Maselga

The Maselga district lies in the wooded country of the lower Syas, south of Lake Ladoga. A thirteenth-century addition to Prince Svyatoslav Olgovich’s charter lists Masiega on the lower Syas among the places where tribute was collected. The region formed part of Novgorod’s Obonezhskaya lands, where church districts gathered dispersed settlements around their pogosts. The Syas carried water from the forested interior toward Ladoga, linking these rural lands to a much larger lake basin.