Karniki

Karniki, also known as Pilyushno, was a village in the country west of Pronsk. Its parish church was dedicated to Saint Paraskeva and is recorded as dating from 1731. The parish served a number of villages in the surrounding countryside. This part of the central Russian uplands is crossed by small rivers and ravines, with farmland spread between the valleys that lead toward the Oka and the Don basins.