Georgia-Molokane: 3 photos 1870-1890Click on photos to ENLARGE |
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 "Molokane." [молокане] Shows 9 men posing for a portrait |
 "Molokanekaia derevnia i molokane na ulitse." [молоканекая деревня и молокане на улице : Molokan village and Molokans outdoors (on the street)] Shows 19 people — 9 men, 6 boys, 1 woman, 3 girls, and 2 cows on a village street in the snow. An Orthodox church may be in the center, far background. |
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| The above photographs are from
the New
York
Public Library Digital Gallery and show Molokans in
the Caucasus — Georgia province near Tifllis (Tbilisi),
1870s. These are "collected" by George
Kennan (born 1845, died 1924) probably in 1870, on
his second trip to Russia, when "he explored the Caucasus
mountains of the eastern Caucasus, crossing the great
range three times in different places." He could have
taken these photos himself on that trip or gotten them
from his photographer George Frost or collaborator
Nicholas Mikhailovich Iadrintsev (1842-1894). For more
about Kennan, see: The
Forgotten
George Kennan: From Cheerleader to Critic of Tsarist
Russia, by Frith Maier, WORLD POLICY JOURNAL, Volume
XIX, No 4, Winter 2002/03. |
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 Molokane in Georgia (Молокани в Грузии) |
At the Georgian
Genealogy website, associated with the Georgian
Archives, in the article "Russians
in
Georgia", this photo appears, titled "Molokane
in Georgia" ("Молокани (sic) в Грузии", in the Russian version), showing 14 men posing. There are also 3 photos of Doukhobors, and Russian and Georgian versions of the website. The Historian-Archivist, Ms. Ketevan Mirotadze, lists 7 references for the article "Russians in Georgia" but does not note where the photos came from. See an excerpt from the article below. |
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| <<В 1833 году длинный
вагон поезда двинулся из России в Грузию, на котором
ездили россииские молокане
и стремились встречать здесь своего бога. Они шли
на новую землю с восторгом и весельем, пели псалмы и
духовные песни. Их первая большая часть поселилась в
Восточной Грузии, а именно в районах Сигнаги и Сагареджо,
где в деревнях Красногорск и Ульяновка молокане насчитывали
1365 человек. Они также проживали в Тбилиси, где их число
в 1902 году достигло 11,3 тысяч человек. <<Переселяли духоборов, субботников и других сектантов в Грузию как арестантов, ненужных в центральных провинциях России. >> |
"In 1833 long wagon train
stretched from various provinces of Russia to Georgia as
the Russian Molokane
hurried to meet God in His promised lend. They went
to the new land in exultation and joy, singing psalms and
spiritual songs. Their first big part settled in Eastern
Georgia, particularly in Sighnaghi and Sagarejo regions,
where in the villages Krasnogorsk and Ul'ianovka the Molokane accounted
for 1365 people. They were living in Tbilisi as well and
in Tbilisi province their amount was 11,300 people by
1902. "Dukhobors, Molokane, even Subbotniki and other sectarians arrived in Georgia as outcasts, unwanted in the central provinces of Russia, and as migrants in search of a better life for themselves on the frontier, including being part of Christ’s New Jerusalem. The majority of sectarians who settled in Georgia were peasants, although there was also a not inconsequential number of merchants and meschanes (petty bourgeois)." |
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