What sights of Pustozero volost recommended to visit travelers in the late XIX century

The museum-reserve "Pustozersk" for almost a year was the top 10 attractions of the Pustozersk volost and tried to imagine what a guidebook would look like for a tourist who visited the Nenets district 120-200 years ago. However, as the museum admitted, at the end of the XIX century, the guide to the North already existed - it was released by the Arkhangelsk-Murmansk Shipping Company in 1899.

Our territory was recommended to curious travelers. What was the invitation to visit?

Long Island with the Siberian station, Gulyaev cats and the Strait of Ugra Shar, through which ships and famous polar expeditions pass to the Kara Sea, Vaigach Island, where the sacred place of the Nenets is located, a chapel in the name of St. Nicholas in the camp on the mainland.

While rafting along Pechora, see among the “sad ruins” “curious remnants of ancient Russian architectural taste” with carved porches, shutters, balconies and wooden house pipes.

Visit "the large village of Kuya with a convenient harbor, in which sea steamers meet with river ships and mutually transfer passengers and cargo to each other." In the village you can visit a “rich church” with a parish school and “an elegant monument of white marble over the tomb of Samoyedka Khatanzey”.

Go to the village of Oxino with a beautiful church. Oxino is a place where the Timanic and land-scarce Samoyeds gather in October-November, and trade with the island of Kolguev is carried out. On the way, look into the two villages of Sopki and see "a number of islander sand bumps, bearing the name of the hills here.".

Drive from the village of Pylemets along the postal-zemstvo road to ancient Pustozersk, which is famous as the place of exile of Protopope Avvakum, boyar Artamon Matveev and Vasily Golitsyn (in the XIX century they believed that he reached Pustozersk). Pustozersk is the control center of the Samoyeds of the Bolshezemelsk tundra, their plague around the city can be seen from November 20.

Try wildflowers: mushrooms, cloudberries, crows, pygema tea, which was once consumed by those who could not afford Chinese tea.