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Korostyn

 

A small village on the bank of lake Ilmen in Novgorod oblast.

 

The lake is big but Sosnowsky's hogweed is even bigger.

 

A German military cemetery near the shore. Neat and clean like every one of them.

 

I wonder if they can be maintained after the end of Russo-German "Freundschaft".

 

Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1726).

 

A travel palace built for emperor Alexander I, so that he could inspect military settlements near Novgorod. After all the emperor did not have time to use it, the construction was completed only after his death, in 1827. The palace was recently well restored and now houses a museum.

 

The memorial cross erected in honor of the Peace of Korostyn (1471). It was concluded between Muscovy and the Novgorod Republic and actually deprived the latter of independence. In 1478, the Moscow Tsar Ivan III decided that this was not enough, and finally destroyed Novgorod and annexed all its territories (in fact, the entire Russian north). The population of the republic was almost totally exterminated either under Ivan III or under his grandson Ivan the Terrible.

 

Getting in (as of July 2022): If you are driving from Veliky Novgorod, then you need to turn from the highway before reaching Staraya Russa. Also there are buses from Veliky Novgorod.

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