Ruzayevka

Ruzayevka lies on the Insar near the mouth of the Pishlya, in the Mordvin country. The village arose on land granted in 1631 to the service noble Uraz Tonkacheyev and was first known as Urazayevka. In the eighteenth century it passed to the Struysky family. Its owner Nikolai Struysky established a printing press here in 1788, bringing book production to an estate far from the great cities of Russia.