Odintsovo

Odintsovo lies west of Moscow, near the road to Smolensk. Its name is associated with the boyar Andrey Odinets, who served Dmitry Donskoy in the fourteenth century. Burial mounds and settlement sites in the Saminka basin attest to an older inhabited landscape around the village. In 1704 Andrey Matveyev built a wooden church of St Artemon here in memory of his father. A fair held on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul brought people from the surrounding countryside to Odintsovo.