Ozerevo

The old church settlement of Ozerevo lay in the lake country between the wooded basins of the Chagoda and Voloshba. Burial mounds and an earlier fortified site near the village testify to settlement long before the medieval St George’s pogost arose here. Finds from mounds in the district include household objects dating to the eleventh century. The church centre and its neighbouring villages formed part of a landscape whose older burial places remained visible among the forests and waters of the Novgorod lands.