Antique leather-bound book "Kuntsovo and the ancient Setun camp" Zabelin I. 1873.

Ivan Egorovich Zabelin (1820-1908) was an outstanding historian and archaeologist. I.E.Zabelin's research concerns mainly the ancient Kievan epoch and the Moscow period of Russian history. The work on Kuntsov and Setunsky camp opens with an essay on the history of the feeling of nature in Russian society, the tradition of country recreation and the "village" life of Muscovites of old times. For a traveler approaching the capital through Kuntsovo, there was a magnificent view of the city from the high bank of the river. N.M.Karamzin considered this part of the Moscow environs one of the most beautiful.

The book tells about the history of Kuntsov in different periods of his existence. Thus, the events in the history of the estate during the period of ownership of these lands by representatives of the Naryshkin family are highlighted. The stay of N.M.Karamzin and some other notable personalities in these places is described. I. Zabelin traces all the transitions of Kuntsov into the ownership of certain owners, land redistribution, construction and settlement of this patrimony for several centuries, writing all these facts into the general outline of the history of Moscow and Russia as a whole. Based on information from sources, Zabelin provides many interesting details from the history of the described area of Moscow. For example, it tells about the events of the Troubles and the War of 1812 in connection with the story of Poklonnaya Gora. I. Zabelin wrote this work based on documents from the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Justice. In particular, he used the materials of scribal and boundary books of the XVII-XVIII centuries, publishing in this edition the boundary inventory of Kuntsovskaya dacha from 1649.