Pushkino

Pushkino lies north-east of Moscow on an old road leading toward Pereyaslavl, Yaroslavl and Vologda. The village is documented in a survey of 1499. One account associates its name with the boyar Grigory Morkhinin, known as Pushka, whose descendants included the family of the poet Alexander Pushkin. The village’s location placed it along a route used by travellers and traders moving between Moscow and the towns of the north-east.