Orthodox Church of Boris and Gleb. Story

The Church of Boris and Gleb in Degunino, like churches in many other places in Russia, is dedicated to the children of Grand Duke Vladimir. They are famous primarily for the fact that they became the first Russian saints. Boris and Gleb were canonized by both the Russian and Constantinople churches.

The first Russian saints

Why are they martyrs and passion-bearers? Because they were treacherously killed by their own brother Svyatopolk, nicknamed by the people because of this “The Accursed”. The brothers accepted death voluntarily, knowing about it in advance. Boris and Gleb did not raise their hands against their older brother. An integral part of the Christian faith - non-resistance to evil through violence - was a wonder for pagan Rus', who had just converted to Orthodoxy. The fratricide Svyatopolk fled to Poland from the troops of Yaroslav the Wise, but, like Cain, he could not find a place for himself anywhere. According to legend, even his grave emanated a stench. And after canonization, Boris and Gleb became the patrons and guardians of Rus'. They began to be honored immediately after death.

"Prayer" church

The Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunino is first mentioned as being destroyed by Polish-Livonian troops. This happened in 1585. The village itself was mentioned for the first time in 1336 in a charter from Ivan Kalita. It is impossible to admit the idea that there was no church in the village, especially since in 1394 locality goes to the church for 400 years. The village near Moscow, known as Deguninskoe when it was founded, ceased to exist in 1960. It became part of Moscow, which is constantly expanding its borders. The Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunino is known for being destroyed repeatedly by fire. But every time, on the site of a destroyed temple, a religious structure made of wood is re-erected. This happened, perhaps, due to a lack of funds for the construction of a stone building. For example, in 1633 the church was built with the money of a local priest.

Always reborn from the ashes like a phoenix

According to documents (1676), the newly erected temple is listed as the Church of the Saints and Blessed Boris and Gleb with the chapel of the Evangelist and Apostle. Under Peter I, in the first years of his reign, namely in 1700, by decree of the then Patriarch Andrian, the village and the Church of Boris and Gleb in Degunin were transferred to the Alekseevsky Monastery, founded in 1360 by Metropolitan Alexy. The legendary Star Maiden Convent has not survived to this day; the Cathedral of Christ the Savior now stands in its place. During the invasion of Napoleonic troops, when everything was burning, Boris and Gleb in Degunino survived. Probably because in those days the village was considered a remote Moscow region. It should be noted that the stone church in this village opened its doors to parishioners only in 1866.

Wooden again

And in 1762, the very old dilapidated church was rebuilt. However, the new temple is being built again from wood. Two years later, Degunino, which stands on, was removed from church ownership and transferred to civil jurisdiction, that is, secularized. From 1843 to 1851, construction took place in Russia railway, connecting Moscow with St. Petersburg. The line passed through lands belonging to the village, for which the community was paid quite large sum compensation for alienated lands. This prompted the Degunin people to think about a new stone temple. An appeal from parishioners and the rector of the church, priest Simeon Florovich Strakhov, to Metropolitan Philaret, Vladyka of Moscow, was sent in 1863. In the neighboring village of Verkhniye Likhobory there was a stone factory, and its owner, merchant I guild Prorekhov V.A., provided the necessary quantity of bricks in the amount of 360,000 pieces for future construction. That was the biggest contribution to this good cause.

Handsome man made of stone

Stone Church of St. Boris and Gleb in Degunin grew up next to the old wooden church, dismantled in 1884. It was made in pseudo-Russian or Russian-Byzantine style. The three-altar massive temple turned out beautiful. It was built in the shape of a parallelepiped with a single internal space. There is a refectory and a bell tower with two large bells. The temple is decorated with a high semicircular apse, adjacent to the main semicircular, lower part of the building. As a rule, this is an altar ledge. At the time of the opening, the walls and vaults of the church were very beautifully painted, and the iconostasis was rich. 1887 was the year of renovation of the three iconostases of the temple in Degunino.

