The Chistikhan wasteland is mentioned in the charter of Grand Duke Ivan III Vasilyevich to the Suzdal Spaso-Efimiev Monastery, dated 1479. By this charter, the Grand Duke allowed the monastery to call and settle people in Chistikhan and exempted these settlers from tribute and duties for 10 years. At the beginning of the 17th century, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich granted the village of Staraya Chistukhan to Prince Nikita Semyonovich Vyazemsky. It is worth mentioning that Prince Nikita Vyazemsky served as a voivode in the town of Epifani at the court of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in 1649-1651. For his faithful service, this voivode was granted an estate by the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fyodorovich - the village of Staraya Chistukhan in the Vladimir district. Thus, the Vyazemskys "registered" for the first time on the Vladimir land. And for more than two centuries. The village of Chistukha was inherited from Prince Nikita by his three sons - Ivan, Matvey and Vasily.
In 1694, a local landowner, stolnik Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky built a church in Chistukha, which in 1695 was consecrated in the name of the holy martyr George.
One of the subsequent owners of Chistukha during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II was Prince Alexander Ivanovich Vyazemsky, in addition to another of his own patrimony, the village of Koverino, he did not forget about Chistukha. For example, in 1742, A. I. Vyazemsky donated a silver gilded cross with particles of holy relics to the St. George Church in the village of Chistukha. After retiring, he took care of the Chistukhin church, continuing to maintain it in a decent condition. By 1771, Prince Alexander Ivanovich Vyazemsky died, after which he was buried at the altar of the village church. His widow, Princess Pelageya Andreyevna Vyazemskaya, after the death of her husband, decided to build a new stone church with a tent-roofed bell tower to replace the dilapidated wooden church. This church has survived to this day and was recently restored by grateful villagers. Not a trace remains of the former noble estate. Its former location can only be somehow guessed by the few centuries-old linden trees that have survived near the church and the village pond. The church, which the widow of Prince Alexander Ivanovich, Pelageya Andreyevna, built at her own expense in memory of her husband, was consecrated in honor of the Life-Giving Trinity in 1772.
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