Lyady

Lyady grew around the centre of the Lyatsky #italic pogost#!, a church and tax district in Novgorod's Shelon lands. Surviving payment records from 1497–1498 list its holdings under both old Novgorodian and new landowners, reflecting the changes that followed Moscow's conquest of Novgorod. A survey of the following year describes several nearby villages, including Log and Filimonovo Zagorye. By 1571 a priest of the Transfiguration church was recorded among those who certified the district's survey.