Bogoroditsk

Bogorodizk (Russian Богородицк ) is a city in Russia. It has 31 897 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) and is located in the Tula Oblast.

Geographical Location

The town lies 65 km southeast of Tula on the right bank of the river Upjorta, a tributary of the Upa, which in turn is a right tributary of the Oka. The nearest railway station is Schdanka. Bogorodizk is located on the Russian highway from Moscow to Novorossiysk M4.

History

Today's Bogorodizk was founded in 1663 by decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich to the then southern borders of the Grand Duchy of Moscow as a fortress. As the area was hit at that time still of Nogaiern and Crimean Tatars, the new settlement was wooden fortifications. After the construction of a church, the village was the village and, after naming the church the name Bogorodizkoje.

With the increase of Russian territory in the early 18th century Bogorodizk but lost its importance as a border fortress - 1715 was built on site of the demolished fortifications a stud, which in 1773 a castle had to give that of Ivan Starov for Count Alexei Bobrinski, an illegitimate son Catherine II, was built. 1777 Bogorodizk received city rights. In the years 1778-1796, the Russian agricultural scientist Andrei Bolotov worked as a manager in Bogorodizk.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Attractions

Bogorodizk home to a large park with the aforementioned classical palace of Starov from 1773., The famous architect, also the creator of the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, added to the ensemble, add a classical church.

In the years of communism were two churches - among the oldest in the city - and destroyed a part of the palace complex. During World War II the castle was just as much of the city destroyed. Since 1967, both churches and the palace complex are reconstructed. Since 1988, the castle houses a museum.