Abandoned villages of the Moscow region. Old maps for the treasure hunter. What is the best way to look for places and dig coins? Map of the villages of the Moscow region of the 18th century

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On the pages of this blog, I wrote quite a lot about the benefits of maps in our difficult, but interesting business - treasure hunting. Thanks to the maps, we learn about the old villages, where they were located, how the street went and when it approximately existed and disappeared.

On the maps, we can find even those places where the digger's foot has not gone. So, in the spring of last year, we got into an unbeaten fix. On the PGM there was only a barely noticeable small square. But in fact, there actually turned out to be a settlement where the four of us dug up pretty well.

Thanks to the maps, we can make our finds. After all, without them it is not known where to go, unless, of course, you do not talk with the local population or identify the tract by the poplars, which can be seen from afar.

In our time of the heyday of the Internet, almost any cards, old and not very, are easy to find and start working with. In this article I will tell you about some cards that are useful in coping, in particular those that I use myself.

Satellite imagery

I'll start with the newest cards. Satellite imagery is of pretty good quality now. From them we can see the current state of the place of interest to us. Whether the field is overgrown with forest, whether there are houses left in the village, find out the way to the point of the detecting. This is a very detailed map, but it is difficult to see the elevation change on it. The relief looks flat. The scale of the pictures is detailed. By the way, if one service does not have a detailed, clear picture of the required area, you can find one from another. For example, if Google's terrain is blurry, then Yandex is likely to have excellent quality.

General staff maps

They are also quite interesting maps. They are intended for the military, as the name implies. But they also enjoyed success with topographers, surveyors, geologists, road workers, and others who work on the ground. All General Staff maps are similar: sheets of individual squares, divided into smaller squares. The scale is different. From 250 meters to 10 km in 1 cm.A couple of times I heard that there are also 100 meters, that is, 100 meters in 1 cm.At the same time, the maps of the General Staff have a very low error and it can be used with great success on a GPS navigator for orientation and navigation, as well as finding places for digging and laying routes. All villages are clearly indicated and it is written how many inhabitants there were at the time of creating the maps, the order of the location of streets, roads, mills is shown. I myself often use it, besides, the General Staff is loaded into ozik on my phone.

Red Army maps

Cards of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. They are very similar to the General Staff, but they began to be created back in the 20s of the last century. Due to a lack of funds, people and opportunities, pre-revolutionary maps were taken as a basis. These cards have limited coverage. Namely, you can find maps of the Red Army only in the western part of our country. There is not even the Kirov region. Although, somewhere there was a mention of the fact that there are topographic maps older than the general staff of our regions. By the way, the inscription "Coordinate system of 1942" is often confused with the date of creation of this map. In fact, this is not so, here we are only informed about the coordinate system. And the date of shooting and release of the card is written in the upper right corner of the sheet. If the list of the General Staff was from 1942, then this is already a map of the Red Army. They, according to the information I have, were produced from 1925 to 1941. Scale from 250 m to 5 km in 1 cm. Having examined this map, it attracted me with its detail and relative antiquity. Even the smallest settlements are indicated on it. The number of yards is indicated. Undoubtedly a great map for a search engine! But it is a pity that she is not in our Vyatka region.

Schubert map

With your permission, a short background story. At the beginning of the 19th century, FF Schubert headed the corps of military topographers and under him a 10 verst map of the Western parts of the Russian Empire on 60 sheets was created. But for some reason, it turned out to be inconvenient for practical use. I had to start working on a new one. It began to be created under the leadership of P.A.Tuchkov, but later Schubert took over the work on it. It covers the time span of almost the entire second half of the 19th century, starting in 1846. But the main work was done until 1863, when there were 435 sheets. Further work continued at a similar pace. In 1886, 508 sheets were painted. Basically, they used the already compiled ten versts, only supplementing and refining it. Very good detailing of objects. Literally everything that is needed is indicated: settlements, forests, rivers, roads, ferries, etc. There is even a character of the relief. The scale is 1 inch 3 versts or 1260 m in 1 cm. However, not all areas were drawn by Schubert. For example, Vyatka is not there, alas.

