Votiak


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Votiak:

see Udmurt RepublicUdmurt Republic
or Udmurtia,
constituent republic (1990 pop. 1,620,000), 16,255 sq mi (42,100 sq km), European Russia, in the forested foothills of the Urals, between the Kama and Vyatka rivers. Izhevsk (the capital), Sarapul, and Votkinsk are the chief cities.
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Smirnov's monographs on the Volga peoples include Cheremisy: Istorikoetnograficheskii ocherk (Kazan: Tipografiia Imperatorskogo universiteta, 1889); Votiak:
(75) It was precisely Ivan Smirnov's use (or misuse) of the comparative method in the Multan case that predisposed him to accept as plausible the accusation of human sacrifice leveled against a group of Votiak (Udmurt) defendants.
Vera Kharuzina writes, "He wanted to become acquainted directly with the life of the people [narod], which he knew only from books and in which he was deeply interested and fervently loved." (18) In the following two summers, he traveled to the Votiaks (Udmurts) of Viatka province and the Don Cossacks.
Nikolai Kharuzin and the quest for a universal human science: anthropological evolutionism and the Russian ethnographic tradition, 1885-1900
Kazan was politically brittle, in that there were cultural and religious divisions between its Finno-Ugric rural population (Chuvash, Mordvin, Cheremis, Votiaks) and its Muslim Tatar nobility, as well as factional polarizations within the latter.
Muscovy's conquest of Kazan

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