Ilyinskoye Khovanskoye

Ilyinskoye-Khovanskoye takes its name from the prophet Elijah and the Khovansky princes who later held the estate. The village is recorded in 1619, when Tsar Michael granted it to Prince Dmitry Pozharsky. A stone church of Elijah was built in 1731, and in the latter half of the eighteenth century the estate passed to Prince Pyotr Khovansky. Its transfer to the treasury after his death provoked a peasant disturbance in 1789, which was suppressed after the village passed to Prince Yuri Khovansky.