Martyr Temple

The further fate of the church is traditional. The era of atheism began, but the temple of the noble princes Boris and Gleb in Degunin operated until 1930, when services stopped due to the lack of priests. The church was officially closed in 1941, and before that time the Deguninsky parish seemed to exist. And it should be noted that in the 20-30s, church life in the village continued. Thus, the community sought permission to implement Processions of the Cross to the homes of believers. And in 1925, the Charter of the Borisoglebsk Orthodox Community was registered. After the official closure, the church was adapted for the needs of an outpatient clinic. Artel of disabled people "Motherland" moved into the walls former temple in the 60s of the last century. To rebuild the building into the production workshop necessary for the artel, the upper tiers of the bell tower were demolished, the building was covered with extensions and surrounded by a reinforced concrete fence. The factory was located here until 1985. Further - worse. The church housed the garage of the interdisciplinary scientific and technological complex “Eye Microsurgery”.

New life of the Boris and Gleb Church

The temple began to come to life after the new registration of the community and the transfer of the church building to it in 1990. First divine liturgy committed in the church in 1991 on July 14. And the gradual restoration of the Borisoglebsky religious building began. From 1994 to 2005, the walls were painted twice, the bell tower tents and church buildings were restored, the roof and appearance were updated, and the iconostasis was restored. This temple can also be called a passion-bearer, like those saints in whose honor it was originally erected, the Good Boris and Gleb. This one is located at: st. Deguninskaya, 18a.

Boris and Gleb in Degunin first mentioned in a scribe's book in 1584 as a wooden, rectangular building (like an ordinary hut), and with it several courtyards of the church clergy and arable land. How long ago Borisoglebskaya was built in Degunino - no information has been preserved. The holy passion-bearers Princes Boris and Gleb have long been revered in Rus' as the heavenly patrons of the Russian land, and the princes especially worshiped them, seeing them as almost personal assistants. Therefore, it is not surprising that in the village, which was once the patrimony of princes and their wives (first mentioned in the Spiritual testament of Ivan Kalita), there was a church dedicated to the noble princes Boris and Gleb.

IN Time of Troubles The village and it were devastated by the interventionists. Degunino turned into a run-down village. However, it did not disappear completely and gradually began to revive over time. So in 1633 the church was restored, also building a chapel in honor of John the Evangelist.

Icon of St. Boris and Gleb on the external wall before restoration

In 1700, by decree of Peter I himself, Degunino, together with the dilapidated temple, was separated from the estate of the Nativity Cathedral and granted to the Moscow Alekseevsky Nunnery in Chertolye (where Christ the Savior now stands). The villagers, together with the sisters of the Alekseevsky (rather poor) monastery, collected funds and in 1762 built a new wooden, but on a stone basement, single-altar church, consecrating it again in the name of Sts. blgv. knn. Boris and Gleb. However, already in 1764 Catherine II separated Degunino from the monastic possessions, the peasants became “economic”, and the Boris and Gleb Church was an ordinary parish church.

The Nikolaevskaya railway, laid here in 1843-1851, played a special role in the life of the village and the temple. Land was transferred for its construction, for which in 1863 the state paid quite decent compensation to the peasant society.

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Patronal holiday

This made it possible to fulfill a long-standing dream - to build a decent stone one instead of a small wooden church that could no longer accommodate all the parishioners. Having secured the consent of the Bogorodsk merchant V.A. Prorekhov, who rented land for a brick factory from the peasant community, paid the rent in kind for 12 years in advance (which amounted to 36,000 bricks), the rural community petitioned Metropolitan Philaret to build a stone three-altar church (all 3 altars are nearby) and received a charter . A new temple in pseudo-Russian style was placed next to the old wooden one. The main volume of the massive parallelepiped was adjoined from the east by a semicircular apse, and from the west by a two-tier bell tower (on the lower rectangular tier there was an octagon with a wooden tent). In 1866, the temple with three altars was consecrated in the name of St. Princes Boris and Gleb, St. Nicholas of Myra and icons Mother of God"Joy to All Who Sorrow." Old wooden church stood next to the new temple until 1884.

