Conversation (Leningrad region)

For the first time, the toponym “ Conversation” is mentioned in the Scribe Book of the Vodskaya Pyatina in 1500, as the village of Teryobushka in Conversation , in Yastrebinsky Nikolsky churchyard of Koporsky district ^{[2] [3]} .

On the map of Ingermanland, A. I. Bergenheim , compiled from Swedish materials in 1676, is designated as the Beseda Hoff manor ^[4] .

On the Swedish "General Map of the Province of Ingermanland" in 1704, as the Betseda Manor ^[5] .

Like Resed Manor, it is mentioned in the “Geographical Drawing of Izhora Land” by Adrian Schonbeck in 1705 ^[6] .

Manor Conversation is indicated on the map of the St. Petersburg province of Y. F. Schmitt in 1770 ^[7] .

On the map of the St. Petersburg province of F. F. Schubert, 1834 is designated as the village of Beseda , consisting of 24 peasant households ^[8] .

CONVERSATION - the manor belongs to the actual state adviser Weimarn, the number of inhabitants under the audit: 2 m., 6 g. P.
BESEDA - the village belongs to the actual state adviser Weimarn, the number of inhabitants under the audit: 79 m., 87 w. P.
In one: Flour mill. (1838) ^[9]

In 1844, the village of Conversation numbered 24 yards ^[10] .

In the explanatory text to the ethnographic map of the St. Petersburg province of P.I. Köppen in 1849, it is recorded as the village of Besseda ( Beseda ) and the number of Ingermanlanders - Savakots living in it in 1848 is indicated: 5 m., 5 w. n., a total of 10 people ^[11] .

Beseda is the village of Weimarn’s college secretary, 10 miles on the postal road, and the rest on the country road, the number of yards is 20, the number of souls is 72 m. (1856) ^[12]

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BESEDA - a village, the number of inhabitants according to the Xth revision of 1857: 77 m. n., a total of 154 people ^[13] .

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Beseda - the ownerial manor with the key, on the 1st Samerskaya road from Narva highway to the river. Meadows to the village of Porechye on the right side of the road, from Yamburg at 26 versts, the number of yards - 2, the number of inhabitants: 9 m. P.
BESEDA - a village owned by the nameless river, along the 1st Samerskaya road from Narva highway to the river. Meadows to the village of Porechye, from Yamburgh at 25 versts, the number of yards - 22, the number of inhabitants: 67 m. p. (1862) ^[14]

In 1868, temporarily liable peasants of the village bought their land allotments from P. A. Weimarn and became land owners ^[15] .

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  Village and manor Beseda on the map of 1863

Beseda - a village, according to the Zemstvo census of 1882: families - 30, 67 m., 62 women in them. p., a total of 129 people ^[13] .

According to the statistics on the national economy of the Yamburg county in 1887, the Conversation Manor, area of ​​911 acres, belonged to college assessor P.A. Weimarn, the manor was acquired until 1868. A forge, a mill and a cottage of 8 rooms were rented out ^[16] .

Beseda - a village, the number of households according to the Zemstvo census of 1899 is 29, the number of inhabitants: 63 m. n., a total of 136 people .;
category of peasants: former owners; nationality: Russian - 127 people, Estonian - 9 people ^[13] .

In 1900, according to the Memorial Book of the St. Petersburg Province, Beseda Manor, with an area of ​​815 acres, belonged to the heirs of the retired college assessor Pavel Aleksandrovich Weimarn ^[17] .

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the village administratively belonged to the Yastrebinsky volost of the 1st camp of the Yamburg district of St. Petersburg province.

In 1901, according to the testament of P.A. Weimarn, the Besedsky Agricultural School was founded in his former estate Conversation (since 1921 - a technical school).

From 1917 to 1927, the village of Beseda was part of the Besedsky village council of the Yastrebinsky volost of Kingisepp county .

Since February 1927, as part of Kingisepp volost. Since August 1927, as part of the Moloskovitsky district .

According to a topographic map of 1930, the village numbered 28 yards.

Since 1931, as part of the Volosovsky district ^[18] .

According to 1933, the village of Beseda was the administrative center of the Besedsky village council of the Volosovsky district, which included 10 settlements: the villages of Beseda , Imenitsa, Kotino, Nedoblitsy, Petrovskoye, Ragulovo, Shugovitsy, the village of Yastrebino, the villages of Solovyova Gorka and New Yastrebino, with a total population of 1339 person ^[19] .

According to 1936, the Besedsky village council with an administrative center in the village of Yastrebino included 8 settlements, 360 farms and 9 collective farms ^[20] .

According to the topographic map of 1938, the village numbered 33 yards ^[21] .

From August 1, 1941 to December 31, 1943 the village was under occupation.

Since 1954, as part of the Kalozhytsky Village Council.

Since 1963, in the Kingisepp district .

Since 1965, again as part of the Volosovsky district. In 1965, the population of the village of Beseda was 418 people ^[18] .

According to 1966, the village of Beseda was part of the Kalozhytsky village council ^[22] .

According to 1973, the village of Beseda was located in the Kalozhitsky Village Council ^[23] .

According to 1990 data, 742 people lived in the village of Beseda . The village was the administrative center of the Besedsky Village Council, which included 5 settlements: the villages of Ragulovo, Shugovitsy, Yastrebino; the village of Beseda and the village at the station of Yastrebino, with a total population of 856 people ^[24] .

In 1997, 958 people lived in the village, in 2002 - 1000 people (Russian - 90%), in 2007 - 907 ^{[25] [26] [27]} .

The village is located in the western part of the district on the highway 41A-186 ( Tolmachevo - “ Narva ” highway).

The distance to the district center is 36 km ^[24] .

The distance to the nearest railway platform Yastrebino - 3 km ^[22] .

• The former estate of Baron Weimarn , built around 1800 and after the death of P.A. Weimarn in 1900, transferred along with fruit orchards to the Yamburg County Zemstvo for the establishment of an agricultural school (a three-storey brick building in the Art Nouveau style of the early XX century and some outbuildings were preserved).
• Two burial grounds: the mound - on the right bank of the stream, and the barrow-sting - on the left bank. The burial grounds date from the 12th – 13th centuries ^[31] .

• MOU "Besed secondary school"
• GBOU SPO LO "Besedsky Agricultural College"

Local streets: Besedskaya, Zarechnaya, Mirnaya, Molodezhnaya ^[32] .

• Site of the Besedsky rural settlement