Chapel on the site where the city of Belozersk was founded in ancient times [Belozersk, Russian Empire], 1909. First mentioned in Russian chronicles for the year 862 , the town of Belozersk or "White Lake" was abandoned and relocated several times. The original settlement, commemorated here by a small nineteenth-century wooden chapel, was on the north side of the White Lake in north central European Russia.

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