Turovskoye

The village is located on the north-eastern shore of Lake Galich . ^[2]

The name of the village comes from the name of the Meryansky idol of Tour. ^[3]

The village is one of the oldest settlements on the territory of the Galich region. Meryansk settlement existed here in the pre-Christian era. In 1835, near the village, the Galich treasure of bronze objects was found around the 13th century BC. In 1836, D. S. Bestuzhev, the nephew of the owner of the estate in Turovsky, Natalya Ivanovna Chaleeva, handed over to the bishop Pavel (Podlipsky) who had stopped in the village, the metal objects found a year earlier during the construction of the dam on the Lykshenka River, among which was a figure of a pagan idol with head and legs made of red copper. Now it is stored in the State Historical Museum under the name "Turovsky Idol." On the Turovskaya Gora located next to the village there used to be an idol and there was a sculptural image of the idol of Tour. ^[3]

In 1924, during excavations in the village, V. A. Gorodtsov discovered a site dating back to the times of the Copper - Bronze Age. Based on swamp iron ore , an iron culture has developed here. Iron was produced using the firing method of smelting in clay vessels placed on a burning fire. ^[3]

The village was one of the favorite hunting places of the Galich princes. According to the ancient inventories of Galich, during the existence of the Galich principality, it was called Soap , according to the soap factories located in it. There were 9 Orthodox churches in the village. ^[four]

At the beginning of the XVII century, the village belonged to the Pemsky camp. In 1629, it belonged to Ivan Zinoviev, from which it passed to the Pereleshin and Sipyagin . In 1673, Turovskoye inherited from the Pereleshins to the Lermontovs . In 1780, Turovskoye together with the villages of Salovo, Lezhnevo, Fedurino, Chaplovo belonged to Ivan Mikhailovich and Grigory Mikhailovich Lermontov. ^[3]

At the end of the 18th century, Ivan Ivanovich Chaleev received the estate as a dowry when he married the daughter of Makaryevsky prosecutor Osip Nikitich Frenev Fekle Osipovna. ^[5] Their daughter N. I. Chaleyeva built a stone church of Joachim and Anna in the village in 1815. After her death, the village was owned by the head of the provincial gendarme militia, Major General I.N. Chaleev. In the second half of the 19th century, he built a one-story wooden house on a brick basement in the estate. He later sold the estate to a local peasant contractor, Schetinin, who owned the estate until 1918. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Sumarokovs estate was located next to the Chaleev estate in the village. ^[four]

According to the Lists of populated areas of the Russian Empire in 1872, the village belonged to the 1st camp of the Galich district of the Kostroma province . There were 14 courtyards in it , 61 men and 90 women lived. There was an Orthodox church in the village. ^[2]

According to the 1897 census , 106 people lived in the village (41 men and 65 women). ^{[6] [K. one]}

According to the List of populated areas of the Kostroma province in 1907, the village belonged to the Bykovsky volost of the Galich district of the Kostroma province . According to the volost government, in 1907 there were 18 peasant households and 87 inhabitants. There was a school in the village. The main occupations of the villagers, in addition to agriculture, were painting and carpentry. ^{[6] [K. 2]}

Before the municipal reform of 2010, the village was part of the Toltunovsky rural settlement. ^{[7] [8]}

The population of the village varied by year: ^[4]