Dead villages of the Ryazan region. Lost village in the Ryazan region

In the 19th century, a village called Mokeevka grew up in the forests of the Shilovsky district near Lake Chudino. It was the most ordinary village, except that the people in it were hardworking, and therefore they did not live in misery. In those distant times, the inhabitants of Mokeevka did not even guess that they would become heroes of legends.

After the October Revolution in 1917, the village disappeared. Everything disappeared: people, cattle, houses. And it's okay to just disappear. In those terrible times, a lot happened, but the fact is that from time to time the village was seen. Men from a neighboring village will gather for fishing - there is Mokeevka, women will go to the forest to pick mushrooms - there is Mokeevka. And a detachment of food requisitions came up - there was no village. In the place where Mokeevka should be - impassable dense forest.

They also sent a detachment there to fight the enemies of the Soviet regime, to deal with this ideologically harmful village. But, finding nothing, they spat and announced that there was no Mokeevka. And any mention of a ghost village is sabotage and undermining the authority of the Soviet government on the part of the kulaks.

In total there are three photographs of the mysterious village, ethnographers managed to make them in 1922.

Shilovsky region in the 18th century interested scientists as a possible location of Artania - the mythological city of the ancient Russians. The strange thing is that there are no descriptions of this city, no descriptions of its streets, buildings, inhabitants. The conclusion suggests itself: either strangers were not allowed into the city, or all these are legends.

Here is what the famous historian and local historian Vladimir Gribov told about his search for a ghost town. “I went with a group of other researchers to the field, which is associated with many strange phenomena. Here we stumbled upon a huge stone that exactly matched the famous menhirs. Such stones are often described in ancient documents. The stone is turned into a strict tetrahedron, and its top is pointed, outwardly - a pyramid. Since pagan times, these stones have been placed, believing that they are able to accumulate the energy of the sun. With the right use of this energy, you can create an impenetrable protection from prying eyes. Behind the stone were several ravines in which boulders were scattered. Not a single path, not a single road.

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“After walking a few hundred meters, all the members of the group felt slightly dizzy, later we realized that we were in a labyrinth - the ravines were located in such a way that they twisted into a spiral. We decided to go to the center, but that was not the case - we passed two ravines and found that we were much further from the center. Another attempt, same result.

Let's return to Mokeevka

Sergei Ivanovich Nikonov is one of the few who have seen the mysterious village with their own eyes.

Yes, not only I saw this village. Many of us have been to Mokeevka in Nadezhdino. In the 1930s, when collectivization began, Soviet authority again became interested in Mokeevka. They began to drag people from the surrounding villages for interrogations. I was still a kid then. With a friend, we saw the village three times when we went to the forest for berries. They went into the village, but not into the huts - they were afraid. Then no one saw the village for twenty years, and they already forgot about it. But in 1966, tourists again stumbled upon it. We went to Lake Chudino - we saw a village, and on the way back we saw only a dense forest. I've gone looking myself several times. I took a camera with me, and the village seemed to know that I wanted to photograph it, and disappeared.

The third and final post about our Pasha pavleg and Pasha dibazollllll trip to the east of the region.

1. In Akayevo Pasha pavleg I liked the well-preserved temple. He spoke about the church rotunda and the thrones, of which there are 3 (a cold main one, in honor of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, and two warm ones - St. Basil and St. Martyrs Florus and Laurus).

However, who is E.I. Postelnikov, at whose expense this church was built in 1809, I think even Pasha was not aware of it. Even more so for me) Infa didn’t say anything about that she was the aunt of a certain prince V.I. Kushsheva: D

There are a lot of wild strawberries growing around the church. It's not visible here, but it's there

2. You can climb the bell tower. After the revolution, like in many places, the temple was closed. Now it was re-consecrated and "renamed" from the Nativity of the Virgin to Trinity. It is not clear just for whom all this was done. There are not very many people around: there are about 5 residential buildings and a dozen residents left in the village.

But 100 years ago, in the parish of the church there were 517 households in 10 villages (or 3,300 people, including not only Russians, but also Mordovians with Tatars)

3. This is how the larger volume of the building looks like. The room under the dome is locked. Whether services are held there, I don't know.

4. Several small bells hang on the tower. I wonder if they were left from the old times or were they hung already in the 90s, when the temple was re-consecrated?

In general, bells in such places seem to be something unusual and beautiful. For some reason, I imagined the church in gray foggy weather. You spend the night in a village house and wake up from the ringing. Outside the windows - the silhouette of the church in the fog, drizzling rain and ringing, making the picture immediately an order of magnitude more mysterious and colorful

5. Near the temple, in the thickets, the wooden remains of the parochial school have been preserved. General form for some reason I didn’t take it off, but inside I immediately attracted the attention of the coat of arms of Saransk - a fox with arrows.
The fox is a symbol of insight and cunning, arrows are masculinity and determination.

