Bolshoye Selo

Bolshoye Selo stands on the Yukhot River between Yaroslavl and Uglich. It was the center of the Yukhot appanage, which had separated from the Yaroslavl principality, and the lands belonged to the Mstislavsky boyars in the sixteenth century. The village's first surviving documentary mention dates from 1629. Under Peter I the Yukhot district was granted to Boris Sheremetev. The Church of Saint Paraskeva, built in 1714 on the right bank of the river, was among the village's early stone buildings.

The principal road from Yaroslavl to Uglich passed through Bolshoye Selo, with another road leading toward Rybinsk; post horses were changed here. The Yukhot provided a further route of communication, and merchants coming to the village paid substantial duties. A wooden bridge across the river was built in 1825, with icebreakers protecting its three spans. Downstream a dam served a grain mill and an oil press.