Dubrovna

Dubrovna lies near Volok north of Toropets, in a landscape of woods, lakes and small rivers. The Kanashovka runs past the nearby village, while the Toropa carries water south toward the Western Dvina. The Toropets country was long a meeting place of routes between Novgorod, Smolensk and the Dvina basin. Its villages occupied clearings amid forests that separated the larger waterways.