Meletovo

Meletovo lies east of Pskov on the old road towards Novgorod. Its stone Church of the Dormition was begun in 1461 and completed the following year, under the patronage of Pskov's leading officials Yakov Krotov, Ivan Puchkov and Zinovy Mikhailovich. Their names were preserved in inscriptions on the building. In 1465 Pskov painters covered its interior with an unusually rich programme of frescoes, including scenes and figures rarely found elsewhere in Russian church painting. An eighteenth-century chapel and bell tower later enlarged the church.