Nestiar (Nestiary)

 village, interesting place

Nestiar - a village in the Nizhny Novgorod region near Lake Nestiyar.

Lake Nestiar (Area - approximately 30 hectares, depth - up to 24 meters, meteorite origin) - keeper of the legends about the historical past of the Russian people. According to one version, the name of the lake comes from the old Nester, heroic victims of the invasion hordes of Khan Bata. On the other hunters nabreli forest lake in bad weather and called dirty яром. In the essay Korolenko "in desert places" describes a belief, associated with the lake: "There is a church with an icon Vasilsurska Varlaam Hutynskogo moved to a steep bank and carried over the forest, the lake has become invisible, and is so far from the lake can be heard peal, as of Svetloyara. There is also a belief that as a lost hunter in the woods, but suddenly heard the bell ringing and went to the lake. Korolenko, and tells another story. In former times the night before Easter nestiartsy collected on a hill near his lake m quietly waited for: an hour, when the fifty miles to the monastery Makarevskom strikes in the big bell, as if the echoes were heard ringing. Local residents felt that the lake is reported underground roots with the Volga, and because rumble is transmitted by water.

Local landowner considered prestigious to have a cottage near Nestiar. It built and Shagin, and Belyaev (large lumbermen of Resurrection), and, of course, Tolstoy (Tolstoy Nikolai Sergeevich - Earl, a retired military officer, son of former vice-governor of Nizhny Novgorod second cousin of Leo Tolstoy).
In 1859 the village was built Nestiar St. Nicholas Church. Designed temple architect N.I.Uzhumedsky-Gritsevich. August 11, the temple was consecrated in honor of Nicholas "... Construction was conducted manually. As the legend that is passed from generation to generation, in lime, which whitewashed church added egg yolks, which give a particular strength of lime. This lime preserved until the present. Eggs collected from throughout the region. The latest priest - Vasilevskiy. The church suffered destruction in the years 1934-1935 "