you. Under the mountain, near the shore, there are several grain barns; there are houses on the Tatar slopes; the top is crowned with a church; winds along the mountains like a long ribbon the road from the pier and at the moment the steamer stops along this road, and right without a road, and along a steep slope, Tatar loaders crawl up and down like ants, carrying a heavy burden that is unbearable for an ordinary person. This is Tetyushi, a district town in the Kazan province, with 3,000 inhabitants. The city itself cannot be seen from the Volga, the mountain on which it is located is so high.
Tetyuigi was founded by the Tatar prince Tetyush, after the invasion of Timur, and in KHUT vu the city was known under the name of Tetyushka Zaska and was surrounded by a ditch and rampart, enclosing observation posts. Not far from Getyusha, near the village of Syukeevo, in the not very distant past, sulfur deposits were discovered in the obituary space, which were developed with quite significant success in quantitative terms, without, however, achieving the desired results in qualitative terms. '
7 versts from Tetyushey, near the very bank of the Volga, you can see a small wooden chapel. This is called Old Tetyushi, or otherwise the Bogoroditsky market. The first name is explained by the fact that the surrounding Chuvash and Mordovians consider this to be Tetyusha’s former location. Judging by the current appearance of the terrain, it is difficult to imagine that any settlement could have settled in the narrow space between the river and the mountainside, but it is known that the former bed of the Volga was so far from the mountain that between it and the river there remained a wide space, on which there even existed a monastery, burned by robbers in half the century.
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Regarding the name of the Mother of God Market, opinions differ. Prof. Shiilevsky expresses the conjecture that in the past there was a market near the chapel during a certain period of the year, but this can hardly be substantiated by the very fact that on the Volga the markets are not called trading places, known under the name bazaars, but the capes formed by the river. It is very possible that in the past there was a cape near the river where the chapel stood, which had been washed away by the current. The legend regarding the location of the chapel reads as follows.
In the flowering times of the Bulgarian Kingdom, the Bulgarian Tsar went to war on Russian soil and, among the rich booty, once brought with him a Russian beauty princess who had been taken into captivity. The tsar married the ploughwoman as his wife and spent a long time trying to persuade her to marry the wife; But even after convincing many, the princess did not give up the Christian tradition and the king allowed her to perform some of the rituals of his religion. And so every time, with the onset of fasting, the queen swam across. on the other side of the Volga, precisely on the spot where the described chapel is now located, and here, living in a small cell, she fasted and prayed to God, and after finishing the fast, she returned back to the Bolgars to her husband.
Serving as a watershed between the Volga and Svyaga, a large, high mountain, descending to Syag with gentle slopes, presents a series of steep ledges towards the Volga. The province is located on this mountain! the city of Simbirek, the best part of which is located right on the tops of the mountain and is called Vients. This point rises above the level of the Volga by about 70 fathoms; steep slopes
The tori will be covered with orchards, and under the mountain there will be a tunnel of wooden buildings and the pier of the city, four miles away from it, since the ascent to the tor is in zigzags. Close to the Volga, the city of Simbirsk itself is almost invisible, but from a distance it is very picturesque. The historical past of Simbirsk is not very rich in view of the fact that this city belongs to the number of young cities, but it still has a past about which a few words cannot be said.