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106 Spring Scenes in Samara.
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baptism of an infant costs from fifty copecks to several roubles ;
a wedding five to twenty roubles, a funeral one to ten roubles.
Tlie rich pay much larger sums. Then the priests receive a
great deal in kind. Ten times a year they make their rounds
through the villages, when each family must contribute
something. At the great festivals he comes to hold "moleben " or
delivered by death.
prayers in their homes, when they must give him at least
twenty-five copecks, some pastry, ten eggs, &c. In this village
there are four hundred homes, so he does not do so badly.
It must not be supposed that these offerings are all given
willingly; on the contrary, the priest has often to threaten and
quarrel with the peasants before he can collect them. Some-
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