Skibinskaya О.
Abstract. The author analyses cultural and historical approaches to research in provincial gentes as a cultural phenomenon and represents results of the study in the history of the Zhiloi-Zhilov family from the town of Rybinsk in Yaroslavl Region. The study covers the 17th — beginning of the 20th century and demonstrates specificity of the regional tradition.
Key words: provincial gens, patrilineage, patronym, locus gentis, sacrum gentis, gender
Skibinskaya Оlga Nikolaevna,
Senior Lecturer at Russian Literature Department,
Ushinsky Yaroslavl State Pedagogical University (Yaroslavl),
e-mail: book-os@rambler.ru