6. Abandoned house nearby. Apparently ivy feels great even without owners. colorful)

7. We knock, no one. We go inside. Everything is messed up and a mess

9. Near the former street with the same abandoned houses.
Yes, by the way, the name of the village comes from the name of the first owner, and not from the surname former president Kyrgyzstan)

Tatar murza Akai Aituganovich Kugushev was granted these lands with peasants in 1639 "for the baptism of the Orthodox Christian faith"

10. The most famous natives of the village are the Ostroumov brothers, the children of the rector of the church Andrei Nikolaevich. Somewhere their house (or ruins) should have been preserved, but we did not find it.

Philosopher Mikhail Andreevich (1847-1892), inspector of public schools and teacher of the local school Alexei Andreevich (1852-1932) and Andrei Andreyevich (1856-1924) - breeder and author of the Akaevskaya Beauty apple variety

So, we continue to acquaint you with the castles of the Ryazan region and the chips around the castle along the way.

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It's not a castle, but it's worth a visit. Before us is the estate of General Smelsky in the village. Vasilievka, which is not marked on every map, and then suddenly, among the low houses and gardens, something appears that would rather harmoniously look somewhere in St. Petersburg or at least Kursk or Tambov.


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The manor house is a two-story mansion with 5 ledges - risalits of various sizes, with a round corner tower, once completed with a dome, and an open terrace (now lost). The facades of the building are very picturesque and richly decorated. The entire surface of the tower, all corners of the building, window openings are dissected by horizontal relief rustication.


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The owner of the estate, Eleazar Nikitovich Smelsky, by the way, is our countryman, or rather the countryman of my friend Andrey muph Kirnov. He was born in 1800 in the village. Turnip, Voronezh region. By itself, the person was interesting, he graduated from the Voronezh Theological Seminary and the St. Petersburg Medical and Surgical Academy. He worked as a military doctor, was a doctor at the court of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, served as a state adviser with the rank of general, headed the Military Medical Directorate of the War Ministry and was Vice President of the St. Petersburg Society of Russian Doctors.
He was not a hereditary nobleman, but for his services in 1842 he received the right to hereditary nobility. Included in the third part of the genealogical books of St. Petersburg and Ryazan province. Here is such a talented general-priest-physician-state adviser.


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The son of the general - Alexander Eliazarovich Smelsky - a real state councilor, cavalier of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, continued the arrangement of his father's estate.
After serving 3 years in the Life Guards of the Semyonovsky Regiment, he was appointed an official for special assignments in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he served for 20 years. He reached the rank of State Councilor and became a holder of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Russian orders, including the Order of St. Anne 2 tbsp. with the Imperial crown. The last owner of the estate was Alexander Alexandrovich Smelsky. All that is known about him is that he had the court rank of chamber junker of the Court of His Imperial Majesty. On it the history of the estate ended.
During the Soviet era, the estate was nationalized and since 1920 it has housed an orphanage. Later, employees of the local MTS lived in it. Recently the house was set on fire by some freaks. There is little left of the house at the moment.


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Here is such an epic destruction.


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Outbuilding. People live here who looked at me like I was a fool with a camera. It seems that there are very, very few tourists here, or rather, they are simply absent.


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Not far from the estate is the Church of the Epiphany, and Vasilievka, by the way, has the second name Epiphany. The wooden church was built in 1677. In 1764 a new one was delivered. What we see now is a stone church built in 1819 at the expense of the landowner, State Councilor Mikhail Vasilyevich Izmailov. She kept a unique artifact - the altar Gospel, published in 1688.


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Nothing has been saved at the moment. Even murals.


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Let's go further. On the way we found this church. This is the Kazan Church with. Alexandrovka.


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The Kazan wooden church in the village of Aleksandrovka was built in 1868 at the expense of parishioners. In 1913, such a temple was erected on the site of a wooden one.


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And here's something else about which there was a long discussion. I say that this is a manor, they tell me that this is a wretched Soviet building. However, history tells us that this is still a manor. Koshelev's estate in the village of Pesochnya.


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Here is what the Internet tells us: “The village of Pesochnya from 1835 to 1883 became the place of residence and work of a public figure, liberal, reformer, organizer of the cultural and economic activities of the Sapozhkovsky district, merchant Alexander Ivanovich Koshelev. The estate, converted in Soviet times into an agricultural technical school, has long been in disrepair ."


