Kulotino

Kulotino lies on the Peretna, a river in the lake-strewn country of the Valdai Hills. The village belonged to the old Polishchi church district, one of the rural centres of Novgorod’s Derevskaya land. Churches and their districts gathered surrounding villages into units of worship and administration, while the Peretna carried the waters of the hills toward the Msta. The village’s history belongs to this older countryside, long before a larger settlement developed beside the river.