Obyachevo

Obyachevo stands on the Luza, where a fortified refuge was built in the late fifteenth century. A 1620 survey described the pogost and forty-three villages belonging to it, with sixty-four inhabited peasant households. The little stronghold was protected by the river on one side, ravines and marshes on two others, and a ditch on the fourth. A hidden passage led from the ravines to the Luza; inside stood a wooden Church of Saint Nicholas and a store of weapons. A stone church was built in 1808, and the first local school opened in 1822.