Zharnikovo
Zharnikovo
Zharnikovo
Zharnikovo
Other names: Markovskaya
First mentioned in 1563.
Number of farmsteads: 3 (1563), 3 (1678), 5 (1707), 10 (1911).
Till the end of the XVII century the village was located on Kizhi Island, then it was moved to the mainland to vacate fertile lands. Its historic buildings have not been preserved, almost all houses are new but ancient peasant traditions can be seen in this settlements as well. There are beautiful pine trees behind an old house by the road. They were planted in honor of the birth of children of Spiridon Zharnikov, the farmer who lived in the village at the beginning of the XX century.
Straight outside the village one can see rows of stones. They are the evidence of hard work of the villagers. The soil of these places is very rocky and there is a belief among local farmers that “stones are growing” as every year in the process of plowing they took away from their fields more and more new stones that appeared out of the ground. These rows of stones were kind of boundary marks between the neighboring plots of land.