishop, still wrote about the "Arkhangelsk Church". In 1791, the clergy's records showed an increase in the arrival of the Shkini temple by 60 households. This was probably due to the loss of the St. Nicholas Church in the village of Borisovo, which was located opposite, on the left bank of the Severka. The name of the architect, to whom G. I. Bibikov turned for help in construction, is still unknown. Modern researchers, who noted the "undoubted skill of the designer," assumed the authorship of V. Bazhenov, Rodion Kazakov, and even the provincial architect I. Selekhov. It was only at the beginning of the 21st century that the typological similarity of the temples of Shkini and Grebnev, erected by order of Bibikov almost simultaneously, was noticed. The author of the design of the Grebnevskaya church was the lieutenant of architecture Ivan Ivanovich Vetrov (Johann Veter), and the idea of ​​the interior decoration belonged to the captain of architecture Stepan Vasilievich Groznov (Gryaznov). In addition, both of them were in the service of the military engineering department, subordinate to G. I. Bibikov.

Construction, begun in 1794, lasted six years. Erected by 1800, the temple was an extraordinary sight and characterized "an entire stage in the development of Russian architecture." Rare for a rural temple were not only the dimensions - 38 m long, 10 m wide - but also its appearance. Two dozen white stone columns surrounded the temple with an apse. The decoration of the western facade was a covered porch topped with an attic, and two two-tier bell towers - northern and southern. The main throne - in honor of the Descent of the Holy Spirit - was placed in the summer part of the temple. In the winter room, separated by a glass partition and heated by two Dutch ovens, there were altars in honor of the Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas. The temple was richly decorated with stucco and carvings. The white stone needed for construction and decoration was mined near Kolomna, from the lower reaches of the Moscow River. This is evidenced, according to the researchers who inspected the building of the temple, the quality of limestone "without rejection with the inclusion of shells." The yellow dolomite mined, apparently, in the same place, despite its high hardness and strength, soon began to collapse due to saturation with water, which affected appearance columns (dolomite near Moscow does not withstand even 30 cycles of freezing and thawing). Socles, columns and capitals, cornices with medallions, a patterned base of the head of the rotunda and other numerous decorative elements were made of white stone. Local peasants were involved in the construction. And among them could be a native of the neighboring village of Borisovo, a hereditary mason Iona Gubonin, who kept a stone-cutting workshop in Podolsk. In 1800 the Holy Spirit Church was consecrated.

After the death of G. I. Bibikov in 1803, Shkin passed into the possession of his second wife, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Bibikova (Chebysheva). By the second half of the 19th century, the Holy Spirit Church began to deteriorate, at the same time it was updated and decorated with shrines. In 1848, at the request of the church clergy, a church fence was built with white stone gates lined with bricks. After the 1850s, the temple was repaired and painted, including funds collected for several decades by the holy fool Danilushka Kolomensky, who was treated by the rector of the temple, priest Gabriel Voskresensky. On the right side of the altar, the only grave from the graveyard, once located around the Spiritual Temple, has been preserved. Blessed Danilushka was buried here in 1884, whose works on renovation and decoration of the temple became known far beyond Shkini.

On February 23, 1922, a decree was issued on the seizure church values throughout the country, which was the beginning of the ruin and desecration of numerous Orthodox shrines. The Holy Spirit Church of Shkini did not escape this fate either, as a result of the seizure for transfer to the Gokhran to the fund for helping the starving, sixteen pounds thirty-six spools of pure silver (7 kg 394 g) were seized from the church. Services in the Holy Spirit Church continued in the 1920s. The last priest before the closure was Father Vasily (Voinov). The temple itself was closed in the 1930s and subsequently looted. On August 23, 1959, the architect G.K. Ignatiev carried out a technical inspection of the building for the warehouse of the state farm "Industriya". Soon on the measured area - 470 sq. m - they began to store fertilizers, and a little later, internal openings for the passage of agricultural machinery were cut.

The "Passport of the monument of culture, the Holy Spirit Church in the village of Shkin. No. 223. A114 1362" says about the conservation of the building in 1966 by the architect M. B. Chernyshov. It is also indicated that the church was taken under protection by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of August 30, 1960, No. 1327. Apparently, this is what made it possible to talk about "an extraordinary church of the era of classicism" in Soviet guidebooks for the Moscow region, and also gave rise to a legend about "the original appearance, close to the Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad." In 1975, a restoration project was developed under the guidance of architect S.P. Orlovsky, accompanied by photography. She recorded not so much damage to the building as the remnants of the former beauty of the temple appearing behind them. At the end of 1987, the news appeared that VOOPIIK allocated 500 thousand rubles for the restoration of the church in Shkini, but the fate of this money remained unknown. The real restoration of the temple and the revival of spiritual life within its walls began only in the early 1990s.

On September 7, 1991, a community of believers of 24 people was formed, which adopted the Civil Charter. Since 1993, services in Shkini have been served by the rector of the Church of the Sign in the village of Nepetsino, Dimitry Kireev. On March 18, 1996, priest Oleg Gorbachev was appointed to the parish, and regular services began in the Nikolsky chapel. In 2001, Father John Novikov became rector of the Holy Spirit Church. In 2007-2009, the church was included in the federal funding program and restoration began. On May 10, 2015, the consecration of 10 bells took place, which were raised to the restored temple belfries. The largest of them: the Blagovestnik - weighing 5200 kg, the daily bell - 2000 kg, the Lenten bell - 530 kg. On December 19, 2016, Metropolitan Yuvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna consecrated the Nikolsky chapel, on June 5, 2017, he also led the rite of the Great consecration of the Holy Spirit Church in the village of Shkin.

