Rogozh

Rogozh was a village of coachmen on the road east from Moscow. Its inhabitants served the postal route, providing horses and transport for travellers and official correspondence. In 1781 Catherine II raised Rogozh to the status of a district town and gave it the name Bogorodsk. A description of 1788 recorded a wooden church, government offices, a school, merchants’ and coachmen’s houses, a brewery and a smithy. The modest town grew from the needs of the road it had long served.