Obshchina
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An obshchina or mir, also officially termed as a rural community between the 19th and 20th centuries, was a peasant village community, or a khutor, in Imperial Russia. The term derives from the word o
At a Mir Assembly by Sergei Korovin
Khutor
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A khutor or khutir is a type of rural locality in some countries of Eastern Europe; in the past the term mostly referred to a single-homestead settlement. The term can be translated as "hamlet".
Obshchina
…Ukrainian: сільське товариство) between the 19th and 20th centuries, was a peasant village community (as opposed to an individual farmstead), or a khutor, in Imperial Russia. The term derives from the word obshchiy (Russian: общий, literally "common"). The mir was a community consisting of serfs, later…
Konstantin Kryzhitsky. A Khutir in Little Russia, 1884