From the book: Indzinskaya A. V. "Holy Spirit Church in the village of Shkin". - Kolomna, publishing house: Old Bobrenevo, 2017

In 2017, specialists from the Restoration and Construction Workshop (RCM) carried out a complete restoration of the Holy Spirit Church in the village of Shkin:

- Replacement of the lathing of the dome part,
- Covering with copper,
- Manufacturing and installation of crosses,
- Replacement of the crate on the main part of the temple,
- Covering with copper,
- Plastering of the entire facade,
- White stone works,
- Window casings
- Setting up a fence
- Improvement.

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The ancient trading village of Shkin in the 18th century. belonged to the genus of famous Moscow boyars Bibikovs. There was a wooden church on the estate. In 1795-1800. with the care of Major General G.I. Bibikov and the Priklonsky family, a new stone church was built. Researchers believe that the project was created by Rodion Kazakov, and the temple was built under the direct supervision of I.A. Selekhov. The monumental building is decorated with twenty powerful white stone columns. The loggia of the western entrance is crowned with two belfries. The summer church has five light tiers.

The main throne - in honor of the Descent of the Holy Spirit - was located in the summer temple. In the warm church, separated by a glass partition, there were two more thrones: in the name of the Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas.

The building was constantly decorated and updated. Blessed Daniel of Kolomensky (1825-1884) played a special role in decorating the shrine. The perspicacious Danilushka willingly gave alms. The holy fool gave whole mountains of copper coins to the Shkin temple. The belfries were repaired with donated money, a large bell was cast, and the whole church was repainted. The blessed one is buried at the altar of the church. His spiritual mentor and friend, rector of the Holy Spirit Church, priest Gabriel Voskresensky, led the parish for 50 years, enjoying the great love of the surrounding residents.

Services were interrupted in the 1930s. But until the 1960s. the temple stood intact. Then the temple was destroyed and used as a warehouse. Until 1991, the church was in disrepair. And then a miraculous event happened. A resident of Shkini, Seraphim Ivina, in a dream appeared the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, who ordered her to find an icon with his image, and then again appeared, directing the search. And, finally, a large magnificent image was indeed found, hidden in the attic of one of the Shkin houses.

From that moment began the revival of the Holy Spirit community. In April 1996, regular worship was restored in one of the three aisles - Nikolsky. Popular veneration of the acquired image increased.

In 2003, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the glorification of Seraphim of Sarov, a grand procession was held with the Shkin icon of the saint throughout the Kolomna land. On the same days, the first Divine Liturgy took place in the main, summer church - the Descent of the Holy Spirit.

