The village of Krutovo, located on the Nerekhta River, is one of the oldest settlements in the Kovrovsky District. In ancient documents, the village is mentioned under the name "Krutoe". Apparently, it arose because of the high hill on the right bank of the Nerekhta. Until the 18th century, the name of the village was written exactly "Krutoe" and only later it was transformed into "Krutovo". The earliest mention of the village is in a barter agreement between Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible and his cousin Prince Vladimir Andreevich Staritsky. According to this agreement, drawn up on March 11, 1566, the prince received the city of Vereya from Ivan Vasilyevich in exchange for Zvenigorod, and in addition to the city "the volost of Pozhar and the village of Krutoe with villages and with a penitentiary." By the end of the 17th century, having changed several owners, the village of Krutoe passed into the possession of the Vladykin nobles. In 1670 it was granted to Fyodor Vasilyevich Vladykin "for his many services". The village remained in the Vladykin family's patrimony until the 1790s. During all this time, the village church was the wooden Annunciation Church.
In the 1770s, a new stone church began to be built in Krutovo. The builder of the church was the then landowner, retired second lieutenant Mikhail Ivanovich Vladykin.
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