M.: Art, 1990 - 151 p. — (Roads to Beauty)

ISBN 5-210-00305-1

Sit is a small river. Its entire course is barely one and a half hundred kilometers, from its source in the Sonkovsky district of the Kalinin region to its confluence with the Rybinsk “Sea” in the Yaroslavl region. The river is small, but famous. Everyone has heard about it at least once. I was sure to hear it as a child - in the maps of the school history of the USSR there is its name. The Sit River is small, but its secrets are great. And the first of them is the bloody Battle of Sith. From ancient times to this day, numerous scientists, local historians, folklorists and countless lovers of Russian history have been arguing about it. The second secret of the City is sitskari. For hundreds of years it has been noted that supposedly some special people live here, very different from the indigenous Russians, well aware of their specialness and living in its own small world and curious way of life. Once upon a time there were appanage principalities here, ancient famous noble families once chose these shores, interesting wooden construction glorifies these places, the world of Sita legends is bright and romantic, and all these are pages on which nothing has been read not all, where an entertaining reality is intertwined with the alluring unknown. And, finally, Sit is a sweet village beauty, worthy of love and recognition for this alone.

Contents From the author. The past of the Sitsky region. Archaeological evidence of the life of ancient tribes in shores of the City - Sita lands - the northwestern outskirts of the Vladimir principality - The Battle of Sita and legends about it - The appanage principalities of Sitskoye and Prozorovskoye - Sitskari.Verkhovye.Sonkovo - the “gate” to the City - Istok City - Estate in Petrovsky - Church in the village of Zadorye - Village of Gorka - Chapels in the villages of Krivonogovo and Turchaninovo - Village of Vozhonka. Church of the Intercession - Monument in honor of the Battle of Kulikovo. Swamp. Landscape of Swamp - Sheldomezh. Church of the Resurrection. Cathedral of Our Lady of the former Shestakovsky Monastery - Villages of Solovtsy, Mogilitsy, Filipovo - Village of Voskresenskoye. In the middle City. Trinity Church in the village of Sysoev - Novinskoye (New) - estate of A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylina - Church of John the Baptist in the village of Kolegaevo - Rodnaya Village. Houses of the Shashunovs, Korgins, Baryshevs - Village of Shcherbinino - Barn - an example of traditional rural construction - Sit in the middle reaches - Chapel in the village of Pravdino - Church of the Intercession in the village of Pravdino - Village of Old Nekouz - Church of Dmitry Solunsky in the village of Dmitrievskoye - Church of the Transfiguration in the village of Spas- Ild - Chapel in the village of Rakovo. Sitskari. External features, character of the Sitskari - Ancient craft - shipbuilding - Carpentry - Lifestyle, occupation in the old days - Researchers about the origin of the Sitskari - The village of Stanilovo. Church of the Transfiguration - Houses of Sitskari work in the villages of Rubtsovo and Solotskovo - Chapel from the village of Yuryevskoye - Trinity Church in the village of Krasnoye - Monument to the Battle of Sitskari - Village of Pankratovo. Country of Sitskari. Sitskari land - Sitskari about themselves - Modern life of Sitskari - Old and new types of houses — Traditional in the art of the Sitskars — Sitska spinning wheel — Household utensils and furniture — Saw house carving. To the lower reaches. Church of the Introduction in the village of Bailovskoye — “Fire” in the village of Kopan — Church of the Archangel Michael in the village of Semyonovskoye — Church of the Intercession in the village of Sit-Pokrovskoye — Breytovo .Instead of epilogue. Notes. Glossary of special terms. Brief bibliography.