The Ulyanovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore named after Ivan Goncharov presents a ground plot and description of the Kindyakovka settlement, the family estate of the old service family of Simbirsk landowners Kindyakovs.
The Kindyakov surname was first mentioned in archives for 1584: “Goryashka Vasilyev, the son of Kindyakov, has a manorial salary of 100 quarters, Larka Dmitriyev, the son of Kindyakov, has 80 quarters by 1605.” In the middle of the 19th century, the Kindyakovs owned the villages of Vinnovka, Otrada and Studeniy Klyuch of the Simbirsk Uyezd and the villages of Novonikolskoye and Akhmatovo of the Ardatovsky Uyezd and the settlement of Novomatyushkino of the Stavropolsky Uyezd. They also owned the villages of Arkhangelskoye, Nikolskoye and Glyadkovo in the Penza Governorate. The bloodline of the Simbirsk Kindyakovs can be traced as early as 1698, however, the male line ended in the second half of the 19th century.
Vasily Afanasyevich Kindyakov (his years of life are unknown) was a landowner, representative of the noble family of the Kindyakovs and leader of the nobility of the Simbirsk Uyezd. He served in the artillery. On February 27, 1767, he retired with the rank of lieutenant and later continued in the civil service. On May 20, 1786, he received the rank of collegiate assessor. Through his first wife, Vasily Kindyakov was related to Mariya Ivanovna Argamakova, the owner of the village of Annenkovo-Stepnoye of the Simbirsky Uyezd. She was the first cousin once removed of Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev, and she was also the aunt of the Kindyakov brothers and sisters — Vasily Kindyakov’s children. In all probability, she was the latter’s first or second cousin once removed. Mariya Ivanovna married Fyodor Alekseyevich Griboyedov and subsequently became the grandmother of the great Russian writer and statesman Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov. Thus, through Mariya Argamakova-Griboyedova, the Kindyakovs had family ties with both the Radishchevs and the Griboyedovs.
On December 22, 1792, the province marshal of nobility signed a patent of nobility to Vasily Kindyakov, which testified that Kindyakov and his family were included in the noble genealogical book of the Simbirsk Governorate. Vasily Kindyakov was the founder of the previously non-existent village of Bely Klyuch. In 1811, he evicted six peasant households from Kindyakovka and settled them seven miles away from his estate. This was also where he resettled 38 peasants, who belonged to his second wife Yekaterina Petrovna, from the village of Kriushi.
