Ostrov

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Registered constant population - 267 people (2004 census).

The village was first mentioned in the spiritual literacy Ivan Kalita (1328). Before the XVIII century. the village remained in the possession of great princes and kings. They came to hunt almost all Russian rulers, including Ivan the Terrible. In the XVII century. the first kings of the Romanov dynasty are often sent from the Islands for pilgrimage Nicolo-Ugreshsky monastery. Peter I pozhaloval village AD Menshikov. After his references Island returned to the ownership of the Kings. In 1767 Catherine II gave the island along with interviews box AG Orlov. The new owner built in the island of Grand estate and brought stud farm. It has been bred famous rock Orel Trotter. After the death of AG His daughter, Anna Orlova sold village Ministry of State Property. In 1846 the village was established by the school forest, existed for several years. In 1868 estate house was sold by auction Nicolo-Ugreshskomu monastery. From Island remained in manor park buildings and the former equestrian yard in the late XVIII. Here at the end of the XIX century. was arranged hospice.