Contacts of the Russian-Speaking Population of the Foothills of the Kuban with the Greek colonists in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries (according to Registers of Births)
Аннотация:The article discusses certain aspects of the interethnic interaction of the East Slavic population of the foothill regions of the Kuban region with the Greeks in the second half of the 19th -early 20th centuries.The main sources for this are the parish registers of the church of St. Sergius of the village of Yaroslavskaya (for 1903 and 1912) that have survived to this day, the history of which quite fully reflects the processes that took place during the designated period on the territory of the entire Trans-Kuban region.The homeland of Greek immigrants (Asia Minor, Turkey) is established, the reasons for their resettlement to the Kuban are indicated, as well as the specifics of economic activity in the new place (the Greeks were mainly engaged in tobacco cultivation and grain trade).Based on the analysis of the information recorded in the parish registers, it is concluded that the communication of the Russian-speaking inhabitants of the Upper Laba basin and the Turkey subjects as a whole proceeded in line with mutual respect and good neighborliness.This is confirmed by numerous facts of the participation of colonists in the rites of baptism of Cossack and peasant children.Specific examples show that members of the Greek community were in contact not only with ordinary villagers, but also with representatives of the Cossack elite (in particular, atamans of the village of Yaroslavskaya P.A. Kireev and M.A. Tiskovsky were in artificial kinship with the Greeks).At the same time, the godparents of the children of Turkey subjects most often became their fellow tribesmen.The authors share some of their thoughts on the reasons for such selectivity.In conclusion, they outline the problematic issues in the history of the Greek community of the village of Yaroslavskaya, which historians will have to solve in the course of further research: the exact time of the emergence of the ethno-local group, the specifics of occupations and the number of its representatives on the eve of revolutionary upheavals.
