Bor Volgo

Bor Volgo lies in the wooded country near Lake Volgo, one of the lakes through which the upper Volga flows. The name recalls the nearby churchyard of Volgo on the lake shore. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries this #italic pogost#! was the centre of a district at the northwestern edge of the Principality of Rzhev. The lake and its surrounding forests placed the district near the headwaters of a river that would become one of the great waterways of Russia.