The village of Zolotaya Griva. Today, there is a legend that the name of this village arose because in ancient times, monks buried a treasure there - a barrel of gold. They searched for the treasure, but have not yet found it. Previously, there really was a monastery in those places - Borisoglebskaya Pustyn, and on the site of the village there was a small village that belonged to the monastery. However, Tsar Peter I personally ordered to separate the village from the monastery in 1702. Local peasants built a separate Borisoglebskaya church - at first wooden. Soon, next to the first temple, a second one stood - in honor of Saints Florus and Laurus. Thus, 300 years ago, the village of Zolotaya Griva appeared. This name arose because this place is somewhat elevated compared to the surrounding fields - "griva". Zolotaya is from the color of dry grass, due to which the hill-griva has a bright golden color in spring and autumn. The legendary monastery gold most likely has nothing to do with it. In 1778, Vyaznikovskaya Sloboda became a district town within the newly formed Vladimir Viceroyalty. Zolotaya Griva was listed as being only 3 miles from the town of Vyazniki. The proximity to the town determined the comparative prosperity of the peasants of Zolotaya Griva. In 1840, on the initiative of the local priest Stepan Anirovsky, they built a stone Borisoglebskaya Church with a chapel of Florus and Laurus with one dome and a three-tiered bell tower in place of the old wooden churches that had fallen into disrepair. The belfry offered a good view of Vyazniki: the former settlement, factories, the Kazan Cathedral, the buildings of the Annunciation Monastery, and above them, the ancient settlement of Yaropolch, and at the very top, the soaring tent of the bell tower of the Trinity Church.
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