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Strelbitsky Map

In the middle of the 19th century, I.A. Strelbitsky supervised this work from 1865 to 1871. The new map consisted of 178 sheets and covered the European part of the country and parts of the adjacent western and southern provinces. The scale is not detailed. 1 inch 10 versts. And if translated in our manner, then 4200 m in 1 cm. In particular, this map was also used as the basis for creating maps of the Red Army. What to say about Strelbitsky's map: big error, only major roads and settlements are marked. It will do, of course, as an overview map, but I don't use it.

Mende Map

Its author is A. I. Mende. From 1849 to 1866, he supervised work on the creation of a map in the central provinces of the Russian Empire. When creating this map, 40 mezhovshchik and 8 officers of the Corps of Military Topographers worked. Its scale is 420 m by 1 cm. A very interesting map, but it does not cover the entire European part of Russia. It's a pity ... This is a boundary map with decent detail. Very similar to the PGM.

PGM or General Survey Plan

The oldest of the maps presented here and, despite its age, is very accurate and detailed. The decree to create a general survey plan was given in 1796. Under Catherine the Great, a massive land survey began: the country's territory was divided into counties, and they were divided into dachas - plots of owners who had rights to these lands within certain boundaries. They were assigned numbers, and their decoding is given in an economic note, which was an addition to the plan for each province. The scale of the map is 1 or 2 versts in an inch, which is the usual 420 meters in 1 cm. When superimposed on a modern map and when binding to satellites, you will encounter a difficulty - an error is large enough. After all, this is not a map tied to coordinates, but just a plan. But a detailed enough plan! From it, you can get a lot of useful information for searching with a metal detector about the time the item appeared, its size at that time, the location of the street and houses, about the roads and highways. Churches and ecclesiastical lands are marked, on which the marketplaces and fairs could be located, since these territories were not subject to taxes. The map is very interesting and I use it. It will fit like an overview map: looked, thought, and drove off. I see no point in tying her. But it's still worth imposing on modern satellite images! By the way, some sheets, due to their dilapidation, may be poorly preserved and instead of places of interest, you will see a hole.

Thus, we have just reviewed those cards that are mainly used by treasure hunters. There are also other cards, but more about them sometime later.

Each card is good in its own way and brings its own specific benefit to the digger when planning places for digging and studying the history of their region. And you need to use the maps at the same time, mentally superimposing them on top of each other and comparing the terrain on the old and newer maps. These cards are the history of our country.

Where can I download?

Yes, right here on this blog. I recently started uploading old cards. You can view and download them.

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Hello again! At the beginning of the year, my friends and I visited several abandoned and semi-abandoned villages in the Moscow region. In this regard, I present a new photo report. Here you will be told about the most memorable moments, abandoned houses, curious finds, rural household items and other interesting things.

By the way, I don't write very often from places like this. A similar blog (just part 1) was last fall, you can watch it. Before that, there were a couple of blogs in 2009 and 2010, but now I won't bother looking for it, it's better to go straight to the new part. So, today's reportage is dedicated to a couple of villages and village houses in the Moscow region. All of them are in different ways removed from the capital, but they have one thing in common - either the village is being actively demolished for construction, a couple of living houses remain. Or in the working village there are deaf abandoned houses, which no one has come to for a hundred years, the windows are partially broken, and the fence is missing. This is far from being the case everywhere, but since the capital is growing rapidly, many villages, falling within the boundaries of Moscow, are gradually degrading. Also, the villages near the highways are not lucky, as well as, on the contrary, the villages that are very far from the residential agglomerations. For the most part, such houses are empty, homeless residents often live, and nothing interesting is found. But sometimes quite interesting locations come across. You even wonder how so many old and rather rare things, interior items, old dishes and much more survived. So, I put the photos in a mix to make it proportionally interesting, otherwise some places are quite empty, and some, on the contrary. Go.

