Lyubno

Lyubno lies in the wooded lake country near Molvotitsy, between the Lovat basin and Lake Seliger. A churchyard and village shared its name, serving a rural district dotted with small settlements. Nearby Molvotitsy was a Novgorodian fortified place, known in the fifteenth century as the bishop’s town because it belonged to the household of St Sophia. These forests and waterways lay close to the contested borderlands of Novgorod, Lithuania and Moscow.