Blagoveshchenskoye is a selo (a larger village) in Voskresensky District of Nizhny Novgorod Region, the administrative center of the Blagoveshchensky selsoviet (rural council). It is located on the right bank of the Vetluga, 17 km northwest of the district center, the settlement of Voskresenskoye, and 140 km northeast of Nizhny Novgorod. According to the 2010 census, the population was 57.[4]
History
The first documentary mention dates to 1629, when the land-survey registers (piscovye knigi) recorded a pochinok (a newly founded settlement) called Perekhvatov, part of the patrimonial estate of the wife of Prince Fyodor Mstislavsky. A Church of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God was presumably built here as early as 1628; the settlement gradually took its present name from the church, though the name Perekhvatov persisted until the mid-19th century.[4]
The Great Vetluga Road passed through the village. In the 17th century there was a checkpoint here on the river and the road, as well as a ferry crossing to the left bank of the Vetluga; this is apparently the origin of the name Perekhvatov ("intercept"). The control functions lasted a long time: according to the 1843 "Military Statistical Survey," a timber checkpoint stood on the Vetluga below the village, where all the timber floated down to the Volga was inspected and tallied.[4]
The village church burned down in 1705 but was rebuilt in 1707 with a side chapel dedicated to the Prophet Elijah. In 1858 a separate single-altar Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built, and it was enlarged in 1898. The Annunciation church was rebuilt (without the Elijah side chapel) and consecrated in 1880; a parish school opened beside it. In the early 1950s the Annunciation church was dismantled to make way for a school on its grounds. The St. Nicholas church stood disused until 1991, when it collapsed from decay; a chapel of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Mother of God was erected on its foundation.[4]
According to 1907 statistics, the village belonged to Varnavinsky Uyezd of Kostroma Governorate and had 16 households and 109 residents; it contained two Orthodox churches, the Blagoveshchensky volost administration, and a school.[4]
Connections to Literature and Historiography
In 1889 the writer Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko visited Blagoveshchenskoye. He stayed at the home of Viktor Ivanovich Snezhnevsky, a clerk of the Nizhny Novgorod Governorate Archival Scholarly Commission, and while crossing the Vetluga he met the ferryman Vasily Tyulin. This encounter formed the basis of the story "The River Is Playing" (Reka igrayet), written in 1891.[4]
In the early 1900s the historian and publicist Nikolay Nikolayevich Ogloblin, author of sketches about the Vetluga lands, lived in the village for long periods; he also visited Vasilsursk.[4]
Sights
- Chapel of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos, built on the foundation of the destroyed Church of St. Nicholas.
- A chapel pillar at the entrance to the selo.
- Monument to the fallen in the Great Patriotic War.
The selo's postal code is 606730, and the district's telephone code is 8-84568.[4]
Sources
- pogoda.ru — Weather in Blagoveshchenskoye for 14 days, an accurate and detailed two-week weather forecast (Blagoveshchenskoye, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Voskresensky District, Russia)
- weaf.ru — Weather in the selo of Blagoveshchenskoye for the week. Accurate weather in the selo of Blagoveshchenskoye, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Voskresensky District. (archive)
- meteospace.ru — Weather in Blagoveshchenskoye, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia — Now, tomorrow, and the weather forecast
- uistoka.ru — selo of Blagoveshchenskoye, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Voskresensky District, selo of Blagoveshchenskoye