In former times, on the same street where the city of Simbirsk now stands, there was a Tatar village of the same name. During the reign of Alex Mikhailovich, in 1648, a city was founded here, which was given the name of the former tract. Under the mountain, where the Usnenskaya settlement now exists, many people settled there; Already during the construction of the city, there was a monastery of the Assumption on the very bank of the Volga, the founder of which, Macarius, asked Toann the Terrible back in 1552 to donate new lands to the monastery. The most outstanding events in the history of Simbirsk were: the siege of the city by Stenka Razin in 1670 and the siege of it by Oedka Sheludyak the following year; the formation of the Simbirsk province (at that time a province) in 1708, when the city was given a provincial seat, and the cities of Samara and Syzran were assigned to it; renaming Simbirsk to namfstnichestvo in 1780 and renaming it to a provincial city in 1796. For the constant loyalty shown by the city of Simbirsk during the Pugachev rebellion, Empress Catherine II granted him a coat of arms, which remains the coat of arms of the Simbirsk province to this day (on a blue background there is a white pillar with a gold crown on it). It was from this coat of arms that it became a custom, first among the nobles of the Simbirsk province, and then throughout
In general, among the native Volga nobility, signing the name of a pillar nobleman is such and such a custom that has disappeared only halfway through the present century.
In 1868, Simbirsk became the victim of a huge fire, which destroyed the best part of the city and largely undermined its well-being for a long period of time, since many pompists who lived in Simbirsk before the fire moved permanently to Kazan after the fire; and with their departure, city trade and industry fell to a significant extent. Having a good harbor and a fertile area around it, Simbirsk, however, eventually took advantage of its advantageous position and actively joined the trade in agricultural products. The noble nobles from among those who did not manage to squander their fortunes actively took up agriculture, increased their arable land, took care of the marketing of their products, and were not even averse to the factory industry. With the combined efforts of such pompists and the local merchants, the city, of course, eventually recovered from the fire and the steel was still more beautiful than before.
Of course, compared with Nizhny, Kazan, Saratov and even Samara, Simbirsk is a poor city, but in its elegant appearance it is the gentleman of the Volga region. Despite his lack of wealth, he still flaunts such amenities, such beautiful buildings, which, for example, rich Samara can rightfully envy. To be convinced of this, it is worth taking a walk in the part of the city called Vfnts and looking at the two cathedrals located there. The Petropavlovsk descent, starting at the pier itself and ending on Bolshaya Saratovskaya Street, is also an obvious sign of concern for
landscaping%. As for Saratovskaya Street, the main street in the city, it is a semicircle going around Venets. Not far from the cathedrals there are two city gardens - Nikolaevsky and VKaramzinsky, the governor's house, a classical gymnasium, the house of the city society and here there are meeting places. In the center of the city there is also the Savior Monastery, in the temple of which the miraculous icons of the Savior Not Made by Hands and the Iveron Mother of God are kept. There is a boulevard above the cliff to the Volga, from which a marvelous panorama of the beautiful river and beyond the Volga opens. The monument to Karamzin, located in the center of the city, was built in 1844 to honor the Simbirsk nobility. It consists of a granite pedestal on which stands a bronze statue of the Muse of History; On the front side of the pedestal, in a round niche, there is a bust of Karamzin, and under it there is an inscription: “To N. M. Karamzin, the historian of the Rosey state, the command of Emperor Nicholas 1.” The height of the monument is 41/3 fathoms. Two bronze bas-reliefs are embedded in the sides of its pedestal: one depicts Karamzin’s reading of history to Emperor Alexander G., and the other, a reprint of Emperor Nicholas [th] being presented to the dying Karamzin. The execution of the monument was entrusted to the sculptor Golbert, but after his death parts were executed by his students: a statue of the muse by Staviner together with Ivanov, a bust of the historian and one by Ramazanov, and the other by Kimichenko; The monument was cast by Baron Ts. A. Klodt.
The following writers lived their youth in Karamzin's Simbirsk village: Dmitrev, Goncharov and Minaev; later and died in his hometown in 1888.