tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post300407081800795772..comments2022-11-01T01:20:44.440-07:00Comments on Classics & the Bible: Anna Karenina: Part V, Chapter 6Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-41538547939510866142013-01-21T16:21:37.280-08:002013-01-21T16:21:37.280-08:00I don't recall that sort of living arrangement...I don't recall that sort of living arrangement portrayed in AK. All the characters who were part of the Russian upper class set up housekeeping in their own homes upon marriage. <br /><br />Multigenerational households WERE common among the Russian peasantry during the 19th century though.<br /><br />Here's something I found in the Encyclopedia of Social History by Peter N. Sterns:<br /><br />"By the time of the emancipation of the serfs (1861), peasants lived in extended, multigenerational households. Peasant society was both patriarchal and patrilocal -- women went to live in the households of their husbands, and children were vested with property rights through their fathers. For both the upper and the lower classes in the 19th century, marriage was based on economics, not romantic love. Tasks within the family were divided by gender, engaging in subsistence family farming, utilizing methods and tools tested by time, and largely unaffected by agricultural innovations." <br /><br />Adriana@ClassicalQuesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06718229975590311860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5114017400123549331.post-19091317477630090172013-01-21T06:46:08.484-08:002013-01-21T06:46:08.484-08:00When the Bible talked of seeing your children'...When the Bible talked of seeing your children's children, it was in the context of a culture where several generations lived under the same roof, or within the same encampment. I wonder if this had any similarity to Russian culture at the time of AK?Timhttp://timfall.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com