Nalyuchi

Nalyuchi was an old church district in the country east of Lake Ilmen. Before Moscow’s conquest of Novgorod, it belonged to the Novgorodian landowner Marfa Boretskaya. The Nalyuchi pogost then passed into the possession of the grand princes of Moscow and was bequeathed from Ivan III to Vasily III and then to Ivan IV. After the treaties of 1595 and 1617 ceded lands around Lake Ladoga and the Neva to Sweden, Orthodox Karelians moved south into Novgorod’s lands, adding another strand to the population of the district.