Kudeyar biography

Nekrasov Appendix 2 “On one of the terrible April days of the year in St. Petersburg, on Litein Prospekt, a bell blurted over the door of a jewelry shop. The hollow owner of the shop, with a gray beard, went out to meet the visitor. There was a black -toe dense man in the doorway, obviously a provincial, with a small switch in his hands. Please look. The visitor laid a bundle on the counter and unfolded it.

The jeweler gasped. On the counter lay a massive minted gold bucket of ancient work, decorated with gemstone stones, and several gold and silver rings with enamel, rubies and turquoise. These are things from the treasure that was found on my ground. I am a landowner, from under Minsk, I have a small earthen cottage there, two hundred acres with a liner. They say that this is the gold of Kudeyar ...

”From the article by Alexander Nizovsky“ Kudeyarov’s treasures ”“ In the fall of the year, the peasant village of Syresky Lipetsk district found a massive golden brooch. In shape, the decoration resembled a predatory bird. Either a falcon. Either the eagle. This happened on the shores located next to the village of Pond. Since then, treasure hunters began to regularly visit here.

The whole shore was erased by pits. It was said that somewhere here the treasures of the legendary Kudeyar robber are hidden. This one where, where did not rob! In Kaluga, and in Tula, and in Ryazan, and in Yelets, and in Voronezh, and in Smolensk he visited everywhere, put his camps everywhere and pushed a lot of treasures into the ground, but all with curses: there was a terrible sorcerer.

And he owned a filthy force: it will spread on the shore of the river, lake, so what kind of stream a half -jacket or retinue will go to bed; He sleeps with one eye, the other is watching: if there is a chase where; The right eye fell asleep - the left watching, and there the left one sleeps, the right guard - so he is ahead; And how he envies where the detectives, jumps on his feet, throws a short fur coat on the water, which he slept on, and that short fur coat will become not a short fur coat, but a boat with oars; Kudeyar will sit in that boat - remember both the name was and died with their death - they couldn’t catch him, as they did not try there.

” The biography of Kudeyar, who was in the folk environment. Morshansky district, Tambov region “Kudeyar was a Baskak - Khan's tax collector. Having plundered villages near Moscow, and returning with great wealth to the Horde, to the Saratov steppes, Kudeyar decided to hide the tribute from the khan and settled in the Voronezh lands, where he began to hunt robbery. He lives on our yellow bugra in the town of Machs Log near Baranovichi.

Many legends about the robbery of the terrible chieftain are connected with this place. This deep ravine is surrounded by steep, almost steep walls, which made it a reliable refuge. Nearby is a hollow called a "dead man" - according to legend, here Kudeyar executed the merchants taken. The settlement in the form of a large quadrangle, torn by ramparts and moat, is surrounded by swamps and shrubs from all sides.

According to legend, the first Kudeyar rate was here. It lies a very large stone of bluish color. According to legend, Kudeyarova was a fortress here. The stone lying on the mountain was considered an enchanted, petrified horse, Kudeyar, who received a bluish color because it was fallen with fire. It is said that Kudeyar, along with his associates, Boldy and the robber Anna, hiding in the Don forests, robbed caravans of merchants, walking down the Don.

The Don Cossacks, interested in the safety of the trading path, took up arms against Kudeyar. At first they defeated the bets of the Boldyer and Anna, then reached Kudeyar's haven. For a long time they besieged Kudeyar’s fortress, then they guessed to cover it with brushwood and light it from all sides. Then Kudeyar buried all his treasures in the ground, put his beloved horse over them, turning it into stone so that it would not burn, and fled to the forest.

But the Cossacks chased after him, captured by cunning, chopped and thrown from the Black Yar into the Don. According to legend, there was one of the main rates of Kudeyar. Pronsk “On the Neruch River, in the Oryol province, three miles from the village of the back, there are two“ kudeyar pits ” - three fathoms depth connected by an underground passage with the non -armed river.

Here, according to legend, Kudeyar was hiding. Many treasures of Kudeyar are associated with the Bryansk forests and, in general, with the entire forest part of the former Oryol province. Here, in the ruins of the dugout, in which, according to legend, Kudeyar lived, human bones, daggers, peak tips, berdyshi, fragments of chain mail, Tatar coins, rings, rings, rings, etc.

were found. Such finds invariably woke up interest in the legendary treasures of Kudeyar and hunters to find them a great many people, armed with bindings, zealous They dug up the slopes of a vast hollow ravine, sharing two mountains, on one of which the drilled shafts of the ancient settlement towered. The Earth Cossacks who carried the guard service immediately paid attention to their work and reported this to the authorities.

The Zemlyansky governor Gavrila Ostrovsky was detaching for the inquiry of the height of Senka Okulov with 6 Cossacks. When the sent arrived at the scene, it was found that the inhabitants of Chernavsky district were digging the ground - the village of Terbunes and the neighboring villages with it.All these were not particularly distant people from earthly places and personally knew the backup Okulov.

There was a Pop with him, the Terbuna Kiprian sat down, who brought the uncle's lifting.

