Plavsk

On the Plava stood the village of Sergiyevskoye, named for its wooden church of Sergius of Radonezh. An archival account dates the estate’s foundation to 1670 and associates it with Alexander Khitrovo. In the eighteenth century the village passed to the Gagarin family. They began a stone church near their estate in 1774, overlooking the trading square. The river valley and the road between Tula and Mtsensk placed the village within the rural landscape south of Moscow.