Lezhnevo

Lezhnevo lies at a crossroads in the countryside south of Ivanovo, between the towns of Vladimir, Shuya and Kovrov. It appears in documents of the second half of the sixteenth century as a palace village. A wooden church of St Nicholas with a bell tower stood here until a fire in 1629. The settlement later grew into a substantial trading village, serving the farms and craftspeople of the surrounding district.