Mytishchi. Church of the Life-Giving Trinity. Don Church in Mytishchi Temple in Perlovka schedule of services

In 1894, on October 4, the hereditary nobleman Nikolai Semenovich Perlov turned to Metropolitan Sergius (Lyapidevsky) of Moscow with a petition in which he expressed his desire “... to build in Perlovka at his own expense, a non-parish wooden single-altar church in the name of the Don Mother of God for the sake of in order to provide summer residents with the opportunity to attend church services on holidays. ...I would ask that the future church in Perlovka be assigned to the local parish church in the village of Taininsky.”

The construction department of the Moscow Provincial Board probably began to implement the construction plan as early as the next year, and in 1896 it was completed. In any case, the 1897 guidebook reported: “...rich peasants living in Perlovka and the surrounding area help to maintain the splendor of the new temple, recently built near Perlovka.”

On May 6, 1897 at 9 a.m. “not far from Moscow along the Moskovsko-Yaroslavskaya line railway seventeen kilometers from the Kremlin... the consecration of water and the consecration of the Church of the Don Icon of the Mother of God took place.” The church project was developed by the architect Pyotr Pavlovich Zykov (1852-1899) - Zykov the second, as he was called at that time. He was the son of Pavel Petrovich Zykov, one of the most famous Moscow architects. Wooden church The Don Icon of the Mother of God was one of the most significant architectural works of P.P. Zykov II. It was a small one-domed tented church in the Russian style, belonging to the “octagon on a quadrangle” type, which was very common in medieval Russia. In other words, the cubic volume of the main temple space was crowned with a small octagonal frame with a tent and a bulbous dome, covered in the ancient style with a wooden ploughshare. Belfry with bells by P.N. Finlandsky was built away from the temple.

The temple ceased to exist in the early 1980s. But until now no one can answer exactly when services stopped in the church. Upon reviewing the archival materials, it turned out that the Church of the Don Icon of the Mother of God in Perlovka was closed by the Moscow Regional Executive Committee three times: in 1930, 1935, 1940.

The Soviet government made special efforts in 1929-1930. At this time, an anti-religious campaign was underway in the Mytishchi district (Proletarskaya volost), and a competition in closing churches was announced. In the Taininsky club “Proletary” there was a union of militant atheists, headed by a certain Sergeev.

The agitation was carried out in order to “close the church, ... the priest and deacon of the Perlovskaya Church, the chairman of the executive body Afanasyev and other malicious churchmen to be evicted from the Mytishchi district, ... prayers for all religious associations to be closed.” The headquarters held an anti-religious demonstration and organized a collection of signatures for the closure of the temple. At this time, the priest of the Perlovskaya Church, Father Georgy Izvekov, was under investigation by the Cheka and, after long interrogations and torture, died at the Butovo training ground for the faith of Christ. In 2004, he was canonized as one of the holy new martyrs of Russia. His memory takes place on November 27. Despite all the efforts of the union of militant atheists, people were able to preserve both their faith and their temple. 5 years later, in the documents of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee, a decree on the closure of the church in the village of Perlovka dated September 22, 1935 is again found. Perhaps the new campaign to close the church and reorganize it into a club is connected with the decision to build in Perlovka not far from the Donskoy Church high school on Moskovskaya Street (now Selezneva Street).

But this decision was not the last. On August 23, 1940, the Executive Committee of the Moscow Region made a decision to close the Perlovskaya Church in the city of Mytishchi: “The building will be converted into a school,” “the religious objects will be dealt with in accordance with the resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR of April 8, 1925,” “the decision will be announced to the believers, explaining to them the procedure appeal within two weeks to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.” There has never been a school, a home of pioneers, or a cultural and educational club in the church building. From the end of 1940 to 1970, by decision of the Mytishchi executive committee, the iconic building was rebuilt and occupied by tenants. In 1981, the Donskaya Church was completely destroyed, only the brick foundation remained. The current Orthodox parish in honor of the Don Icon of the Mother of God in Perlovka was re-established and registered on October 11, 1994. Its first rector after the revival was the late priest Anatoly Proskurnya.

