Horses in the Everyday Life of the Russian Capital City of the XIXth –Beginning XXth
https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2023.87.6.012
Abstract
The modern citizen does not need to use several living creatures significantly larger than him in size — horses to get from A to point B. However, for the Russian capital city of the XIX century. XX centuries. these ungulates were habitual inhabitants. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that Moscow and St. Petersburg was a zooanthropic city, that is, a place where the destinies of people and animals intersect, which also contributed to history. The main animals in the urbanizing city were horses, they represented public transport, private prestigious transport, carried firefighters, police and theater actors, and also accompanied citizens in any situation: from calling a midwife to a woman in labor to delivering a coffin to a cemetery.
About the Author
A. A. Lokteva
Historical and Archival Institute of RSUH
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Lokteva Anastasia Andreevna — Lecturer of the Department of Source Studies of the Faculty of Archival Science and Documentation
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Lokteva A.A. Horses in the Everyday Life of the Russian Capital City of the XIXth –Beginning XXth. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2023;(6 (87)):112-118. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26105/SSPU.2023.87.6.012
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