Rasskazovo

Rasskazovo arose in the wooded country east of Tambov at the end of the seventeenth century. The village is known from 1697, when Stepan Rasskaz, a peasant from the Morsha district, obtained a royal charter concerning its establishment. Originally called Lesnoy Tambov, it later took his name. Its appearance belonged to a wider movement of settlers into the forest-steppe beyond the fortified frontier, as the danger of raids on the Tambov district diminished.