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The village of Pogrebishchi, located on the Chernaya River, was given to Ivan Samarin in 1625 by a charter of Tsar Vasily Ivanovich "for the siege of Moscow." There was a wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village. The village of Pogrebishchi went down in history under different names. The settlement was known among the people under different names: "Pogrebishchi", "Nikola-Yaslishchi", "Samara" (associated with the surname of its owner Ivan Samarin). These names are partly explained by the legend that the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared either in the cellar (Pogrebishchi), or in the stable of the Nikolskaya Church on the manger (yaslitsy) - grates on which hay is placed for horses (Yaslishchi). The official name of the village is "Pogrebishchi". The village was known under this name since the beginning of the 17th century. Some Toronimists explain the name "Pogrebishchi" by the fact that these places were used to bury random people who, for various reasons, were not given a funeral service and were buried outside the cemeteries, for example, Poles. In Rus', "Pogrebishchi" was also the name for the places of common burial of those killed on the battlefield (this is the second version of the name of the village). But we can remember that old cemeteries where burials had ceased were also called "Pogrebishchi". So, it is very possible that the village arose not far from such an old cemetery. In 1758, a five-domed stone church with a bell tower was built and consecrated in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity. The tent-roofed bell tower with two rows of "rumors" was connected to the church by means of a refectory, probably expanded in the middle of the 19th century and rebuilt again in 1904.

In the middle of the 17th century, the village of Kutukovo was part of the patrimony of the Goritsky Monastery in Pereslavl-Zalessky, and after the abolition of the monastic patrimony, it was transferred to the state department. In the patriarchal tax books of 1656, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker is noted in this village; the subsequent fate of this church is unknown. The existing stone church in the village of Kutukovo was built with funds from parishioners in 1833. The stone bell tower was built at the same time as the church. In 1968, the temple received the status of an architectural monument. After restoration in the 1980s, the former church housed the repository of the Central State Archive of Film, Photo, and Fond Documents of the RSFSR. After 1992, the archive was removed, and the church building was returned to believers.

The current Church of St. John the Theologian with the chapel of St. George was built to replace the previous wooden one approximately in 1827-1828 (V.G.Dobronravov and V.M.Berezina mistakenly date it to 1728). The owner of the Olikovo estate, Count Mikhail Nikolaevich Musin-Pushkin (1795-1862), acted as the builder of the church. During the reign of Nicholas I, he was a rather prominent figure in Russian education. In 1829-1845, M.N.Musin-Pushkin was a trustee of the Kazan educational district, and in 1845-1856, of the St. Petersburg educational district. He also headed the capital's censorship committee. In the first years of the reign of Alexander II, the count retired with the rank of privy councilor. The Church of St. John the Theologian in Olikovo was closed in the late 1930s. In the late 1980s, its building was abandoned, stood open and was not used in any way. In the early 1990s, the church was returned to the believers.

St. George's Cathedral in Gus-Khrustalny is an outstanding architectural structure built by order of glass manufacturer Yu. S. Nechaev-Maltsev. In the late 80s of the 19th century, the owner of the Gus factory, Yuri Stepanovich Nechaev-Maltsev, decided to build another church in the Gus estate. Knowing how to appreciate solidity and beauty, he did not stop at a typical provincial church. The project of the Church of St. George was ordered from the famous Russian architect Leonty Nikolaevich Benois, the author of the burial vault of the highest persons at the Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg, the French Embassy Church, banks on Nevsky Prospect, buildings in Peterhof and other famous buildings. Benois himself would later write: "... I put everything I could into this church, and perhaps it will remain the best of my creations." Yuri Stepanovich allocated 560 thousand rubles in gold for the construction of the St. George Cathedral. The majestic cathedral was built between 1892 and 1903. However, Benois himself only came to Gus from time to time; the architect Georgy Yakovlevich Levi was in direct charge of the construction. The temple was erected by local Vladimir craftsmen, whose work Benois compared to the skill of the best European stonemasons. The building was designed in such a way that it simultaneously combined the traditions of both Western European and Russian architecture. On May 25, 1892, the foundation stone of this grandiose structure was laid - the Cathedral of St. George the Victorious with chapels in honor of John the Evangelist and the Holy Martyr Sophia for 3,000 parishioners. Five years later (1897), the main construction work was completed, although the decoration of the temple took some time. According to the original plan of L. N. Benois, the cathedral was to be painted with glue paints with gilding on the finished plaster. But the customer entrusted the painting of the temple to the painting professor V. M. Vasnetsov. For the St. George Cathedral in Gus, Viktor Mikhailovich began to paint compositions in oil not on plaster, but on canvas. The external solution of the cathedral in the "Russian" style amazes with the art of masonry and stone carving. The huge volumes of the structure inside are supported by elegant labradorite columns. The original mosaics of V. M. Vasnetsov have also been preserved - both on the facade, the image of St. George the Victorious, and inside. Currently, the cathedral houses a crystal museum.

A spring with excellent water near a pond in the village of Yakovlevo, next to the chapel of Elijah the Prophet, built approximately between 1900 and 1917.

A memorial plaque commemorating the crew of the Soviet Pe-2 bomber who died near this place.

This village is one of the ancient settlements of the Vladimir region. It is mentioned in the spiritual charter of the Grand Duke of Moscow Simeon Ivanovich from 1353. The stone church was built in 1793 by the efforts of the landowner Anfim Fedorovich Koptev. In 1841, a refectory was added to this temple; the bell tower at the church is stone, built at the same time.

Glade on the high bank of the Klyazma among pines and oaks.