Snokhachestvo
thumb|The Father-in-Law, a 1888 painting by Vladimir Makovsky Traditional practice until the beginning of the 20th century"In Russia during the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, snokhachestvo was a rather widespread type of sexual crime. [...] With the modernization taking place in Russia during this time, the countryside witnessed: the disintegration of large patriarchal families into small nuclear families, and the gradual transition of the majority of the peasantry from the traditional sphere of customary law to the official normative one. This led to significant emancipatio
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11 sectionsContents
- Hypotheses of Early Origins
- Social and economic context
- Legal status
- 19th-century evidence and statistics
- Historical development and perceptions
- Regional and ethnographic evidence
- Among Don Cossacks
- Disappearance
- Snokhachestvo in the arts
- References
- External links
thumb|The Father-in-Law, a 1888 painting by Vladimir Makovsky Traditional practice until the beginning of the 20th century in the Russian Empire, snokhachestvo () referred to sexual relations between a pater familias (bolshak) of a Russian peasant household (dvor) and his daughter-in-law (snokha) during the minority or absence of his son.
== Hypotheses of Early Origins == Presumably this practice was originally (before Christianization) a polyandrous union in which one woman had two husbands, with one of these husbands being the son of the second. Finally as “snokhachestvo" it was formed after Christianization