1. A typical house built before the revolution. No one lives inside, the door is wide open, the windows are broken. We arrived here in the cold winter. Not the most interesting, but still.

2. We move for several tens of kilometers. We get into the house is more interesting. Shall we sit down for some tea? In the corner we find an old chest, at the table there are Viennese chairs. We raise the seats, we find a pre-revolutionary label, a trifle, but nice) There are many hours scattered on the table. By the way, there will be a lot of hours in the report too.

3. Another house is next. On the terrace we find a portrait of the great poet, which has clearly fallen under the scythe.

4. In one of the houses we find an old piano. The same company, by the way, as the piano thrown by some freaks out the window of an abandoned school (see the blog at the end). This, thank God, is still alive, but the keys are already seizing. At the top of the piano we find a Soviet set of dominoes.

5. Another stopped clock. Ordinary plastic, Soviet.

6. Sometimes houses come across completely destroyed, for example, the roof collapsed after a fire. The sofa looks a little crazy.

7. And this is the house with Pushkin on the terrace. The ceilings are rotten, the floor is falling through. For example, here, the closet fell down.

8. An experienced birdhouse next to one abandoned vegetable garden at the house.

9. In the attic you can often find various interesting things. In this house, for example, these are ancient objects of peasant life (spinning wheels, rakes, pitchforks, wooden shovel, sieve, etc.), notebooks of the 20s and 30s, textbooks of the same time, newspapers, Christmas tree decorations, porcelain dishes, etc. This frame still shows the radio in a very poor condition from the 1940s.

10. Typical cuisine in such houses. An old stove, a water heater, a nice but dusty mirror, and all sorts of junk.

11. Baby dolls always look especially creepy.

12. Another curious room. Here we find the pre-revolutionary Singer sewing machine, or rather a table from her and her. The condition is very unimportant. Time and dampness do their job. There are a lot of old and half-rotten clothes in the closets.

13. Show the base of the camp. Rusty letters "ZINGER" on the back.

14. Every country house should have a red corner.

15. On the way past residential buildings, local inhabitants often come across)

16. Rusty bikes were found on the terrace.

17. And here in the room on the floor is a curious clock.

18. House in the village a short distance from the rest. Strange, by the way. In one room the ceiling collapsed, in the second one is barely breathing, there is practically no fence, the windows are knocked out, and the light in one of the rooms was still working! traces of devastation are visible inside.

19. This leaflet hooked me very strongly. Learning to write in the 1920s. "Get up, branded by a curse, the whole world of hungry and slaves!"

20. In the kitchen in an abandoned house. Letters come across underfoot, an old radio set on the wall.

21. All clocks show different times.

22. Nice wooden shelf.

23. Cover photo. The rug looks especially sad. Russia-three, where are you rushing? And really, where ...

24. Soviet pinball. Curious thing, never seen before. Although I saw a lot of the Chinese 90s. The state is awful.

25. One hut, almost completely blown apart.

26. In the house from shot 18. Buffet in the kitchen. Surprisingly perfect save! As if no one has lived for two or three years, but no one has climbed or beaten. Although the dishes are late Soviet and not uncommon, so it is not surprising.

27. Notebooks of the 20s, 30s, this time closer. Decorated with portraits of Lunacharsky, Lenin, faces of peasants and pioneers. And of course, "Workers of all countries, unite!"

28. In the house with 1 photo right on the doorstep we find such a wonderful chest

29. A little bit of May nature from the village plots =)

30. And again we find the pinball. Condition is not much better.

31. One kitchen. It is strange that everything is just so thrown. Despite the seeming order, the dishes are under a layer of dust, the ceiling behind has already collapsed.

32. Nice pre-revolutionary buffet in the piano room.

33. The quality of the frame did not come out very well, but I will post it anyway. Interesting content. Geometry notebook from 1929.