From December 4, 1995 to May 11, 1997, services were performed on the veranda of a private house on 1st Yaroslavsky Lane, building No. 5. Services in the revived parish began on December 4, 1995, on the Feast of the Entry into the Temple Holy Mother of God. In March 1997, at the request of the parish, the administration of the Mytishchi district allocated to the Perlovskaya Orthodox community part of the house number 32 on Selezneva Street: by this time the number of parishioners had increased, and it became difficult to lead parish life on the small veranda of a private house. May 18, 1997 worship service procession was moved to market square, to house number 32 on Selezneva Street. The altar was set up in a military field tent, and the parishioners prayed under open air. The second floor of the allocated part of house No. 32 was occupied by residents, and the temple community, with the consent of the district administration, began to improve the first floor, which was in an extremely neglected state. In parallel with the conduct of liturgical activities in the new building, the parish corresponded with the city authorities about the return land plot, on which the Don Church was built 100 years ago. The Land Commission, by protocol No. 15 of June 23, 1998, made a positive decision to allocate a former plot of 0.4 hectares for the reconstruction of the temple.

Initially, a plot of land for the reconstruction of the destroyed Donskaya Church was allocated along Ulyanovskaya Street, completely different from where the church was originally located. With the personal participation of the then head of the Mytishchi district, Anatoly Konstantinovich Astrakhov, the land plot was re-registered, and the community was allocated a plot on Selezneva Street, on which the remains of the foundation of the former church were still preserved. Part of house No. 32, the community of the Don Church asked the administration to organize an Aesthetic and Spiritual Center for the education of children and adolescents in the traditions of Orthodoxy. In 1998, a second priest was appointed to the temple staff - Priest George of Bulgaria (now the rector of the Church of St. Nicholas in the village of Druzhba). A significant event was planned for May 30, 1999: the consecration of the foundation stone on the site where the Don Church previously stood.

By midnight from May 29 to May 30, everything was ready for the feast of the Most Holy Trinity and the solemn consecration of the foundation stone. With the help of the Experimental Plant in Perlovka, the Stroytex group of companies and other organizations of the city, from the facade of the future Orthodox Center in short time a brick fence with a beautiful metal lattice was built, Mytishchi landscapers laid out lawns, sowed them with grass and planted many flowers in the ground. The central path was lined with paving slabs. The visit of the vicar of Metropolitan Juvenaly, His Eminence Gregory, Archbishop of Mozhaisk, was expected for the consecration of the stone. But that night, at about half past three, the building in which the church was located was set on fire by unknown attackers...

But despite everything, the celebration took place. Bishop Gregory arrived, a crowded religious procession proceeded from the still smoldering house to historical place Don Church, and the foundation stone was consecrated. Head of Mytishchi district A.K. Astrakhov presented the parish with a tray made by Zhostovo craftsmen with an image of the Don Church. Despite the fire, the community of the Don Church, led by the rector, priest Anatoly Proskurney, together with the administration of the Mytishchi district, began construction of the first stage of the building for the Orthodox cultural and educational center with a house church in honor of St. Life-Giving Trinity.

Since March 2000, conversations have also begun with children of primary school age. Groups of choral singing, sewing, embroidery, beadwork, and icon painting were formed. Since the fall of 2000, there has been a Sunday school for children and adults. In 2001, priest Anatoly Proskurnya, due to health reasons, filed a petition to remove his duties as rector of the temple. The next rector of the Don Church was priest Vitaly Likhonin, who worked in this field until June 2004. During this period, the construction of the Trinity Church and the clergy house was completed.

On August 1, 2003, a chapel was consecrated in honor of St. Seraphim of Sarov at the Donskaya Church, in which spiritual conversations, prayer services and akathists are held. On June 6, 2004, on the Sunday of All Saints, with the blessing of Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna, the consecration of the Trinity Church took place. The celebrations were led by Archbishop Gregory of Mozhaisk. On December 24, 2004, after a long and serious illness, the first rector of the revived parish of the Don Church, priest Anatoly Proskurnya, died. On this day, the temple could not accommodate everyone who wanted to say goodbye to him. Father Anatoly was buried in the church fence of the Epiphany Church in the village of Borodino. From mid-2004 to December 2006, the rector of the temple was priest Vladimir Vorobyov. Through his labors, Sunday school classes were resumed in the church and the lower church was transformed. A new carved iconostasis and fresco painting appeared.

