scholarly journals TO THE PROBLEM OF STUDYING THE PREREQUISITES OF THE NATIONAL STATEHOOD OF THE CHUVASH

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Olga N. Korshunova ◽  
Ramil V. Kadyrov
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Service Class ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Middle Volga ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
The Military

The article presents a historiographical analysis of methodological approaches to the concepts of “the service class Tatars”, “the service class Chuvash” and “the tribute Chuvash”. These social categories of the population of the late medieval period who lived in the territory of the Middle Volga region, including the Chuvash region, for a long period caused historians’ interest to the problem of their ethnicity. In the period of land expansion of the Moscow state and the formation of the Russian state (second half of the 16th–19th centuries), individual representatives of the Chuvash ethnos formed part of the ethnosocial category of service class people. As representatives of the military service class, they participated in military companies on the side of the Moscow state and drew duties of a security service for the protection of its south-eastern borders. In the middle of the 16th–17th centuries the Chuvash region became a territory of colonization and integration into the system of the Russian statehood. Moreover, the Chuvash land became one of the most important outposts in the process of expanding the territorial borders of Russia. The Chuvash, who were in the service corporation, took an active part in the events. The process of colonization and integration into the system of Russian statehood became a stage for the formation of prerequisites for the formation of the Chuvash ethnos, which later developed into a state-constituting one. It is in the era under consideration in the Chuvash region that the settlement structure, specifics of spiritual culture, economic and domestic life were formed, as well as the city-fortress Alatyr was built which was one of the leading strategic points of the Moscow state in the eastern direction. The retrospective analysis of the statehood history of the Chuvash prompts to have a new look at historical processes related to the prerequisites of its formation and, in particular, interaction with other peoples of the Middle Volga region, and to enrich ideas about the role of the Chuvash in the formation of a multinational Russian state.

scholarly journals The Source Base for Genealogical Study of Service Class Families of the 17th Century

2021 ◽  
pp. 927-938
Author(s):  
Dmitry A. Astafiev ◽  
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Elena V. Godovova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Service Class ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Land Grants ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Family Ties ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
The Military

The article analyzes main sources for genealogical study of service families of the 17th century. The subject of the study is sources on history and genealogy of service class families in the 17th century, revealed in specific study of O(A)stafievs, boyar scions of the Chernavsk uezd. The relevance of the study is determined by lack of scientific publications containing analysis of sources on the genealogy of service class people in Russia (and particularly, in “territory of the southern borderland”) of the time. It should be noted that genealogical aspects of formation of the military-service corporation of the Chernavsk uezd is virtually absent in scholarship. Relying on documentary, analytical, systemic, chronological, and biographical methods, the authors have examined unpublished archival sources from the fonds of the Order-in-charge (Razryadny) and Domestic (Pomestny) Prikazes from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. These are desyatni (books on armament capability, allocation, distribution of allowance), annual budget books, krestoprivodnye knigi (pledge of allegiance books), pistsovye knigi (owner land descriptions), otkaznye knigi (land grants books), petitions, revisions of service class people, etc. Working with these historical sources has allowed the authors to carry out a comprehensive genealogical study and to systematize data on life, family ties, specifics of military service of the service class families representatives in the southern borderlands in the 17th century, in particular, O(A)stafievs, boyar scions of the Chernavsk uezd. As a result of the study, many documents have been introduced into scientific use. The historical and genealogical research carried out by the authors has now been brought up to the 1640s. It has been established that boyar scions Astafyevs were among the first settlers in the uezd who received estates for service from Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov in the mid-17th century. One of unresolved issues in the study is the question of the Astafievs' “exodus” to Chernavsk, in other words, identification of their former place of residence. Service class people moved to different uezds for various reasons (lack of land, the development of new territories, military conflicts, etc.) thus expanding their familial geography. This fact indicates that in the course of studying genealogy of service class families, certain problems may arise associated with absence or fragmentation of sources for individual uezds and difficulties in determining the family ties, especially in the early 17th century.

