Khotoshino

Khotoshino lies on the upper Volga northwest of Selizharovo, where the young river passes through a country of lakes and forests. Local historical tradition associates the place with Khotshin, a town of the Smolensk principality mentioned in the twelfth century. A church dedicated to the Exaltation of the Cross served the surrounding villages; its surviving parish records begin in 1802. Fields spread over the low hill on which the church stood above the river.