Tesov

Tesov was a small fortified place in the Novgorod lands, known from chronicles of the thirteenth century. German forces took it during their advance in 1240, an event the chronicler treated as a serious blow to Novgorod. The Tesov district appears again in records of 1400–1401, and the Klementovsky Tesov pogost was listed in the Vodskaya land register of 1500. In 1648 the Tesov district was transferred to the cathedral of Saint Sophia in Novgorod in an exchange of lands with the state.