Путешествие в Высокий / Journey to Vysókij

От Раисы Минаковой      Contributed by Raisa Minakova

Под редакцией Билла Алдакушина      Edited by Bill Aldacushion 

August 2014


История Cемьи / Family History




Мои предки переехали из Московской губернии в Тамбовскую губернию, а оттуда на юг России. А некоторые сообщают, что они пришли из города Рассказово. Их преследовали из-за веры (они были субботники),  и им было приказано переехать в другие места.

Мой дед Ананий Михайлович Бочарников рассказывал мне, что его родственники начали двигаться из Тамбовской губернии.  Старейшины говорят, что наши предки принесли древнюю веру субботников с собой  из Московской губернии в Тамбовскую, а затем в Воронежскую степь.


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My ancestors moved from Moscow province to Tambov province and from there to the south of Russia. Some say they came from the town of Rasskazovo. They were persecuted because of their Subbotnik faith, and they were ordered to relocate to other regions.

My grandfather Ananij Michailovich Bocharnikov told me that his ancestors left Tambov province. The village elders say that our ancestors brought the ancient Subbotnik faith with them from Moscow province to Tambov province and then to the Voronezh steppe.

My great-great-grandmother is named Dariya. She was born in the village of Mechetka (Bobrovsky district, Voronezh province) near the River Bitjug. Dariya is the grandmother of my babunya Sarra Jakovlevna Voronina (Konchakova). Babunya is the term used for a grandmother or babushka in our village Vysókij. It is such a tender word. I never have heard this word in other places in Russia.

Dariya’s father Anton Bautin participated in the Napoleonic War of 1812. He witnessed the Great Fire of Moscow. Evidently he was the Cossack. Mechetka oblast was the home of the Don Cossack Army. The Subbotniki faith came to my ancestors in the way that was described by Benjamin Kaz in his research for his book Nonextinguish Sparkles - The captivated Jews and the Russian Subbotniki.

Dariya’s mother heard that there were Subbotniki living in the town of Gvazda (Buturlinovsky district, Voronezh province). So the family moved to Gvazda and joined the Subbotniki community there. Dariya married Vasilli in Gvazda. Their daughter Anna married Jakov from Ozerki (Voronezh province) and started their life together in Ozerki. In 1922 Anna’s family left Ozerki for Vysókij together with other members of their Subbotnik community.

In 1935 Anna left Vysókij for the Kuban region of Russia because there was the great hunger in the south of Russia then. All together, thirty families left Vysókij at that time. They moved to places where other Subbotniks lived. Dariya’s mother moved as part of her daughter’s family. Babunya Dariya lived a long life. She died in 1953 at the age of 104 in Rodnikovskaya, Krasnodarskiy Kray in the Kuban.



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