Татарская семья Саратовской губернии конца XIX века: историко-демографическая характеристика
The Tatar family of the Saratov governorate in the second half of the 19th century: Historical and demographic description

Summary/Abstract: Family evolution is an important research issue of historical and demographic science and becomes especially interesting in moments of intense socio-economic transformation. In this paper, the house-holds of the Tatars, who lived in the Saratov governorate during the late 19th century, are described. For this purpose, the primary materials of the Zemstvo agricultural censuses carried out in the 1880s–1890s were studied. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Tatars’ households was performed to identify the relationship between the household dwellers and structure. It was revealed that the Tatar households were not very large (about 5.8 persons per household, from 4 to 7 persons according to half of the observations). The structure of the households was analyzed based on P. Laslett’s classification: the results of the analysis demonstrate that most Tatar families were small, both in the number of households (58%) and in the number of persons living in them (50%); complex and extended families were the second and third common structural types, respectively. The hypothesis about increasing complexity of the family structure (from small to extended and complex) with the growth of the number of households was verified. According to the statistical data, the extended families did not prevail in any of the quantitative groups of households and occupied an intermediate position between the small and complex families.

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