Khotsy

Khotsy lies in the wooded country south of the Syas, in the old Obonezhskaya lands of Novgorod. The countryside was divided into church districts, or pogosts, which gathered scattered villages around a place of worship. A survey of the region’s districts names the Resurrection pogost on the Lipna and St George’s at Nebolchi among its neighbours. These rural centres survived the absorption of Novgorod by Moscow in the late fifteenth century.