35. In this frame I would like to finish today's photo report.

Such abandoned houses make a very sad and painful impression. It seems that part of our culture is leaving. The metropolitan way of life is changing the old established way of life. Is it good or bad? How much progress is needed, and what are we striving for? But these are rather philosophical questions, and everyone will have their own answer. Enough reasoning for today. Until next reports!

The history of the lost settlements that have not survived to this day is an important component of the history of the region.

Today we will tell you about the village Lipovets, which existed in the XVI-I half. XVIII centuries on the territory of the Housing Cooperative (Zhilkopa) of the urban settlement of Fryanovo, Shchelkovsky District, Moscow Region, village Gridino, at different times called Bravino, Brovkino or Gridkovo, from the beginning of the 16th to the beginning of the 20th century was located on the right bank of the Dubenka river opposite the village of Golovino, a village Kopylovo in the XVI-I half. XVIII century located between Mavrino and Stepankovo, village Lunevo, in the XVIII - the first half. XIX century. located on the right bank of the river. Melezhi near the village of Bobry and a village with an unusual name Bolokhrystovo, at the beginning of the XVI - the first half of the XIX century. which existed not far from the present Staropareyev ...

Lipovets

In Xvi century was the ancient village of Lipovets. She was listed in the estate for Ivan Mikitin's son Boskakov.

Ivan Mikitin son of Boskakov (Baskakov). The Boskakovs were relatives of the Zubovs, who from time immemorial owned the village Gridina located between and. Both families descended from the Tatar Baskak Amragat (Miragan), who was baptized with the name of Zachariah (Martyn).

One of the sons of Amragat, Parthenius, who accepted monasticism with the name of Paphnutius, died in 1478 and in 1540 was canonized (Venerable Paphnutius of Borovsky, 1394-1477). His other son, Ivan Boskakov, died in the Kazan campaign in 1547. One of Baskakov's descendants, Sharap Baskakov, sold a number of his estates to the Trinity Makhrishchi Monastery, but this deal was challenged by Timofei Klobukov, the son of Toporkov, another large patrimony of the Shchelkovo Territory. The Baskakovs were among the old families of the Central Russian districts, which had long-standing contacts with representatives of the administration of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery.

Venerable Pafnuti Borovsky.

In the lists of service people, Desyatnya 1577, the owner of the village of Lipovets, Ivan Mikitin, son of Baskakov wasmarked as follows: "At the verstan the oklatchiks said: they do not know eve, they do not live from the verstan."... In other words, a servant person was not allotted land for his service, but lived at the expense of his own estates. The commentator of this mention believes that it was Ivan Mikitin Baskakov who owned the Lipovets village.

The need for money was one of the reasons that forced the owners to part with the ancestral estates. In 1577/78 Ivan Baskakov sold his large village Aleksino in the Kinelsky camp to the Trinity-Sergievsky Monastery. Despite the fact that Ivan Boskakov had a son, Evdokim Ivanovich, he gave the Lipovets village with the courtyard of the patrimonials to the Suzdal bishop's house according to his soul. Later, in 1627, Evdokim tried unsuccessfully to sue a number of ancestral estates of his father at the Trinity-Sergius Monastery. Another son of Ivan Mikitin Boskakov, Ivan, served under the command of Ivan Vasilyevich Sitsky (? -1608), the then owner of the neighboring village. In 1586, I.V. Sitsky turned Ivan Ivanovich Baskakov into 350 pieces of land in the Moscow district. It is interesting that the third son of Ivan Boskakov, Grabysh Ivanov, son of Boskakov was the nephew of the clerk Shemet Ivanov and together with him entered the possession of the future Fryanovo. The wife of Ivan Mikitin's son Boskakov was the sister of Shemet Ivanov.

