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MESHCHERYAKS, or MESHCHERS

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 177 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MESHCHERYAKS, or MESHCHERS , a people inhabiting eastern
Russia
 .
Nestor
  regarded them as Finns, and even now
part
  of the Mordvinians (of Finnish origin)
call
  themselves Meshchers. Klaproth, on the other hand, supposed they were a mixture of Finns and Turks, and the Hungarian traveller Reguli discovered that the tatarized Meshchers of the Obi closely resembled Hungarians. They formerly occupied the basin of the Oka (where the town Meshchersk, now Meshchovsk, has maintained their name) and of the Sura, extending north-
east
  to the
Volga
 . After the conquest of the Kazan
Empire
  by
Russia
 ,
part
  of them migrated north-eastwards to the basins of the Kama and Byelaya, and thus the Meshchers divided into two branches. The western branch became russified, so that the
Meshcheryaks
  of the governk ments of Penza, Saratov,
Ryazan
  and Vladimir have adopted the customs, language and religion of the conquering race; but their ethnographical characteristics can be easily distinguished in the Russian population of the governments of Penza and Tambov. The eastern branch has taken on the customs, language and religion of Bashkirs, with whom their fusion is still more complete.


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