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A Woman's Honor (or, When Pigs Fly)
Author: Olga Glagoleva
:: Illustrations/Images by Anastasia Balatyonysheva
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2012
Department: Law and Jurisprudence
Page: 42 ( 8) pages
Summary: One summer night in 1764, in a provincial Russian village, a dispute broke out between two cousins. Words were exchanged, a pig was thrown, and a 30-year legal battle was born.
This article appeared in the Mar/Apr 2012 issue of Russian Life. The text of this article is not available online.
YOU CAN READ THIS ARTICLE by ordering the back issue of Russian Life.
Weblinks related to this story:
- A bit of Lyubok A minstrel atop a pig?
- Bolotov's House at Dvoryanina
- Oryol in the 1830s A nice color image.
- Pig Executed for Murder
- Postcard of the Town of Karachev Near the site of the Pig Incident.