Abstract
The Cossack elite that formed on the Don in the 17th-18th centuries eventually established their informal oligarchic rule. To avoid conflicts, its representatives became related to each other through marriage. Such unions can be traced between the children of successive atamans. The removal of the central government opposition ataman Stepan Efremov was accompanied by a whole series of marriages of Efremov's children with the children of his “opponents” to “disperse” the established powerful clan. The next center of attraction, with whom they sought to become related, was the Ilovaisky family and senior officials who moved forward together with the new ataman A.I. Ilovaisky. However, the narrow circle of the elite maintaining unity in this way became the reason for the emergence of weak, unviable offspring. At the end of the 18th - early 19th century, when the role of the Cossack elite on the Don was decreasing, and the influence of the state was increasing, the marriage unions into which its representatives entered changed quite a lot.
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