Polishchi (Okulovsky District)

The village of Polishchi is located on the left bank of the Peretny River , adjoins ^[3] from the southwest to the village of Kulotino , is located 3 km ^[3] northeast of the city of Okulovka .

In the Middle Ages in Novgorod land the center of the Polishchsky graveyard . ^[four]

In the 1460-1470s, at the sunset of the Novgorod Republic , the village of Polishchi was owned by the noble Novgorod boyar Vasily Nikiforov; in the 1480s - his father-in-law, a noble Moscow boyar Vasily Zakharievich Lyatsky; and in 1495 - Ivan Vasilievich Lyatsky . ^[five]

For the first time, a detailed description of the Polishchsky graveyard of Derevskaya Pyatina was made in 1495-1496 in the scribe book of the Derevskaya Pyatina - the so-called letters of Prokofiy Skuratov and Peter Volk Borisov ^[6] :

On a graveyard at the Polishchsky Church, Veliki Archangel Michael ...

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The village of Poleschka, and in it the court of Ivanov ...

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Several dozen villages were assigned to the village. Some of them exist in the 21st century: Druchno , Zuyevo , Old , Dolmanovo , Vereshino , Ward , Bobylevo , Fight , Makhnovo , Glazovo , Kulotino , Kotovo , Zaozerye , Snarevo . ^[five]

In 1766, the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was built in Pisces, and then the Church of the Great Martyr Paraskova ^[8] .

The large village of Polishchi is marked on the map 1787 ^[9] , 1788 ^[10] (sheet 66), 1812 ^[11] , 1821 ^[12] , 1829 ^[13] , 1816 ^[14] , 1826-1840 ^[15] , 1837 ^{[16 ]} , 1843 ^[17] years.

In 1776-1792, 1802-1918 the village of Polishchi was located in the Krestetsky district of the Novgorod province . From the beginning of the XIX century - in the educated Zaozersky volost of the Krestetsk district with a center in the village of Zaozerye . ^[18]

In 1908, in the village of Polishchi, there were 48 courtyards and 57 houses with a population of 261 people. ^[19] There was a church, a parish school , a zemstvo school, and 2 private shops. ^[20]

Until 2004, the village of Polishchi was the center of the Polishchensky village council .

The nearest train station is located in Kulotino. The highway connects the Polischi with Okulovka. The village has a bridge over the Peretna River.

Not far from the village of Polishchi, in the Peretny river basin, there are several early Slavic mound groups of the 9th-13th centuries ^[21] , including a fortified settlement (chronicle “city”) of Novgorod Slovene Malye Polishchi ^[22] .