The ancient village got its name from the river Vospushka, on which it stands. In the center of the village stands a stunningly beautiful church in the Elizabethan Baroque style, the only one in the Petushinsky district.
The wooden church was built in 1762 at the request of the landowner's wife, collegiate councilor Dmitry Afanasyevich Korovayev, widow Pelageya Vasilyevna. But it did not last long and burned down on May 15, 1771. But a new benefactor was found, Life Guards Second Lieutenant Andrei Dmitrievich Saburov, at whose request a new stone church was built in the name of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God with a side-chapel of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
The church has a very complex and ornate appearance. The main structure of the church is an octagon with an octagonal dome elongated to the top with lucarnes, placed on a quadrangle. The bell tower of the church is of late construction, lower than the main volume of the church. The church decor is varied and bright, represented by pilasters, half-columns, window frames, an openwork frieze and rustication. In 1842, the southern side chapel of St. John the Long-suffering was added. The customer and founder of this church, A.D. Saburov, was buried at the western doors of the refectory. In the 1890s, Nikolai Agiskritovich Balin bought an estate near the village of Vospushka. He immediately noticed the cramped conditions of the church and decided to add a new side chapel, with a capacity of 600 people, and expand the existing side chapel, making it equal in size and shape to the new one.
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