Образ незаконнорожденных детей в русской культуре. Дмитрий Баранов

A lecture on the ambiguous image of illegitimate children in the Russian village. Why were illegitimate children born feet first, and why were so many willing to become their godparents? What were they called, and where did the idea of ​​their happy fate come from? How were they treated in rural society, and what did they become as adults? Lecturer: Dmitry Baranov, PhD in History, Head of the Department of Ethnography of the Russian People at the Russian Ethnographic Museum.