Life on the "black" - the dying village \ In the footsteps of the peasant revolt

Hello. Please forgive my poor level of English.
“Russia lives in villages” is a beautiful statement, isn't it? Yes, the words are good, but they are empty, because now in Russia it is far from that. Taken in the 60s of the 20th century, the course towards the consolidation and destruction of unpromising villages and villages is bearing fruit. Now even once the enlargement of the village, too, began to die. The flight of young people from the village continues to this day. And the youth is probably not guilty, if the authorities created conditions for their life, then everything would be different. The other day I was able to visit one such enlarged village, which is currently living out its days.

Having driven a little over 20 kilometers along the far best road, I saw a sign. Another 8 kilometers of shaking in the car, and I will be at the appointed place.

At the entrance to the village I was waiting for the cross, which symbolically stands at the beginning. This cross stands on the whole village when founded after 1661 by settlers from near Varnavin. Out of the whole village street, only two are three houses, two of which, it seemed to me, are country houses.

It seems that there is no end to the road, and at the edges of this road there are houses and

people walk, doing urgent things, but this is not so. For all the time I saw an old man who

repaired his Lada and at the sight of me decided to go into the house.

Here is a house still preserved in the village. As I understand it, there was probably a two-family house, or perhaps a large house with a “cold” and “warm” half.

And across the road from him on the remains of apparently collective-farm buildings lies a forest. From these places, the Fiscars are very actively driving the forest and apparently they are putting it up here so as not to go far in bad weather. Beyond this village was also a logging village, which had already disappeared.

The village is named after the river on which the Black River stands. In 1856, there were 28 houses and 191 inhabitants in the village, and in 1907 there were already 275 inhabitants. The Theological Church was built in the 2nd half of the XIX century. At the same time, the Zemstvo School was opened (in 1911, Korsukov Aristarkh Ivanovich, Blagoveshchenskaya Serafima Gennadyevna, and in 1916 Captain Pavel Vasilyevich) taught. There was a land station. People engaged in forest, amusing craft. In the First World War, 6 people were killed, 3 were captured.

This village has left its mark not only in local history, but also in the history of Russia in particular. 1917 was remembered by everyone as the year of the revolution, which changed the history of Russia before and after. But the new government met not so happy. The farther from Moscow and St. Petersburg, the less joy in the eyes of the peasants.

In 1918, a large peasant revolt took place on the territory of Uren-Krai, which was directed against the new government.

The village has a great history, but unfortunately the village is dying in front of those whose relatives created the history of this village. Well, I went further in this village.

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