This homespun towel (also called a rushnyk) belonged to Taisiya, the sister of Nikolay Dmitrievich Masharov. The third child in the family of Dmitry Epifanovich and Anna Simeonovna, she was born in 1870 in the Vasilyevo-Shaitansky village.
The towel is woven in plain weave and made of bleached linen. The sections of the short ends are trimmed with filet lace. Slightly above the edge, the monogram initials TM — Taisiya Masharova — are embroidered in red cotton using a cross stitch pattern. Red embroidery on white fabric is a traditional Slavic ornament. Sometimes such rushnyks featured the wedding year.
In the period from the late 1880s to the early 1890s, Taisiya married Nikodim Ivanovich Glukhovtsev. He was a priest preaching against the church schism. Glukhovtsev was the church investigator who conducted the first inquest into the activities of Grigory Rasputin.
Nikodim Ivanovich Glukhovtsev finished the second class of the Tobolsk Theological Seminary in 1894. He was ordained on September 25, 1898, by Bishop Anthony of Tobolsk and Siberia (Karzhavin). From 1901 to 1914, Father Nikodim was in charge of St. Peter and Paul wooden chapel and the parochial literacy school in the village of Yar, assigned to the Resurrection Church. Alevtina Yakovlevna Masharova was one of the schoolteachers. In 1914, Rasputin’s influence on the Empress increased and Father Nikodim was forced to leave these jobs and was sent to the remote Surgut and Tara uezds, only to be completely banned from serving in the Tobolsk diocese. As a result, Father Nikodim was sent to Semipalatinsk. This exile was connected with Rasputin’s rancor and his ability to seek revenge after seizing power.
After the disgrace and death of her husband, Taisiya Nikolaevna received a house at Yamskaya, 12, from her brother Dmitry. Then she sold this house and bought a neighboring one, at Yamskaya, 14. Her brother Dmitry and Valentina Ivanovna Kolokolnikova, the only daughter of the merchant Ivan Petrovich Kolokolnikov, often visited the widow. The exact date of Taisiya Nikolaevna’s death is unknown, but according to the neighbors, she arguably lived until the 1930s.
The towel is woven in plain weave and made of bleached linen. The sections of the short ends are trimmed with filet lace. Slightly above the edge, the monogram initials TM — Taisiya Masharova — are embroidered in red cotton using a cross stitch pattern. Red embroidery on white fabric is a traditional Slavic ornament. Sometimes such rushnyks featured the wedding year.
In the period from the late 1880s to the early 1890s, Taisiya married Nikodim Ivanovich Glukhovtsev. He was a priest preaching against the church schism. Glukhovtsev was the church investigator who conducted the first inquest into the activities of Grigory Rasputin.
Nikodim Ivanovich Glukhovtsev finished the second class of the Tobolsk Theological Seminary in 1894. He was ordained on September 25, 1898, by Bishop Anthony of Tobolsk and Siberia (Karzhavin). From 1901 to 1914, Father Nikodim was in charge of St. Peter and Paul wooden chapel and the parochial literacy school in the village of Yar, assigned to the Resurrection Church. Alevtina Yakovlevna Masharova was one of the schoolteachers. In 1914, Rasputin’s influence on the Empress increased and Father Nikodim was forced to leave these jobs and was sent to the remote Surgut and Tara uezds, only to be completely banned from serving in the Tobolsk diocese. As a result, Father Nikodim was sent to Semipalatinsk. This exile was connected with Rasputin’s rancor and his ability to seek revenge after seizing power.
After the disgrace and death of her husband, Taisiya Nikolaevna received a house at Yamskaya, 12, from her brother Dmitry. Then she sold this house and bought a neighboring one, at Yamskaya, 14. Her brother Dmitry and Valentina Ivanovna Kolokolnikova, the only daughter of the merchant Ivan Petrovich Kolokolnikov, often visited the widow. The exact date of Taisiya Nikolaevna’s death is unknown, but according to the neighbors, she arguably lived until the 1930s.
