Gorodok

Novy Gorodok, also called Khorvach, stood on the Derzha near Zubtsov as an outlying settlement of the princely town of Kholm. The two belonged to the lands of the Tver princes in the fourteenth century. Repeated devastation left the settlement with the later name Pogoreloye Gorodishche, the Burned Settlement. In the early seventeenth century its townspeople petitioned the tsar after losing their possessions in the troubles that afflicted the district. The old fortified place survived as a trading settlement in the Zubtsov country.