Month: August 2024

The braid of a serf girl from Chuvashia, torn out in 1842 by a landowner.

The braid of a serf girl from Chuvashia, torn out in 1842 by a landowner.

An exhibit of the National Museum of Chuvashia (a fake, the real braid is hidden in a special chamber so that it does not deteriorate over time).

The braid of the serf peasant woman Tatyana Petrova was attached as “material evidence” to the criminal case of the district court of Улатӑр (Ulatӑr) about landowner Vera Sokolova’s cruel treatment of her serfs. The criminal case is currently kept in the State Historical Archives of Chuvashia.

The document about the story with the landowner said the following:

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