Pikalyovo

The country around Pikalyovo lies among the forests and small lakes of the Lida basin, east of Tikhvin. Here stood the Resurrection pogost of Luchany, a church centre serving a district of scattered villages. The church was dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ, and the surrounding households formed part of Novgorod’s Obonezhskaya pyatina. In this lakeland many villages were very small, sometimes consisting of only one or two households, with their church district providing a common point of reference.