Webster's Dictionary of 1828 lists dragoman as well as the variants drogman and truchman in English.
As a young student, in 1916, Baskakov met an old friend of his father's, Bessonov, a Russian dragoman or envoy to Jedda (then part of the Ottoman Empire).
The village can be reached by car through the roads either from the towns of Dragoman or Godech but the very Monastery are accessible by car only by a dirt road, when the land is dry, from Kalotina and Cheparlintsi village.