History
Pavlovsky Posad was founded in 1845 on the site of a village Pavlovo (Vokhna). The place was always famous for its businesses. From its very foundation, the land on which the town stands belonged to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church. Later (from the middle 17th century) the land came into state ownership. Because of this peculiarity of the place, Pavlovsky Posad never knew serfdom.
Pavlosky Posad was always famous for its shawl factories. One of these factories - Pavlovo-Posadkaya Manufactura - is still working and producing shawls and kerchiefs in the Russian style.
The very fact of creation of a town (Posad) on the site of several villages (Pavlovo, Dubrovo, Zaharovo and Melenki) was not typical for 19th century Russia. It was only because local merchants were very energetic, enterprising and rich that this task was accomplished successfully. From the very beginning Pavlovsky Posad has had the textile industry as its main business. Town status was granted in 1844.
In the middle of the 19th century competition between two groups of merchants in Pavlovsky Posad became very strong. One group consisted of residents of the central part of the town (former Pavolov), whereas the second group originated from the neighboring villages (Stepurino, Prokunino, Evseevo). The competition became even fiercer after 1822 since members of the first group (led by the D.I. Shirokov) were Popovtsy Old Believers, inclined to enter edinoverie, whereas the second group (led by Ya. I. Labzin) were Bezpopovtsy Old Believers (Luzhkovskoe soglasie). In 1840 Ya. I. Labzin and his relative V.I. Gryaznov entered official Orthodoxy and so became much more desirable for the state power, so the second group of businessmen won out over their competitors as a result. The factory of Ya. I. Labzin and V.I. Gryaznov became the biggest shawl-producing factory in Russia; it is that factory that survived even after the Soviet era.
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a lot of beautiful churches and one monastery were built in Pavlovsky Posad.
For his missionary work among the old believers V.I. Gryaznov was recognised as a local saint in 1999.
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