Mikshino

Mikshino stood near the road between Bezhetsk and Torzhok, within the old Stuchevo church district. War and the famine of 1601–1602 devastated its earlier inhabitants. In the latter half of the seventeenth century Karelians from the Lake Ladoga region resettled the deserted land, adding their language and customs to the Tver countryside. In 1768 a wooden Trinity church was brought to Mikshino from Znamenskoye, giving the village a church of its own.