Manshino

Location: the island of Bolshoy Klimenetskiy
Other names: Hamsheevo.
First mentioned in 1563.

Number of farmsteads: 4 (1563), 4 (1678), 3 (1858), 5 (1916), and 7 (1928).

Initially it was part of the possessions of Novgorodian feudal Andrew Pasakhnov. At the beginning of the XX c. there were 52 people living in 5 farmsteads. They had 7 horses, 17 cows and 5 sheep. At the end of the XIX c. one of 12 windmills of Kizhi volost was located there.

In 1970 the house of farmer Ponomarev was brought to Kizhi Island from the village of Manshino. The house is one of the best examples of peasant house building of Zaonezhie. The village ceased to exist in 1960s.

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