Russians in Trekhrech’ye: historical digression Cover Image

Русские в Трёхречье: исторический экскурс
Russians in Trekhrech’ye: historical digression

Author(s): Andrey Zabiyako
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Customs / Folklore, Ethnohistory, Social history, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , 17th Century, 19th Century
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Trekhrech’ye; Russian; emigrants; half-bloods;Orthodoxy; Russian culture; ethnocultural identity;

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with history of formation of the Russian enclave near Trekhrech’ye (Sanhe, the District of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, the People's Republic of China). Since the beginning of the 19th century, this area bordering on Transbaikalia became populated from the Russian side by Cossacks, Old Believers, crime fugitives, to mine gold men. From the middle of the 19th century, cause of hunger in the southern and central regions the Chinese settled there. There are more marriages registered between Chinese men and Russian women so the metis people were born ("half-bloods"). The events of the October revolution and the Russian Civil war strengthened an influx of the Russian emigrants to Trekhrech’ye. To the middle of the 1950th the Russian and "half-bloods" constituted the majority of the population Trekhrech’ya which living in traditions of the Russian country culture and speaking Russian.

  • Issue Year: 2/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 5-17
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian