Domostroi
Domostroi , also Domostroj ( Russian Домострой , literally house rules ) is a Russian legal code from the 16th century, which was in use until the 19th century.
Emergence
According to some historians, the Domostroi emerged as early as the 15th century under the Novgorod boyars and the merchant class. In the middle of the 16th century the Domostroi was revised by the protopope Silvester and the Metropolitan Makarij on behalf of the young Ivan IV the Terrible . This second version has survived to this day. As the code was intended to reach a wider audience, it is, in contrast to the religious texts of the Old Church Slavonic that predominated at the time , written in a lively colloquial language and in some cases provided with proverbs . That is why it represents an important milestone in the history of literature.
The Domostroi contains carefully compiled rules of public, religious and, in particular, everyday family behavior and has a moralizing and disciplining function. It deals with housekeeping in particular in detail. Although the advice contained in no way corresponds to practice, it allows indirect conclusions to be drawn about everyday life.
Criticism of Domostroi by Tolstoy
According to the Russian poet of the 19th century Leo Tolstoy , the Domostroj preaches the "unrestricted power of the master of the house over women, children and servants". In his story Die Kreutzersonate (1891), which explicitly has the relationship between man and woman as its theme, he lets a lady say in conversation that this writing shows a “barbaric idea of woman and marriage”.
See also
Web links
- History of Domostroi, as well as the version of the Protopope New Year's Eve on krugosvet.ru (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Heiko Haumann : History of Russia. Zurich 2003. p. 129
- ↑ Haumann 2003, pp. 130 ff.
- ^ Lew Tolstoy: Die Kreutzersonata (1891). Translation Arthur Luther. Insel TB 763, 1984, p. 20, footnote.
- ↑ Lev Tolstoy: The Cruiser Sonata . Island TB 763, p. 20.