In December 2006, priest Alexander Kralya was appointed rector of the Don Church. On June 17, 2007, the parish of the Don Church celebrated its 110th anniversary. The festive celebrations on this occasion were led by Archbishop Gregory of Mozhaisk, who consecrated the lower aisle of the Trinity Church in honor of the Royal Passion-Bearers. This is one of the few churches that are consecrated in memory of the brutally tortured royal family.

M.V. Nashchokina

The village of Perlovka is one of the oldest summer cottages news This is not surprising, since it was located in the immediate urban environs - only 15 versts from the center of Moscow (now just beyond the Ring Road). These places were famous for their clean, healthy air, wonderful swimming on the Yauza, magnificent pine forests and picturesque surroundings.

The village was founded by the famous Moscow tea merchant Vasily Semenovich Perlov on the land of his estate. At first there were few dachas in Perlovka, but they were very comfortable, and therefore expensive. They could only be removed by people with sufficient funds.

The development of holiday villages in the Moscow region was especially facilitated by the opening of traffic along the railways that were under construction. Commissioned in April 1860 railway communication between Moscow and Sergiev Posad immediately made accessible many areas that previously seemed remote. The cheapness and speed of railway communication determined that already in the 1870-1880s the Northern Railway was most densely populated by summer residents.

The original dacha settlements arose on the basis of old villages or hamlets, and their new development was quite chaotic. For example, the territory of the village of Perlovka, in addition to the Perlov estate, also included the peasant lands of the village of Malye Mytishchi. When the number of dacha areas began to grow rapidly, zemstvos developed rules for the preliminary division of built-up areas into blocks, with roads 10 fathoms wide for ease of travel and fire safety. The external boundaries of the village, which usually coincided with the boundaries of land use, were often very bizarre. The borders of Perlovka are relatively more correct - from the west they were determined by the Yauza River, from the east - by the Moscow (Yaroslavskoe) Highway.

At the end of the 1880s, Perlovka became very lively holiday village. Here is how a contemporary described it: “Here, in a young pine forest owned by V.S. Perlov, he built many dachas, more than seventy in number; the entire forest park is cut with paths compacted with red sand, along which you can walk even in wet weather, soon after the rain. Along the outskirts of the dachas flows the Yauza River with bathing facilities built on it (a dam was built on the Yauza. - M.N.). (...) The construction of dachas with all the adaptations for summer life attracts Muscovites here, who loved this so much area, that every summer all the dachas are overcrowded with residents, and the obsequious owner invites music to entertain his residents, which plays in Perlovka twice a week" 1 .

The center of such settlements often became public park- a place for recreation and walks for summer residents. Often it was located next to the station, which was also the center of dacha life. In Perlovka, an extensive garden for walking was laid out not far from the station in the western part of the village. Alleys planted along the railway led to it - linden and coniferous (spruce and pine). In the public garden of Perlovka in 1895-1896, a new wooden church was built in the name of the Don Icon of the Mother of God 2.

In addition, in the garden there was a small dug pond, a dance pavilion and a summer wooden theater in the “Moorish style”, in which in the 1900-1910s the enterprise of N.N. Chukmaldin performed, serving the village of Pushkino. On days free from performances, the theater hosted balls and cinema sessions 3 . Near the station in Perlovka, already in the early 1890s, there was a postal and telegraph station, a telephone, shops, and many peddlers scurrying around to serve summer residents.

The village was also famous for its dacha architecture. Among them, the dacha of V.S. Perlov himself stood out in its decoration, where there were rooms in the “Japanese”, “Little Russian” and “Russian” styles 4. In the 1910s, when there were already about 200 dachas, several in the neoclassical style appeared. For example, L. Sobinov's dacha in the eastern part of the village.

