Alekseevka, evening

Alekseevka was founded as a settlement in 1685 (according to other sources - in 1691). Later known as Alekseevskaya Sloboda Permskom in the district of the Voronezh province, and has long been the Cherkasy Cossack Sloboda in the Belgorod Defense line. Little Russians or Cherkassy settled here, as elsewhere in the Slobodian region, villages in front of the great Russian villages, and as a reward for the protection of the southern borders of The Russian Kingdom from the raids of the Crimean and Nogai hordes of nomads in the area Kalmius hat, possessed the liberties to drive wine and freed from serfdom. According to the legend, the first owner of the nascent settlement was Voronezh boyar Fadeev (according to other sources Faddei Antonovich Venevitinov), who built a water mill on a Quiet pine And several huts for those who want to settle in them.