Telusha. Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
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Belarus, Mogilev region, Bobruisk district, Telusha.
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There is a stone Orthodox church of St. Nicholas in the village of Telusha in the Bobruisk region. The temple was built during the Russian Empire in 1902. The monument was created in a retrospective Russian style. The sponsors of the shrine were Count Pavel Vorontsov-Velyaminov and his wife Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, who is the granddaughter of poet Alexander Pushkin.
The temple was closed in the 1930s and a warehouse was built in the building. During the war, the church was reopened. After the war, the church was closed again in the 1950s. In the last years of the USSR, the temple was handed over to the faithful. The church is active. Natalia Alexandrovna, the granddaughter of Alexander Pushkin, is buried near the church.
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1Алег Дзьячкоу
11.03.2025
Telusha. Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker.
A stone Orthodox church of St. Nicholas was built in the village of Telusha in the Bobruisk region. Telusha was first mentioned in historical sources during the time of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1639.
During the time of the Russian Empire at the end of the 18th century, the Assumption Uniate Church operated in Telusha and the place was state property. During the war with the French in 1812, the documents noted that the church was not damaged during the hostilities and the temple was preserved. The rector of the temple, Vasily Tarasevich, reported in his report that the French troops had taken 41 rubles and 80 silver kopecks worth of property from the temple.
In 1830, the landowner Maria Galokhvostova built a new Orthodox church of the Holy Trinity. The temple was made of wood. In the middle of the 19th century, there were 33 tithes of land in the church, and there were 706 men and 723 women in the congregation.
In 1902, a new stone Orthodox church of St. Nicholas was built in Telusha. The monument was erected in a retrospective Russian style. The Moscow-Yaroslavl direction.
The temple was built by the foundation of Count Pavel Arkadyevich Vorontsov-Velyaminov and his wife Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina, who is the granddaughter of the poet Alexander Pushkin. A school for peasant children was built near the church on Natalia Alexandrovna's foundation. The church was closed after the revolution in the 1930s and the building was adapted as a warehouse. During the war, the church was opened and after the war the church was closed again.
In 1989, the building was handed over to believers. Repairs have been carried out. The church is active.
Pushkin's granddaughter Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina is buried near the church.