The plan of the village, published in 1930, shows its complex layout, which took shape in the pre-revolutionary years, having only elements of regularity, which speaks volumes about the age of the village, which arose in the 1860s. The development of Perlovka along the railway merged with the dachas of Taininka.

The post-revolutionary housing need was also reflected in the plan of Perlovka - in the south-eastern part of the village along the Moskovskoe (now Yaroslavskoe) highway it is easy to notice fifteen parallel straight streets with small sections cut into sections. This part was somewhat redeveloped and developed in the 1920s, when the rapid densification of housing and development began. Statistics of those years numbered more than 400 dachas in Perlovka, most of which were already used for permanent residence. Many large dachas turned into communal apartments, and their vast plots were divided into smaller ones, where buildings also appeared. During these years, intensive cutting of trees began, which today has led to the complete destruction of the beautiful pine forest, which was the landmark of Perlovka.

In the 1880-1890s, when the main features of the development of dacha suburbs near Moscow were taking shape, new churches, often made of wood, appeared in many villages. Residents of Perlovka and its summer residents belonged to the parish of the Annunciation Church in the village of Taininsky, but it was a bit far to walk there. The parish turned to the Moscow Spiritual Consistory with the initiative to build its own village church. The location for it was chosen approximately 150 km from the railway.

The village plan of 1930 shows that the territory of the temple was allocated - the church site of a regular square shape is surrounded by paths that connected the temple with the street to the north of it, with an alley along the railway and the Mytishchi water supply line. The site on which the temple was erected was surrounded by pine and other trees around the perimeter.

Archival documents indicate that the project of the Perlovskaya church was approved on November 30, 1894 by the Construction Department of the Moscow Provincial Government and, probably, began to be implemented as early as the next year, and was completed in 1896. In any case, the 1897 guidebook reported: “...rich peasants living in Perlovka and the surrounding area help to maintain the splendor of the new temple, recently built near Perlovka” 5 .

The church project was developed by the architect Pyotr Pavlovich Zykov (1852-1899) - Zykov the second, as he was called at that time. He was the son of Pavel Petrovich Zykov (1821-1887) - a graduate and then teacher of the Moscow Palace School of Architecture, one of the most prolific Moscow architects. (Among the many works of Father Zykov, one can name designs for churches and church interiors, several dozen (!) iconostases for churches in different cities and villages of the country.)

Zykov the son initially, apparently, did not intend to study architecture - in 1874 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow University. However family tradition and his inclinations led him immediately after University to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he successfully completed his studies in 1877 with the title of artist of the 1st degree. During his not very long life, P.P. Zykov the second held various administrative positions - he was an architect of the Moscow Trustee Committee for the Poor, an architect Mariinsky Hospital, supernumerary technician of the Construction Department of the Moscow Provincial Board, employee of the trusteeship of the Usachevsky-Chernyavsky School.

The volume of what he created in architecture was significantly less than that of Zykov the First, but temple construction occupied, perhaps, a more significant place in his son’s work than that of his father, who passed on to him construction and architectural experience in this area. Zykov the son, for example, supervised the construction of the bell tower of the Church of the Transfiguration on Bolshaya Spasskaya according to his father’s design, and soon he himself created a design for the bell tower at the Church of St. Tryphon in Naprudny (not preserved) and the belfry of the Church of the Holy Trinity at the Cherkasy almshouse. In addition, he built a church near the Faustovo station of the Kazan railway, carried out the reconstruction of the St. Nicholas Church in the village of Pokrovskoye, an extension to the Church of the Epiphany in Elokhov, and carried out other church orders. Being a deeply religious man, in the 1880s he was the headman of the Moscow Church of St. Alexis in Glinishchi.

The wooden church in the name of the Don Icon of the Mother of God was, of course, one of the most significant architectural works of P.P. Zykov II. It was a small one-domed tented church in the Russian style, belonging to the “octagon on a quadrangle” type, which was very common in medieval Rus'. In other words, the cubic volume of the main temple space was crowned with a small octagonal frame with a tent and a bulbous dome, covered with a wooden ploughshare (in the old style!).

