Muscle (Village)

The village of Muscle is located on the Oksko-Don plain on the Muscle River, 44 km northeast of the village of Shilovo . The distance from the village to the regional center of Shilovo by road is 68 km.

The village is surrounded by significant forests; to the west of it are the tracts of the Simakinsky quarry and Losin, in the north - the tract of Shipa and the Lashma ravine , to the east - the Romashin Khorek ravine. The nearest settlements are the villages of Simakino and Small Peksely , the village of Big Peksely .

According to the 2010 census, 8 people are constantly living in the village of Myshtsa. (in 1992 - 61 people ^[5] ).

In the work of A. Mansurov, “On the Question of the Ancient Population of the Meshchersky Territory” (1897), the name of the village and the river is written as Mussa. E. M. Murzaev in the Dictionary of Popular and Geographical Terms (1984) reports that the “ mouse ” is a hill, a hill, a hill.

In the “Toponymic Dictionary of the Ryazan Region” (2001) it is noted that the village of Myshtsa was named after the river of the same name, on the banks of which it is located, and in the sources of the 18th-19th centuries. had a name in the form of Muscle, Muscle, Muscle. The origin of hydronym is not established. ^[6]

Shilovsky local historian A.P. Gavrilov put forward the version that, perhaps, the name of the village comes from the name of its first owner, Prince Myshetsky , an active ascetic of the Old Believers. ^[6]

As the village of Muscle, it was first mentioned in 1627 in the list of scribe books of the Kasimov district, where together with the village of Erakhtur, Seit-Burkhan (1626-1679) is listed among the estates of the Kasimov prince and is described as follows:

“The village of Muscle, on both sides of the Muscle river, and in it the Church of St. Nicholas the Miracle Worker is woody, Kletsky, and on church ground: in the courtyard priest Vasily Klementyev, in the courtyard of the clerks Titko Danilov, in the courtyard the priest Pronko Fomin, in the courtyard the mallow Maryitsa. Yes, on the church land, there are bobbles that are nourished by the church of God: in the courtyard is Kuzemka Timofeev, and he has two sons Frolko da Pavlik; in the courtyard of Vaska Stepanov, and he has a son, Ignatko; in the courtyard of Levka Kireev, and he has two sons Fedka da Lazarko; in the courtyard is Yakushko Korniliev, and he has a son, Ivashko. And the church lands in the village of Myshce are 8 quarters in the field, and in two heirs, and the church lands in the village of Moseevich, in the same field, 4 quarters with an octopus.

Yes, in the village of Myshtsy peasant yards, 31 yards, 13 Bobyl’s yards, 16 empty courtyards ... and the village of Muse Warden Ageyko Ignatiev da Vaska Mikitin son Kisel da Vaska Afonasyev da Vaska Erofeev yes Ovdokimko nickname Pyatka and Eustratka Filimonov with goods said places have been wasted since 90 (1582), and peasants from those places scattered from grain shortage, while others died from starvation. The yard is empty of Ortyushka Osipov, and the headman Ageyko Ignatyev and Vaska Kisel said that Ortyushko escaped from poverty in 136 (1627).

Arable land plowed in the middle of the land of 184 cheetahs without a half-floor, and a fallow of 83 cheetahs, and arable land overgrown with arable land of 60 quarters with a half-floor in a field, and two heifers; forest on arable land overgrown. And the hayfields of that village were written with the village of Erakhtur in a cry . ” ^[7]

According to salary books of 1676 at the church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Myshce, the following are shown:

“The courtyard of the priest Simeon, the courtyard of the priest Ivan. Yes, prikhotsky landowners 2 yards, and peasant 87 yards, 15 bobyl yards ... According to the list of priests from the peasant dachas of hay mowing for 20 kopecks. According to the salary of this money, 2 rubles 33 altyn . ” ^[7]

According to census books of 1683 in the village of Myshce at the St. Nicholas Church are listed:

“In the courtyard is Pop Semion Varlamov, with his children Kostentinka yes Pershutka yes Egorka yes Eufimka yes Obramka, at the Kostentinka children Fedoseyka da Lazarka, with Pershutka son Stepka; Ivan Varlamov is in the courtyard; he has children Emelianka and Ivashka and Ivashka and Yarmoshka; Ivan Fedotov is in the courtyard; he has children Theoktistka and Grishka and Gavrilka; in the courtyard, the clerk Trofimka Varlamov, he has a fellow Senka Naumov.

In the same village of Myshce there are 35 peasant households, and 231 people in them. Yes, there are 13 yards in the village of Muscle of Bobylsky, and there are 59 people in them. 71 In the same village of Myshce, empty courtyards of runaway peasants. ” ^[7]

Instead of the one mentioned in the XVII century. the wooden St. Nicholas Church in the village of Myshtsy, in 1777 the construction of a new church began in its place - in the old church name, also wooden and with the same bell tower. In 1847 the church and the bell tower were covered with a new tesa, the outer walls were upholstered, the stone foundation was built and the iconostasis and icons were renewed. In 1861, a parish school was opened in Muscle. In 1875, a warm chapel was arranged at the St. Nicholas Church in honor of St. Demetrius the Myrrh-streaming.

By 1891, according to I.V.Dobrolyubov , in the parish of the Nikolskaya church in the village of Myshtsy, in addition to the village with 125 yards, there were the villages of Big Peksely (168 yards) and Small Peksely (72 yards), in which only 1,151 male souls lived and 1,198 female souls, including literate - 172 people. ^[7]

The main cargo and passenger transportation is carried out by road: the village has access to a nearby regional highway P125 : Ryazhsk-Kasimov-Nizhny Novgorod. 3.5 km south-east of the village is the stopping point Shemyakino of the Shilovo-Kasimov railway line of the Moscow Railway .