Жители Село Никольское / Residents of the village of Nikolskoye 1925-1926

Жители Село Никольское Тосненский район, Ленинградской губернии. ФотографииА. А. Беликова 1925 - 1926 Residents of the village of Nikolskoye Tosno district, Leningrad province. Photographs by A. A. Belikov 1925 - 1926 Музыка: Фольклор Ленинградской области 1.Благослови-тко, господи, свадебку 2. Соколы вы, соколы 3. Уж ты, заинька беленький Music: Folk songs of the Leningrad region 1. God bless me, wedding 2. Falcons you, falcons 3. Oh, darling little white bunny The village of Nikolskoe ( now a city), was given the name in honour of the icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker , brought by the first settlers, who in 1712 placed it in a wooden chapel. Nikolskoye was founded by a decree of Peter I ,when peasant stone masons from the heartlands of Russian, mainly from Moscow, were resettled in St. Petersburg, to aid in the