Table of contents:
- 1. Deserted village
- 2. Abandoned hut of a deceased peasant
- 3. Waiting for a miracle
- 4. The last few people left in the village
- 5. During the onset of hunger
- 6. Starving mother with children near the house
- 7. Hut allowed by looters
- 8. Public dining room
- 9. School cafeteria
- 10. In the children's canteen
- 11. Catering canteen
- 12. Distribution of bread to hungry children
- 13. People's canteen
- 14. The peasants file a complaint with the zemstvo chief
Video: Terrible years: famine in pre-revolutionary Russia in the 1890s
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Much has been written about the "unfulfilled" 1890s. Leo Tolstoy's article "On Hunger" occupies a special place among socio-economic studies. This article was written by Tolstoy in 1891 based on impressions from a trip to a number of affected provinces and work on committees for famine relief. In his article, Tolstoy describes not some average, but specific peasants. And he is sure that behind the famine in the Russian countryside, first of all, the terrible physical and spiritual degradation of the peasants was hidden.
1. Deserted village
2. Abandoned hut of a deceased peasant
3. Waiting for a miracle
4. The last few people left in the village
5. During the onset of hunger
6. Starving mother with children near the house
7. Hut allowed by looters
8. Public dining room
9. School cafeteria
10. In the children's canteen
11. Catering canteen
12. Distribution of bread to hungry children
13. People's canteen
14. The peasants file a complaint with the zemstvo chief
And one more interesting selection of photos - Russian peasants at work and during rest.
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