Arkatovo
Founded by
Peter Arkatov
in the
2nd half of the 17th century
. Also known
as Bogorodskoye. The son of Peter Arkatov, boyar Dmitry (Diomid) Petrovich,
built a single-altar Smolensk-Bogoroditskaya Church (operating, architectural
monument) in Arkatovo in 1746. According to legend, there was a swamp in
this place, where shepherds found an icon of the Mother of God floating face
down and took it to landowner. In 1859, there were a malt and oil mills,
3 windmills, and a grain mill. At the beginning of the 20th century there was
a local school, 2 windmills, 2 grain stores, a state-owned wine store, 2 beer
houses and 1 small shop. The land allotment of the rural community
amounted to 296 acres.
The history of the purchase of Arkatovo by the Ilyins
Alexander Ivanovich Ilyin
The Arkatovo estate, which included about 10,000 acres of land and 200 serf
souls, was owned by Arkatovs family and then inherited by Matyunin, my
great-grandmother,
Varvara Sergeevna Moiseeva
, née Bolkhovskaya, and
Ozerov; according to the division, it left the Moiseevs' possession — and the
heirs sold it to Tille, a military doctor by profession.
My grandfather <
Alexander Ivanovich Ilyin
>, commanding a garrison
regiment in Kazan, married the daughter of the Kazan Provincial Marshal of
the Nobility Petr Ivanovich Veshnyakov —
Maria Petrovna
.
Having married a Kazan woman, my grandfather naturally tends towards
Kazan. The Ilyins lived then (1832-1833) on the family estate of Malaya Palna
(or Polyanka) in the Oryol province.
Maria Petrovna Ilyina
(Veshnjakova)
Until 1920, the village was the center of the Arkatovsky volost of the
Laishevsky district of the Kazan province. Since 1920, as part of the
Laishevsky, since 1927 - Arsky cantons of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet
Socialist Republic. From 08/10/1930 in the Pestrechinsky district.
Ustinya Mikhailovna with Andrey’s family, in carts on two troikas of their
piebald horses, brought 100 thousand roubles from the sale of Palna to Kazan.
With these 100 thousand we bought Arkatovo in Laishevsky district. Arkatovo
is a small village with an old stone church. There is an icon revealed there. In
the place where the church and graveyard are now, there was a swamp; and
in an old hollow someone found an icon of the Smolensk Mother of God.
Arkatov built a church here. Old times. In the fence there are graves from the
time of Peter the Great. The Matyunins bought the estate from the Arkatovs,
then it passed to Tille, then to the Ilyins. In my time, it was owned by
a merchant woman, Muravyova, nicknamed “Sourdough” from whom the
revolution had already taken it.
From memoirs of
Boris Petrovich Ilyin
<
around 1870-75
> the second half of the village of Arkatova belonged to the
cousins of father <
Petr Alexandrovich
> Krudener, and was sold by them. My
father, burdened with a family, passionately dreamed of buying this part of
the ancestral house of his parents. For this happiness, seven thousand rubles
were missing, which could be freely obtained from the sale of part of the
forest. My mother begged
Petr Gavrilovich
<Ossokin> to help, who was still
very rich at that time, and he refused her: “You are inventing nonsense with
Petr Aleksandrovich and only getting confused,” and coldly turned away, and
yet the personality of Petr Gavrilovich was sacred to my mother. No one ever
risked speaking ill of him in front of her. My father had a different opinion
about him. They always met coldly.
Anna Vasilievna and Alexandra Vasilievna Krudener, daughters of
Petr Alexandrovich's sister Varvara Alexandrovna.
In Arkatov in 1834, Alexander Ivanovich died.
In the fence of the Arkatovskaya Church, where it is no longer possible to
bury, there is the Ilyin family cemetery. There is no crypt, but a large place is
surrounded by a metal grate — grandfather arranged it — and there are
already many graves here. It seems that grandfather’s place was the last
behind these bars; why, as he said, it is forbidden to bury in the church fence,
I don’t know; grandfather thought it was to increase the income of the church;
so somebody donates some amount to the church and will lie in the fence.
Here, great-grandfather
Alexander Ivanovich
and great-grandmother
Maria
Petrovna
are buried under ancient high slabs, in the form of tombs;
grandmother
Nadezhda Nikolaevna
; nanny Ustinya Mikhailovna. And there
is also someone else’s grave, it seems, someone’s governess. Now our old
“grandfather lord”
Petr Aleksandrovich
has also calmed down here.
The distance from Malaya Palna to Kazan is 1,100 km. How many days did it take Ustinya Mikhailovna to arrive?
From memoirs of
Boris Petrovich Ilyin
From memoirs of
Petr Ivanovich Zisserman
Village in the Pestrechinsky (former Laishevsky) district,
on the river Iinka, 60 km east of Kazan.
1979 —
70
1989 —
34
2000 —
29
1782 —
186
1859. —
272
1897 —
389
1908. —
382
1926 —
435
1949 —
239
1970 —
149
Population:
Having buried his father <
Ivan Silovich Ilyin
> and feeling that he himself
would not live long,
Alexander Ivanovich
decided to part with the Oryol
province so that after his death his wife would not remain lonely in a land
foreign to her. Therefore, leaving Maria Petrovna’s “maid of honor”, the serf
Ustinya Mikhailovna, in Palna, the whole family went in 1834, first to Moscow,
and then very soon moved to live in the Kazan province, where all of Maria
Petrovna’s relatives lived.
When an opportunity presented itself in Kazan to buy Arkatovo from Tille,
they wrote to Ustinya Mikhailovna asking her to sell Palna, gave her a power
of attorney, etc., and Palna was very successfully sold on September 2, 1834,
for 100 thousand in banknotes to staff captain Grigory Lukich Sukhachev,
a nobleman, who married a merchant's wife; her dowry was 150 thousand,
and her father obliged the groom to first of all acquire the estate. This is
where M. Palna turned up.
In addition to Ustinya Mikhailovna, the Ilyins kept serf family for themselves
after the sale: Andrey with his wife and five sons, whose names were Nikolay,
Alexander, Ilya, Lukyan and Mikhail. Subsequently, when Alexander
Ivanovich’s son Petr Alexandrovich was promoted to officer, Alexander (who
was also in the corps with him) became his valet, Mikhail became a coachman,
and Lukyan became a cook, who received his initial culinary education in the
house of
Tatyana Petrovna Zheltukhina
, and further improvement — in the
St. Petersburg English Club. Subsequently he was the headman. Ilya was
a clerk.
After the death of Alexander Ivanovich, half of Arkatov was inherited by his
daughter
Varvara Alexandrovna Krudener
, the wife of
Baron Vasily
Mironovich Krudener
. She died early (at 28 years old), and this part of the
estate passed to her daughters - Anna Vasilievna and Alexandra Vasilievna.
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