Krapivna or Kropivna (Кропивна) is a large village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 on the Upa River

Upa River

Upa is a river in Tula Oblast, Russia, one of the main tributaries of the Oka River.The river is 345 km long; the city of Tula is on its banks. The name of the river is of Baltic origin....

 in Shchyokino

Shchyokino

Schyokino is a town in Tula Oblast, Russia, located on the Moscow—Simferopol highway south of Tula. Population: 72,000 .It was founded in 1871 in connection with the development of brown coal deposits and soon supplanted Krapivna as the main settlement in the district. It was granted town...

 Raion of Tula Oblast

Tula Oblast

Tula Oblast is a federal subject of Russia with its present borders formed on September 26, 1937. Its administrative center is the city of Tula. The oblast has an area of and a population of 1,553,874...

, Russia

Russia

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. It was first documented in the testament of the Russian monarch Dmitry Donskoy (1389) and remained the center of an uyezd

Uyezd

Uyezd or uezd was an administrative subdivision of Rus', Muscovy, Russian Empire, and the early Russian SFSR which was in use from the 13th century. Uyezds for most of the history in Russia were a secondary-level of administrative division...

 until the October Revolution

October Revolution

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. The town was relocated several times, was sacked by Ivan Zarutsky

Ivan Zarutsky

Ivan Martynovich Zarutsky was a Cossack leader in Russia in the early 17th century.In 1606–1607, ataman Zarutsky and his men took part in the Bolotnikov Uprising. After Ivan Bolotnikov's defeat on the outskirts of Moscow, Zarutsky went to Poland to take the side of "tsar Dmitry" and Polish king...

 in 1613 and occupied by other rebels during the Time of Troubles

Time of Troubles

The Time of Troubles was a period of Russian history comprising the years of interregnum between the death of the last Russian Tsar of the Rurik Dynasty, Feodor Ivanovich, in 1598, and the establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613. In 1601-1603, Russia suffered a famine that killed one-third...

. Places of interest include the ruins of the Trinity Monastery and an Orthodox cathedral dating from the mid-18th century.