Khotsiml is an ancient village. At the end of the 15th - beginning of the 16th century, there were remote places here, where several monks settled, who came from the monastery of St. Sergius of Radonezh. Later, the Khotsiml Monastery was founded by the efforts of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius. The monks built cells and a wooden church in the name of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Singles and widows came to settle at the monastery, took up cattle breeding and beekeeping. As a result, the village began to grow. At the beginning of the 17th century, the rich Khotsiml Monastery was assigned to the Shuya-Trinity Monastery, which, in turn, was under the jurisdiction of the Nikolo-Shartomsky Monastery, which is still located near Shuya, in the village of Vvedenye.
The monastery peasants were engaged in rafting linen, leather, soap and other goods from Shuya on planers and barges. Therefore, the Teza River contributed to the development of the village as a trading place.
In 1694, the monastery was abolished, and the wooden churches of the churchyard were gradually replaced by stone ones: in 1791, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built, and in 1829, to the north of it, the Church of the Assumption.
The churches are effectively placed on a hill above the river, which overflowed in front of the dam of the old lock of 1837, and form an exceptionally picturesque ensemble, which looks especially beautiful from the water against the background of the surrounding greenery. Every year, on the patronal feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, fairs were held, to which merchants from many cities of central Russia came by water.
The ancestors of the great Russian writer A.P. Chekhov on his mother's side were born on the Khoml land.
Mikhail Frunze, after whom the collective farm organized in the village was later named, also hid from the security department here.
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