Prayer room in Children's home № 28

In the early years Soviet power the temple was not touched. In 1925, they even registered the charter of the Borisoglebsk community of believers, however, thanks to the policies pursued by the authorities, already in the early 1930s. services stopped because there was simply no one to serve them. At the beginning of 1941, empty Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunin they turned it over to an outpatient clinic, then the Rodina factory sewed knitted sports suits in God's House, and since 1987 the cars of the Eye Microsurgery Center have been parked.

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Honoring veterans of the Great Patriotic War

In 1960, the village became part of Moscow. The temple building was placed under protection as an architectural monument, thanks to which it has survived to this day. In 1991, the Boris and Gleb Church with a destroyed bell tower, hidden behind a reinforced concrete fence, was nevertheless returned to the believers, who began its revival. Today it has been restored and pleases the eye with its beauty, modestly hidden among the high-rise buildings.

The church community has been patronizing orphanage No. 28 for children with disabilities for many years. disabilities, psychoneurological boarding school No. 25, hospice No. 2 and other medical institutions where prayers, conversations, concerts and matinees are held for patients, and pilgrimage trips to holy places are organized.

Each pilgrim's journey can be almost perfect if you plan the trip correctly and visit interesting religious sites that deserve special attention. Such a place for the capital could become Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunino. It is worth visiting here to see the majesty of this church, named in honor of the Russian princes, the sons of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich, Saints Boris and Gleb, canonized martyrs. In this article I will tell you how to get to the temple and when services take place there.

Where is the temple

The temple is especially popular among pilgrims who come to the capital not only to see very famous religious sites, but also to visit those that carry with them architectural beauty and historicity.

What is the best way to get to the temple?

You can get to the Church of Boris and Gleb in Degunino either by public transport - metro or train, or by private car.

How to get there by metro: You should get off at Petrovsko-Razumovskaya. Then you need to transfer to shuttle buses No. 672, 194, 191, which will take you to the stop “Institute of Eye Microsurgery”. Then from the stop you need to turn onto Deguninskaya Street and walk about 550 m, which will take about 7-9 minutes.
How to get there by train: At the Leningradsky station you will need to take the train, which will take you to the Mosselmash platform. Next you need to walk first along Puteyskaya Street to the street. Deguninskaya about 900 m.
How to get there by private car: You can easily reach the temple by your own transport. To do this, you should enter the GPS coordinates of the temple into your navigator: 55°52’00.4″N 37°32’03.0″E.

Temple visiting hours and opening hours

Being one of the visited Orthodox churches Beskudnikovsky district of the capital, the Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunino has traditional rules of behavior when visiting it, and also has certain requirements for appearance for visitors.

Women must have their heads covered at all times and are not allowed to wear miniskirts or trousers.
Men should avoid visiting in shorts, sportswear or beachwear. If necessary, take care of this and take clothes with you.

In addition, every visitor to the temple is prohibited from:

come to work at drunk or drink alcohol on the premises;
use obscene words;
communicate or simply speak too loudly;
be quite noisy and run around.

The temple is very happy to receive pilgrims and ordinary guests and tourists of the city every day from 8:00 to 19:00, on Saturday and Sunday - from 7:00 to 19:00. Later, unfortunately, you will not be able to visit the temple.

Schedule of services in the Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunino

Weekdays:

9:00 – Liturgy takes place.

8:00 – Confession is held for those who came.
9:00 – Liturgy takes place.
17:00 – All-night vigil is held.

Sunday:

7:00 – Liturgy is held.
10:00 – Liturgy takes place.
16:00 – Vespers is held and an akathist is held depending on the feast of either the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow,” or St. Nicholas, or the holy noble princes Boris and Gleb.
In addition, on great holidays the liturgy is held, as on Sundays, and the night before at 17:00 an all-night vigil is held.

