Klepiki

Klepiki was a village of the Meshchera country whose church and 138 households appear in the ecclesiastical assessment book of 1676. The Church of the Transfiguration supplied the additional name Spasskoye. A road connected the settlement with Ryazan through forests and marshes, placing village commerce within a difficult landscape. In 1725 the merchant Ryumin bought the Klepiki estate from Princess Dolgorukova and established a sailcloth manufactory with 152 looms. By 1736 the enterprise had declined. From 1773 the village belonged to Khlebnikov. These changes connected local landholding to the fortunes of merchant manufacture.