Tagin

Tagin lies in the upper Oka country south of Oryol. Archaeological sites nearby include a fortified settlement and an open village inhabited by the Vyatichi in the tenth to thirteenth centuries. From the early seventeenth century the estate belonged for more than a hundred years to the Pushkin family. They built a stockade here, one of the local defences against raids on the southern frontier. The old sites and the later estate reveal a long history of settlement in this wooded countryside.