I.I. Cottage cheese . For alms. 1884
Kotomka ( kotoma [1] ) - a traveling shoulder bag on straps made of coarse canvas, cloth , leather or suede [2] . Together with the staff, Kotomka is a well-known attribute of wanderers, vagabonds, beggars, pilgrims and other representatives of “wandering Russia” as expressed by the ethnographer Count S. V. Maksimov . Like sorba , it was a symbol of poverty and poverty . Kotomka is widely used in Russian proverbs: “to go in Russia with a cat”, “let the cat and woman go out”, “do not envy the person who put on the cat”, “neither bread in a bag, nor a penny in a cat” [3] .
Notes
- ↑ Kotoma // Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language : in 4 volumes / auth. V.I. Dahl . - 2nd ed. - SPb. : Printing house of M.O. Wolf , 1880-1882.
- ↑ I.I.Sangin. Kotoma (kotomka) // Russian traditional life: Encyclopedic dictionary. - SPb. : The ABC of Classic, 2003 .-- S. 399-400. - 688 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-352-00337-X .
- ↑ L.V. Belovinsky . Kotomka // Illustrated encyclopedic historical and everyday dictionary of the Russian people. XVIII - beginning of XIX century / ed. N. Ereminoy . - M .: Eksmo, 2007 .-- S. 316. - 784 p.: - Ill. with. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-24458-4 .
Literature
- I.I.Shangina. Kotoma (kotomka) // Russian traditional life: Encyclopedic dictionary. - SPb. : The ABC of Classic, 2003 .-- S. 399-400. - 688 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 5-352-00337-X .
- L.V. Belovinsky . Kotomka // Illustrated encyclopedic historical and everyday dictionary of the Russian people. XVIII - beginning of XIX century / ed. N. Ereminoy . - M .: Eksmo, 2007 .-- S. 316. - 784 p.: - Ill. with. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-699-24458-4 .