The village of Pogrebishchi, located on the Chernaya River, was given to Ivan Samarin in 1625 by a charter of Tsar Vasily Ivanovich "for the siege of Moscow." There was a wooden church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village.
The village of Pogrebishchi went down in history under different names. The settlement was known among the people under different names: "Pogrebishchi", "Nikola-Yaslishchi", "Samara" (associated with the surname of its owner Ivan Samarin). These names are partly explained by the legend that the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker appeared either in the cellar (Pogrebishchi), or in the stable of the Nikolskaya Church on the manger (yaslitsy) - grates on which hay is placed for horses (Yaslishchi). The official name of the village is "Pogrebishchi". The village was known under this name since the beginning of the 17th century. Some Toronimists explain the name "Pogrebishchi" by the fact that these places were used to bury random people who, for various reasons, were not given a funeral service and were buried outside the cemeteries, for example, Poles. In Rus', "Pogrebishchi" was also the name for the places of common burial of those killed on the battlefield (this is the second version of the name of the village). But we can remember that old cemeteries where burials had ceased were also called "Pogrebishchi". So, it is very possible that the village arose not far from such an old cemetery.
In 1758, a five-domed stone church with a bell tower was built and consecrated in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity. The tent-roofed bell tower with two rows of "rumors" was connected to the church by means of a refectory, probably expanded in the middle of the 19th century and rebuilt again in 1904.
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