Lake Volgo

Lake Volgo lies among the wooded and marshy headwaters of the Volga. The young river passes through a chain of lakes, including Sterzh, Vselug and Peno, before entering Volgo and continuing eastward. The sixteenth-century traveller Sigismund von Herberstein described a small stream flowing from a marsh into a lake called Volgo, from which the enlarged river emerged under the name Volga. On the lakeshore, the Volgo churchyard served as the centre of a district of the Principality of Rzhev in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.