Vershinino

Vershinino stretches along the northern shore of Kenozero, beneath a ridge overlooking the water. A wooden chapel of St Nicholas stands on the hill above the village, one of the small sacred buildings that marked the lake country. In 1758 Fyodor Ivanov became a church attendant of the Kenozero parish; his family’s service remained tied to these shores. The lake lay near the Kensky portage, part of the old water route from Novgorod toward the Onega and the White Sea.