“SOMETIMES MARFA ATTACKED RURAL SETTLEMENTS AND GENTRY ESTATES:” FROM A HISTORY OF THE NOBLE BANDITRY IN THE ХVIII – FIRST HALF OF THE ХIХ CENTURIES (based on Belgorod and Kursk regional materials)
Journal Title: Tractus aevorum: эволюция социокультурных и политических пространств - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
The author considers the banditry of Marfa Durova, a prominent landowner in Putivl` uezd, Sevsk province, Belgorod province, in the context of peculiarity of social relations in the Russian-Ukrainian borderlands in the eighteenth century. The government ultimately sent military units to the “porubezhny krai” to secure her arrest. While noble banditry was certainly not unique to Belgorod and Kursk provinces, no other regions recorded violent, bloody no-ble banditry and an accompanying governmental military response on a sim-ilarly large scale during the eighteenth and early nenteenth centuries. The author identifies the tradition of “volnitsa” in the Russian-Ukrainian border-lands, as well as the weakness and corruption of the Crown authorities on the former southwestern borderlines of the Russian state.
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V. A. Shapovalov
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- DOI 10.18413/2312-3044-2014-1-2-204-212
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