Municipally, the village is a part of Davydovsky Rural Settlement (the administrative center of which is the village of Davydovo). Population: 518 (1997).[1] Postal code: 142642.
In the 17th century, a female Paraskevi skete operated near Antsiferovo.[2]
The village was first mentioned in the 18th century as a rural estate of Count Ivan Illarionovich Vorontsov.[1] In the first half of the 19th century the village was owned by poruchik Gerasim Stepanovich Myagkov.[1] In 1852, it again changed ownership, this time to Privy Councillor Mikhail Ivanovich Pozen.[1]
As in many other Guslitsa's villages, icon painting was a developed craft in Antsiferovo.[2] The craft was started in Guslitsa around 1730 by Antsiferovo peasants F. Yevseyev, who studied iconography in Veliky Novgorod, and A. Afanasyev, who studied in Moscow.[2] In later times, twenty-five icon-painters worked in Antsiferovo.[2]
In 1862, there was already an Old Believers' chapel in the village.[4]
On April 23, 1911, an Old Believers' house of prayer burned down in the village, and the residents petitioned the government to build a new one.[1]
In 1852, the village consisted of 160 homesteads comprising 1,006 inhabitants (464 male and 542 female).[1] By 1862, the population increased slightly to 175 homesteads comprising 1,070 people (520 male and 550 female).[4] By 1925, the population grew to 211 households comprising 1,137 inhabitants.[1] As of January 1, 1997, the population was 515.[1]
^ abИздание Центрального статистического комитета Министерства внутренних дел. "Списки населённых мест Российской Империи. XXIV Московская губерния". Санкт-Петербург, 1862. Стр. 31.
Овсянникова И.С. Из истории гуслицкого селения Анциферово. Гуслицкая округа. Историко-краеведческий альманах. Вып. 3. Куровское — Давыдово, 2007, с. 58–62. ISBN978-5-8311-0349-6
Пэнэжко. О., протоиерей. Храмы Орехово-Зуевского района. Владимир, 2007, ч.1, с. 374–379. Анциферовская православная школа грамотности. ISBN5-89752-010-1
