Rogachevo

Rogachyovo lies on the Yakhroma near its meeting with the Sestra, downstream from Dmitrov. In 1428 Prince Pyotr of Dmitrov gave the village to the St Nicholas-Peshnosha monastery, which held it until the secularisation of church lands in 1764. Roads from Klin to Dmitrov and from Moscow toward the Volga crossed here.

The village was also a transshipment point on the river route. Large cargo boats could ascend from the Volga as far as Rogachyovo, where their goods were transferred to smaller vessels for the journey upstream to Dmitrov. Markets brought together peasants from monastic, royal and private estates. As direct overland trade through Yaroslavl and Vologda grew, the village’s former importance on the water route diminished in the following centuries of Russian history.