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Grand Duke of Moscow Vasily Vasilyevich Temny (1415-1462) bequeathed the village of Shkin to his wife Maria Yaroslavna (d. 1484). After the liquidation by John III in the 1490s. destinies, the village again became a grand ducal one. In 1671, it was granted to an outstanding military leader and statesman, the winner of the Poles and the savior of Russia from the Razintsy, Prince Yuri Alekseevich Dolgorukov (d. 1682). He was born at the very beginning of the 17th century, in 1627, under Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich, he began serving as a steward, and in 1643 he was a governor in Venev. In 1645, after the accession of Alexei Mikhailovich, he was sent to Dubrovna to swear in the troops that were there. In 1646 - governor in Putivl, in 1648, despite his relatively young age, he was granted a boyar, participated in the drafting of the new Code. From that time on, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich treated Prince Yuri as a friend, and not as a subject. The tsar favored Dolgorukov, and in the ranks there are many references to the fact that Prince Yuri Alekseevich "was at the table" with the sovereign. The tsar's confidence was expressed in the fact that he entrusted Dolgorukov with the most responsible posts: in 1649 the prince was appointed the first judge in the Order of Detective Affairs, in 1651 he was appointed to a particularly important, in view of the upcoming struggle with Poland, the post of the first judge of the Pushkar order. When the war with Poland began in 1654, Prince Yuri showed that he could be not only an administrator, but also a brave and skillful military leader. On April 26, he set off from Moscow to Bryansk, gathered military men there and moved along with other governors to Poland, where he took part in the capture of Mstislavl and Shklov and distinguished himself in the capture of Dubrovna. In 1655, he was near Slonim, Mir, Kletsk, Mysh and Stalovich, and for diligent service on December 17 he received the honorary title of Suzdal governor. In the same year, he, together with Prince Trubetskoy, negotiated with the imperial ambassadors who came to Moscow. In 1656 he was at the meeting of the Patriarch of Antioch, and on April 29 of the same year he was sent as the second governor to Novgorod against the Swedes. Before the campaign, he was granted a satin gold fur coat, a goblet and 100 rubles in addition to his salary. From Novgorod, Dolgorukov moved at the head of a fairly large army to Livonia, joined the army there, who was under the personal command of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, and participated in the capture of Nyenschantz, Narva, Dorpat and in the siege of Riga. In October of the same year, he fought as the second governor with the Swedes near Dorpat, and on November 2 he was recalled to Moscow. Dolgorukov did not stay long in Moscow; on February 12, 1658, he was sent as a governor to Minsk to protect the conquered regions from the Poles. Soon, however, he had to become the head of the entire Moscow army operating against the Poles in Belarus: on May 7, he received the royal order to go to Vilna as the first governor against the Poles, who were under the command of hetmans Pavel Sapieha and Gonsevsky. The position of the Russian army at that time was very difficult: it was on enemy territory, without grain reserves, constrained from everywhere by the enemy and discouraged by the failures of the former incapable governors. To all this, two enemy armies, under the command of Sapieha and Gonsevsky, were preparing to unite and attack the exhausted Moscow army together. The situation was threatening, but Dolgorukov did not lose his head: he quickly moved from Polotsk, where the Moscow army was then located, to Vilna and here, deciding not to allow the hetmans to connect, on October 11 at Verki attacked Gonsevsky. Thanks to the successful attacks of the Polish cavalry, the battle was indecisive for a long time, but two Moscow infantry streltsy the regiment left by Dolgorukov in reserve and brought into battle at a critical moment, decided the matter, and the Poles fled, leaving their hetman and the entire convoy in the hands of the Russians. The victory was complete, but Dolgorukov failed to take advantage of it, and instead of moving deep into Lithuania, on November 7 he left his position and retreated to Shklov, without letting the king know about either the victory or the retreat, which greatly offended and annoyed the sovereign, who on November 17 sent him a letter with a severe reprimand for such recklessness. The letter expresses the Christian humility and kindness of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, he consoles Dolgorukov: “In vain did you listen to thin people ... you yourself see that you really have many friends, and before there were few besides God and us sinners ... You would this letter does not grieve ... loving you I write, and not twisting, and moreover, your son will say what disfavor I have for you and him. At the entrance to Moscow on December 27, Yuri Alekseevich was honored with signs of special royal attention: at Moscow he was met by a steward with a gracious royal word, and on the same day he was admitted to the sovereign's hand, and on February 2, 1659 he was granted a velvet gold coat, a goblet , 100 rubles in addition to the salary and s. Piscovo with villages in the Kostroma district. But on July 5, 1659, Dolgorukov was sent again, now to help the governor, Prince Trubetskoy, against the Crimean Tatars, who, together with the betrayed Little Russian hetman Vygovsky, were advancing on Moscow limits. Having successfully repulsed these enemies, Yuri Alekseevich returned to Moscow on September 12 of the same year, but on June 18 of the following 1660 he again went to the Poles. This time, the state of the Russian army, exhausted by a long war, became even more difficult: the troops of Hetman Pavel Sapieha, Charnetsky, Polubensky and Pats pressed him from all sides, and the constant defeats suffered by another Moscow governor, the incapable Prince Khovansky, made the position of the Russians desperate. Dolgorukov could only defend himself and save the army from final death. He fortified his position in Gubarev, 30 miles from Mogilev, and here he had to endure a three-day battle with the combined forces of the Poles on September 24, 25 and 26. They were defeated and retreated, but soon recovered and two weeks later, on October 10, they again attacked the Moscow army and were again repelled with great loss. Then Sapega and Charnetsky laid siege to Dolgorukov and blocked the way for the delivery of food supplies from Smolensk. The position of the Moscow army became critical, and it is not known how they would have managed to get out if another Moscow governor, Prince Khovansky, had not gone to the aid of Polotsk. The Poles turned against a new enemy, and Dolgorukov, taking advantage of the opportunity, retreated to Mogilev. Russian army was saved, Yuri Alekseevich's task is over. In Moscow, they perfectly understood all its difficulty and greatly appreciated service rendered by Dolgorukov. The steward constantly came to him from the tsar with golden gifts and with a gracious tsar's word, and when Yuri Alekseevich arrived in Moscow, he was again granted a velvet golden coat of 300 rubles, a cup, 140 rubles in addition to the salary and 10,000 efimki for the purchase of an estate. Dolgorukov lived in Moscow, however, not for long, and on September 18, 1662 he was again sent against the Poles, but in December of the same year he was recalled. In 1664, Prince Yuri was already in the diplomatic field: in February he had to negotiate with the plenipotentiary English ambassador, Count Carlyle, who came to ask for privileges for English merchants, and on June 11, the prince was sent with other boyars to Durovichi, a village not far from Smolensk, to negotiate with the Polish commissars on the terms of a peace treaty. The negotiations were unsuccessful due to the intransigence of the Polish ambassadors and the inaction of the Moscow governor, Prince Cherkassky, who was standing not far from the Dnieper with his army without any business. On July 10, the ambassadors departed, Cherkassky was recalled, Dolgorukov was appointed in his place, and a letter was sent to him, curious in that it clarifies his role in these negotiations. “Being at the embassy congresses,” the tsar wrote, “serving us, the great sovereign, you cared about our cause from the bottom of your heart, spoke and stood stubbornly above all your comrades. This service and zeal of yours are known from your senders, and your comrade, Afanasy Lavrentievich Ordyn-Nashchokin, also informed us about your service and zeal. We commend you for this, graciously praise you; and now they have ordered you to be a regimental commander, and you would have repaired fishery over the Polish and Lithuanian people, in which places it is decent in the local way. Dolgorukov, however, did not manage to fix a special fishery: he laid siege to Shklov and was about to move deep into Lithuania, as the Andrusovsky peace was concluded in 1666, and he had to return to Moscow. There, Yuri Alekseevich was already waiting for the title of the first judge of the Treasury order and the state yard. Around the same time, he had to play a rather prominent role in the trial of Patriarch Nikon, whom he first supported before the tsar, and then, when Nikon became