So, in 1584-1586, the village of Lipovets, along with the Likhachikha (Endova) heath adjacent to the possessions of the village and the Klimushi heath (Klimushino, not far from), passed into the possession of the Suzdal bishop's house: "The village of Lipovets, which was formerly behind Ivan after Boskakov, and in it the courtyard is dominated, and Grigory Kirilov, the son of Samsonov, lives in it."... Soon the following was added to the possessions of the Suzdal bishop's house: the Klimush heath (the territory of the Fryanovskaya factory), the village of Poreevo (Staropareevo) and the now defunct villages of Bolokhristovo and Ikonnikov (Ikonnikovskaya). The village Lipovets, being in the church domain, was abandoned in the first half - the middle of the 18th century. On the maps of the General Survey of 1766-1770, the area belonging to the College of Economy was listed as Lipovitsa wasteland.

Gridina (Bravino, Brovkino, Gridkovo)

On the right bank of the Dubenka river, opposite from the beginning Xvi century to the first half XX century there was a village that does not exist today Gridina... V Xvi century it was the ancestral domain of Ivan Zubov, descended from an old noble family, which was built to the Tatar Baskak Amragat (Miragan), who was baptized with the name of Zakhariya (Martyn) and who became the ancestor of the Zubovs and Boskakovs. The kinship of Ivan Zubov with the Boskakovs is all the more interesting because on the territory of the future Fryanovo in the possession of Ivan Boskakov there was a village Lipovitsy... In addition, the son of Boskakov was the nephew of the clerk Shemet Ivanov and together with him entered the possession of the future Fryanovo. Information about the life and work of Ivan Zubov has been lost, but it is known that until 1584-86 the village, which by that time had become a wasteland, passed into the possession of his son: "For Grigoriy Ivanov, son of Zubov, his father's old patrimony: the wasteland that was the village of Gridina" .

In 1768, the village of Gridina, named "Bravina", along with its lands, stretched to the village of Golovino, located on the other side of the Sherenka river (on the map of 1786-1791 - the river "Reshenka"), and was part of the possession of the village Golovino of the state councilor Sergei Ivanovich Protopopov.

By 1812, the name of the village changed again. The village is called this time "Brovkino". Then the widow of Sergei Ivanovich, Anna Alekseevna Protopopova, already owns it and the village. Around 1816, the owner sells the village to the son of a famous architect, the collegiate assessor A.I. Starov, and sells the village "Gridkovo" (Brovkino) to Captain Anatoly Sergeevich Vyazemsky, who owned the village at that time. In 1852, 54 serfs lived in seven households in the village of Gridkovo. After the abolition of serfdom and the redemption of land allotments from the owner (1862), there were 8 households and 58 people. At the end of the century, due to the outflow of the population from the village to work, the number of people living in the village was decreasing. Back in 1882, the same number of people lived in the village "Grid'kova" in 7 houses as 20 years ago, but in 1890 (the same in 1899) only 20 peasants lived in the village. In the same year, 1890, at the village there was a landlord's estate, which belonged to the hereditary honorary citizen Alexandra Nikolaevna Smirnova.

After the revolution, in 1926, the village of Gridkovo (Gridina) belonged to the Dubrovinsky village council. There were 12 households here, 37 people lived. It is not known exactly when the village ceased to exist in these places. Now here nothing reminds of her, and the indefatigable waves of time have erased the memory that once lived and died here, dreamed, worked and loved our ancestors.

Kopylova (Kopyly)

