Arkhangelskoye

Arkhangelskoye lies on the Bokhtyuga, a tributary of the Sukhona north of Vologda. The village and a church dedicated to the Archangel Michael are known from the sixteenth century. In the eighteenth century a new stone church was built in the late Baroque style; its lower chapel was completed and consecrated in 1770. The tall church served a parish of villages scattered along the Bokhtyuga's wooded valley.