Video: Peasant life in White Russia
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
Belarus entered the Guinness Book of various unexpected records: then its inflation rate for 1995. amounted to a record 243.96%, immediately the cow Lubik from Mogilev gave birth to 7 calves. The swamps of Belarus, which occupy about a quarter of the entire country, also became famous … And somehow even Belarus almost became famous for the record for the number of simultaneously arrested presidential candidates.
In fact, we are united with the Belarusians by a common past. And the very name "Belaya Rus" over the centuries referred to different regions of Russia, including the Moscow principality.
How did people live? The owner of the house and his family went to bed at ten o'clock, and got up in the summer at dawn, in the winter "at the second cock." The head of the family examined the cattle, fed them, and brought firewood. After breakfast, he got to work: he took out manure, plowed, sowed, mowed, threshed, bought and sold livestock.
A widower with a child. Belarusians, Pskov province, 1927. Photo Serzhputovsky A. K. / REM
The hostess, meanwhile, prepares food, bakes bread, milks the cow, feeds the birds, looks after the vegetable garden, flies, reaps, collects hay.
Mother with children 1910, Belarusians, Minsk province, Serzhputovsky A. K. / REM
On holidays, peasants go to church or church, bring bread to the markets, girls pick berries and mushrooms in the forest, men and women examine the field.
Children with a cart, 1910, Belarusians, Minsk province, Serzhputovsky A. K. / REM
In the evening in the summer, girls and boys gather in the villages for fun and songs in round dances, in winter they gather for evening parties.
The owner of the house is deeply respected and respected, everyone obeys him unquestioningly. The old people enjoy the respect of the whole village, the children kiss their hands when they meet.
The guest is seated at the table in the first place and is treated to what is "The rich the hut is, the more happy."
The peasant's clothes - a sermyaga or a scroll, a casing, trousers (nagavits), bast shoes or boots - cost about 18 rubles (1863); a shirt, trousers and nagavits cost about 75 kopecks, various accessories - 1 ruble. So a man could be dressed for 20-25 rubles, a woman's clothes were cheaper. In general, all seven to 5 people could be dressed, supplied with everything necessary, cattle, a hut and household utensils for 450 rubles.
Belarus, Belarus, 1913 Brest region., Lyakhovichny district, Lyakhovichi
Each peasant has a leather bag for bread and various supplies for the journey or to work; the bag contains provisions and is carried on the back on two straps; a wicket is tied to it, a bag in which they carry: flint, rubbish and flint. Over the shirt, the peasants wear a wide leather belt with a copper buckle, an ax is tucked into the belt, and a knife on the strap.
In summer, all peasants and peasant women walk with bare feet (even in winter, not everyone puts on bast shoes). On their heads they wear straw hats with more or less wide brim, and they work in the field in only shirts. In winter, men wear boots and women wear boots.
That was how life was in the pre-revolutionary village.
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