We don’t know to what extent all of the above is a true reflection of reality and to what extent it is colored by some bias of my own, which is not pre-disposed in favor of a German colonist just because he is a German colonist. We do not undertake to judge to what extent the wealth of the colony was great before the destruction of the office, but in any case, even now all the named colonies appear to be quite prosperous and prosperous, even in comparison with the Russian schismatic villages, the situation of which is also very satisfactory. Each kolo has a kirk (church), a school; In appearance, the Kolovs are something extremely decent and neat, their streets are straight and wide, their houses are very presentable, have a clean appearance and are very often lined with trees. Life in Kolovyi is neat and quiet—we still advise in German taste is invariably monotonous, pedantic in German, immersed mainly in the immediate interests of the home. Most of the inhabitants of the named colonies live such a life. Of course, the family is not without its black sheep, and among this majority there is a minority of a different kind. The minority is of two types - the rich one, which has purely Russian habits, sometimes loving to go on a spree and carouse on such a scale that is essentially not at all characteristic of a German, and the poor one, which in its lack of originality actually has a tendency, at one time or another, to lick oneself, as they say, “to a green snake.” Didn't the colonists catch the eye of Mr. Velitsyn and violate the loyalty of his relations in general?
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kingdom—Saratov.
Saratov, in the family of Russian provincial cities with its 165 thousand inhabitants, its smart streets, beautiful houses, its horse-drawn carriage and good street lighting, its abundance of televisions and in general all kinds of amenities, belongs to the number of very few provincial cities, both in its size and in its elegant appearance; If we exclude university towns from this small number of smart provincial cities, then it turns out that Saratov, among the non-university provincial cities, is a well-groomed, handsome city, of which there are very few in Rus'. It is very lively, its main streets are full of constant traffic, its trade is extensive and brisk, so that in all respects Saratov fully deserves that a tourist traveling along the Volga should get off the ship here and spend two or three days getting to know the city.
In the “Lists of populated cities of the Russian Empire” (ed. Cent. Stat. Com. M.V.D.) it is stated that Saratov was founded by the Tatars in the form of a small village,
— 112 called Sari-Tau, which means “yellow mountain” in Tatar. The ancestor of the present-day Saratov can be considered a fortified town, built in 1591 on the left bank of the Volga, at the confluence of the Saratovka River, about 10 miles from the present city, exactly where the “yellow mountain” was; This town only existed for no more than 18 years and was destroyed by the Tatars before it was founded. In 1605, the present Saratov was laid down by the Russians at its present location—on the right bank of the Volga. Thus, although in 1891 the city of Saratov celebrated the three-hundredth anniversary of its existence, it actually began in 1605, and the years preceding 18-14 years to the present Saratov had no bearing on the existence of another town, which stood on the other side of the Volga and had only one thing in common with it named. r
Fountain in Skobelevskom square, Kazan.
Before the KHUT, the Saratov region belonged to the Tatars, which is confirmed not only by the name of the city and historical data, but also by monuments that have remained to this day in the form of, for example, mounds, in which during excavations silver coins with Tatar inscriptions, various Tatar utensils, etc. are found. Tatar name. Who owned the region before the Tatars has not been established, but its final annexation to the Russian rulers followed during the reign of Toanna Groznato.
From the first years of its existence until 1780, when, by decree of Catherine II, the Saratov province was established, the city of Saratov suffered quite a few hardships.
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