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# Kharkiv Calendar of 1885 on a peasant woman who threw her newborn into a pigsty
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/russkaia-khton/
- Published: 2021-04-16T09:17:30.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:52:11.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archive, Observations, Mores

Russian chthonic horror. If anyone had questions for Nekrasov, reality is always harsher than invention.

On the night of the 8th the peasant woman Berestova, aged 19, resident of the village of Lozovaya in the Izyum district, threw her newborn child into a pigsty, where it was eaten by the swine kept there.

Kharkov Calendar, 1885