Voronich

Voronich was a fortified dependency of Pskov and part of the chain of strongholds guarding its southwestern frontier. It resisted a three-week siege by the Lithuanian army of Vytautas in 1426. In the fifteenth century the town had more than four hundred houses, as well as Orthodox churches and monasteries, and it grew into one of the principal settlements of the Pskov lands.

The forces of King Stephen Báthory destroyed Voronich during the Livonian War in 1581, and the town was not restored to its former standing. In 1610 Alexander Lisowski's Polish-Lithuanian detachment used the fortress as a base for raids into the Pskov region. Its lands and those of neighboring religious foundations later passed into the tsar's estate; in 1719 Voronich was assigned to Opochka.