Zenzevatka

Zenzevatka lies in the steppe country west of the Volga, among the small valleys of the Ilovlya basin. The village was settled by serfs belonging to the Nikiforov, von Hagen and Kamennov families. Accounts place its settlement either in the 1770s or at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Its fields formed part of the expanding estate countryside of the lower Volga, where landowners brought farming families into a region long crossed by the peoples of the steppe.