Abstract
The present paper deals with the microhistorical, anthropological and linguistic analysis of one archival document dated 1637. Through its careful reading, we reveal the story of the Kanin Samoyed (“Samoyedin”) Yakushko Pirchikov who had to flee Arkhangelsk along with two reindeer to England by ship in 1631. Later he found himself again in Arkhangelsk where he was caught by official authorities and eventually imprisoned. The documented interrogations preserved in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA) allowed us to reconstruct the wider context of the Nenets-Russian-English contacts in the Arkhangelsk area in the early modern times. The appendix to the article contains the full-text archival documents (photocopy) supplemented by the cursive transcript, their translation into Modern Russian and the detailed commentary.
Translated title of the contribution | A Journey of Yakushka Pirchikov to Anglia and Back: On the History of Nenets-English Contacts Back to the First Half of the 17th century |
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Original language | Russian |
Title of host publication | Siberica et Uralica |
Subtitle of host publication | In memoriam Eugen Helimski |
Editors | Aleksandr Anikin, Valentin Gusev, Anna Urmanchieva |
Place of Publication | Szeged, Hungary |
Publisher | University of Szeged Press |
Pages | 415-451 |
Number of pages | 38 |
Volume | 56 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-963-306-908-0 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 27 Dec 2022 |
Publication series
Name | Studia Uralo-Altaica |
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Publisher | University of Szeged Press |
ISSN (Print) | 0133-4239 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2677-1268 |
Bibliographical note
The study was carried out with the support of the Russian Science Foundation project No. 17-18-01649 “Dynamics of language contacts in the circumpolar region.”We are grateful to Igor Aleksandrovich Grachev (St. Petersburg), who for many years brought to the attention of one of the authors of the article documents from RGADA, which served as the source basis for this work. We express our heartfelt gratitude to Irina Vladimirovna Begunts (Moscow), a specialist in cursive documents of the 17th century, for a detailed check and proofreading of our transcripts, comments made and explanation of some historical realities associated with the writing of documents of that time.
Keywords
- Tundra Nenets
- Samoyeds
- International Relations
- England
- Moscow Company (Muscovy Company)
- Microhistory
- Language contacts
- Pidgin