Osovets

Osovets stands near an old fortified site on the Klyazma. It is associated with the place called Osovoye where, in 1209, Prince Yuri Vsevolodovich of Vladimir defeated two princes of Ryazan. The later village, once called Gorodishche, belonged to the Krisino district of Vladimir in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. It was an estate of Yakov and Grigory Bezobrazov, whose father had received it for service during the siege of Moscow. Churches dedicated to the Mother of God and Saint Nicholas served the village.