Oshevnevo
Oshevnevo
Oshevnevo
Location: the island of Bolshoy Klimenetskiy
Other names: Ugrish-navolok
First mentioned in 1563.
Number of farmsteads: 1 (1563), 2 (1678), 1 (1858), 5 (1916), and 4 (1928). Initially it was part of the possessions of Novgorodian feudal Andrew Pasakhnov. At the beginning of the XX c. there were 29 inhabitants. They had 6 horses, 9 cows, and 1 sheep.
In 1951 the first architectural monument, the house of Nestor Oshevnev, was brought to Kizhi Island from the village of Oshevnevo. It initiated the formation of the Kizhi Open Air Museum. The family of Oshevnev was one of the richest in all Kizhi volost. Two sons of Nestor Oshevnev were registered in the merchant class of the capital. They owned a trading shop in the shopping arcade.
The family of Oshevnev repeatedly donated to the churches of the Kizhi Pogost. Another branch of the Oshevnev’s family owned a dye-house in the village to paint canvases. The village ceased to exist in 1950s. In 1860 P.Rybnikov came from Petrozavods to Kizhi volost by Oshevnev’s fishing boat. P. Rybnikov was destined to open the alive tradition of peasant epic songs performing in Kizhi volost.