It is worth mentioning another ancient village that has not survived to this day, which existed back in the days when the present village was a wasteland. Between Mavrino and, a little to the north of the also not preserved village v Xvi century was the now defunct village of Kopylova. The village got its name from the name of its most ancient owner, the patrimonial landowner, which could have been the Moscow princely mayor in Pskov, mentioned in 1510 by Yuri Kopyl (Kopylov). Geographically, the village belonged to the Vor-Korzenev stan. The village was an old patrimony of the Napolsky - large patrimonials of the Kinelsky district. Until 1573, the unserviceable son of the boyar Fyodor Teplov Napolsky took the land of the Mavrinsky Wasteland for rent. At that time, representatives of the class of landowners from the crumbling clans of boyars or boyar warriors were called "Boyar children". Until 1584/1586 the village of Kopylova was abandoned, and apparently after the death of F.T. Napolsky, passed into the possession of his sons: “For the undergrowth for the Peasant and for Ondryushka for the Fedorovs of Napolsky’s children, their old father’s patrimony is der. Kopylova, who was previously behind Fyodor Napolsky, and in her was the courtyard of the patrimonials " . In 1596 Andrei Fyodorov, son of Napolskaya, made up the local land (150 quarters) across Pereslavl Zalessky. Andrey Fedorovich was numbered as an unserviceable and helpless "novice", that is, a young man of 15-18 years old, now, in 1596, he was taking up military service. Noviks, who received land salaries this year, made up the cadres of the Time of Troubles. Together with him, the son of the owner of the Mavrino wasteland in 1630, Sidor Elizariev, was included in the “tenth of noviks”.

A century and a half later, in 1768, the Kopylov wasteland belonged to the owner of the village of Gavrilkovo - Anna Vasilyevna Eropkina, and after her it passed into the possession of the court counselor Olga Mikhailovna Potresova. In 1852, the wasteland was no longer mentioned.

Lunevo

In the old days, Lunevo was located a little west of the village on the same right bank of the river. Melezhi is slightly upstream. Unfortunately, no documents have survived that could testify to the ancient origins of this lost village. Only its name can tell us about it. Many noblemen Lunevs who owned estates are known to Russian history from the second half Xv century. Someone Philip Koptev, son of Lunev, was placed in the suburbs of Moscow by 250 children of the land of the Ten Noviks in 1596.

In 1768, which became the village of Lunevo, was in the possession of Countess Ekaterina Ivanovna Karamysheva (1716- ?, nee Tolstoy) - the wife of the court councilor Nikolai Fedorovich Karamyshev. Ekaterina Ivanovna was the daughter of Count Ivan Petrovich Tolstoy (1685-1786) and Sophia Sergeevna Stroganova (1824-1852). Then 40 souls of serfs lived in the village.

In 1812, the Lunevo village was owned by the wife of a collegiate secretary, sister of the owner of the neighboring village of Bobry, Anna Karlovna Yanish. Sisters Anna and Elizabeth were the daughters of Karl Ivanovich Yanish (1776-1853), professor of medicine, one of the first rectors of the Yaroslavl Demidov Higher Science School, popularizer of the chemical theory of light. During Napoleon's invasion, Anna Karlovna provided 16 warriors from the serfs of the village of Lunevo to the militia. In the second quarter XIX century Lunevo falls into desolation and merges with the village of Beavers. On the Schubert map, it is already referred to as "the village of Beavers (Lunevo)". In 1852, the village was no longer mentioned.

Bolokhrystovo

In the second half Xvi For centuries, not far from Staropareyev, in the interfluve of Shirenka and Kilenka, there was an ancient patrimonial village that did not exist today, bearing a rather strange name Bolokhrystovo. In Sreznevsky's dictionary, the first part - "Bolo" is the root of the Old Slavic word "Bologo" - "good". This name of the village, indicated in the documents of 1573-1586, may indirectly testify to the antiquity of the village and the etymology of its name "Good (good) - Christ", dating back to XV century.

In the second quarter Xvi for centuries owned the village Semyon Petelin, descended from an old family of Pereyaslavl estates who served the Moscow princes since the time of Grand Duke Ivan Kalita. The most famous of the Petelin family of clerks was earned by the clerk of the Order of the Grand Palace (1578) - Druzhina Foma Panteleevich Petelin, who, according to the English diplomat Gils Fletcher, was “A very remarkable person among the natives in intelligence and quickness in political affairs ». A certain Ivan Petelin in 1450 owned villages and villages in the Kinelskaya volost, located northeast of the Trinity-Sergievsky monastery along the Pereyaslav (Trinity) road. Descendants of the Petelins - servicemen Yakov and Vaska are mentioned in the documents of the Time of Troubles. It is only known for certain that Semyon Petelin left no heirs and passed the village of Bolokhristovo by inheritance to his daughter "Mashka Semyonova's daughter Petelin", who owned it for the most part, until 1584, when, as an escheat patrimony, the village of Bolokhristovo became the property of the state and entered the state local distribution.

