Nasonovshchina
Nasonovshchina
Nasonovshchina
First mentioned in 1563.
Number of farmsteads: 1 (1563), 3 (1678), 3 (1707), 5 (1911).
The village got its name from the name of its first resident Gavrilko Nasonov, who lived there with his brothers in 1563. At that time the village consisted of one house. Over the years it has grown to five houses and has been preserved in this form till today. Some houses were built on the turn of the XIX – XX centuries. They are large houses that united dwelling quarters and household parts under the same roof. One can judge by them how Zaonezhie villages looked like one hundred years ago.
There is a chapel in the name of the Apostles Peter and Paul in the center of the settlement. It is one of the most ancient chapels preserved in nearby villages. It is dated from the late XVII – early XVIII cc. In the old times the chapel was the beauty of the village, the most expressive building. The residents constructed it at their own expense, were proud of it and tried to make it different from the neighboring ones. The Peter and Paul Chapel is considered the biggest one in the Kizhi Necklace (it is the name of a group of monuments located in the surrounding Kizhi villages on islands and on the mainland) and the most complicated in terms of decoration. An elegant gallery (the element not found on other Zaonezhie churches) surrounds the chapel. The decoration of the chapel combines austerity of a church and carved richness of ancient Russian wooden palaces.
Farmers took the saints, in the name of which they built chapels, as their heavenly patrons and protectors. High tent roofs of Zaonezhie chapels often served as a kind of navigation sign.