Dunilovo

A village on the Teza River in the Shuya district, unusual for a rural place in the number of its stone churches: together with neighbouring Goritsy there are about ten of them here, and almost all stand along the bank. Dunilovo was first held by the Gorbaty-Shuysky princes, and in 1685 the village was granted to Fyodor Lopukhin, the father of the first wife of Peter I - and with that its heyday began. Lopukhin money raised the Church of the Intercession in the forms of the Naryshkin Baroque, the building of which dragged on until 1704; even earlier, in 1675, the Church of the Annunciation, the oldest in the village, was put up here. The same Lopukhin established a men's Dormition hermitage with two wooden churches on the edge of the village, in the floodplain of the Teza - it was called the Vorobyova hermitage. Later came donations from the Balin manufacturers, natives of Dunilovo, who ran textile production in the district. The hermitage was abolished in the church reform of 1764, and since 1991 the Dormition Convent has been active on its site. In all, Dunilovo counts eight churches, a monastery and a chapel. The best-known view opens from the opposite bank, where the churches are reflected in the water.

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