a tan of trees overshadowing the shore, now a village leaning against a steep, layered cliff, now a ragged road winding like a ribbon along a high green slope, leading from the water to a village, the houses of which are barely visible at the top. You breathe in the warm and light air, full of the aroma of meadows. Are you fromyou breathe with both body and soul, in a few days you create a huge reserve of that
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and which you burn with zeal, worthy of a better fate, during the winter in your city life.
To people who are nervous and tired, we cannot recommend a better remedy than staying on a good Volzhek steamer for a month or at least two weeks. Foreigners have long understood this; You will meet Germans, even more French and English, on the Volga, traveling as ordinary tourists, and you will meet them both in May, shortly after the flood, and on Monday, when traveling along the Volga is the most delightful, thanks to the bright moonlit nights and incomparable weather, both in the middle and in August. It must be said truthfully that in recent years the Volga has begun to come into fashion among Russians; The number of travelers “not on business”, but simply for the pleasure of riding along the Volga, is growing every year.
History tells us that rivers have always played a big role in the life of one or another people. "Along the banks of the river," says Babet, "the first human settlements appeared, the beginnings of rich cities. It was not for nothing that the ancient peoples idolized their rivers, and it was not for nothing that all the main myeological regions of Brovashya were connected with them. Tribes inhabiting one river region were involuntarily united by its branches into one political body, share the same abundance of benefits, suffer even more adversities. Rivers are the main ethnographic boundaries; along them, almost the only way to follow the ancient dying tribes and the first colonizers of new inhabitants, no matter how developed the society is, no matter how new paths it pave, the natural paths, according to the Russian Federation, will always retain their own. This means that on their banks, in the towns, embossed by nature itself, the main piers and trading markets will always remain. The Volga will remain the same.
In those ancient times, when the eastern half of Europe, by the nature of its population, belonged much more to Asia than to Europe, and when the weak
The Vyan tribes along the entire Volga were not Bolfe as temporary guests,
FOR O The historical role of the Volga was enormous. Along its banks there were quite a few indigenous settlements of the Turkic and Finnish tribes; Some of them, hardworking like the Burtases, fiercely passionate like the Bulgarians, others warlike like the Khozars and Pechengs, covered the banks of the Volga and its more prominent tributaries with their settlements. Subsequently, they disappeared, or better said, merged with the Russians who came here and turned from former guests into indigenous inhabitants. From that time on, the significance of the Volga, without diminishing, acquired a slightly different character: the great river and its tributaries became vital arteries, through which Russian spiritual thought and spiritual power penetrated into the mountain flax thickets of the right coast, and into the wide meadow plains of the left bank, and into the grassroots steppes, and, along the waters of the closed Kasshian Sea, in Diyu, the unknown backwaters of Central Asia. r
On the right bank of the Volga near Samara.
The struggle in which the Russians conquered the Volga and its tributaries continued for more than three centuries. She was especially persistent when it came to conquering three important points: the mouth of the Oka, the mouth of the Kama and the mouth of the Volga. In the 13th century Nizhny Novgorod arose, in the first of the named points; Here Russian spiritual strength, the desire for industry and labor created what at first served as a bulwark against Azsh, from where the Russian man stubbornly and
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important trading points in Russia. Almost half a century since the time when the idea first arose to settle firmly at the mouth of the Oka, the Russian mind, industry, art and trade are now celebrating the holiday of peaceful labor, which is the All-Rose Nizhny Novgorod Exhibition.