The rich rural economy that emerged from the estates in the estate was a tasty morsel for any serviceman of those years. Already in 1584-1586, the village of Bolokhristovo was divided in two between the local owners: Ivan Olekseev son of Ugrimov and brothers Bokhteyar and Kazarin Mikitinov... According to the evidence of the scribes: "Behind Bokhteyar, after Mikitin's son, behind a lattice clerk, and after his brother, after Kazarin: half of the village of Bolokhristovs, which was behind Mashka, after Semyonova's daughter Petelin in the patrimony, and in it the courtyard of patrimonials, the Makhteyarovs and Kazarin's business people live in it." . The brothers' names testify to their Tatar origin. Crimean Tatars, who switched to the Russian service and converted to Orthodoxy, were placed with land in these places at the direction of the head

There are settlements that are prosperous and dying, and there are those that are dead. The latter always attract a large number of tourists and extreme lovers. The main topic of this article is the abandoned villages of the Moscow region. How many of them are there in the Moscow region, and indeed in Russia in general, is very difficult to say. After all, new abandoned villages appear every year. You can also see photos of these villages in this article.

- the problem of Russia

No wonder they say that this is the soul of the country and the people. And if a village dies, then the whole country dies. It is very difficult to disagree with this statement. Indeed, the village is the cradle of Russian culture and traditions, the Russian spirit and Russian poetry.

Unfortunately, the abandoned are not uncommon today. Modern Russians are increasingly giving preference to an urban lifestyle, breaking away from their roots. Meanwhile, the village is degrading and more and more abandoned villages appear on the map of Russia, the photos of which are striking in their despondency and melancholy.

But, on the other hand, such objects attract a large number of tourists and so-called stalkers - people eager to visit various kinds of abandoned places. Thus, abandoned villages in Russia can become a good resource for the development of extreme tourism.

However, the state should not forget about the problems of the Russian countryside, which can only be solved by a set of various measures - economic, social and propaganda.

Abandoned villages in Russia - causes of village degradation

The word "village" comes from "to tear" - that is, to cultivate the land. It is very difficult to imagine an authentic Russia without villages - a symbol of the Russian spirit. However, the realities of our time are such that the village is dying, a huge number of once flourishing villages simply cease to exist. What's the matter? What are the reasons for these sad processes?

Perhaps the main reason is urbanization - the process of a rapid increase in the role of the city in the life of society. Large cities are attracting an increasing number of people, especially young people. Young people leave for cities to get education and, as a rule, do not return to their native village. Over time, only old people remain in the villages, who live out their days there, as a result of which the villages die out. For this reason, almost all abandoned villages of the Moscow region appeared.

Another fairly common cause of rural degradation is the lack of jobs. Many villages in Russia suffer from this problem, as a result of which their inhabitants are also forced to go to cities in search of work. Villages can disappear for other reasons as well. For example, it can be a man-made disaster. Villages can also degrade as a result of changes in their economic and geographical location. For example, if the direction of the road changes, thanks to which a particular village has been developing all this time.

Moscow region - the land of ancient temples and estates

Moscow region is an unofficial name The historical predecessor of this region can be considered the Moscow province, which was formed back in 1708.

The Moscow region is one of the leading regions in terms of the number of cultural heritage sites in Russia. This is a real paradise for tourists and travelers: more than a thousand ancient temples and monasteries, dozens of beautiful estates, as well as numerous places with long-term traditions of folk arts and crafts. It is in the Moscow region that such ancient and interesting cities as Zvenigorod, Istra, Sergiev Posad, Dmitrov, Zaraysk and others are located.

