Dacha
The dacha ( Russian даха ; also доха , Docha ; word of Mongolian or Kazakh origin) is a fur worked with the hair on the outside . Were used fur types , such as sheep or goat skin , reindeer - or Maralfell , but also dog fur - or wolf-skin , with dog fur was considered the warmest. The Kazakhs also used horse fur .
The dacha was considered travel clothing and was pulled over ordinary fur. It was worn by men and women in Siberia and from the Urals to the Lower Powolschje from the 18th to the 20th centuries . The tobacco shop Jury Fränkel (1899–1971) remembered that around 1910 on the train ride to the fur fair in the cold Siberian Irbit, travelers had a Dochá with them, usually a foal coat that was lined with an Australian opossum .
literature
- Brockhaus Konversationslexikon . 17th edition Leipzig, Brockhaus 1908.
Web links
- Docha in the online dictionary of the Russian Ethnographic Museum (Russian)
- Dacha ( memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) in the dictionary of the Great Russian language (1863–1866) by Vladimir Dal (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jury Fränkel: One-way street - report of a life , first part. Rifra Verlag, Murrhardt, 1971, p. 33.