"This family has been found and is now located in Obdorsk region…" (reflections on the list of Samoyeds of Berezovsky district in 1832)

Annotation

The article details the list of “Samoyeds”, compiled in 1832 by Tobolsk missionary Hieromonk Makarii. The generic names and surnames indicated there show that they belonged to the European, Ural and Siberian tundra Nenets, and it was not by chance that they were on the same list. It was a small group from the “Vojkar Samoyeds”, a separate territorial group of the Nenets ethnos, wandering in the 17th–19th centuries on both sides of the Subpolar Urals. On the basis of information from the “List”, generalization of materials from archival documents and works of researchers and travelers of the 18th – 19th centuries, it was possible to put forward several reasonable assumptions and clarifications about the origin of some Nenets families and patronyms, places of their settlement and marital relations. In addition, for the first time, it was possible to find information about the compiler of the “List”, its life and activities long before the missionary trip to the north of the Berezovsky department.

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Keywords

hieromonk Makarii, Nenets, mission, christening, Voykarsky Samoyeds, clans, patronymy, origin

DOI

10.17238/issn2221-2698.2019.35.94

UDC

39(045)