''… SENT BY JESUS CHRIST'' (CULTURAL INCIDENT OF 1875 IN THE CHIGIRINSKY DISTRICT)

Abstract

The relevance of the topic is due to the trends in the development of historical science, the vector of which is directed towards the study of the history of "little" people. One of the completely forgotten characters of the past was a simple peasant woman, Nastasya Likhosherstaya. For the first time in historiography, her work is in the field of special scientific interest and is considered against the background of long-term peasant unrest in the Chigirin district of the Kiev province in the 1870s. The scene of action was the village of Adamovka of the same district. The main characters are Likhosherstaya herself, several hundred villagers, mostly women, a volost foreman and a local priest. The study was carried out within the framework of microhistory methods, which make it possible to consider the object of study in event details and semantic shades. The source base for the study was the materials of official records management, including reports from the volost and district police authorities to higher authorities, as well as reports from the Kiev GZhU to the 3rd department of the imperial chancellery. The article shows how the study of a separate cultural incident helps to take a fresh look at the attitude of the peasants themselves to the reform in the state village on the example of a specific district of Right-Bank Ukraine.