Pokrovskoe is a village in the Yarkovsky district of the Tyumen region of Russia. The administrative center of the Pokrovsky rural settlement. It is a birthplace of Grigory Rasputin.
It is located on the Tura River, 24 km south-west of Yarkovo. The P-404 highway passes by the village.
Museum of G.E. Rasputin.
As a historical figure, Grigory Rasputin still receives mixed
assessments. Some researchers and even our contemporaries consider
him an insane rogue, others - a holy old man, and still others as a
completely foreign agent. One thing is certain - this person has
played a role in Russian history, and therefore it is not surprising
that the Rasputin Museum exists.
The house-museum of Rasputin
is located in his small homeland - in the village of Pokrovskoye,
located 80 km from Tyumen. It was opened in 1990. By the way, an
interesting fact is that it was the first private museum in the
USSR.
The founders of the museum were the residents of the
village, the wife of Smirnov. It was they who actively collected,
bit by bit, everything related to Rasputin and his family. The
museum was housed in the reconstructed Rasputin's house, because the
original was demolished in 1980. However, something remained of that
house - window frames, which were restored and put into a new house.
The museum displays Rasputin's personal belongings, a large
number of his photographs, and private letters. Among the antique
furniture, the Viennese chair stands out - it is said that it
relieves infertility and restores masculine strength.
The
exhibition also presents things and photographs of people, one way
or another connected with Rasputin. For example, a genuine shoulder
strap from the greatcoat of Nicholas II. A special memorial sign is
associated with the last emperor - a stone with a quote from his
diary. It says that Nikolai recognized the house of Grigory
(Rasputin) when he and his family were transported from Tobolsk to
Yekaterinburg. Just in front of the building there was a change of
horses. This path was named "Tsar's Golgotha" - a few months later
the Romanovs were shot.
A separate part of the exposition is
occupied by goods whose trademarks use the name of Rasputin. The
music group Boney M visited the museum and performed their hit
"Rasputin" here.
It should be noted that visiting the museum
is possible only with a guided tour. It lasts approximately 2 hours.
But visiting this unique place, where the fate of Rasputin and the
imperial family is so surprisingly intertwined, is definitely worth
a visit.
In addition, the Kazansky Historical and Cultural Center operates in Pokrovskoye. Opened September 22, 2016.
The history of our small homeland goes back centuries. In Rus', the
expanses of the Don steppes from the upper reaches of the rivers
Voronezh, Khopra, Medveditsa to the Lower Volga region were called the
wild field. They were deserted until the middle of the XVII century. The
Mius in those days was full-flowing and in other places its width
reached a kilometer. There were a lot of fish in the river, and an
abundance of game in the coastal forests.
The Mius River got its
name and was put on the map in 1330.
The first, as historians
testify, these fertile lands began to be populated by the Cossacks. From
the north, servicemen were ordered to protect Peter's creation,
Taganrog, from the Crimean Tatars. And at the end of the 17th century,
at the confluence of the Neklinnaya gully into the Mius, the Cossacks
built a fortress with earthen oxen. A few more decades passed, and in
the middle of the 18th century, a quarantine outpost grew up near the
Koroviy Ford tract, south of Pokrovsky. Here the main tract passed,
where the coachmen at the post station, the Cossacks of the Taganrog
regiment served.
In his book "History of the Zaporizhzhya
Cossacks", the famous historian V. Evornitsky wrote that one of the
first settlers in this fertile land were the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks.
According to his testimony, in 1769, 500 souls of the Zaporizhzhya
Cossacks, together with state-owned peasants, founded three settlements:
Lower (Nikolaevka), Middle (Troitskaya), and Upper (Pokrovskaya). The
villages got their modern names from the patronal feasts, in honor of
which churches were built in these villages (Protection of the Most Holy
Theotokos, the Trinity and St. Nicholas the Wonderworker).
A few
years later, in 1773, the famous traveler, academician of the St.
Petersburg Academy of Sciences I.A. Gildenstadt. He described his
impressions of what he saw as follows: "The dwellings of the settlers
are very bad. These are mostly huts woven from tree branches, plastered
with clay and covered with straw. The peasants are engaged in cattle
breeding and farming, they breed horses, cattle and long-tailed sheep."
