Tsareva Gora

Tsareva Gora is a village in the Veliky Ustyug district of the Vologda region. It is part of the Mardengsky rural settlement. I did not find any data on the village, because it has long been listed uninhabited. But summer residents still come there. The path to the village lies along an overgrown forest road, which can be taken on an off-road vehicle and only in summer in dry weather.

On the way there are places by which it can be judged that before were houses on its.

In general, the path to the village of Tsareva Gora is very interesting and diverse. Small aspen trees, replaced by meadow with motley grass, then young spruce and pine, and then a large dense forest, which is then replaced by single thickets of small deciduous trees.

The sound of a chainsaw was heard from afar - it means there is someone in the village.

The environment of the village seemed interesting: apart from one barely perceptible overgrown road, around there was grass above the knee. And at the end of the summer it will be waist-high! And there will only stick the rooftops.

We did not study the village and passed by, which is not typical of our hikes. We walked to the Sukhona River to the Myakolitsa natural boundary.

There is electricity here.

The fact that this Gora (Hill in russian) is so clear - the village is located on a hill. And the fact that she is Tsareva can only be guessed - either this is the beauty of the landscape, or in some way connected with some kind of tsar.

By the way, if you don’t see the map beforehand, then you just can’t find this village.

Tsareva Gora was ruined, as it often happens, poor transport accessibility.

It is located in the middle of the road between the asphalt road and the Sukhona River. In the vicinity there are still a couple of residential villages.

And how many of them there once were! And almost all just disappeared... there was not even a trace left...

What gets I captured - is an insignificant part of the lost.

Real Russian peasant old villages have long been turned into a forest, and only with the help of old maps and a metal detector can you find any traces of human existence.

And we are moving further towards the Sukhona river. There is an object waiting for us that has passed a completely different time frame - millions of years. This is the exposure of sandstone among other rocks of the Permian period.