Description of the attraction
The Church of the Resurrection of Christ is located in the village of Zhuravlevo, Boksitogorsk region. From time immemorial, Zhuravlevo had a Suglitsky Pogost. The origin of its name is associated with the Loam River flowing here.
Zhuravlevo used to belong to the Novgorod land, which was divided into five, and those - into graveyards. The Suglitsky Pogost was part of the Bezhetskaya Pyatina. The first mention of the churchyard occurs in 1498-1499. The next message in time refers to the years 1581-1583, when the Bezhetskaya pyatina was rewritten by Prince Zvenigorodsky and the clerk Sergeev. Some lands of this volost were assigned to the Kazan Tatars. Many of them ended up in Russia after the invasion of Batu, and their descendants eventually became imbued with the Russian spirit and adopted Orthodoxy. After the capture of Kazan, the spread of Orthodoxy began among the Tatars, as a result of which a whole people - the Kryashens - arose. Serving Tatars were given land for "feeding". So, most likely, the Tatars appeared in the Suglitsky volost.
The name "graveyard" suggests the existence of a temple on it. Although the scribal book of 1498-1499 does not mention the church on the churchyard, most likely it was there. Later, this church was rebuilt and supplemented by the chapel of St. John the Theologian.
In 1820, residents of the village of Somino, adjacent to Zhuravlev, petitioned Emperor Alexander I to build a church in honor of the apostles Peter and Paul in their village. This business was taken up by Count Arakcheev, who visited here with the Emperor in 1823. After that, an official arrived with an assignment from St. Petersburg. The land belonged here to two landowners: P. Kulebyakina and I. D. Mamaev.
Mamaev believed that the construction of the church in Somino would lead the Suglitsky parish into decay. In this regard, he launched an active activity and on the site of the Suglitskaya Church in 1830 they built the five-domed Resurrection Cathedral, which has eight thrones. One of the thrones was dedicated to Nicholas the saint, the other to Elijah the prophet. The rest of the thrones were consecrated in honor of John the Theologian, the Sign of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Archangel Michael, All Saints, the Assumption. The main throne was dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ. This number of thrones is unique for a rural temple. Even the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg has only three thrones.
After the death of Mamaev, he was buried near the Resurrection Church built by him.
Among the abbots of the temple who served here in the 19th and 20th centuries, it is worth mentioning P. F. Sokolov, N. Antonsky, A. Onufrievsky, I. Sozin, N. Ivoninsky.
After the revolution, the fate of the temple turned out to be sad. In 1937, services were terminated in it. And in 1941 the temple was closed. The icons were partially plundered, and the rest were preserved by the believers.
In 2003, Father Gennady Belovolov, the rector of the Peter and Paul Church in Somino, visited the Resurrection Church. Believers from Zhuravlev and other surrounding villages gathered for the first service in the church. By the time of Father Gennady's next visit, thanks to the efforts of local residents, the church had already cleared the garbage, and the rotten beams were taken out.
The revival of the temple is possible, since local residents still keep icons from the Resurrection Church, saved from the barbaric destruction in Soviet times. Even one of the bells has survived. Believers are happy to return these relics, but only if the temple becomes operational again.
On October 14, 2004, Father Alexander, Dean of the Tikhvin Monastery in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, served a water-blessing prayer service, and also consecrated the part of the church located to the right of the main entrance, which was repaired at the expense and efforts of the parishioners.
