Pokrovskoye

Pokrovskoye lies in the wooded country west of Danilov. The latter was recorded as Danilovskaya Sloboda in 1592. A Dutch embassy travelling from Arkhangelsk to Moscow passed through it in 1676 and described a sizeable settlement with markets. Danilov became a district town in 1777, and its first town council was elected in the following decade.