Similar wooden churches appeared in many places at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. villages near Moscow- Udelnaya, Klyazma, Malakhovka, Sheremetevka, Petrovsky-Razumovsky, Sokolniki. All of them were based on the wooden tent-roofed churches of the Russian North, the beauty of which became especially attractive at the turn of the century, and the decor used motifs of Moscow pattern design from the mid-17th century. However, despite the typological and constructive kinship, all the churches built near Moscow at that time were unique.

The plan of the Perlovskaya church was a square with a side of 7 fathoms 1 arshin (approximately 16 x 16 m) with a protruding faceted apse from the east. The main space of the temple was also square in plan (approximately 8.5 x 8.5 m), above which rose a powerful octagonal tent, the height (up to the head) approximately equal to the height of the walls of the quadrangle.

The temple quadrangle, cut through by three windows on three sides, was surrounded by extensive porch galleries. Unlike their medieval prototypes, they were intended to be closed from the very beginning. Their wide openings were glazed, which made this winter temple, in which heating was originally planned, even warmer. The porch galleries related the church in Perlovka to the already mentioned Church of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk in Sokolniki, which was erected back in 1864 by P.P. Zykov the first. Rebuilt many times and currently in the process of restoration, this church showed some similarities with the Perlovsky temple.

Church of the Don Icon of the Mother of God

Perlovka is one of the oldest dacha places near Moscow. According to legend, the first dachas here were built by tea merchant Vasily Alekseevich Perlov (1784-1869) from the forest of the dismantled palace of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna in the village. Taininsky. Vasily Alekseevich from 1816 to 1819 was a member of the Moscow City Duma from 1855 to 1858. director of the office of the Commercial Bank, from 1858 to 1868. member of the Moscow branch of the Commercial Council.

He founded the tea company "V. Perlov and his sons."

In 1858, the Perlovs had only one store, in 1897 - 88 stores in 53 cities, including one each in Vienna, Berlin, London and Paris.

In 1887, the 100th anniversary of the company was celebrated, and the Perlovs were elevated to hereditary nobility for the anniversary. The motto on their coat of arms is “Honor in Labor.”

In Perlovka in the 1880s. there were about 80 dachas.

At the end of the 19th century. the village was well-maintained, there was a post office, a telegraph, shops, and a summer theater in which Moscow troupes toured.

In October 1895 at the station. Perlovskaya laid the foundation stone for the Church of the Don Icon of the Mother of God. It was built at the expense of Ivan and Nikolai Semyonovich Perlov and was designed by the architect Pyotr Pavlovich Zykov (1852-1899), who graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of Moscow University in 1874, and from the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1877 with the title of class artist of the 1st degree. , later supervised the construction of houses and churches according to his father’s designs, and in 1889 he was appointed architect of the Moscow Trusteeship Committee for the Poor.

On May 6, 1897, on the birthday of Nicholas II, the temple was consecrated; N. Perlov sent a telegram about this to the emperor. At the end of the service, the invitees, among whom were the head of the Moscow province, Chamberlain A.G. Bulygin, Major General Count V.F. Keller, Chairman of the Board of the Yaroslavl Railway Savva Ivanovich Mamontov offered breakfast, served in the theater building, also built by the Perlov brothers.

Ivan Semyonovich Perlov, who had a farm near Moscow with herds of cattle of the best breeds and the best breeds of chickens, received a gold medal by section " Agriculture" Nikolai Semyonovich from 1882 to 1885 was a guild elder, a trustee of the people's canteen, a member of the Moscow Trusteeship Committee for the Poor, a member of the Board of Trustees for insufficient students, a member of the trusteeship for the poor of the Meshchansky district, a trustee of the Moscow city Petrovsko-Meshchansky School and the primary school house established by the Perlovs. Moscow Zemstvo.

For his charitable activities, he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus, 2nd and 3rd class, St. Anne, 3rd class, and the Red Cross badge.

