THIS “our Rusek” did not make a pleasant impression on me. However, I wasn’t the only one who didn’t like him along this path. What the MNF didn’t like even more was the fact that in the villages I now saw there were clearings and pastures, on which the ekot could freely graze. There is also no sign of anything in the courtyards of old haystacks and haystacks. For a long time, I have become accustomed to the view that the more sealed stacks and stacks are left in the yard, the richer the owner, and more often in the villages there are yards with old stock, the richer the village. However, this was the case 20-25 years ago. What now serves as a measure of the prosperity of the owner and the wealth of the village? - I asked myself. - How many barns and sacks? But for some reason they are not visible in the yards of peasants. They hang out, unfortunately, only at the owners of threshing machines or “tavern establishments” and “grocers”, and at railway stations. What to do? These are the results of the culture that began here with the arrival of “out-of-towners.”
When the police began to approach the Mirekoy village, I saw the demolition sweep. The presence in the fields of large and bushy kazhran bushes (Sta e) with fluffy flowers and huge vulture leaves testified that the steppe here was not yet touched by ilug. Besides katran, you can see feather grass, wild almonds and many cereals everywhere. In general, the grasses are weak-growing and sparse; Apparently, the dry air also affected them, although we were only 15 versts from the Kuban and one could expect a dying blow of its waters onto the surrounding area.
As the weather began to fall, the price began to drop, and we were approaching a historical place for the Kuban region. Here, near the Caucasian village, the blood of the Black Sea Cossacks was shed for the last time in the many years of struggle with the Circassians. And this last bloody scene was carried out here according to all the rules and techniques that were practiced during the sixty-year civil strife between the Russians and the Caucasian Ilemens. The details of the case were as follows. In September 1862, the appointed ataman of the Kuban Cossack troops, General Kukharenko, went from Yekaterinodar to Stavropol, accompanied by his son-in-law and a guard of wazacks. The travelers at night had to survive the described conditions. As soon as they descended into the gully, a Circassian ambush jumped out from the ridge that lined the right bank of the Kuban and
In just a few minutes the convoy was cut into pieces. Kukharenko and his son-in-law were taken into custody and taken beyond the Kuban far into the mountains. The first could not bear the cold season, caught a cold and died a few days later. The body of his age was bought by the government, transported to Ekaterinodar and in anticipation of the Stavropol Eminence, invited to his funeral, stood for a long time in the town’s cathedral. The Black Sea people wept bitterly for their last day, Batkf-atamanf! In order to preserve the memory of him for a longer time in posterity, the old people took the old schoolchildren of the city to the ashes of the deceased and told us about the heroism of his death. This is the last chief of the Black Sea or Kuban region from the Cossacks. After him, atamans for the Kuban region began to be appointed from Russians or from “Muscovites,” as they usually say here.