Brody

Brody takes its name from a ford on the upper Volga. A settlement called Brod is mentioned in a 1317 agreement between Mikhail Yaroslavich of Tver, Yuri Danilovich of Moscow and the people of Novgorod. Its river crossing lay within a landscape contested by the principalities of northeastern Rus. A Tver land survey of 1539 and an exchange charter involving Ivan IV and Prince Vladimir of Staritsa identify Brod as a princely estate, linking the village to the rulers of the upper Volga lands.