John Bushnell: 1 book
Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry
Spasovite Old Believers in the 18th-19th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
John Bushnell’s analysis of previously unstudied church records and provincial archives reveals surprising marriage patterns in Russian peasant villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some villages the rate of unmarried women reached as high as 70 percent. The religious group most closely identified...
