Abstract
The author is using documents from a personal archive and tells a story based on anecdotes as well as edited memoirs of her mother Nadezhda Reformatskaya . She had the fortune to spend her youth in one of the last small Russian country homes. Lively accounts ofprovincial country life at the beginning ofthe twentieth century give way to dramatic scenes of the conscription to send troops to the frontline of the First World War. The title of the article paraphrases the lines from a poem by A. N. Nekrasov “ On the Volga” (1860).
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