Mushkov Pogost

Mushkov Pogost, also called Mushkino, stood among forests on a small river in the upper Chernaya valley west of Moscow, in the Zvenigorod region. The name Mushkovo is very old and first appears in written sources in 1339. Later Prince Dmitry Donskoy and his descendants held Mushkova Gora, the hill from which the district took its name, and the pogost of the Holy Trinity became the centre of the Mushkov district.

A boundary charter of 1504 mentions a small monastery of St George at Mushkovo. Descendants of Grigory Aleksandrovich Pushka, ancestors of the poet Pushkin, settled here, and the cadastral book of 1624 lists the pogost on the hereditary land of Gavrila and Fyodor Pushkin, with a wooden Trinity church and a chapel of the Archangel Michael. The pogost remained a lonely church site in the woods, with the priest's house and a few outbuildings beside the church.