Popular Justice, Community and Culture among the Russian Peasantry, 1870-1900
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3716320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen P Frank (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 239 |
| Publication date | 1987-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Russian Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-0341 • E-ISSN: 1467-9434 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/130562 |
| OpenAlex | W2327197449 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Agrafena Ignat'eva was known as a sorceress and a fortuneteller in the village of Vrachev (Tikhvinskii District, Novgorod Province). An impoverished widow with no means of livelihood, she was forced to beg for her daily subsistence. Unfortunately for Grushka, as the peasants called her, an outbreak of falling in the locality where she lived brought suspicion upon her. Most people knew that such an illness, like many others, resulted from a spell, or porcha, and Ignat'eva appeared to be the most likely culprit. Early in January of 1879, Grushka had asked her fellow-villager Kuz'mina for some cottage cheese, but was refused; shortly thereafter Kuz'mina's daughter fell sick and began crying out that Grushka was the cause. With this episode still fresh in everyone's mind, the illness reached Katerina Ivanova, whose sister had died from the same affliction, also hexed by Grushka. Ivanova attributed her sickness to the fact that she had once forbidden her son to chop firewood for the sorceress; Grushka was obviously seeking revenge. Ivanova's husband even lodged a complaint against Ignat'eva with the local police sergeant (uriadnik), but few villagers expected that she would be punished. Because of the number of misfortunes attributed to her, the peasants of Vrachev decided to bum Grushka. They took their decision during a meeting of the village assembly, which had gathered in Vrachev to divide the property of four peasant brothers. After settling this case, the villagers reached an
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2025 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |