The frame is beautifully composed!

Beautifully framed!

Svetlana Shapiro, I agree 100%! But my heart always bleeds when I see such an amazing old woman die...

Svetlana Shapiro, I agree 100%! But my heart always bleeds when I see such a wonderful old building perish...

Nadin, They write that the church was built in 1805, i.e., before the war of 1812. It's clear it was large and architecturally intricate. It was built with the landowners' money and contributions from the villagers, so they weren't poor. The former chairman of the collective farm recalled that in 1929, several hundred families signed up as collective farmers. His parents alone gave two horses to the collective farm... Now, only a handful of houses remain in the village.

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Svetlana Shapiro, Thank you for your positive feedback!

Now there are barely a handful of houses left in the village.[/quote]
Alexander Chumakov,
It's all one big conspiracy of DEHUMANIZATION, to kill the god in the soul, tear the peasant away from his land, turn him into a hired hand, and do whatever you want, dance on the bones, war on Easter ((

Now there are barely a handful of houses left in the village – you can count them on your fingers.
Alexander Chumakov,
It's all one big conspiracy of DEHUMANIZATION: kill the god in the soul, tear the peasant away from his land, turn him into a hired hand, and do whatever you want, dance on the bones, war on Easter ((

Viktor Kirillov, I agree with you on everything, Viktor Ilyich. And about the war...? We don't know everything, we can't know... The big question is – why such a war, what for?..

Viktor Kirillov
Alexander Chumakov, It's all one big conspiracy of DEHUMANIZATION: kill the god in the soul, tear the peasant away from his land, turn him into a hired hand, and do whatever you want, dance on the bones, war on Easter ((

Viktor Kirillov, I agree with you on everything, Viktor Ilyich. And about the war...? We don't know everything, we can't know... The big question is: why such a war, what for?...

The big question is: why such a war, what for?..[/quote]
Alexander Chumakov,
I don't know everything about the Great Patriotic War, because our history has been repeatedly rewritten to suit the ruling "elite," but from that same history I know the cause of ALL IMPERIALIST wars, and the current one, by all indications, is precisely that, no matter what fairy tales the television tells us, and the nature of fascism doesn't change, no matter on whose soil it grew.
"Do Russians want war..." No, of course not, no nation wants war, but CAPITAL will not allow humanity to freely choose its destiny.

The village of Vaz'yan is an ancient settlement in the Nizhny Novgorod region with Mordvin roots and a rich history. Tsar Ivan the Terrible, during his campaign against Kazan, camped in Vaz'yan with his army, where he baptized the Tatars living there and founded the wooden St. Nicholas Church, whose gates remained standing until the mid-19th century. The village once stood in the middle of a large lake, Ozyanskoye Lake. Powerful springs gushed from the lake's bottom and connected to an underground karst river. According to legend, local landowner Elizaveta Zinovieva, tired of the lake's damp climate, ordered it filled in. All summer long, peasants hauled earth, straw, brushwood, and stones on horseback and filled the lake. Huge mounds, which still stand today, were erected at the sites of the springs. The village was divided into two halves by the outskirts, one of which was called the Free Side. Long before the abolition of serfdom, the Zinoviev landowners freed some of their peasants from serfdom, with the condition that they "obey them for the rest of their lives..." It was also Elizaveta Zinovieva, the landowner, who completed the construction of a large stone church in the village in 1805, which still stands on Vazyanskaya Mountain. By the beginning of the last century, the village had over 100 houses. In 1929, the Vazyanets collective farm was established in the village. It quickly gained strength, with each of its four teams employing up to 100 horses. A farm, school, and club were built, and an orchard was eventually purchased, selling apples throughout the surrounding area. Currently, the village has no permanent residents, and its church is in disrepair.

The village of Vaz'yan is an ancient settlement in the Nizhny Novgorod region with Mordvin roots and a rich history. Tsar Ivan the Terrible, during his campaign against Kazan, camped in Vaz'yan with his army, where he baptized the Tatars living there and founded the wooden St. Nicholas Church, whose gates remained standing until the mid-19th century. The village once stood in the middle of a large lake, Ozyanskoye Lake. Powerful springs gushed from the lake's bottom, and it connected to an underground karst river. According to legend, local landowner Elizaveta Zinovieva grew tired of the lake's damp climate and ordered it filled in. All summer long, peasants hauled earth, straw, brushwood, and stones on horseback and filled the lake. Huge mounds were erected at the sites of the springs, and they still stand today. The village was divided into two halves by the outskirts, one of which was called the Free Side. Long before the abolition of serfdom, the Zinoviev landowners freed some of their peasants from serfdom, with the condition that they "obey them for the rest of their lives..." It was also Elizaveta Zinovieva, the landowner, who completed the construction of a large stone church in the village in 1805, which still stands on Vazyanskaya Mountain. By the beginning of the last century, the village had over 100 houses. In 1929, the Vazyanets collective farm was established in the village. It quickly gained strength, with each of its four brigades employing up to 100 horses. A farm, school, and club were built, and an orchard was eventually purchased, selling apples throughout the surrounding area. Currently, the village has no permanent residents, and its church is in disrepair. [/quote]
Alexander Barkhatov, Thank you!