At the same time, the abandoned villages of the Moscow region are also heard by many. There are a lot of them in this region. The most interesting abandoned villages in the Moscow region will be discussed below.

Such objects attract, first of all, extreme lovers, as well as local historians and various lovers of antiquity. There are many such places. First of all, it is worth mentioning the Fedorovka farm, the villages of Botovo, Grebnevo and Shatur. These abandoned villages of the Moscow region on the map:

Khutor Fedorovka

This farm is located 100 kilometers from Moscow. In fact, this is a former military town, so you won't find it on any of the maps. Around the beginning of the 90s, a village of 30 residential buildings fell into disrepair. At one time, it had its own boiler room, substation, and also a shop.

Botovo village

The old village of Botovo is located in the Moscow region, near the Volokolamsk station (Riga direction). Once in this area there was the estate of Princess A. M. Dolgorukova. The center of this estate was a wooden church, which was built in the 16th century (the church has not survived). The last owner of the estate in Botovo, as you know, gave it to the peasants at the beginning of the 20th century.

Of the surviving objects in Botovo, you can see only the ruins of the Resurrection Church, built in the 1770s in the pseudo-Russian style, as well as the remains of an old park with an area of ​​twenty hectares. In this park, there are still old birch and linden alleys.

Grebnevo village

Grebnevo is a 16th century estate with a rich and interesting history and a rather tragic fate. It is located forty kilometers from the capital, on the Shchelkovskoe highway.

The first owner of the estate was B. Ya. Belsky - the armorer of Tsar Ivan the Terrible, then the Vorontsovs and Trubetskoys owned the estate. In 1781, Gavril Ilyich Bibikov became the owner, it was during his time that the estate acquired the form in which it has survived to this day.

Dramatic pages of the history of the estate in Grebnevo are associated with the beginning of the Soviet era. The nationalization of the complex led to the fact that the buildings gradually began to lose their historical appearance. First of all, all the interiors of the structures suffered. At first, a tuberculosis sanatorium was located within the walls of the estate complex, then a technical school. It was only in 1960 that the Grebnevo estate was declared an architectural monument of republican significance.

In the late 1980s, the manor seemingly received a new impetus for its development and preservation. A cultural center was formed here, and various concerts, events and exhibitions began to be regularly held on the territory of the estate. Active restoration work began to restore the complex. But in 1991, there was a huge fire, after which only the frames of manor buildings and structures remained from it. The Grebnevo estate remains in this state even today, more and more turning into ordinary ruins.

Village Shatur

The old village of Shatur has been known since the 17th century. It is located on poor soils, so hunting has always been the main occupation of local residents. Perhaps it is for this reason that the village fell into decay in the middle of the twentieth century.

Today the village is completely deserted. Occasionally, the owners of individual houses come here (several times a year). In the middle of an abandoned village, an old brick bell tower looks great, towering over a deserted village.

Memo for the extreme tourist

Despite its gloom and decrepitude, old uninhabited villages and other abandoned places are of great interest to many tourists. However, travel to such sites can be associated with certain dangers.

What are the so-called extreme tourists worth knowing?

• firstly, before going on such a trip, you should notify your relatives or friends about your trip, its timing and the route of your movement;
• secondly, you need to dress appropriately; remember that you are not going for an evening walk to the park: clothes should be closed, and shoes should be reliable, durable and comfortable;
• thirdly, take with you the necessary supply of water and food, also in your backpack should be a flashlight, matches and a standard kit for first aid.

Finally...

The old villages of the Moscow region amaze travelers with their desolation and picturesqueness. I can't even believe that such objects can be located just a few tens of kilometers from the capital - the largest metropolis on the planet! Getting into one of these villages is like using a time machine. It seems as if time has stopped here ...

Alas, the number of abandoned people is growing every year. Perhaps someday this problem can be solved. But so far abandoned villages serve only as objects of interest for all kinds of extreme lovers, stalkers and lovers of dark antiquity.