What is a khutor? Is it a farm, or leased fields some distance from the home village? Bill Pickelhaupt Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

You'll get various translations, but yes, it refers to an individual farm or farm building complex or cluster of homes outside of a village proper. The best I've been able to come up with is the word "homestead" or possibly "farmstead", if such a word exists - in the US, these typically would have a Rural Road Post Number, but be outside of any incorporated settlement. In Russia, these would typically be named after the family that lived there - e.g. Khutor Semke, Khutor Schmidt, etc - and if it was sold, the name would typically change. I've seen this on old Russian maps. Does that help ? The writer Nikolai Gogol made the word Khutor famous in a novel, usually translated as "Nights on a Farm near Dikanka" - the word farm is used synonymously with Khutor - so that gives you another possible translation. Bill Doos -----Original Message----- From: billpick11 <[email protected]> To: ger-volga <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 10:40 am Subject: [GV] Khutors What is a khutor? Is it a farm, or leased fields some distance from the home illage? Bill Pickelhaupt ent via BlackBerry by AT&T ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message