Nizhel'skoe

Nizhelskoye belongs to the wooded lake country south of Toropets, within the basin of the Western Dvina. A district called Nezhelskaya was listed among the Toropets lands in Ivan IV's testament of 1572. Its lakes and small rivers lay between the old town and the Dvina, amid villages scattered across the forested uplands. The waterways connected this countryside with the wider network leading west toward the Baltic.