Lotoshino

Lotoshino was a trading village in the Tver lands, linked by road to Tver, Staritsa and Volokolamsk. It first appears in the chronicle in 1478, when Ivan III met his brother-in-law Mikhail of Tver here during the campaign against Novgorod. The village later formed the centre of an estate with surrounding hamlets. In 1646 it passed to Prince Pyotr Meshchersky, whose family held lands in both the Tver and Volokolamsk districts. In 1812 Prince Ivan Meshchersky established a cheese-making works on the estate.