Moshenskoye

Moshenskoye lies on the Uver, a river flowing from the lakes of the Valdai country toward the Msta. The settlement grew around old church centres known as the Nikolsky and Spassky pogosts of Moshna. The Nikolsky pogost is named in the records of Novgorod’s Bezhetskaya pyatina in 1545. Estates stood along the Uver in the sixteenth century, while its wooded banks and the waterways beyond joined this rural district to the larger Msta basin.