too stubborn and not only did not agree to concessions, but even demanded obedience from the tsar, Prince Yuri became an ardent supporter of his condemnation and strenuously advocated for it at the trial. Near three years Dolgorukov lived peacefully in Moscow, but in 1670 the terrible Razin rebellion suddenly broke out, engulfing the entire Volga, forced Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich to turn again to Yuri Alekseevich, who at that time was already about seventy years old, and on August 1, 1670, he, having received order to take command of the Moscow troops operating in the vicinity of Arzamas and Nizhny Novgorod, went to Arzamas. Arriving at the army, Dolgorukov saw that it was in a deplorable state and could not start offensive operations: reinforcements did not come, as the roads were occupied by rebels, there were few troops, and it was unreliable, there were no supplies, and the rebellion covered Arzamas from the south , north and east. But Dolgorukov did not lose his head and cheerfully began to defend himself against the advancing rebels; the governors sent by him - the duma nobleman Leontiev and the devious prince Shcherbatov - defeated and scattered the rebels in several battles and forced them to retreat. The pressure on Arzamas was thus restrained, and Dolgorukov began offensive actions. In order to clear the north and environs of Nizhny Novgorod, which was in serious danger, he sent the governor Leontiev and Prince Shcherbatov, who attacked the main nest of the rebels, p. Murashkino, smashed them to pieces and on October 28 they came to Nizhny and cleared its environs. Another governor, Likharev, cleared the way to Temnikov itself, another center of the rebellion, defeated the rebels and captured the city. Following him, Dolgorukov himself moved to Temnikov and on December 4 occupied the city; from here he went to Krasnaya Sloboda, took possession of it and, having arranged his main apartment there, continued operations against the rebels. But Dolgorukov could not unite the actions of individual governors, since the governor, Prince Urusov, was sitting in Kazan, who pacified the rebellion in the rest of the Volga region and did not want to obey Dolgorukov. Moscow understood this, and soon Urusov was recalled, and the main command over all the troops on the Volga was entrusted to Dolgorukov, who now quickly brought the rebellion to an end: he sent governor Panin to Alatyr, where he joined up with Prince Yuri Nikitich Baryatinsky, and both, defeating rebels and having cleared the vicinity of Alatyr from them, moved to Saransk and cleared the entire area. At the same time, another Baryatinsky, Prince Danila, cleared Yadrin and Kurmysh, and Prince Shcherbatov occupied Trinity Ostrog, both Lomov and Penza, governor Yakov Khitrovo cleared the Shatsk province and Kerensk. It remained to suppress the rebellion only in the northeast, where it broke out again, and this was done by Leontiev and Danila Baryatinsky, having cleared the Alatyrsky district and pacified Kozmodemyansk, Yadrin, Kurmysh, Vetluga and Unzha. At the end of January 1671, the rebellion was extinguished, and the population calmed down thanks to the vigorous measures of Dolgorukov, who received s. Shkin with villages. In 1671, Dolgorukov again had to enter the diplomatic field: at the end of that year, Polish ambassadors arrived in Moscow to discuss some old questions and ask for help against the Turks, and Prince Yuri Alekseevich, appointed for negotiations, achieved a concession to Kiev and at the same time evaded any help against the Turks, escaping with only a promise to send Nogais and Don Cossacks. In 1673, Dolgorukov negotiated with the Swedish ambassador, Count Oksenstern, who was visiting Moscow, and concluded an agreement under which both parties pledged to help each other in case of war on the eastern side of the Baltic Sea. In 1674, he negotiated with the Polish ambassadors who arrived in Moscow regarding the proposed candidacy of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich for the vacant Polish throne. The prince spent the last years of the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich in Moscow at court, using his influence on the sovereign, weakened in spirit and body, in order to acquire a dominant position among the nobles surrounding him, between whom two parties appeared at that time, each of them, in view of weaknesses of Alexei Mikhailovich, wished for the proclamation of her candidate as the heir to the throne. The party of the Miloslavskys, relatives of the first wife of the tsar, wanted the proclamation of Theodore, the eldest son of the sovereign from his first marriage, and the party of the Naryshkins, relatives of the second wife, sought to deliver the throne to Peter, the son of the tsar from his second marriage. Dolgorukov, on whom it depended to deliver victory to one party or another, bowed to the side of the Miloslavskys, and Theodore was proclaimed heir to the throne. On January 29, 1676, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich died, leaving the throne to Theodore and entrusting guardianship over Tsar Dolgorukov, inexperienced in public affairs. But Yuri Alekseevich was already too old to govern the state and ceded his influence to his son, Prince Mikhail Yuryevich, prudently weakening, however, the influence of the Miloslavskys, for which he brought Yazykov, who was invisible until that time, but very dexterous courtier, who had mastered the power of attorney of the tsar. But even when he retired, Yuri Alekseevich left himself external honor and received the title of Novgorod governor and first judge of the Smolensk, Khlebny and Streltsy orders, the management of which, however, he entrusted to his son. So Yuri Alekseevich lived at rest until 1682, when on May 15, indignant archers chopped up the elderly prince after the murder of his son, who was in charge of the Streltsy order, Prince Mikhail Yuryevich. Prince's body Yuri Dolgoruky was buried in the Epiphany Monastery. Yuri Alekseevich was married twice; from his first wife, Elena Vasilievna Morozova, had a son, Mikhail, but Elena Vasilievna died in 1666, and in 1670 Yuri Alekseevich married Evdokia Petrovna Sheremeteva, nee Princess Pozharskaya. The marriage was fruitless. Evdokia Petrovna died in 1680. The village of Shkin was significant and commercial, according to documents at the beginning of the 18th century. in it stood the church of the Archangel of God Michael. In the XVIII century. the village was owned by engineer-general-lieutenant Ilya Alexandrovich Bibikov (1698-1784), one of the most learned generals of that time. The Bibikovs are a historical family that has done a lot for Russia and Russian culture. The son of the stolnik Alexander Borisovich Bibikov, Ilya Alexandrovich received a good education, and in 1715 he began serving in the engineering department under the command of Feldzeugmeister General Count Yakov Vilimovich Bruce, who treated him with great disposition. In 1749 I.A. Bibikov was promoted to major general. He distinguished himself in the Seven Years' War in the battle of Kunesdorf and especially at the siege of Kolberg, where, commanding the entire cavalry, he did not even let the enemy lean out of the fortress. Bibikov attacked and took the city of Treptow, pursuing the Prussians, forced General Werner's corps to lay down their arms. In this battle with him was his son Alexander Ilyich. Ilya Alexandrovich was engaged in strengthening the fortresses of the Ukrainian line, Taganrog, Kizlyar, Mozdok, Bakhmut. At first During the reign of Catherine II, he was appointed head of the Tula Arms Factory, but in 1764 he retired due to illness. By his first marriage, he was married to the girl Pisareva. From this marriage in 1729, the son Alexander was born (d. 1774), raised by his grandmother and aunt, nuns of the Moscow Zachatievsky Monastery, lieutenant general, participant in the Seven Years' War (distinguished himself at Zorndorf and Kunesdorf, participated in the capture of the corps of the Prussian General Werner) , in 1762 he was sent to Kholmogory to organize the life of the “Branschweig family” imprisoned there (relatives of the deposed Emperor John Antonovich), brought displeasure to the empress by special participation in the prisoners. When Catherine II began work on the drafting of the New Code, A.I. was appointed marshal (that is, chairman) of the Commission for the drafting of the New Code. Bibikov. In 1763, Alexander Ilyich pacified the uprising at the Ural and Orenburg factories, he asked to entrust the Order of Alexander Nevsky granted to him to his father, by that time a decrepit old man who was retired. Catherine II sent Bibikov to pacify the Pugachev rebellion, he, who suffered a lot from the intrigues of the courtiers, having received an order from the lips of the empress, answered with the words folk song: “Is my sundress, dear sundress, everywhere, sundress, you come in handy, but you don’t need it, sundress, and you lie under the bench!” He had already almost destroyed the rebellion, but after his sudden death in Bugulma, the rebellion flared up with renewed vigor. He never found out that for the victory of Pugachev he was appointed senator and received the highest order Russian Empire- Apostle Andrew the First-Called. From the second marriage I.A. Bibikov, head of the Tula Arms Factory, with Varvara Nikitichnaya Shishkova, in 1740, a son, Vasily (d. 1787), was born, the future director of Russian