Lyakhovichy

Lyakhovichy lies in the Lovat country south of Lake Ilmen. A charter of Prince Vsevolod granted a church district of this name, with its lands, people, forests, beehives and fishing grounds, to Novgorod’s St George monastery. The monastery’s estate was still recorded in the survey of about 1495, which listed Lyakhovichy among its villages. Its fields and woods formed part of a larger monastic holding stretching along the Lovat and its tributaries.