It all ended with the fact that by 1813, deceived by the majority of those whom he helped, Zlobin went bankrupt, and his property was sold at public auction. In 1818, he died a poor man, and on the ruins of his once enormous wealth, the capital of many Volsky wealth arose, creating the trade and industry of the city and even subsequently exported to the city.
In the past, Volsk was famous for its rich forests, of which there were now few. About a mile from the steamship offices there is a beautiful Shoemaker's Garden, in which there is a throwing club.
On both sides of Volsk the chalice mountains rise with original outlines, presenting a very beautiful picture both in solar and lunar light.
“The German has gone for Volsk,” say the Volga residents. Along the entire length between Volsk and Yekaterinstadt (Baronsk) there are only four Russian villages: Rybnoye, Blogrodnya, famous for its cherry orchards, Voskresenskoye and Bereznyaki; All these villages are located on the right bank. On the left bank one can see a whole string of German colonies; starting from Volsk, a number of their names sound strange in the ears of a Russian person, aware that he is located in the great Russian river, in that eastern region of Rosai, which the Russian spirit has sought to civilize from time immemorial. These colonies are: Scheegausen, Glarus, Basel, Zurich, Solothurn, Zug, Lucerne, Unterwalden, Susenthal, Brockhausen, Hockelberg, Klein-Obernonge and, finally, the head of all German pits located in the Samara province, Ekaterinstadt. The true capital of the entire Volga and German kingdom, of course, should be considered Saratov, which in the dreams of every colonist is the most desirable point of the vast Rosaia, which, although it spoiled the colonist, but about which he considers it necessary to have the most vague ideas.
In Ekaterinstadt, grateful residents erected a monument to Empress Catherine II, who, by her decree of 1765, invited foreigners to Rosesho, offering them all kinds of benefits. A beautiful bronze statue depicts Catherine seated and holding a scroll with the inscription: “May! ez, 4ep 25, 1765.” The inscription on the pedestal reads as follows: "Oer Kazemia Kafatta TsP az ah fatke uop ep Zatabo\uzsVep Apze eti. O. 24 pouesheg 18404."
There are more than 2500 residents in Ekaterinstadt; These are all Germans, mostly Lutherans; occasionally Catholics; They are engaged in arable farming, gardening, gardening, tobacco plantations and trade. As a grain port, Ekaterinstadl occupies a fairly prominent position.
T. Velitsyn, published in “Russian Veetnik”, his article “Nmtsy on the Volga” paints a rather gloomy picture of the morals of the colonists of the Samara province. He talks about how the former wealth of the Volga region fell from that port, how the office of the government over them was destroyed; he talks about the habitual drunkenness of the colonists, about the desolation of their churches, about the development of crimes against morality among them, about how they began to squander small capital, how the people began to become disintegrated, how the cultivation of the fields worsened, and how among the mass of the colonists, the instincts that had been dormant for a long time began to awaken in them, the instincts of that portless goal that their ancestors were during the travel to Rosso.