The manifesto of Empress Catherine II of April 1780 opened the way
for everyone to settle in the steppe of the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov.
State peasants, resettled here by the tsarist government, received large
land plots, so already half a century later Pokrovskoye flourished and
became one of the most prosperous settlements in the district. It was
famous for its rich fairs, where you could buy not only agricultural
products, but also industrial goods.
After the abolition of
serfdom (it did not exist in Pokrovsky), zemstvos were organized - local
governments that opened schools and hospitals in the villages, sought to
improve the economic situation of the peasants and raise their cultural
level.
Since 1900, the village began to be called Salka after the name of
the river. In 1872, the villagers turned to Demidov with a request to
build a new church. The breeder accepted the petition of the villagers,
but refused the funds. The parishioners themselves had to knead the
clay, make and fire bricks. In 1908, the construction of the stone
church was completed, the church was consecrated in the name of the Holy
Intercession, and the village became known as Pokrovsky.
By the
end of the 19th century, the village had 5 private trading shops, a
state-owned wine shop, 3 forges, 1 carriage establishment, and a shoe
shop. According to archival data, in 1907 there were 389 households in
the village, with a population of 2769 people.
In 1918, Soviet
power was established in the village, the Intercession Village Council
was created, I. Larionov was elected the first chairman. Soviet power in
the village had to be defended during the civil war. Kolchak moved his
forces to the north, trying to seize the railway line from Nizhny Tagil
to the Yegorshino station. Fierce battles were also going on near the
Salka station.
In 1929, the Tagil dairy-breeding state farm was
created on the site of Shibnevskaya Zaimka (now the village of Zonal),
later the collective farm Zavety Ilyich and the state farm Zonal were
created. In 1957, on the basis of these three enterprises, the Tagil
State Breeding Plant was established.
In 1952, for high
production performance, milkmaids and calves of the breeding farm were
participants in the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. Among them: T.V.
Kudrina, A.Z. Prokopieva, who received a large gold medal, E.I. Osipova
- a silver one. The workers of the stud farm were repeatedly awarded
high awards, orders and medals. So, in 1958, the first to be awarded the
Order of Lenin was the milkmaid A.Z. Prokopiev, in 1966 the milkmaid
A.N. Gryaznykh was awarded the high title of Hero of Socialist Labor
with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.
In 1934, the
cooperative artel "Industriya" was created, where shovels, axes were
made, after reorganization, in 1960, they began to produce soft roofing,
cotton wool.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, life
in the village changed dramatically. All businesses have switched to a
12-hour work schedule. 534 people were called up from the Pokrovsky
Village Council, 343 did not return from the front. The villagers
donated skins, felt boots, wool, sheepskin coats, potatoes and other
agricultural products to the defense fund. Evacuees from Leningrad,
Kharkov, Stalingrad, and Moscow arrived in the village.
In the
village, a monument erected in May 1975 and plates with the names of the
victims remind of those who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic
War.
In 1959, on the basis of subsidiary farms "Vatikha" and
"Named on May 1" of Uralvagonzavod, the Nizhny Tagil poultry factory was
created, located in a part of the village of Pokrovsky, called Maika.
V.G. Prudchenko was appointed director of the factory. In 1964, the
first stage of the factory for 40,000 laying hens was put into
operation. Already, in 1965, the factory staff gave the townspeople
about 12 million eggs and several tens of tons of chicken.
In
September 1966, a secondary school was opened. In 1970 the house of
culture was organized. In 1977, the village of Mayka and the village of
Pokrovskoye were merged into one settlement, the village of Pokrovskoye.
In 1978, a fire brigade was organized in the village, in 1979 the
building of the village council was built.
In the 80s, the
village housed: the Nizhny Tagil poultry farm, the Tagil breeding farm,
secondary and eight-year schools, a kindergarten, an outpatient clinic,
a medical assistant's station, 9 shops, a library, a cultural center, a
pharmacy, 2 post offices.
Currently, the village has a cultural
center, a secondary school, a kindergarten, a feldsher-midwife station,
a library, a church, etc.