Looking at the walkway, you immediately involuntarily note the discrepancy between the number and age of the male and female element in it. While there are few guys and almost all of them are very young, many are between 12 and 14 years old, there are many girls, and most of them are twenty years old or more. That’s why you guys on the “streets” and even in round dances keep more to themselves. The gentlemen behave extremely rudely, while the girls, apparently, neglect most of them.
“Why is it,” I asked the village elders, that you have so many unwed adults and so few grooms?
- Times have become difficult for us, they answered; there is little land, little income. Grown-up boys either went to the draft or worked as farm laborers. And the girls serve in the city in the winter, then come home in the summer, and now we’re making money." My guide, not a rash comrade of the same kind to the “Ulinsk people,” said: “Yes, such a dvk can be danced: it’s all about the meaning. As it goes, the earth will hum! And here you can’t hear the Sultan!” A girl will fly for about 15 minutes and marry her. There will be dozens of them.”
Thus, in two villages, separated from each other by only 70 versts, there are different family and living conditions, depending solely on the different economic conditions of life of these villages. While the village of Sultamovskoe belongs to the rich, owning excess land, in Tatarekoe, on the contrary, the village lacks about 2 tons of dessiatines of land, compared to the amount that the village of Iadezhdinskoe received during the general delimitation of lands in the metropolis, in relation to which the village of Tatarekoe was a farmstead back in 1561. That's why you're young at night
For several years now in Tatarskoe they have been forced to marry, not being able to give the monkey sevenB land. How should one react to this last phenomenon: should the peasant be pleased with such caution, or perhaps should he be sad? After all, the female element of the village remains indestructible beyond this!
While I was discussing this topic, it began to get dark. The “street” dispersed, but shortly after it got dark, the whistles and booms of the boys, the sounds of the accordion, and the sounds of the wok were again heard in the distance; and half an hour later, opposite my apartment, the “street” was again in full force, but only in an excited and defiant state, like during the day. Now, indeed, the earth was humming with the fire of the trepak, which, most likely, continued long after midnight; but, exhausted from the journey, I soon fell asleep.
The next day, early in the morning, in a very cold and damp wind, we climbed the Stavropol Iloskiy Mountains, the condition of which had not improved at all since I first climbed it in 1867, a little to the west, from the village of Rozhdestvenka. Both then and now, old dense forests covered the upper reaches of numerous ravines, which gradually sank in the east. The same beautiful view opens up to the mountains located to the south and ends at the top of the horizon with the snow-white cones of Elborus. Obviously, the nature of the environs of Stavropol has not changed during this time, just as it will not change in another hundred or two years or even a thousand years. And not only the surrounding area, but the city itself, for 20 levts, does not show any significant irregularities in its appearance. If three or four large buildings were added in the elevated part of the city, on Vorobyovka*, then in the low-lying, old part everything remained the same. Apparently, the city is not growing, but on the contrary, it is developing in its own way, because it is located in front of the railway line. When you travel through Stavropol now, you don’t even see the excitement that was here before. The streets are empty. On the beautiful, shady boulevard®, which stretches two miles, you won’t find a dozen people walking at 7 pm on a holiday. Only in the “Roshchf” or in the “Vorontsov Garden” there is an audience among which seminarians play, as in the past, a different role. Trade is in complete stagnation, which is evident from the fact that the stone steps of the once 00tatikh shops and stalls are densely overgrown with a peculiar flora, the vegetation of which, in turn, will serve as a