theaters, Russia owes him the first theater school. In 1743, a daughter, Evdokia, was born (d. 1807), later the wife of Admiral I.L. Golenishcheva-Kutuzova, since 1797 cavalry lady of the Order of St. Catherine, since 1806 lady of state. In 1746, Gavriil Ilyich Bibikov was born, the builder of the currently existing village. Shkin stone church. In 1754, the youngest daughter of Ilya Alexandrovich, Ekaterina Ilyinichna (d. 1824), was born. In 1778, she married Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (1745-1813), later Field Marshal, His Grace Prince. Clever, beautiful and educated, she was loved by her husband, who, during frequent absences, was in correspondence with his wife and daughters, interested in the smallest details of their home and social life. She lived widely and openly, and her husband often hinted to her in letters that she was spending more than their means allowed. At court, Ekaterina Ilyinichna occupied a prominent position; on the day of the coronation of Emperor Paul, she received the Order of St. Catherine. Alexander I, who did not love her husband, always showed her the greatest attention even after Borodino battle granted her to the state ladies, and after the death of Kutuzov in 1813 - 150,000 rubles to pay debts, 50,000 for each daughter, a life pension and the maintenance of a field marshal (86,000 per year). The love of the people for Kutuzov also passed on to his widow: in 1817, she drove to her village through Tarusa, and, having learned about this, the inhabitants greeted her royally, all the bells rang in the churches, the clergy went out in vestments on the church porches, the people unharnessed the horses and drove her around the city on himself. Being already an old woman, she loved to look younger and dressed like a young girl. She wanted to be buried in the Kazan Cathedral next to her husband, but Alexander I forbade it. His resolution was: "I do not allow either burying or funeral services in the Kazan Church." Ekaterina Ilyinichna was buried, with a huge gathering of people, in the Church of the Holy Spirit of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. When you drive along the river Severki on the road from Nepetsin, then the temple of the village of Shkin is already visible from afar. A strange sight: the architecture of the capital, a temple similar in everything to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra Cathedral in St. Petersburg, and this is in a bear corner. Here is the border of the Kolomna region, there is no further road. In Prusy, in Sapronovo, where the wooden Church of the Sign, destroyed in Soviet times, stood, only country roads lead to Gorodnya. Whose whim was it - to put a huge "city" temple among the fields? Major General Gavriil Ilyich Bibikov (1746-1803), son of Engineer Lieutenant General Ilya Alexandrovich Bibikov (d. 1784), head of the Tula arms factory, who owned the village, was the customer for the construction. Gavriil Ilyich was born from the second marriage of I.A. Bibikova with Varvara Nikitichnaya Shishkova. He was buried in the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow. A poetic epitaph was carved on the monument: “This cold stone covers / The perishable ashes of one of those rare men / Whom the Creator sends to earth as a gift / For prosperity, for the joy of people. / Heroism, subtle mind, heavenly virtue, / The fire of the purest faith burned in his soul, / Husband, father and friend, unfortunate benefactor / He searched for eternity, searched and acquired. / With his loss, all sorrows befell / The tender wife and twelve children with her / She erected this monument with a stream of tears. / May God help them, deprived of all comforts! His wife is Ekaterina Alexandrovna (nee Chebysheva, 1766-1833), mother of 12 children: Dmitry (Kyiv Governor-General); Pavel (major general, killed in 1812, his widow Elizaveta Andreevna married Count A.Kh. Benckendorff); Gabriel (d. 1850, Privy Councilor); Elijah (Adjutant General, Governor General of Vilensky); Alexandra; Anna; Sofia; Catherine; Mary; Faith; Alexandra (the name of another of the children is unknown). Gavriil Ilyich Bibikov, a Moscow philanthropist who built palaces in Moscow and Grebnev near Moscow, had his own theater. All of Moscow gathered for the concerts of his serf orchestra, which was led by the serf conductor and composer Daniil Kashin. In with. Shkin, instead of a dilapidated wooden one, in 1794, at the expense of Gavriil Ilyich Bibikov, the construction of the current stone church began. It went slowly, by 1800 the chapels of the Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas of Myra were consecrated. Such a person as Gavriil Ilyich could entrust the construction of the temple only to an experienced architect. It was probably one of the best students of M.F. Kazakova Rodion Rodionovich Kazakov (1758-1803), who built about three dozen buildings in Moscow. The construction was carried out under the supervision of the provincial architect I.A. Selekhov, who at that time worked in Shkini. The temple was painted in the beginning and middle of the 19th century. The iconostasis and most of the stucco decoration perished in the Soviet era after the church was closed and destroyed in the 1930s, and adapted for storage in the 1960s. Some of the openings were cut open for tractors to enter. After Gavriil Ilyich, his son Dmitry Gavrilovich Bibikov (1792-1870) owned the village, on January 1, 1808, from the “militia of the Moscow army”, he entered the Belarusian hussar regiment as a cornet, and in 1810 he transferred to the Dragoon Life Guards. Participated with honors in the Turkish War and in the campaign of 1812, and near Borodino he lost his left arm and received wounds in the chest and right hand. He was awarded the rank of staff captain, the orders of St. Anne, 2nd degree and St. George, 4th degree. Dismissed "behind the wounds" from military service, Bibikov in 1819-1824. he was vice-governor in Vladimir, Saratov and Moscow, and from May 9, 1824 to November 23, 1835, he served as director of the foreign trade department. Ranked in 1855 to the Ministry of Finance, Bibikov was appointed a senator on November 12, 1837, and on December 29 he was renamed lieutenant general from privy councilors and appointed governor-general of Kiev, Podolsk and Volyn. Staying here for 15 years, Bibikov was granted the rank of adjutant general (January 1, 1843) and was awarded the rank of general from Infantry (October 10, 1843), Order of Alexander Nevsky (1839), Star of St. Vladimir 1st degree (1848), appointed member of the State Council (1848); On August 30, 1852, he became Minister of the Interior and held this post until August 20, 1855. In managing the Southwestern Territory, Bibikov was an energetic executor of the sovereign’s will, “so that the western provinces are reunited with the soul and body of the ancient fatherland,” and that he , "kept the lords in an iron fist." In 1840, Bibikov achieved the abolition of the Lithuanian Statute in the Southwestern Territory, and, in addition to purely political grounds, also referred to the fact that "the operation of the Statute is a flagrant injustice in relation to the mass of the population, for Polish laws patronize the noble and rich in everything." The same desire to separate the masses from the nobility prompted Bibikov to improve and ensure the position of the peasants "by measures emanating directly from His Majesty." To this end, in 1845 state peasants were transferred to rent, and in 1847 "inventory rules" were introduced that determined the relationship of serfs to landowners. Although these rules "from the point of view of science did not withstand criticism" and were "the most crude and clumsy work", they significantly constrained the arbitrariness of the landowners and were an important step in the emancipation of the peasantry. Measures were also taken against the Jews and their exploitation of the local population. Bibikov was especially concerned about the upbringing of youth, meaning "to establish in schools in general and especially at the University of St. Vladimir the moral spirit of humility." But everything was reduced only to external discipline, about some moral impact was out of the question; on the contrary, the governor-general himself, who in his sixties never ceased to "persistently" look after the ladies, saw in revelry an antidote to irony, to political passions. Bibikov did a lot for the improvement of Kyiv, for the study of antiquities and nature of the region. At the personal insistence of the Governor-General, the Central Archives, the Temporary Commission for the Analysis of Ancient Acts and the Permanent Commission for the Description of the South-Western Provinces were formed, which published a number of printed works. Bibikov traveled everywhere, accompanied by two Cossacks, was a thunderstorm for the people of Kiev and himself carried out reprisals on purely paternal grounds. He was a minister in a difficult time of war, crop failures, peasant unrest and cholera. The Ministry took the usual "drastic measures". In the internal management of it, Bibikov sought to reduce staffing and correspondence. D.G. Bibikov was a big personality, even his numerous enemies gave him his due. Contemporaries recognized him as a man of "great natural talents" with a "powerful and strong character" - "smart, a firm, noble and persistent character." Anecdotes have been preserved about his fearless defense of his opinions before Emperor Nicholas himself. Realizing that he was “badly taught to read and write from a young age,” Bibikov supplemented his education received “for a penny” by listening to lectures at the University of Berlin, “he spoke French and German well, although he could not write correctly in any language” and in general , "perfectly expressing himself in words, not had a gift for writing. He was a lover of archeology and amassed a library of 14,000 volumes. But the testimonies most favorable to Bibikov admit that he "paid tribute to the times" and was a typical administrator of the Nikolaev era, not shy in choosing "forms and methods to achieve his goals." Unconditional obedience was his ideal. Young man, who kissed his hand for the patronage, he sincerely hoped that with "such feelings" he would go far. “Look, this is what obedience means and how I teach your children,” he triumphantly announced to the Kiev nobles, when, at a meeting at the university, the gymnasium unquestioningly executed the ridiculous command: “Lie down, sleep, snore, get up!” But in this case, Bibikov, as always, did not change the natural sincerity characterized by Prince P.A. Vyazemsky in the verses addressed to him: People tend to make mistakes: / You could make mistakes, / But you were not a flexible weather vane / At the fidgety fuss. / Once set to work, / You were not afraid of labor / And boldly with one hand / You were ready to fight evil! D.G. Bibikov died on February 22, 1870 and was buried in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. His wife Sofya Sergeevna, eldest daughter real Privy Councilor, member of the State Council Sergei Sergeyevich Kushnikov (1767-1839), married to Ekaterina Petrovna Beketova, received, together with her sister Elizaveta Sipyagina, from her mother a large fortune, part of the colossal Myasnikov's wealth, which formed the basis of Bibikov's fortune. The Bibikovs had five children: Sergei, Dmitry, Nikolai (died in childhood), Sofya (since 1855 married to Count Dmitry Andreyevich Tolstoy) and Zoya (died in her youth). In 1852 in the village. There were 99 households in Shkin, in which 348 peasants and 405 peasant women lived. There is nothing left of the Bibikov estate, beautiful house opposite the church was built at the beginning of the 20th century. and belonged to the merchant Kvasov. At the southern wall of the altar is the grave of blessed Daniel (1825-1884). He was born in with. Lykovo, but died in Kolomna, was buried near the walls of the Church of the Holy Spirit according to his will. In 1903, Archpriest Bukharev wrote in the journal “Kormchiy” about blessed Danilushka: “His father was a serf, a rich man and an inveterate schismatic who had a chapel at home, Danilushka’s mother was a reader of old printed spiritual books. Danilushka was not a favorite of his parents, he grew up alone, did not make friends with the children of his village, and even play money, and this was his favorite game, he went to another village, about ten miles away. He was the best player, he played a decent amount during the week, which he gave all to the church warden. The headman loved Danilushka, felt sorry for his orphanhood, fed him and often left him to spend the night, took him to church, where the boy sang on the kliros and helped with a candle box. Danilushka's father was angry with the headman for this and even complained about him to his landowner. The landowner, having learned that Danilushka was a meek and kind boy, took him into his house, made him a Cossack (a boy for services) and wanted to teach him to read and write, but Danilushka soon, one morning, took off his Cossack clothes and boots and, bringing it to the landowner, he said that he could not walk in this, because all this fell off him; and since then Danilushka never wore boots again and outerwear. IN on holidays and on weekdays, he constantly went to church for prayer, and when there was no service in his village, he ran two, three, and even five miles to neighboring villages. It’s still dark outside, but Danilushka is already running somewhere for matins, and no matter how early it starts, he will already be in time for it. He was not stopped by any frost, at least thirty or more degrees. In one underwear, with an open head, often knee-deep in snow, he runs through ravines and fields to a church service. If, as often happened, he arrives before the good news, he will go to one of the peasants and wait there. He stood in the church on the kliros or near it and sang. Already at the age of majority, he left his village and came to the city of Kolomna, the townspeople accepted him joyfully, as a holy fool. Here he walked barefoot through the streets, through the churches. He especially liked to attend festive services in the city cathedral. The cathedral was cold, with a cast-iron floor, and Danilushka stood on the floor with his bare feet in his usual costume and heartily sang along with the singers or psalmists, he stood all immersed in prayer and never once turning back or around. During the day, Danilushka walked around the city - through the squares and shopping malls. They usually gave him money - he took it and lowered it into his bosom, where he had a bag arranged, in the evening he took the money to his apartment, which one merchant gave him in his house. Every week, a church warden from his homeland came to Danilushka and took all the money he had collected. Collecting money, Danilushka liked to joke with merchants. If the merchant was fat; then, patting him on the shoulder, he said: "Hey you, purse"; he called one "blue", the other "voiced", and so on. Laughing, they often said to him: “Danilushka, you froze your legs,” but he kindly answered: “I froze myself,” and, clasping his hands behind his back (this is his usual gait), continued to walk on, singing to himself: "O all-singing Mati" or "Open the door of Mercy." So living for several years in Kolomna, Danilushka managed to collect a significant amount of money, first for the construction of a bell tower in his homeland, and then the whole church itself was painted on the inside and renovated on the outside with the alms he had collected. It was said about him that he sometimes predicted. So, they said, three times he predicted a fire in the village of Lykovo, the last time he said that the fire would be on Great Saturday and at that time his father's house would also burn down, which came true. Danilushka often visited Moscow, the Kolomna merchants took him with them, and in Moscow he was a welcome guest everywhere. Before his death, he fell ill and was buried with great honor. In the last years of his life, the blessed one collected funds for the repair of the church with. Shkin. He became famous during his lifetime as a righteous man and a holy fool for Christ's sake. Many miracles took place both during his lifetime and after his death. He was widely known in the suburbs. Many people come from Kolomna and neighboring regions to the grave of Danilushka, take the earth from it as a holy and healing remedy. In the 2nd half of the XIX century. the priest Gabriel Voskresensky served in the Holy Spirit Church for about 50 years. It was Blessed Daniel who helped him in the repair of the temple. In 1906, the priest of the church with. Shkin became Mikhail Mikhailovich Ostroumov (36 years old), the son of a priest of the Kolomna district. After graduating from the Moscow Theological Seminary in 1901 with the title of a student, he entered the post of overseer at the Kolomna Theological School. In 1902 he was appointed teacher church singing and calligraphy at the Kolomna School. In 1906, he was appointed to a priestly vacancy at the church with. Shkin. In December 1906 he was ordained a deacon and in the same month a priest. From 1907 he was a teacher of the law at the Shkinsky zemstvo school. In 1910 he was awarded a gaiter, in 1914 a skufya. Deacon at the psalm-reader's vacancy - Mikhail Ivanovich Voinov. Since 1905, the church warden was a peasant with. Shkin Dmitry Ivanovich Trushkin (53 years old), received a salary from the peasant society. In Soviet times, the church was closed, the western wall bears the wounds caused by blasphemers who dropped a large bell from the northern bell tower of the temple. The opening of the ringing was widened in order to let through the dropped bell, which, falling, beat off the white stone cornice of the temple. The church remained without service for a long time after the arrest of the priest, but everything was intact. A local resident said that they began to take apart the church after the war, everyone walked around in rags, there was nothing to wear, they were dragged ashamed, slowly. In the 1960s the outside of the church was intact. A bridge built in the 19th century has been preserved in Shkini. through the river Severka. In 1911, the estate of I.V. Dobrynin. In the village, nearby stood a stone house. In our time, the devastated temple has been returned to believers, and its restoration has begun. In 1991, a large image of St. Seraphim of Sarov was found in the attic of one of the houses in the village. The monk himself, having appeared in a dream to a resident of the village, Seraphim Ivina, indicated where the icon was. In 2003, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his glorification, a religious procession was made with the icon of the saint throughout the Kolomna land. In 1996, in the church with. Shkin began regular services in the chapel of St. Nicholas of Myra. first