But, nevertheless, Chernavians met Okulov with his comrades very unfriendly. They even began to “try on the gun”, threatening to shoot at the hem. Pop Kiprian convinced them to lower the weapon, but it still failed to come close to the lifting. Then he sent two people to the governor with the news, and he began to observe from afar. The governor of Ostrovsky, having received the news, guessed that Chernavtsy was looking for a treasure “luggage”.

Wanting to “please the great sovereign” and fearing, as if the treasure seekers, in case of good luck, he was “stolen”, the governor went to the place personally and with an enhanced convoy. However, Chernavians met the governor with threats and again "tried on a gun." In the role of the peacemaker, Pop Kiprian, whom the governor began to ask - why and why in Zemlyansky district they dig the land “stole”.

In response, Pop said-because they dig, that the earth in the log of the embankment and the turf is not for nothing: "He is a big luggage." And in that town, cannon and every treasury is imperceptible. And that log with the luggage, we drew to dig a pop Cyprian asked the governor to “not exile” Chernavtsev from the place, allow them to dig, albeit along with earthly people, “and what God will give, to divide them by shares.” The governor allowed them to continue excavations with that, however, in order not to divide the find and immediately unsubscribe about it.

But Chernavtsy so "not the labels" and defiantly left the scene of the excavations. Then the governor set to dig a treasure of his Cossacks. The next day, Chernavtsev again appeared at the excavation site and agreed to dig with the Earthlymen, persuading only that they were "not abundant." Pop Kiprian did not come on this day, but sent a note from which it followed that he had some “letter and painting”, according to which Cyprian calculated the location of the treasure.

For two days, the Earthlymen and Chernavtsy still dug - they found nothing. The treasure hunters cooled to their work and left it: they were all “people are scarce and wireless, which they had in addition to bread with them, they ate, and went for bread work in residential villages.” Dreams of the inconspicuous treasury scattered. But rumors about the search for a treasure on Vesag began to spread in different directions.

The hunters also appeared to try his luck and continued to dig "hiring". In prove his words, Astremsky presented the governor to the “pantry of the record” itself. The governor read for a long time in her sophisticated text, trying to understand mysterious instructions. It was obvious that in the letter, the signs of the road to Kudeyarov Gorodka - “Gorodishch”, and a secret meadow with a lake, where the “seven earthen huts”, a bathhouse and a blacksmith are listed.

From this meadow, the road led to the guard mound, and next to the mound, there was a “cellar” with the luggage apparently, it was this text that Pop Kiprian was guided by when he began to dig a log with Chernavtsy on the Vesaiga River. The governor tried to compare the signs of “murals” with that area and attach signs of Kudeyarov’s treasure to the town at the Vedug peak.

At his request, Astremsky even painted a “drawing”. The governor traveled for a long time, carefully studied the terrain, peered at Karakuli Astremsky, compared, but did not come to any specific result and finally requested Moscow: “And about the great sovereign, how will you tell me? What was undertaken in this case is unknown, but the secret of Kudeyarov’s town remained unsolved ...

”From the article by A. Nizovsky“ Kudeyarov’s treasures ”“ In the Tula and Kaluga provinces, they talked about the treasures of Kudeyar, buried in various “wells”, “tops”, “yars”, and “pantries” in the Kudeyarovs were also preserved. One of these records at the end of the last century was owned by a monk of Optina desert, after the death of which the manuscript fell into the monastery library.

It contained extensive information about treasures buried by Kudeyar in the vicinity of Kozelsk and Likhvin now Chekalin. As one of the places where Kudeyar’s treasures are laid, the manuscript called the damn town or Shutov Gorus - the mysterious forest tract 18 miles from the Optin desert monastery, not far from the old road from Kozelsk to Likhvin, on which it was so convenient to rob passing merchants.

Here, on a tall hill overgrown forest, dominated by the surrounding area, almost at its very top with three steep walls rises a huge block of grayish sandstone from the ground, crossed by numerous cracks and overgrown with moss. Due to these clear faces, the settlement was sometimes also called a “granular hill”. The fourth side of the settlement, dilapidated by time and overgrown with grass, almost equalized with the platform on the top of the hill, forming the "yard" of the damn settlement.

According to legend, there was a “castle” of Kudeyar, built for him with evil spirits. As if in one night, demons built a two -story stone house, a gate on the site of the settlement, dug up the pond, however, they didn’t have time to finish the building before dawn - the rooster shouted, and the unclean force scattered, abandoning the construction of the unfinished.And, according to the stories of witnesses, a long time later, until the beginning of the X, the settlement could see the unfinished building - “Monument of demonic architecture”, which then began to quickly collapse.

The traces of the pond dug by the “demons” indicated in the 10th years, and the numerous stone fragments scattered around the settlement indicate as if some buildings that once were here. And on one of the stones lying at the foot of the settlement, a trace of the "paws" of the unclean was clearly visible one hundred years ago. In the thickness of the sandstone, from which the settlement is composed, several caves are hidden.

In the main cave, called the “entrance to the lower floor”, several people could be freely accommodated. From it, two narrow manholes go deep into the mountains say that the unclean force that built the castle is now saving the treasures buried on the settlement and in the surrounding ravines and forest tracts of Kudeyar's treasures.