My plan was to emerge from the forest toward the village of Buslavl, a tiny hamlet far from any major settlements. What I particularly liked about the village's location on the map was that reaching it from Khotkovo seemed a rather challenging task—the shortest route ran through the northern part of Sergiev Posad, and the Khotkovo wing, for obvious reasons, couldn't use it. There was also a bypass road through the village of Mostovik, but the map of the murdered motorcyclist north of this key village was filled with Zubachevsky wing icons. It seemed that once my companions and I reached Buslavl, we immediately became inaccessible to the Red Army and their Khotkovo wing.
According to the map, we had eleven kilometers of rough terrain ahead of us. In the best-case scenario, that would take
