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When Novgorod was joined to the State of Moscow (1478), all
villages situated on Kizhi lands and the peasants too became the property of the tsar.
The population of the Zaonezhye Pogosts endured numerous
backbreaking hardships.
In the mid-XVII century the government laid the responsibility on
local peasants to protect the villages along the Northern border which had been devastated
by Swedish invaders. The Kizhi peasant came to be what was called "a ploughing soldier".
Thousands of local peasants perished in battles against foreign
invaders, defending their rocky soil.
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