The harsh nature of the region, characterized by heavy rain and cold, puts the same harsh punishment on the inhabitants. Between now and then, despite the absence of homeless people and homeless people, it is not so lively and energetic that the inhabitants of the nearest villages and villages differ. Mnf had to be in the Temnoleskoe feast on Sunday, the 18th of April. The morning and day were so cold and cloudy that the residents of Od'fta were wearing fur coats. After the church service, almost the entire village gathered on one street, but it was timely to look at this crowd of sedentary young people standing at the grocery store. Even the groups of old people who had gathered not far away at the door of the tavern did not express any regret, being warmed by a glass. In response to my question from the wealthy, healthy housewife of the yard, how often do they have such inhospitable cold weather in the summer, they answered that it’s always like this here: “if it’s not rain and fog, then there’s a strong wind, it’s hard to get out of the fur coat when it comes,” But, despite the conditions of life, The villages are becoming more and more filled with newcomers. There are already about 160 households from other countries. And since the indigenous residents received a large surplus of land since 1888, namely 27 dessiatines per capita, then, due to the impossibility of cultivating it themselves, they rent out the land to people in large cities for 3-4 rubles. for a tithe. Moreover, people from other cities pay 1 ruble for grazing. for his head, and also a few kopfek for the yard meta, he sat down. In general, life is cheap. With regard to soil conditions, it is necessary to note that wetness cannot can be considered especially convenient for land use. In many metahs, rocky soil protrudes onto the surface, in others sand predominates, and below, along the slopes of the mountain to the east and the slope, there is heavy clay. The village owns land for arable farming and haymaking, as well as lumber; all this is leased out on a communal basis with an annual transfer of public land and land to family men. This is a different order of the economic system, which prevails not only in the villages of the Kuban Region, but also in almost the entire region of the Stavropol province, and in other provinces of Russia. But having spoken silently, it is impossible to pass in silence another aspect of village life, characteristic of Roefi and the Caucasus. These are the conditions of communal farming, in which the amount of the public chest is spent. For the poor rural societies of Russia, this circumstance cannot have such a striking significance as it does for the majority of the general public in the Caucasus. These days, especially in the immediate vicinity of that part of the Stavropol province, which many had to suffer, are distinguished by their abundance of land. Fifteen, twenty and, hesitantly, thirty dessiatines per capita—that’s how much I settled in the Caucasus. At the same time, the residents, of course, are not able to manage all the land themselves and rent out the surplus to non-residents, receiving, like the village of Temnoleskoye, significant sums. So, for example, in the village of Sultanovskoye, a society gives out for a long-term lease to one person about two thousand dessiatines of its land, receiving 6 thousand. rubles per year. Moreover, almost the same amount of land of this society was rented out in parts. The question is now: where is this public money going? Who is in charge of them? Why is the public cemetery next to this in the same village fenced off? Why doesn’t society build a water supply system for itself, and in other hot years languishes without water, and there are beautiful springs 2-3 miles away, which are clogged up and hidden by cattle, while 4-5 thousand rubles are enough to install a water supply system from them? Many similar questions can be asked for each village, but only one answer will be given: because in self-inflation good, smart and honest leaders - because, in a word, in all the villages of Russia there are orders in which uncontrolled reporting prevails. However, this is.
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There is a huge lack of not only rural areas, but also the cities of Rosai; therefore, there is no need to dwell on this.
I dwell on some features that characterize in one way or another the described fetality.
In the village of Tatarskoe, located 12 minutes from Stavropol, on Sunday evening, in the evening, a crowd of young people gathered on the “street”, among which the majority were adult girls, dressed up for the town: in brightly colored cotton shorts and skirts and brand new painted scarves on their heads. Smooth but monotonous dances in round dances were often replaced by more weighted dances. long and fast dances alone and in pairs to the energetic playing of harmonicas.