Vlasovo

Vlasovo appears in the Vladimir district survey of 1637–1648 as Vlasovskaya, a village belonging to the Moscow nobleman Nikita Kaftyrev. By 1678 it had passed to Prince Mikhail Golitsyn, whose family also held neighbouring villages. A census of 1705 counted twelve households in Vlasovskaya under his heir. In 1776 Prince Pyotr Golitsyn built a wooden church of the Intercession on the estate, giving the village its own parish church amid the forests of the Meshchera country.