A SLOVAK HOMESTEAD BY THE LITTLE LABA: FROM “REMINISCENCES OF THE CAUCASUS” BY MATÚŠ FILO

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Home Editorial board Publication ethics Current Information Archive Peer review guidelines Contacts Address: Pr. Mira, 10, Vladikavkaz, 362040, RNO-A, Russia E-mail: soigsi@mail.ru	DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2022.82.43.004 A SLOVAK HOMESTEAD BY THE LITTLE LABA: FROM “REMINISCENCES OF THE CAUCASUS” BY MATÚŠ FILO Pukish, Vladimir S. Izvestia SOIGSI. 2022. IIS 43 (82). Abstract: In the last third of the 19th century, Czech peasants were resettling in Kuban Oblast and Black Sea Okrug from Austria-Hungary. They founded about a dozen villages and farmsteads in the area. Earlier the author of this article showed that within this group of Czech resettlers were ethnic Slovaks who at that time were rarely distinguished from Czechs. The purpose of this article was to introduce into scholarly discourse the travelogues written by the Slovak entrepreneur Matúš Filo (1852–1913), plot the homestead founded at the end of the 20th century on the bank of the Little Laba River near Psebaiskaya Village (now Psebai, Mostovskoi Rayon, Krasnodar Krai) on the map of the ‘Czechoslovak’ settlements of that time, describe the everyday life of ethnic Slovaks residing in Kostromskaya Village, and wandering Slovak tinkers/pedlars coming out to the Caucasus. M. Filo’s travelogues have never been published in Russian (they were published in Slovak in 1889 in the Národné noviny newspaper). Based on archive documents, reminiscences of contemporaries published a century ago, and reference literature, the author of this article tracks the fate of the members of the Duchoň family that established a sawmill and owned breweries and other enterprises in Kuban Oblast. The article traces the tragic fate of the last (?) representative of the family, Engineer Vladimír Duchoň, who was persecuted for political reasons during WWI. It is noted that the Slovak entrepreneurs that lived near Psebaiskaya Village blazed a trail in the hydronymy and microtoponymy of the present-day Caucasus Natural Reserve. Keywords: Matúš Filo, “Reminiscences of the Caucasus,” the Little Laba, Psebaiskaya, Kostromskaya, Slovaks, sawmill, Vincent Duchoň, Ivan Duchoň, Vladimír Duchoň, ‘Hunga�- rian-Slovak’ place names Download the full text + References 1. Pukish, V.S. O slovatskikh pereselentsakh na Kavkaze [About Slovak resettlers in the Caucasus]. Kubanskiy sbornik [Kuban Miscellany]. Krasnodar, 2008, vol. 3, pp. 63–68. 2. Pukish, V. Chekhi Severnogo Kavkaza: gody i sud’by: 1868–2010 [Czechs in North Caucasus: Years and Destinies: 1868–2010]. Rostov-on-Don, Media-Polis, 2010. 368 p. 3. Matúš Filo. Slovenský obchodník v ruskom kraji [Slovak Trader in Russian Lands]. Turč. Sv. 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