The village of Andreyevskoye, located on the Peksha River, was part of the sovereign's Matreninskaya volost. Its name appears in documents from the mid-18th century; before that, Andreyevskoye was known as the village of Buzino. In 1703, the owner of this volost, steward Andrei Fedorovich Naryshkin, built a wooden church dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle, which gave the village its name.
Concurrent with the construction of the estate, a stone church dedicated to St. Andrew the Apostle was erected in the Vorontsov family cemetery, designed by diocesan architect A. Trofimov. Construction began in 1777 and the church was consecrated in 1779.
The architectural design is dominated by elements of the transitional Baroque and early Classicism. The church was surrounded by a magnificent church fence with two stone gates, one of which led to the manor house, while the other overlooked the road to the provincial city of Vladimir.
After Roman Illarionovich, the estate was owned by his son, Alexander Romanovich. His sister, Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova, visited him several times and, when visiting the estate, always attended services in this Vorontsov family chapel. The services themselves were celebrated several times a year, at the Count's request, by priests from the Resurrection Church in the village of Matrenino. Alexander Romanovich died on December 2, 1805, and was buried in this manor church. In 1865, Prince Semyon Mikhailovich Vorontsov erected a marble tombstone, sculpted by Rufioni, and a cast-iron fence was erected over the grave. During the Soviet era, the tombstone was destroyed. In 2012, it was restored using surviving photographs and descriptions, with funds allocated from the Vorontsov Descendants' Fund.
As throughout the country, after the October Revolution, persecution and harassment of the clergy of the Church of St. Andrew the First-Called began. In the 1930s, the church was closed, and the property was expropriated by the new government. The bell tower was destroyed, the domes with crosses were demolished, and the church itself was initially converted into a club, where dances were held and films were shown for vacationers at the rest home. Later, it was converted into a garage and repair shop for cars belonging to the Boldino Children's Tuberculosis Sanatorium, which had been located in the former estate since the mid-1970s.
In 1990, an Orthodox community was formed in the village, and the church was soon returned to the faithful and restored. The bell tower has not yet been restored.
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