'Licentious girls' and frontier domesticators: women and Siberian exile from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries

Gentes, Andrew A.

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“…gender wise neutral) not before women moved in and settled down with men (Argunova-Low 2006Kolodny 1984;Linde-Laursen & Nilsson 1995). In Siberia, this approach was also shared by the Tsarist government who had a policy of sending women forcibly to Siberia to create a socially "domesticated" environment for men (Gentes 2003). Nevertheless, Siberia is still seen as a masculine space, where "real men" do work in mines, hunting camps or at the steering wheel of a truck in a male space with very few women in sight, and the place in society has to be earned through heavy work and toil.…”

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2011

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Introduction: World Routes in the Arctic Arctic Workshop at the University of Tartu was created to discuss these and similar issues. The first three workshops plan to focus on the issues of movement and its social, cultural, political or economic impact and therefore bear the subtitle "World Routes". In every workshop, we plan to add papers that focus on regions outside of Siberia to initiate discussion between researchers working in different regions of the North and show similarities or differences in movement all over the area. NOTES 1 This conference and publication was supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory CECT).

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Abduction of Women in Early Modern Russia: Modernizing the Empire

Muravyeva

2016

Russ Hist

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The abduction of women is closely connected with traditional or primitive societies. Anthropologists tie it with alternative marriage arrangements, characteristic of those systems where marriages are arranged by parents; historians tend to view the abduction of women as part of early history of developed nations, mostly the Middle Ages. In Russia, recent historiographical discussion of abductions always starts with descriptions of customary practices in Siberia to highlight the steppe and frontier experiences in the framework of colonization and underline ‘savage’ or ‘backwardness’ of Siberian populations. However, scholars almost never talk about the abduction of women within the European part. In this article, female abductions are analyzed within the framework of citizenship and modernization of the Russian Empire in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It focuses on the notion of consent and how it contributed to the founding of a new social unit, that is the family, in which women and men acquired their rights and duties in relation to outside society and wider polity. The lack of consent jeopardized the legitimacy of such a union and compromized the citizenship status of its members. On its way to build the country as a modern empire, Russian authorities localized the abduction of women as a ‘customary’ practice of ‘backwards’ people to preserve the modern European core of the Empire.

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The Siberia of the 19th century through the Russian Intelligentsia’ eyes

2017

Bylye Gody

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The paper reveals particularities of Siberia perception in the 19th century by the representatives of Russian intelligentsia, considers aims of their stay in Siberia and its contacts with various representatives of local population. Characteristic traits of life in governorate and provincial towns of Siberia are explained. Regularities revealed in the course of analyzing sources that were left by the Russian intelligentsia, let us speak about commonness of socio-cultural processes, which happened in the region of Siberia and central Russia in the 19th century, as well, as give reasoning for dependence of this processes from changes that occurred in cultural life of Russia. In the process of comparative analysis of diaries, traveler's notes and letters of L.F. Panteleev, A.P. Chekhov, V.Ya. Shishkov, V.G. Korolenko, S.P. Shvetsov, there were revealed differences and common features in their perception of certain sides of Siberians' life. Differences in perception of cultural life in the region by representatives of Russian intelligentsia were conditioned by reasons, due to which they found themselves in Siberia and, in much part by that with what representatives of the Siberian people they happened to contact. The article discusses distinctive features in ethic and esthetic perception of reality between the Russian population and Siberians. Such character traits of the Siberian people as pride, independence, practical absence of religious feelings and undeveloped ability of the world esthetic perception are reveled. Importance of these observations made by the Russian intelligentsia, is conditioned by that the local intelligentsia originated from the simple folk mainly, meaning they inherited their character traits, which in its turn influenced system of cultural values created by the them.

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'Licentious girls' and frontier domesticators: women and Siberian exile from the late 16th to the early 19th centuries

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Abduction of Women in Early Modern Russia: Modernizing the Empire

The Siberia of the 19th century through the Russian Intelligentsia’ eyes

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