The legend about healing and underground passage under the Don bed
The most exciting are the underground passages dug in 1874 with a total length of 150 meters near the Ust-Medveditsky Spaso-Preobrazhensky convent. There is an opinion that once the underground passage passed under the riverbed of the Don, making it possible to move to the left bank. In one of the parts of the caves, the main shrine of the monastery is still located - a stone on which there are prints of two palms and knees. According to legend, they belong to mother Arsenia, who prayed here. It is believed that if you fall to this stone with prayer, you can be healed from a variety of ailments and diseases.
Location: Serafimovich city, Preobrazhenskaya street, 7.
Legend of the heavenly ruler Tengri-Khan and eternal youth
Lake Elton owes its name to the golden-pink color of its waters. “Al-tyn-Hyp” (in Russian pronunciation Elton) means “gold mine” in Turkic. The red color of brine and streams flowing into it was described by the famous naturalist Pallas back in the 18th century. At the time of the Polovtsian khans, this place was considered sacred. To this day, there is a pagan legend among the Kazakhs, according to which the heavenly ruler Tengri-Khan descends into the waters of the lake to prolong their eternal youth. The legend did not arise from scratch. Mineralization of the lake is 200 - 500 g / l, which is 1.5 times higher than the concentration in the Dead Sea. The mud and water here help to heal diseases and prolong youth. Local health resorts have no analogues in the whole of Russia. The area of the lake is 152 km2, and the shape is close to a circle.
Location: Pallasovsky district, near the border with Kazakhstan.
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The legend of the caves and Alexander Nevsky
What is not told about the caves in the Kamenno-Brodsky Holy Trinity Monastery. For example, the oxygen concentration is higher here than in the surrounding area, and the temperature in both winter and summer is +11 degrees. In addition, there is a legend that scientists discovered mummies in the walled up cells of the monastery. Local residents believe that Alexander Nevsky once stayed in these caves. And according to old residents and local residents, earlier from the temple itself and other buildings of the monastery it was possible to go into the chalk caves, passing even an underground stream on the way.
Location: 13 km exactly southwest of Olkhovka.
The legend about the underground passages of "Old Sarepta" and the brewer's daughter
There is a legend that all the buildings of Zarepta were interconnected by underground passages, and in one of them the daughter of the brewer Krautwuft was buried with 25 kilograms of gold and jewelry, whose body is guarded by an iron knight.
According to another legend, a young German woman died in childbirth. But every night she came to her baby. The child's father called the pastor. Together they entered the nursery and saw how the deceased mother was breastfeeding the newborn. The last pastor in the history of Zarepta, Konstantin Rusch, taking the woman by the hand, slowly led her to the cemetery gates. She was not met again in Sarepta.
At the end of the 18th century, a dynasty of owners of a mustard plant with a similar surname lived in the building of the Glitch club. Some believe that in our time at night there are supernatural phenomena. Old-timers periodically hear in the building, now a museum, the noise of breaking dishes, heavy steps in the aisle, and sometimes, as they say, ghosts are met.
Location: Volgograd, Krasnoarmeisky district, Izobilnaya street, 10.
The Legend of the Drowned Woman and Poseidon
The legend about the Tsaritsyn merchant and his deceased daughter is associated with the Volgograd Music and Drama Cossack Theater.
The building was built in 1862 by the artel of the Tsaritsyn timber merchant Alexander Shlykov for public needs. According to one legend, the merchant Shlykov built this building in memory of his daughter who drowned in the Volga. On the facade of the building, you can see the bas-relief images of the faces of a young girl and an old man. It is believed that the girl's bas-relief is a portrait of Shlykov's daughter, and the gray-haired old man on the pediment is the cruel god of waters Poseidon, who took his daughter away from her father. Some people believe that the ghosts of the merchant and his daughter live in the theater building.
Location: Volgograd, Voroshilovsky district, st. Academic, 3.
The Legend of Stenka Razin's Treasure
During the battles of the Battle of Stalingrad, on the crumbling coast of the island, the soldiers noticed the bare barrels of old cannons. The muzzle of one of them broke off, and treasures spilled out of it: earrings, bracelets, pearls, rings, silver and gold objects. then it was suggested that these might be the treasures of Stenka Razin himself, who liked to hide jewels in "damaged" cannons, gagging their trunks and burying them on the Volga banks.
Location: opposite the northern part of Volgograd in the middle of the Volga.
Legends about wondrous birds and Tatars
There are different legends about the name of the Babain Lake, located in the Alekseevsky district. According to one of them, once upon a time wonderful birds lived on the lake - women. They were very beautiful, but their voices were unpleasant, so the hunters wore them out, but the memory of the beauty of the birds remained in the names of the lakes. According to another legend, during the Mongol-Tatar yoke, the Tatars led many Russian girls and women through these places, but only from cruel treatment, cold weather, many of them fell ill, became a burden for the Khan's army, and therefore he ordered to get rid of them. They collected all the sick and infirm and drowned them in the first of the reservoirs that came across. So the name has remained since then - Babinskoe Lake.
Location: Alekseevsky district, near the village of Bolshoy Babinsky, in the floodplain of the Buzuluk river.