Nebolchi

The forests around Nebolchi belonged to the old Obonezhskaya lands of Novgorod. St George’s church district at Nebolchi was one of the rural pogosts listed in this region. In the woods nearby stood the Rekon Hermitage, whose documented history begins in the 1680s. It came under the Tikhvin Assumption monastery in 1685 and was suppressed in 1764. The hermitage later attracted renewed religious life, with the monk Amfilokhy settling in the district in 1812.