Further, MNF Iripomnilie carried the promises of the holiday to the village. Usually, when the day “ruled”, people gathered from all directions to church. Having heard the call “for the worthy,” Armenian shopkeepers went to open their shops “shabai” with soap, tar and braids, peddlers with small change laid out their goods in the “bazaar,” that is, in the middle of the square, right next to the church. The women were eager to finish the pies with cheese and sour cream, without which not a single holiday celebration at the Chernomorets began. Having been satisfied, the “old men” went to the “ebornya”, the State Duma ataman and two “judges” carried out a trial and punishment or dissuaded the “paper” received from the chief. And the entire female element gathered “out on the street,” that is, they converged from all over the area to some kind of courtyard and settled on the ground, “amusing themselves with insignia,” to wag until the “turn” arrived in the village. With the appearance of the herds, dust, running, roaring, mooing in a thousand ways rose through the streets, and all this calmed down only at dusk, when all the adult cattle, driven out of the yards onto the street, settled down under the fence for the night. Only sheep and horses were herded into the yard in large corrals located on the street. The former were guarded from wolves, which often burst into villages at night, even in flight, and caused devastation, and the horses were preserved from the Kalmyks, who could gallop too far from the village during the night. The whole Cossack family usually settled down in the summer in good weather right there in the yard, in the open air on the “knotweed” (Roshuolite ie shchete) or “lobodV”, and in bad weather - on the vrylshi® or in the svnyakh.: usually nothing without violating. Only on Sunday or after celebrating the whole night, the whole night was resounding with the “singing of the girls” and the whistling of the boys, walking “on their holidays.” This was their right, which the boys usually enjoyed for two or three years. Already from the age of 18, the young man became a Cossack and was obliged to bear this duty to the grave. The vast majority of Cossacks with 20 infantry were in the ranks, at the theater (during wars) of military operations or on the battlefields along the Kuban Line. This city under its control contained 4/5 of its male population of Chernomorsh. That is why in the villages, far from the Kuban, the female element strongly predominated. While the “man” was constantly on duty, the Cossack woman ran her household alone. She alone managed the grain, the livestock, and all the other farm goods. The situation in which the Cossack woman was the only rural worker in the villages lasted a very long time and ate how 10 “pacified the Caucasus” the Cossack’s service was significant. made easier when her terms were equalized with those of the soldiers. Having become accustomed to an idle life at his post, the Cossack lived at home and therefore always dumped all the menial and hard work on his wife. In addition, the habit of idleness was the reason that by the end of the seventies, drunkenness began to develop strongly in the villages, which did not exist at the beginning of this decade. The outstanding role of the tavern in the villages was in the seventies, when it was moved from the most remote place in the villages, near the river, or at the end of the street, to the most visible and prominent place, to the church square. So it was in the villages of Baturineka, and so it was in many other villages. Chernomortya became part of the Kuban region in the 70s. At that time, its villages contained a large number of non-residents or “city workers”, immigrants from Rovya. At the same time, the Kalmyk was expelled from the steppes of the Kuban to the eastern part of the Stavropol province and Dalf to the Astrakhan province. Another 190 lvt later, by the beginning of $0, the villages, after a difficult struggle with the farmers, pulled the farmsteads to 60%, so that there was very little in common between the former Black Sea region and the present Kuban region. An alien or alien element brought and quickly instilled its culture into the descendants of the ancient glorious Cossacks. What does it consist of?...
- Who will get tickets to Stansha Tikhorftskaya? The words of the conductor were heard in the carriage: “Mr.!”
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Volge is your ticket,” the conductor turned to one of the main, perhaps, instillers of this culture, to my neighbor, who had already been asleep for a long time. “You need to change trains here,” he added to him. He began to collect his things.
“Weren’t you asleep?” the sosfd asked me.
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- 9! - She’s been gone for a long time; Now times have gone wrong, he said sadly.