Dalneye Konstantinovo

Dalneye Konstantinovo lies south of Nizhny Novgorod, in a countryside where Russian and Mordvin settlements met. Local tradition associates its name with Konstantin Vasilyevich, prince of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod in the fourteenth century. The village itself is documented in 1690. Its setting recalls the expansion of the Nizhny Novgorod principality and the long coexistence of communities in the forested lands beyond the Oka and Volga.