Photo of the Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunino

The Church of Bogdan and Gleb in Degunino has survived to this day, very beautiful and unusual, with a black crown, having undergone only a small reconstruction at one time, but the construction dates back to the second half of the 16th century.

The interior decoration of the temple is quite traditional for all Russian Orthodox churches: wall crosses, images of Jesus Christ as an infant and adult, but the chandelier adds its own zest to the interior.

At the entrance you can see images of Jesus Christ and other saints, and on both sides of the temple, instead of some windows, you can also see beautiful drawings that convey a certain atmosphere of the place of residence.

Solemn view of the temple during the holiday, dedicated to the day in memory of Saint Nicholas.

This is the fence near the Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunino.

Video - Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunino

I would like to note that after visiting religious sites you do not always get positive emotions or at least peace. However, having visited the Temple of Boris and Gleb in Degunino, you receive an incredibly pleasant charge of positive energy, which allows you to for a long time stay afloat despite all the difficulties and problems.

Share how you felt after visiting this temple, what you liked when visiting it, and what would you advise those who are just planning to visit there to especially pay attention to? I look forward to your discussions in the comments.

The earliest mention of the village of Degunino in written documents dates back to 1336. This year, Ivan Kalita, in his Spiritual Charter, granted Degunino to Princess Ulyaniya with her small children. In 1353 Grand Duke Simeon the Proud, son of Kalita, bequeathed Degunino to his wife Princess Maria. Finally, in 1389, Dmitry Donskoy refused it to his son, Prince Andrei.

After this, there are no mentions of Degunin for two centuries. However, in the Scribe Book of 1584 it is given detailed description village, from which it follows that shortly before this time it was the center of a flourishing estate, on the territory of which 24 “wastelands that were villages” and 3 “wastelands that were villages” are listed. But the oprichnina, the raid of the Crimean Khan Devlet-Girey and the plague epidemic led to the desolation of thousands of villages near Moscow. According to the Scribe Book, Degunino at that time was the patrimony of the Kremlin Church of the Nativity and there were “... the church of Boris and Gleb, ancient buildings, ..., at the church, the courtyard of the priests, the courtyard of the church sexton, and three cells, and the courtyard of the archpriest and the brethren ".

During the Time of Troubles, Degunino was devastated, the church was destroyed, and the village again became a village. Subsequently, Degunino begins to gradually revive. In 1623-1624. it is described as “a village that was the village of Degunino, and in it there was a temple in the name of Boris and Gleb.” In 1633 the church was restored. However, from the decree of 1635 of Patriarch Joasaph, to whom he “did not order tribute from the church,” we can conclude that the village was economically weak.

After forty grace years, tribute was again imposed on the church at the previous salary. But the temple, again inscribed in the Parish books, began to be called this time a little differently: “In the name of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian with the chapel of Boris and Gleb.”

In 1678, there were 17 households in the village, and in them 63 residents, in 1700 - 26 peasant households and 85 souls, in 1704 - 30 households and 90 souls. In 1700, by order of the sovereign, the village of Degunino was removed from the estate of the Nativity Cathedral and granted to the poor Moscow Alekseevsky nunnery in Chertolye.

In 1764, by decree of Catherine II, the secularization (alienation) of monastic and church lands was carried out in favor of the state. To manage them, the Board of Economy (Management) was created. Now the peasants of Degunino and the villages adjacent to it have become “economic” and transferred to quitrent. This led to the rapid development of villages. Already in 1770, there were 42 households and 279 residents in Degunin, and 20 households and 137 residents in Verkhniye Likhobory.

An important event in the life of the village was the laying of the Nikolaevskaya Railway line through its lands, connecting the two Russian capitals of St. Petersburg and Moscow. In 1843, Degunin peasants could freely hire out for road construction, rent out their land, and since 1861 they had the right to sell it.