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The house-estate of Koshelev, which is surrounded by an old park, is located in the northwestern side of the village on a high bank. But, despite the dilapidated state, even today the building creates the impression of harmony between the building and the garden and park ensemble. The park near the house-estate of Koshelev becomes extraordinarily picturesque in spring, when anemones, violets, corydalis, lilies of the valley bloom.
There was nothing left of the park, except for a few semblances of flower beds, everything was overgrown with nettles and other muck. As a result, all the legs were covered in nettles, but I took these shots.


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And here's what else we managed to dig up.

"In 2005, the reconstruction of Koshelev's manor house began, in which local schoolchildren also take part in the days of work in the labor camp. In 2006, in two weeks, flower beds were put in order, flowers were planted on them, benches were installed, the square was ennobled, adjacent to the house-estate of Koshelev. The regional authorities support the initiative of the guys, celebrating the work of local schoolchildren and students of Ryazan universities with diplomas and monetary rewards."
It seems that this is how it remained on paper. Currently, the estate has been turned into overgrown ruins.


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The rest of the cassettes. Apparently there was a stage here.


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I don't want to waste your time on this object anymore, let's move on.


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Before us is Sasovo. Yes, this is a city, but what is this, not a city? And this? Not a city? In general, to be honest - a large village, but Ilyich proudly stands to his full height. By the way, even an anti-cartoon was made about Sasovo.


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Another stele with Lenin.


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Well, actually the most interesting thing is this "castle". True, someone circumcised him. Damn Soviet Jews XDDD). Apparently there was another floor and there was something beautiful and interesting upstairs, but unfortunately I didn’t find old photos anywhere.


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Here is such a majestic facade. Straight out of a fairy tale. It looks like both the Witcher-3 and Dragon age-3, in short, what kind of game do you like, imagine that one. Well, a little history. Unfortunately, the history of this wonderful palace is vague (if there is, throw it).


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The manor was built at the beginning of the 20th century in pseudo-Gothic style. She belonged to the merchant Sergei Postnikov, who owned the local rope factory.

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In 1917, the building was taken away from the landowner, and this is what happened there, as evidenced by the memorial plaque.


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Since the 1920s, the building has housed a school known as School No. 84. In 1991, the school was closed, and the building began to fall into disrepair, now the building has been sold to someone and it seems like they are going to restore it.


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Unfortunately, the interiors have not been preserved, and inside, instead of the expected copies of the locations from the games, there is such a destroy that does not pull on the Stalker game either.


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Actually, this is probably all, wait for the continuation of the report. I will write soon when I have time.


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Ryazan. June 1st. GTRK "Oka". There is no more life in these settlements, and instead of houses there is an open field. For eight years, more than 350 ghost villages have appeared in the Ryazan region. There are even more of those where the inhabitants can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand.

In a thick woolen scarf and a warm vest with an invariable stick - at the age of 87, her legs became very weak - Stegunova Katerina Glebovna sits for hours on a rickety porch and listens: is anyone coming.

There are few guests in Khripenki - a mobile shop on Sundays, and children and grandchildren from the city on short trips. When the mosquitoes completely overcome, grandmother Katya will hide in the upper room and will remember how she was before home village large, 120 houses in lace trim.

And then gradually everything began to disappear. Her neighbor from the hut opposite is also Katerina, only Arkhipovna, three years younger than her namesake. She is shy of the camera, but she remembers how she worked for 40 years as a milkmaid at the local Verny Put collective farm, how prosperous the village was and what was left of it: there are only four inhabitants in Khripenki: they are Katya’s two women, and grandfather Grigory and his son.

For almost a century of his life, Grigory Konstantinovich has not seen anything - he devoted four and a half years to the war, which he ended on the Soviet-Japanese border. Then he worked - he sowed, plowed, took care of, as he says, collective farm calves and sheep. And now only worries are to stock up enough firewood and fix the well.

Last year, under the state program to support veterans, a mine was dug next to the house, but the water is not the same - the son carries it from neighboring Mikhaly. But if life is still glimmering in this village, then neighboring Goritsy has turned into a ghost village. There was one house, and even that burned down in the fires of 2010.

The village is very old, it is mentioned in written sources as early as 1629. Even in the memory of the inhabitants of Khripenki, in Goritsy there was a church and a considerable parish. By historical standards, the village was alive quite recently.

Collective farms were dying, schools were closing, people were leaving for the cities. According to the 2010 census, in the last eight years alone, dead villages in the Ryazan region have increased by 84%. Now in the region 361 locality, where there is not a single inhabitant, and another 1100 are on the verge of extinction. Khripyonki also belong to them.

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