Keret

Keret was a Pomor settlement at the mouth of the river of the same name, on the Karelian shore of the White Sea. Known by the fifteenth century, it was home to Varlaam of Keret, a sixteenth-century holy man revered by seafarers as a protector in danger. The district suffered raids during the wars with Sweden; in 1590 the crown granted Keret and neighbouring Kovda temporary relief from certain dues after their devastation.