In 1880, he married noblewoman Maria Kozminichna Gusacheva, they had children Nikolai, Alexander, and Maria.

At the end of the 1930s. The temple was closed and rebuilt into a residential building during the war. Then the residents were evicted, and the abandoned building began to be dismantled for material.

In the early 1980s. only the foundation remained.

In 1994, the community of the Church of the Don Icon of the Mother of God was registered, and preparatory work began on its restoration.

Near the Perlovskaya station, the church community is building an Orthodox cultural and educational center with a house church of the Holy Trinity.

On June 17, 2007, the parish of the Don Church celebrated its 110th anniversary. The festive celebrations on this occasion were led by Archbishop Gregory of Mozhaisk, who consecrated the lower aisle of the Trinity Church in honor of the Royal Passion-Bearers. Trinity Church was consecrated in 2004 and is part of the parish of the Don Church.

The Don Church in Perlovka was built in 1894-1896. designed by architect P.P. Zykov with the zeal of the Perlov nobles. In 1938, the temple was closed and converted into a residential building, and in 1981 it was finally destroyed.

On October 11, 1994, the newly created parish of the Don Church in Perlovka was registered. The first service was held on December 4, 1995, on the feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, in a private home. Then services were held on the first floor of a two-story building at 32 Nikolai Seleznev Street; as well as in a military field tent.

On April 21, 1999, the parish was allocated land under the former Donskoy Church. At the site of the temple set on fire by attackers on the street. Seleznev decided to build an Orthodox cultural and educational center with a house church in the name of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity.

Source: http://www.mepar.ru/eparhy/temples/?temple=431

In 1894, on October 4, the hereditary nobleman Nikolai Semenovich Perlov turned to Metropolitan Sergius (Lyapidevsky) of Moscow with a petition in which he expressed his desire “... to build in Perlovka at his own expense, a non-parish wooden single-altar church in the name of the Don Mother of God for the sake of in order to provide summer residents with the opportunity to attend church services on holidays. ...I would ask that the future church in Perlovka be assigned to the local parish church in the village of Taininsky.” The construction department of the Moscow Provincial Board probably began to implement the construction plan as early as the next year, and in 1896 it was completed. In any case, the 1897 guidebook reported: “...rich peasants living in Perlovka and the surrounding area help to maintain the splendor of the new temple, recently built near Perlovka.” On May 6, 1897, at 9 o’clock in the morning, “not far from Moscow along the Moscow-Yaroslavl railway, seventeen kilometers from the Kremlin... the consecration of water and the consecration of the Church of the Don Icon of the Mother of God was carried out.”

The church project was developed by the architect Pyotr Pavlovich Zykov - Zykov the second, as he was called at that time. He was the son of Pavel Petrovich Zykov, one of the most famous Moscow architects. The wooden Church of the Don Icon of the Mother of God was one of the most significant architectural works of P.P. Zykov II. It was a small one-domed tented church in the Russian style, belonging to the “octagon on a quadrangle” type, which was very common in medieval Rus'. In other words, the cubic volume of the main temple space was crowned with a small octagonal frame with a tent and a bulbous dome, covered in the ancient style with a wooden ploughshare. Belfry with bells by P.N. Finlandsky was built away from the temple.

The temple ceased to exist in the early 1980s. But until now no one can answer exactly when services stopped in the church. Upon reviewing the archival materials, it turned out that the Church of the Don Icon of the Mother of God in Perlovka was closed by the Moscow Regional Executive Committee three times: in 1930, 1935, 1940. The Soviet government made special efforts in 1929-1930. In the Taininsky club “Proletary” there was a union of militant atheists, headed by a certain Sergeev.

The agitation was carried out in order to “close the church, ... the priest and deacon of the Perlovskaya church, the chairman executive body Afanasyev and other malicious churchmen should be evicted from the Mytishchi district, ... prayers by all religious associations should be closed.” The headquarters held an anti-religious demonstration and organized a collection of signatures for the closure of the temple. At this time, the priest of the Perlovskaya Church, Father Georgy Izvekov, was under investigation by the Cheka and, after long interrogations and torture, died at the Butovo training ground. In 2004, he was canonized as one of the holy new martyrs of Russia.

