The cultural genesis of the Don Cossacks as a subethnic group of the Russian people was accompanied by historical collisions that determined the formation in the Land of the Don Cossacks of a traditional but culturally complex community with a predominant Orthodox component, broad military democracy and dominant materiality in everyday culture and in immanent Cossack traditions. One of the features of the culturally complex Cossack community was religious transborderism, which significantly influenced the functioning of the self-supporting monasteries of the Don Cossacks, where monastic life developed somewhat differently than in the central, northern and northwestern regions of Russia. Using the example of the creation of a festive everyday life on the day of the Holy Trinity in the Migulinsky Holy Trinity Monastery, territorially located in the north of the Land of the Don Cossacks and spreading its cultural and religious influence to a number of neighboring villages and farms, the article examines the totality of violations of cultural and church taboos, which were not considered such by the monastery clergy and the Cossacks of the local villages. The military authorities of the Don Host tried to stop the rampant liberties in the Upper Don villages by sending out “military strong letters”, the content of which was the focus of attention of the authors, who presented a detailed analysis of the cultural-historical artifact.
Skorik et al. (Wed,) studied this question.