Izdeshkovo

Izdeshkovo lay among the villages and landed estates of the Vyazma district in the Smolensk country. The village first appears in a land survey of 1776–79, when several proprietors shared it. By 1799 it had thirteen households and 126 inhabitants. Nearby settlements included Morozovo and Bliznetsy, whose lands had belonged to the Yakushkin estate in the late sixteenth century. The old village stood west of a later settlement on the Dyma River.