The ancient village of Shkin in the 18th century. belonged to the genus of famous boyars Bibikovs. In their estate, on the site of the former wooden church, was built in 1795 - 1800. by order of Major General G.I. Bibikov is the majestic temple of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, similar in everything to the Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in St. Petersburg. The main throne in honor of the Descent of the Holy Spirit was located in the summer temple. In the warm church, separated by a glass partition, there were two more thrones: in the name of the Archangel Michael and in the name of St. Nicholas.
A special role in the construction and beautification of the shrine was played by the locally revered saint-blessed Danilushka. His grave is located near the walls of the temple and is revered by believers. It is known that from childhood Danilushka fell in love with the church service, the temple of God, was friends with the church elder. The latter often left the boy at his place to spend the night, took him to church, where he taught him to sing in the kliros. Danilushka's father, an Old Believer, was angry with the headman for this and even complained about him to the landowner. The landowner soon took Danilushka to him, made him a servant and wanted to teach him to read and write. But one morning Danilushka took off his outer clothes and boots and, bringing them to the landowner, said that he could not walk in this. Since then, Danilushka never wore boots and outerwear. On holidays and weekdays, he constantly went to church, and if there was no service in the village, he fled to neighboring villages, barefoot, in light clothes.

Having reached the age of majority, Danilushka came to Kolomna. Here I walked the streets, the temples. In the city he was loved, revered as a clairvoyant and gladly gave alms. Danilushka did not take the collected money for himself, but he gave everything to the church warden. According to legend, the belfries in the village of Shkin were repaired with this money, a large bell was cast, the entire church was repainted.

