Modern Customs and Ancient Laws of Russia: Being the Ilchester Lectures for 1889-90D. Nutt, 1891 - 260 стор. |
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Сторінка 7 - Slavonic tribe, the Drevlians, according to the same chronicler, lived like beasts ; they killed one another, they fed on things unclean; no marriage took place amongst them, but they captured young girls on the banks of rivers." The same author narrates that three other Slavonic tribes, the Kadimich, the Viatich, and the Sever, had the same customs; they lived " in forests, like other wild animals, they ate everything unclean, and shameful things occurred amongst them between fathers and daughters-in-law....
Сторінка 214 - Sudebnik, the legal code published by Ivan III, in 1497, speaks of the festival of Saint George, which according to the Russian calendar falls on the 26th of November, as a period at which all removals ought to take place. Those peasants who had not been fortunate enough to free themselves from all obligations to the manor by this period were obliged to remain another year on its lands; he who was unable to repay the lord the sum borrowed was reduced to the same condition as that of the insolvent...
Сторінка 115 - ... scattered about on all sides of the township, one in this furlong and another in that, intermixed, and it might almost be said," writes Mr. Seebohm, " entangled together as though some one blindfold had thrown them about on all sides of him.
Сторінка 195 - In answer to the writs they had received, the voivodes sent in a detailed account of the election proceedings. Several of these very interesting documents have been found in the archives of the Ministry of Justice in Moscow. Professor Latkin has published a great many of them in his valuable " Materials for a History of the Sobors...
Сторінка 215 - Cou) anges, saw their arrears of debt changed into a perpetual rent called the canon, and their liberty of migration superseded by a state of continual bondage to the land they cultivated. No Russian historian has shown the analogy existing .between the origin of the Roman colonatus and that of Russian serfdom so clearly as Mr. Kluchevsky, the eminent professor of Russian history in the University of Moscow. It is to him that we are indebted for the discovery of the fact that centuries before the...
Сторінка 28 - Madka, has replaced it in most parts of Great Russia. This payment, amounting in certain parts of Russia to the sum of one hundred, and even of two or three hundred roubles, is made to the father of the bride. As a rule, the father disposes of the money in favour of his daughter, for he gives her as dowry a larger or smaller sum, according to what he has received from the
Сторінка 142 - Treaties of peace and alliance were also signed in the name of the prince and people, as may be seen from the following words used in the treaty of Igor with the Byzantine empire in 945 ; " This treaty has been concluded by the Grand Duke of Russia, by all the dukes whatsoever and by all the people of the Russian lands.
Сторінка 182 - ... the taxes received the consent of the Sobor, the benevolences were endorsed by it. The nomination of a new Patriarch in 1619 was also their work. The annals of the time tell us that the boyars, the dignitaries of the Court, and all the people of the '• Moscovite State " called on Michael and asked him to induce his father Philarete to accept the primacy of the Russian church. Two years later, in 1621, a new Sobor was consulted on the question as to whether Russia should go to war with Poland....
Сторінка 196 - The voivodes and starostas mention more than once such facts as the following: In 1651 the starosta of Zvenigorod, Elizar Marcov, declares in a letter addressed to the czar, that it was impossible for him to nominate a delegate from among the inhabitants of the city district (posadskii liudi), for the best of them were engaged in masonry work at the Storojevoy monastery, accomplishing their "hedge duty," which they owed to the crown (pgradnaia povinnosf).
Сторінка 121 - Chap. XI.) The same language is used also by the Emperor Leo. "The Slavs," says he, "are a free people, strongly opposed to any subjection.