Yegoryevsk

Yegoryevsk (Russian: Его́рьевск) is a town and the administrative center of Yegoryevsk Urban Settlement in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Guslitsa River 114 kilometers (71 mi) southeast of Moscow.

[citation needed] The new town was quite small with a population of only 280 males and 295 females, mostly merchants and burgesses (меща́не).

Yegoryevsk was famous for its annual fairs, where bread was mainly sold.

At his order, the Moscow architect I. T. Baryutin [ru] built the Egoryevsk Mechanical and Electrical Engineering School named after Tsarevich Alexei, and the Holy Trinity Mariinsky Convent was rebuilt.

[1] As an administrative division, it is, together with sixty-two rural localities, incorporated within Yegoryevsky District as the Town of Yegoryevsk.

General view of Moscow street at the beginning of the 20th century
Kazan Church and the Red Cathedral (St. George)
Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Holy Trinity maiden Mariinsky monastery
Weaving factory M. N. Bardygin