Part of Degunin’s lands was leased to Bogorodsk merchant V.A. Prorekhov, who built a brick factory on rented land.

The parish, which included the village of Degunino, the village of Beskudnikovo and the village of Verkhniye Likhobory, grew. In 1861 it had 695 inhabitants. The wooden church became cramped, and the clergyman addressed a petition to Metropolitan Philaret in 1863, in which he announced the desire of the parishioners to build a new stone church “near the real wooden one.” Prorekhov agreed to pay the rent in one lump sum, 12 years in advance, finished products, that is, he supplied 360 thousand bricks required by the project for the construction of the temple.

A stone church in the village of Degunino, made in the pseudo-Russian style, was built next to a wooden one in 1866. The church was picturesquely painted on the walls and vaults, had a rich iconostasis, icons and vestments. There were two large bells on the bell tower.

The Moscow encyclopedia (Moscow, 1997) gives the following description of the Degunin church: “The building, built in the spirit of eclecticism using Russian style forms, belongs to the type of basilica churches that became widespread in the second half of the 19th century. To the main volume (side altars - St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow”), strongly elongated along the longitudinal axis, is flanked on the east by a small rounded apse, on the west by a 2-tier bell tower. The façades of the main volume are divided into enlarged triple semi-columns with energetically loosened entablatures on which wide ones rest. , imitating archivolt arches, gives the building a representative, monumental appearance. High arched windows provide good lighting to the interior, which is a spacious four-pillar, 3-nave space. A slender bell tower with a rectangular lower tier carrying an octagon of bells, topped with a wooden tent, once dominated the surrounding landscape. Currently, due to the multi-story modern buildings approaching the church, it is visible only from a short distance. The interior has well-preserved wall paintings from the late 19th - early 20th centuries.

In 1874, the wooden church still stood next to the stone one. At that time, the wooden one remained Borisoglebsky, and the stone one was consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Two churches stood in Degunino for ten years. It is known that only by 1884 the wooden one was dismantled.

In 1940, the Boris and Gleb Church was closed, its bell tower was dismantled. The church building housed the Rodina knitting factory, which produced tracksuits.

In 1991, the Boris and Gleb Church was returned to the church.

The previously existing Church of Boris and Gleb in the village of Degunin.

The village of Degunino in 1585 “the patrimony of the Church of the Nativity” Holy Mother of God, that in the Palace, at the queen’s on Senya, behind Archpriest Simeon and his brothers, and in the village, the church of Boris and Gleb is wooden, near the church there is a courtyard of priests, a courtyard of sextons, and 3 cells, and a courtyard of archpriests with his brothers.”

At the beginning of the XVII century. The Boris and Gleb Church was destroyed, and Degunino was a village in which, according to scribe books of 1623-24. there were: “a courtyard of archpriests with business people, archpriests, 3 peasant yards, 2 bobyl households...”.

In Degunin, a new wooden church in the name of Boris and Gleb with a chapel of St. was built on an old church site, around 1633. John the Theologian, which was recorded in the parish book of the Patriarchal treasury order under the Zagorodskaya tithe: “arrived again, according to the letter and salary of Ivan Neledinsky and the clerk Vladimir Tolstoy, in 1633, the Church of the Passion-Bearers of Christ Boris and Gleb, and in the chapel of Ivan the Theologian in the estate of Rozhdestvensky the archpriest that the sovereign in Seny, in the village of Degunin, paid tribute according to the clerk’s salary from the priest, from the parish yards, from the church land from 6 chets, hay from 6 kopecks, 18 altyn 5 money, ten-fold and a hryvnia arrival.

For 1635, in the same books it is written: “in the estate of the Nativity priest Jacob and his brothers; March on the 18th day of St. Joasaph, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, for the year 1635 and henceforth, did not order tribute and ten-tenths and arrivals.” As a result of this order, the Boris and Gleb Church was not recorded in the parish salary books until 1676.

