The village belonged to the landowner and courtier Nikita Ivanovich Akinfov. The Akinfov family has been known for a long time. Nikita Ivanovich's great-grandfather, Pyotr Chudinov Akinfov, was a Dmitrov landowner during the time of Ivan the Terrible; his grandfather, Fyodor Petrovich, served as a voivode under Boris Godunov and during the Time of Troubles; his father, Ivan Fyodorovich, was at the royal court in Moscow and died in 1678. Nikita Ivanovich himself began his service at court as a stolnik, then rose to the rank of Duma nobleman, and around 1689 became an okolnichy. For many years of faithful service, the Moscow sovereigns granted the Akinfovs estates, one of which was Edenskoye (another name is Vvedenskoye). Nikita Ivanovich Akinfov was a very wealthy landowner. There are records of his rich contributions to the Vladimir Monastery of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Nikita Ivanovich Akinfov himself and his family are listed in the Synodicon of the Kozmin Monastery, located 40 miles from Vladimir. The Akinfovs later lost their ties with Edenskoye, although in the 19th century they had estates relatively close by - in the Shuya and Vladimir districts. In the 1890s, Privy Councilor Vladimir Nikolaevich Akinfov, a distant relative of the okolnichy Akinfov, was the Vladimir vice-governor in Simbirsk.
The village of Edenskoye stood on the old road from Suzdal to Yaropolch, which also passed through the village of Kovrovo.
There were fairs in Edenskoye, which were held on the first Sunday after Trinity Day. Thousands of rubles worth of goods were brought to them. In 1859, there were 27 households and 244 residents in Edenskoye. Since 1861, the village became the center of the Edenskaya volost. The Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod railway ran close to the village. By 1894, the population of Edenskoye had grown significantly and was already 438 people. There was a parish school in the village, and later a zemstvo hospital was built.
The existing stone church with a bell tower in the village was built in 1691 by the efforts of the landowner, okolnichy Nikita Ivanovich Akinfov. It was the first stone church in the Kovrov district. Before that, there was only one stone church in those places - the Nativity of Christ Cathedral, which still stands in Kovrov. The volumetric structure of the Eden Church - "an octagon on a quadrangle" - speaks of the influence of the architectural style of the Naryshkin (Moscow) Baroque.
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