Malakhovo villageIt is located at the confluence of the Gzhelka River in the Moskva River. It is very ancient, mentioned in the spiritual charter of the Grand Duke Ivan Kalita (1st third of the XIV century) as the lot of his eldest son Simeon, then belonged to the faithful Prince Dimitri Donskogo.
In 1623, the village in the possession of deacon Tikhon Bormosov, since 1636 — Grigory Vasilyevich Izmailov, in 1646 from his widow was bought by Prince Yakov Nikitich Odoevsky, after whose death (in 1697) passed to Prince Mikhail Yakovlevich Cherkassky, married to the sister of Prince Yakov Marfa.
Since 1713, the village was owned by his son Alexei Mikhailovich, who had the highest rank of the empire — the Grand Chancellor. Malakhovo passed to the husband of his daughter Varvara Alekseevna Peter Borisovich Sheremetev. Subsequently, it belonged to his son Nikolai Petrovich and grandson Dmitry Nikolaevich.
The church in the village stood from time immemorial. The present stone church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki was built in 1829 by the care of the parish priest Evdokim Savvich Stefanovsky and parishioners. A priest, a deacon, a ponomary. In the middle of the XIX century. in the temple served priest Mikhail Karpovich Arkhangelsky (born 1814), son of deacons, after the end of the Moscow Spiritual Seminary was ordained a priest and determined to the church of Malakhovo. In 1888, the chapel of the icon of the Mother of God “Merit and Consolation” was added. In Soviet times the temple was not closed.
Day of celebration of the throne. Dimitry Solunsky — November 8 (N.S.)
Day of Celebration of the Throne of the Icon of the Mother of God “Trade and Consolation” February 3 (N.S.)
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The residents of the village of Malakhovo were lucky – their temple was not closed during the persecution of the Church. The temple of Dmitry Solunsky not only operated continuously since 1829, it became a haven for many shrines. There are icons of the Mother of God Sunny, Otrada and Consolation and Kazan, the icon of Dmitry of Solun with a particle of relics, the Dmitrov cross, the icon of St. George. John the Baptist. The main shrine of the temple is the famous icon of the Mother of God of Jerusalem. The history of this icon is full of difficulties and victories, you will certainly be told when you visit the church.
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