When in 1884 the blessed one died at the age of 62, it was very important to see him on his last journey. a large number of of people. The funeral service took place in the Assumption Cathedral. The Kolomna clergy at first set out to bury Daniel in the city, but a testament of the blessed one was found with a request to bury him next to the Shkin temple.

The rector of the Spiritual Church during these years was the priest Gabriel Voskresensky. It is known that he was a friend of Blessed Danilushka, headed the parish for about 50 years, and was sincerely loved by the parishioners.

IN Soviet years the temple was closed. The western wall was badly damaged when a large bell was thrown from the northern bell tower. After the war, the temple was completely destroyed and used as a warehouse.

The church community was revived in 1991. One local woman once had a dream of the Monk Seraphim of Sarov, who told her to “seek”, that is, to acquire, an icon with his image. The phenomenon recurred. Soon the image was indeed found, and from that time the revival of the church life of the Spiritual Church began.

In 2003, in celebration of the centenary of the glorification of St. Seraphim of Sarov, a grandiose religious procession with the Shkin icon of St. Seraphim took place throughout the Kolomna land. On the same days, the first Divine Liturgy took place in the main aisle of the Descent of the Holy Spirit.

Currently, the temple is being restored, but help is needed. The place is very fertile, services are held in the chapel, shrines: miraculous icon Rev. Seraphim of Sarov. grave of blessed Daniel

Holy Spirit Church. Shkin village

Story. The ancient trading village of Shkin in the 18th century. belonged to the boyars Bibikov. In 1794-1798. at the estate of G. I. Bibikov, the Holy Spirit Church was built - an outstanding architectural monument of mature classicism, presumably, according to the project of Rodion Kazakov and under the supervision of I. A. Selekhov. The monumental building belongs to a rare type of two-bell temples. The building is decorated with twenty powerful white stone columns. The main throne - in honor of the Descent of the Holy Spirit - is located in the summer temple; in a warm church - aisles: in the name of the Archangel Michael and St. Nicholas. A special role in the decoration of the shrine was played by St. blessed Daniel of Kolomensky, who brought mountains of copper coins to the temple for the needs of the church. The perspicacious Danilushka was willingly given alms; the blessed one was buried at the altar of the temple. His spiritual mentor Gabriel Voskresensky led the parish for 50 years, enjoying great love from the parishioners.

Divine services in the Spiritual Church ceased in the 1930s. The temple was devastated in the 1960s, when a warehouse was built there. In the early 1990s the temple stood in desolation, but then the following events occurred. Resident with. Shkin Seraphim Ivina appeared in a dream to St. Seraphim of Sarov ordered to find an icon with his image. The icon was not found immediately, in the attic of one of the rural houses. From that moment, the revival of the church community began, and popular veneration of the acquired image increased.

In 2003, during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the glorification of Seraphim of Sarov, a grand procession with the Shkin icon of the saint took place throughout the Kolomna land. On the same days, the first Divine Liturgy was celebrated in the main church - the Descent of the Holy Spirit.