Moshok

Moshok lay on the road between Vladimir and Murom and became the centre of a great estate of the Vorotynsky princes. A 1569 addition to Prince Mikhail Vorotynsky's testament records Ivan IV's grant of the village and its dependencies to him. The prince's wooden residence stood here, attended by a large household whose members practised many different occupations. A survey of 1627–1630 described Moshok as an old possession of his grandson Alexei Vorotynsky and noted its ageing wooden Church of the Assumption. A stone church with the same dedication was built in 1802.