Maksatikha

Maksatikha lies by the Mologa in a district of forests and river bends. Downstream, at Terebeni, the landowner Mikhail Obudkov built a wooden church of St Nicholas in 1492; a monastery grew around the church. The revered image of St Nicholas later travelled from the monastery through neighbouring settlements, including Maksatikha, before returning by the Mologa. Its journey joined the villages of the river valley to a shared religious tradition.