Kosozhichi

Kosozhichi lies in the wooded countryside northwest of the Seim, in the old Kursk borderland. Its church was already old when it was found ruined by the 1620s, a trace of the disruption that had overtaken the district. The Seim country lay between the older towns of Kursk and Rylsk, where medieval settlements and later frontier posts marked a landscape contested by the neighbouring powers of the forest-steppe.