Bologoye

Bologoye takes its name from the lake beside which the old village and church district stood. A Novgorod survey of about 1495 describes the village of Bologoye above the lake and its wooden church dedicated to the Beheading of John the Baptist. The Bologovskys, a family of Novgorodian landowners, held property in neighbouring church districts. Their holdings were affected by the confiscations that followed Moscow’s conquest of Novgorod, while the lakeside village remained part of a countryside of small settlements.