There is only the past, the most crap present and, in all likelihood, no future. In Lyskovf there is daily bustle and constant movement; Everywhere you come across coolies, mfshki, people hurriedly scurrying everywhere, only thinking about how to make a penny; in Makaryev there is imperturbable silence and a complete absence of commercial life, as if the whole city had fallen asleep. S. Monastyrsy rightly remarked: “it seems that elders live there, who have no interest in the present; they calmly live out their days, remembering only the past.”
Where the monastery stands, the Volga makes a sharp turn and in this m$every spring part of the shore breaks off; What good, someday even the most monastic stVns will fall from the washed-out shore into the water.
The Makarevsky Monastery received its name on behalf of its founder, the Monk Makarl, the Wonderworker of Keltovodsk and Unzhinsk. Quite a few legends are associated with the name of this saint, especially revered in the Nizhny Novgorod province.”
St. was born In 1849, at the age of 18, Makar entered the Nizhny Novgorod Pechersy Monastery, where he was ordained a monk. Then, wanting to indulge in desert life, he left the monastery and went along the Volga to look for a convenient place. Having reached the lake “/Keltye Vody”, he founded a monastery there in the name of St. Trinity. In 1489, the monastery was devastated by the Tatars, and Makar himself, at that time an old man of ninety, was taken to the village and taken to Kazan, from where he was, however, quickly released by order of Khan Ulu-Makhmet with the condition not to renew the Trinity Monastery. At 15 versts from Unzhi, the saint founded a new monastery, known as “Old Makarl,” where his relics rest. The Zheltovodsk monastery, after being abandoned for one hundred and ninety years, was restored by the monk Abraham, and with him a fair was established, which was later moved to Nizhny Novgorod.
The sky is very picturesque, where the village of Isady is located on the ledge of the Faddef Mountains on the right bank of the Volga. Both here and further along the right bank, the mountain slopes are largely covered with apple orchards, which constitute the main source of income for the local villages: Proska, Kremenka, Barmino, Somovka, Fokino and others.
70 versts from Isad, at the mouth of the Sura River, is picturesquely located the Uzdny town of Vasilsursk, the capital of sterlets, which, not without reason, is commonly believed to taste everything in Sur. The river Sura itself, quite shallow and quiet in the summer, in the spring, when the level of its waters rises by 8 arshins, becomes navigable along almost its entire length, in other words, from Penza to Vasilsursk at a distance of 600 miles. Months after 11/3 the rivers were opened,
when the water drops to normal levels, the water in Sur becomes so shallow that there are no more than 10 tops of water in the riffles; Therefore, shipping is possible on the RK only for two months a year. But, despite this, the Sura has serious significance for a very significant region as a waterway: the natural piers of the Simbirsk province, such as Promzino, Alatyr, Porzkoe and Kurmysh, serve as important grain markets and, moreover, a huge amount of grain is driven along the Sura every spring.
As much as the village of Lyskovo resembles a good district town, the district town of Vasilsurek is more like a mediocre village; even the number of inhabitants in it is almost three times less than in Lyskov. Vasilsursk was founded in 1528 under the Grand Duke of Moscow Vasishi Toannovich; its founder was Prince Andrei Gorbaty, who was the commander of the cavalry sent by the Grand Duke against Kazan. The mouth of the Sura is no more than a verst from the city, and the Sura flows not into the Volga, but into Volozhek, starting three versts above Vasilsursk and connecting with the Volga near the city itself. Surskaya water, tinged with a bluish tint, suddenly catches the eye in the quiet year, separating itself as a ribbon from the muddy yellowish Volga water; Certainly; this curious phenomenon can only be observed near the mouth of the Sura. To the right of VasilBsurek, along the mountains, the river begins, which stretches for a large space along the right bank of the Sura. Near the city itself, a ship grove has been preserved to this day,