Megrino

Megrino was one of the old church centres of the wooded country around the Chagoda. In the 1582 survey it appears as the Ilyinsky pogost of Megrino, with a wooden church dedicated to Elijah and furnishings supplied by its parish. The parish embraced numerous neighbouring villages and estates. Alongside Elijah’s church stood a wooden church of the Tikhvin Mother of God; in 1725 it became the burial place of a member of the local Teglev family. These churches gave a focus to a dispersed rural community.