scholarly journals Creating a Toponymic Map of the Middle Volga Region Based on the Materials of the P. S. Pallas Expedition of 1768–1769

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-259
Author(s):  
Razina S. Kuznetsova ◽  
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Stepan A. Senator ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
German Language ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Gis Technologies ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Middle Volga ◽  
The One

The paper presents a study of toponyms attested by Academician Peter Simon Pallas during his expedition in the Middle Volga region (on the territory of the modern Samara and Ulyanovsk regions) in 1768–1769. The study data is retrieved from his Travels to Different Provinces of the Russian State, published originally in the German language. The book has never been considered as a source on historical toponymy of the Middle Volga Region which explains the authors’ interest to it. The first part of the paper provides various linguo-statistical data on local toponyms found by Pallas: their distribution by types of geographical objects; phonetic, morphological, structural, and other changes that these place names have undergone over 250 years. The second part contains a toponymic map created from Pallas’s records. The map uses GIS technologies and contains information on the geographical distribution of the mentioned Middle Volga toponyms belonging to different cultural strata: most ancient are Iranian, later ones — Finno-Ugric and Turkic, and the latest are Slavic. On the one hand, these materials help restore the linguo-geographic picture of different ethnic groups formerly attested in the Middle Volga region, and on the other hand, they provide a basis for further linguistic research into the regional toponymy.

scholarly journals Image of the future life in ritual texts of the peoples of Middle Volga Region

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 177-187
Author(s):  
Larisa Lepeshkina
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
The Future ◽  
Similar Theme ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Middle Volga ◽  
Region Feature

The subject of this research is the ritual texts of the peoples of Middle Volga Region of the XIX – early XX centuries. The goal lies in constructing image of the future based on ritual texts, as well as finding common motives and themes therein. Leaning on the archival materials, the author determines the key concepts of the regional folklore: desire of happiness, acquisition/loss of freedom, and loneliness. The content analysis is conducted on ritual lamentations and songs, as well as the most meaningful motives that unite all the rituals of the life cycle. The article employs culturological methods of research that allow identifying the spiritual and moral values and representations of the life cycle in the ritual texts of the peoples of Middle Volga Region. The scientific novelty consists in interpretation of the ritual texts of the population of the region as basic elements essential for constructing image of the future life. The conclusion is made that ritual texts of the inhabitants of the region feature similar theme: admiration of children, desire of happiness and freedom in the context of sending for military service and consummation of marriage, leaving home, and fear of loneliness. Shared outlook upon life created a predictable picture of the future with uniform requirements to a person as a bearer of the traditional culture. Such requirements implied the idea of the importance of reproduction of healthy generation and unification of family.

Traditions of Guardianship and Charity through Organization of District Libraries

2010 ◽  
pp. 94-98
Author(s):  
Tatyana M. Guseva
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Middle Volga ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article deals with not well studied problem of the class societies’ participation in the development of librarianship in the chief towns of the Middle Volga Region. In the second half of the 19th century the initiative of libraries’ opening often come from the citizens. They created the trustee committees, whose members served the librarianship for free, donated books, money, and actively participated in the organizing of charitable performances.

REFLECTION OF ETHNOCULTURAL INTERACTION IN THE MICROTOPONYMICS OF THE MIDDLE VOLGA REGION

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.V. Myznikova
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Volga Region ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Middle Volga

The microtoponymy of the Middle Volga region is of particular interest to the author because of the polyethnic and multilingual environment. It is a region of cohabitation of Slavic, Turkic and Finno-Ugric population groups. The facts of ethnocultural interaction are revealed in substrate microtoponyms, which often have Turkic origins.There are also Finno-Volga substratum elements.Many of them were reinterpreted in Russian language.

scholarly journals Dependence of diversity of floras on climate in the Middle Volga region

2021 ◽  
Vol 818 (1) ◽  
pp. 012047
Author(s):  
L S Sharaya ◽  
A V Ivanova ◽  
M A Aristova ◽  
R S Kuznetsova ◽  
N V Kostina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volga Region ◽  
Middle Volga Region ◽  
Middle Volga
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