The village of Kruglovo is the only village in the present-day Kamenskovsky District that came there from the old Suzdal District. The former border between the Vladimir and Suzdal Districts ran along the Pechuga River and partly along the Nerl River. In the first half of the 15th century, the settlement of the Suzdal Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery was located on the site of Kruglovo. After the civil war of the mid-15th century and the Tatar raid on Suzdal in 1445, this settlement was devastated and abandoned by its inhabitants. In 1479, the Grand Duke of Moscow Ivan III granted a charter to the Archimandrite of the Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery Yakim, in which it was written about the Krugloe settlement: "... the settlement lies empty and is overgrown with a great forest ... and I, the Grand Duke, granted: whoever they call to live in that settlement, in those wastelands, from other principalities, and not from my patrimony of the Grand Duchy, and those people who came do not need my tribute of the Grand Duke for ten years." Thus, in the wasteland of Kruglovo, a village was formed, which belonged to the same Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery, and in 1764 it became a state-owned settlement. Previously, Kruglovo was part of a large monastery estate and had long been located in the parish of the Nikolskaya Church in the village of Sanino, which is three kilometers north of Kruglovo. This village was the most populated and significant in the Saninsky parish, so the local peasants had long harbored a desire to build a separate church in their village. In 1869, horses in Kruglov continued to die for two months, which was a considerable disaster at that time. Seeing this as God's punishment for their sins, the Kruglov residents prayed for mercy and made a vow to build a church of God in their village. In the same year of 1869, a small warm stone church was founded, consecrated in 1872. After that, construction began on a more impressive cold stone church and a bell tower attached to it. By 1880, this construction was completed and the cold church was consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God.
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