They say that the robbers who fell into their hands roasted them, extorted money from them, and arranged this reprisal like this: they stripped the victim naked and buried him in pawned treasures until they could get from her where the money and all sorts of goods were hidden; This opera was called “burn on the vines.” It is very natural after this to recognize the name “Zheguli” from the word “burn”, contrary to what exists in Samar and the nearby region, it is usually recognized as “Kliguli”.
"Zheguli", says Mr. Demyanov, "the artistic glory of the Volga. True
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The Volgar bows before the Zheguli, like a Hindu before the Himalayas." And indeed, this part of the Volga is amazingly beautiful! We will not be mistaken in saying that along the entire length of the great beauty there is nothing more picturesque than the Zheguli mountains. They stretch on both sides of the Volga for about 90 versts. Looking at them from the ship, you see the most bizarre and Moreover, without any artificial embellishment, there is nothing cleaned up, trimmed, smoothed out; everything is natural and everything is beautiful in its naturalness. Picturesque hills are grouped here in some places, like towers and castles, or, if you like, the ruins of towers and castles that rise above the neighboring ones. in other places there are a number of grandiose terraces; but in front of you there are cliffs right at the very bank of the Volga, so that from a ship sailing at a distance from them, you can involuntarily measure their height by throwing your head up in the cliffs; in some places there are black caves, but they are not dug; by human hands, but created by nature itself. In some places the mountain range is interrupted by narrow valleys called “gulls”. There, in these gullies, in these deep caves, the Volga freemen and in general those who had a hard time living in their native villages and cities hid.
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From Karaulny Hill, where, as we said above, Zheguli begins, which is located almost 5 versts from the fairway of the Volga and has more than 100 fathoms of height, Simbirsk is visible and, in general, all the wind turns 100 in each direction. In the old days, it was from here that they observed the movement of the Tatars, who had a fortified point in the place where the village of Aleksandrovka on the Samara bow is now located. An equally beautiful and interesting mountain mass moved into the Volga at the confluence of the Usa River, opposite Stavropol; its highest point is called the “Volodyatsky Stone”; This place was once on the top of Ukraine. '
From the east, this mountain mass is separated from the neighboring hills by a deep gorge called the “Vegulevskaya Pipe”. Even lower, along the current of the Volga, there
The artist will be amazed by the valley, known under the name “Morkvashinsky Gully”; Here, in a cozy lowland, lies the ancient village of Morkvashi, and on both sides near it rise a series of hills, one of which, a steep one, is distinguished by extremely unique contours. Between the Zhegulevskaya pipe and the Morkvashinsky gulley, on the rocky shore, several individual verigines rise upward; from them we will highlight “Maiden Kurgan” and “Two Brothers”; each of them rises one hundred fathoms too high above the level of the Volga. Farther, near Morkvasha, the already mentioned hill rises like a separate cliff, flaunting its original contours: this is a separate cliff called “Bald Mountain”; its top, a cliff hanging over the Volga, lies 125 fathoms in height above the level of the river. There is a legend that Peter Velivy climbed Bald Mountain, who inscribed “1790” on a stone there. There is no trace of this inscription now, as tourists have picked it up piece by piece and scraped it away as a souvenir.
Behind Bald Mountain to the east, all the way to the “Shiryaev Gully” stretches an almost uninhabited rocky coast, cut here and there by deep gorges. A
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even further, already opposite the “Tsarev Kurgan”, which lies below, and which will be discussed at the end of this chapter, Zheguli turns to the south and then to the west.