According to the census books of 1646 it is written: “behind the Nativity archpriest Adrian and his brothers the village of Degunino, and in the village there is a wooden church of Boris and Gleb, and in it lives business man, yes, there are 6 peasant households, with 14 people in them... in total, there are 21 peasant households in the village, with 55 people in them.”

According to the decree of the patriarch and the note on the report extract of clerk Perfiliy Semennikov, in 1676 it was ordered: “from the church of Boris and Gleb in the village of Degunin, this money should be taken at the same salary and henceforth write in the parish books the church of St. Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, and in the chapel of St. Boris and Gleb in the estate of the Rozhdestvensky archpriest with his brothers, a tribute of 18 altyn 5 money, a hryvnia check-in, and on August 24 days that money was paid to the same church by priest Peter in 1676.”

According to the census books of 1678, the village of Degunino belonged to the same cathedral, Archpriest Fyodor and his brothers; there were 17 peasant households in the village, with 63 people in them. The Church of John the Theologian with the chapel of Boris and Gleb, which was written in the parish books of the state order under the Zagorodskaya tithe, has been included in the Seletsk tithe since 1678.

In 1700, the Nativity archpriest and his brothers, by state decree, were ordered to give out bread and cloth in money, and the village of Degunino was given into the ownership of the Alekseevsky nunnery and in the same year it was approved for the monastery by a refusal book, which mentions: “denied in Alekseevsky a nunnery in Moscow, in Chertolye, Abbess Marfa and her sisters in the Moscow district, the patrimony of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that belonged to the sovereign in Senya, which was owned by Archpriest Zakhary and his brothers and the clerks, that that patrimony was taken from them and assigned to the great the sovereign for the granted rugu the village of Degunino, and in the village the church of the noble princes Boris and Gleb is wooden, and according to the fairy tale of that church the priest, that church and in it a building, images and books, and vestments, and bells of the sovereign and the parish people; Yes, in the same village in the yard of priest Potap Yakovlev, he has a son, sexton Mishka, the yard of the headman, 26 peasant households, 85 people in them.”

According to income salary books from 1680 to 1740. listed in the village of Degunin “the Church of John the Evangelist in the estate of the archpriest of the Nativity Cathedral, which is in Verkhu”, church tribute since 1712 was paid 32 altyns with money.

Kholmogorov V.I., Kholmogorov G.I. “Historical materials about churches and villages of the 16th - 18th centuries.” Issue 4, Seletskaya tithe of the Moscow district. Edition Imperial Society Russian History and Antiquities at Moscow University. Moscow, in the University Printing House (M. Katkov), on Strastnoy Boulevard, 1885.

The temple has been known since 1585. It burned down and was rebuilt in wood many times. In the 1920s it was closed and broken down. Next to the ancient wooden one, in 1866, at the expense of the merchant Prorekhov, a stone temple was built, which operated until the 1940s. After its closure, it was used as a factory. Worship services resumed in 1991.

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Address, telephone numbers and directions

Driving directions from the site nakarte.ru:

Note: Works Orthodox group kindergarten.

Schedule: Sunday and holiday services - Liturgy at 9 a.m., the day before all-night vigil at 5 p.m.

Telephone: 906-34-64

Address: Deguninskaya st., 18a

Directions: auto. 191, 194, 672, rest. "Institute of Eye Microsurgery", platf. "Mosselmash" (Leningradsky railway station).

Nearest metro:

Metro "Petrovsko-Razumovskaya"

Clergy:

The rector is Priest Georgy Taranushenko.

Attention! Information about the composition of the clergy and service schedule may be out of date.
If you have additional information about the composition of the clergy of the temple, about changes in the schedule of services, about the history of the temple, about upcoming and past events at the parish, about the shrines and icons of the temple, about travel options to the temple, etc. - please inform them at