Trufany

Trufany lies south of Gzhatsk in the wooded upper basin of the Gzhat, a river flowing toward the Vazuza and the Volga. The surrounding district occupied an old watershed between the Volga and Dnieper systems. In the eighteenth century Peter I established a river landing at Gzhatsk to serve the water route toward St Petersburg. The villages around it remained part of the countryside supplying and connecting that trading point.