Tarbeevka

Tarbeevka lies by the Vindreï in the western part of the Mordvin country. The village was recorded in 1667 and took its name from the Tarbeev family, whose service to the Russian rulers was traced to a Tatar ancestor. In the second half of the seventeenth century members of the family held the settlement. Its fields and nearby woods formed part of the rural landscape between the Moksha basin and the Russian frontier forts farther south.