Simbirsk
Britishnoun
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His grandfather had migrated about 1760 from Simbirsk to Ufa, where the population consisted mainly of Tatars and a number of Finnish tribes—Mordvinians, Choovashes, and others.
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When my grandfather lived in the Government of Simbirsk, on the ancestral estate granted to his forefathers by the Tsars of Muscovy, he felt cramped and confined.
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My grandfather first crossed the Volga by the ferry near Simbirsk, and then struck across the steppe on the further side, and travelled on till he came to Sergievsk, which stands on a hill at the meeting of two rivers and gives a name to the sulphur springs twelve versts8 from the town.
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When he had assured his title by legal documents, he went back with a light heart to his expectant family in the Government of Simbirsk.
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In that winter my grandfather went to Simbirsk and brought back his wife and children with him.
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