5 years later, in the documents of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee, a decree on the closure of the church in the village of Perlovka dated September 22, 1935 is again found. Perhaps the new campaign to close the church and reorganize it into a club is connected with the decision to build a secondary school in Perlovka, not far from the Donskoy Church, on Moskovskaya Street (now Selezneva Street). But this decision was not the last. On August 23, 1940, the Executive Committee of the Moscow Region made a decision to close the Perlovskaya Church in the city of Mytishchi: “The building will be converted into a school,” “the religious objects will be dealt with in accordance with the resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR of April 8, 1925,” “the decision will be announced to the believers, explaining to them the procedure appeal within two weeks to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR.” There has never been a school, a home of pioneers, or a cultural and educational club in the church building. From the end of 1940 to 1970, by decision of the Mytishchi executive committee, the iconic building was rebuilt and occupied by tenants. In 1981, the Donskaya Church was completely destroyed, only the brick foundation remained.

The current Orthodox parish in honor of the Don Icon of the Mother of God in Perlovka was re-established and registered on October 11, 1994. Its first rector after the revival was the late priest Anatoly Proskurnya. From December 4, 1995 to May 11, 1997, services were performed on the veranda of a private house on 1st Yaroslavsky Lane, building No. 5. Services in the revived parish began on December 4, 1995, on the feast of the Entry into the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In March 1997, at the request of the parish, the administration of the Mytishchi district allocated part of the house number 32 on Selezneva Street to the Perlovskaya Orthodox community. On May 18, 1997, the religious service was moved to the market square, to house number 32 on Selezneva Street. The altar was set up in a military field tent, and parishioners prayed in the open air. The second floor of the allocated part of house No. 32 was occupied by residents, and the temple community, with the consent of the district administration, began to improve the first floor, which was in an extremely neglected state. In parallel with the conduct of liturgical activities in the new building, the parish corresponded with the city authorities about the return of the land plot on which the Don Church was built 100 years ago. The Land Commission, by protocol No. 15 of June 23, 1998, made a positive decision to allocate the former site for the reconstruction of the temple.

A significant event was planned for May 30, 1999: the consecration of the foundation stone on the site where the Don Church previously stood.

By midnight from May 29 to May 30, everything was ready for the feast of the Most Holy Trinity and the solemn consecration of the foundation stone. The visit of the vicar of Metropolitan Juvenaly, His Eminence Gregory, Archbishop of Mozhaisk, was expected for the consecration of the stone. But that night, at about half past three, the building in which the church was located was set on fire by unknown attackers. Despite the fire, the community of the Don Church, led by rector priest Anatoly Proskurney, together with the administration of the Mytishchi district, began construction of the first stage of the building for the Orthodox cultural and educational center with a house church in honor of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity.

On August 1, 2003, a chapel was consecrated in honor of St. Seraphim of Sarov at the Donskaya Church, in which spiritual conversations, prayer services and akathists are held. On June 6, 2004, on the Sunday of All Saints, with the blessing of Metropolitan Juvenaly of Krutitsy and Kolomna, the consecration of the Trinity Church took place. The celebrations were led by Archbishop Gregory of Mozhaisk. On June 17, 2007, the parish of the Don Church celebrated its 110th anniversary. The festive celebrations on this occasion were led by Archbishop Gregory of Mozhaisk, who consecrated the lower aisle of the Trinity Church in honor of the Royal Passion-Bearers. This is one of the few churches that are consecrated in memory of the brutally tortured royal family.

While the restoration of the Don Church is at the design stage, a wooden church in the name of the Holy Great Martyr George the Victorious is being built on the territory of military unit No. 41427, located within the city of Mytishchi. Upon completion of construction, the temple will be able to accommodate about a hundred worshipers. It, along with the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity and the chapel of St. Seraphim of Sarov, is also part of the parish of the Don Icon of the Mother of God.