Poreevo

Poreevo stood at a crossroads between Moscow, Uglich and Ksnyatin, on the western edge of the Principality of Pereyaslavl. Mentioned in the fourteenth century, it lay near the borders of Pereyaslavl, Tver and Uglich. Merchants paid a transit duty here, and the surrounding district became known as Zamyt'ye after that levy.

In 1571 Davyd and Ivan Zamytsky gave Poreevo to the Trinity Monastery of Saint Sergius. A 1593 survey recorded a monastic yard, a cattle yard and seven peasant households, together with fields, hay meadows and woodland. Ownership changed several times in the seventeenth century. In 1770 Catherine II bought the estate and granted it to Admiral Grigory Spiridov following the destruction of the Ottoman fleet at Chesme. Around this time the village acquired the name Nagorye.