Russian peasant women who refused to marry : Spasovite Old Believers in the eigthteenth and nineteenth centuries / John Bushnell.
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...
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