Legend says that from the Sokolovaya Mountain-called the Mountain of Falcons, came Stenka Razin. It is written in books that from thence came also Emelian Pugachev.
The Sokolovaya Mountain towers high above the Volga and the plains, making a dark, precipitous descent to the pirate river below.
Across the Volga lies an ancient town. By the Gle