In the Kameshkovsky district, almost on an island among the swamps, there is the Dmitrievsky Pogost. Since ancient times, this corner was called Propasti, or Propastishchi.
The stone church that exists there was built and consecrated in the summer of 1812, just a few days before the start of the Patriotic War with Napoleon.
In surviving written sources, the Dmitrievsky Pogost was first mentioned 383 years ago, in 1635, during the reign of the first sovereign of the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich. However, it undoubtedly arose much earlier, perhaps even in pre-Mongol times during the heyday of the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality. Since ancient times, a road from Yaropolch to Suzdal ran along a rocky ridge among the swamps. Not far from the churchyard there is a holy well that has existed since time immemorial. An improvised causeway made of planed boards leads there. The yellowish water with a peaty hue has been revered for many generations as healing, curing many diseases. People come to the well from other nearby villages.
It is known that in 1737, during a severe fire, a wooden church in Dmitrievskoye Pogost completely burned down, but already in 1738, the parishioners cut down another one to replace it. This wooden Dmitrievskaya Church stood until 1812. In 1805, the parishioners of the pogost, residents of the village of Volkovoyna (today very close to the city of Kamenskovo), the villages of Novki (where the railway station of the same name was later built) and Shukhurdino decided to build a stone church. The State Archives of the Vladimir Region has preserved the "Most humble petition" of the church warden of the Dmitrievsky Pogost, a peasant from Volkovoyna Grigory Fedorov, and the secular warden of the village of Volkovoyna, a peasant Ivan Stepanov, to Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal Xenophon about the desire of the parishioners of the Dmitrievsky Pogost to build a stone church, dated May 8, 1805. By that time, 1,200 rubles had already been collected for the new church, and the warden asked the bishop to allow the collection of donations "from benefactors." A considerable sum was donated by the landowner of the village of Volkovoyna, the daughter of an actual state councilor Olga Alexandrovna Shuvalova, a representative of a noble family famous in Russian history. She was a very religious woman and generously donated to churches, and also helped the Bogolyubovsky Monastery, where she was eventually buried.
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