Moshenskoye

Moshenskoe is an old village, mention of which are found in the scribes of Bezhetskaya Pyatina since 1545 - “Nicholas Pogost in the Moshna” is mentioned under this year.

The name of the village probably comes from the word “moshna” - a wallet, wealth, or “moss” - Mshinsky, Mokhovoy. Although the mystery of the name of the village remains today. The population connects this name with a large number of wealthy estates along the banks of the River Assert in the 16th century or with bore mosses on the steep banks of the river.

There are hills along the banks of the river - like archaeological monuments that show that the shores were confusedly settled about a thousand years ago. And the first people arranged temporary parking lots here in the Stone Age.

On the Nikolskaya side, the Stone Church, with a stone bell tower, was built in 1787. The building was spoiled by destruction and alterations. In 1992, the building was transferred to the Novgorod diocese. Now in the temple of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, services, rituals are performed, parish life is being revived.

Of the numerous estates of the 19th century, some have survived to this day. On the high bank of the River, assure in the center of Gratskoye successfully fit into the modern development of the manor house of Kruglik, a forest manufacturer from St. Petersburg . I am pleased with the eye with a wooden lace house of the merchant A. Ryabov on the left -bank side of the district center. Now it has a museum. Also, the objects of the cultural heritage of the village include three estates of Bosheanov.

In the center of Moshenskoe on the left bank of the Union there is the Church of the Protection of the Mother of God, built in 1764 by the landowner and. M. Levashov .

hills, mounds, zalniks show that the banks of the river were populated about a thousand years ago. A hill is located on the territory of the village, it belongs to objects of cultural heritage.

Among commemorative places in Gratskoye is a school in which the intelligence officer Zoya Kruglova studied. The building built by the landowner p. J. Tsatsura in 1872, was subsequently sold to the zemstvo. Since 1872, it housed a zemstvo school. On the facade of the school there is a memorial plaque. The life of many interesting and famous people in Russia is connected with the Moshenskoe region.

At the end of the 18th century, the estate saved on the moshna, which belonged to the St. Petersburg prosecutor Ivan Levashov, came to stay the famous Russian poet Gavril Romanovich Derzhavin and the pianist Fvis.

geographer, ethnographer, publicist, Lieutenant General Alexey Ivanovich Maksheev, who was friends in his youth with Taras Shevchenko and closely knew such famous people as Butashevich-Petravsky , Herzen and Herzen and Herzen and Pleshcheyev, for a long time lived in the estate of Olekhovo on the shore of Lake Velikoye and even published in the “memorable book of the Novgorod province for 1864” his study “On Fisheries on Lake Veliky”. Time spared the Park of the Estate a. I. Maksheeva , which belongs to the monuments garden-park art. The park is protected by the state. It sets a memorial sign.

The famous children's writer Vitaly Valentinovich Bianchi was closely connected with the Moshenskoe Territory. The house in the village of Mikheevo, where the family of in. V. Bianchi from 1935 to 1942, preserved and annually becomes the center of Biankovsky Readings, where famous people, schoolchildren, youth, guests from St. Petersburg and cities of the Novgorod region gather. /p>

In the "country of Div" of the Moshenskoe district V. Bianchi worked a lot and interestingly, went hunting, with a group of young people from Leningrad conducted bird observation. In addition to stories and essays, conceived and written in Yakovshchi and Mikheev, he left a thorough scientific study of the Birds of the Moshenskoe district.

In 1998, a memorial plaque was installed at the house in the village of Mikheevo, where the writer lived.

The “Travel to the Country of Div” project, the tourist route, where the writer V. Bianchi lived from 1935 - 1942, a commemorative stone was established on the border “Div countries”. Since 1994, Biankovsky Readings have been held.

During the Great Patriotic War, the famous Russian artist Ilya Glazunov was taken out of the besieged Leningrad in the village of Greblo. Martha Skorodumov came out of the half -dead from exhaustion. The impressions of the Moshenskoe Territory, his lakes left a deep mark in his soul. Many well -known works of I. Glazunov were inspired by childhood memories.