Poor, rich and beggary in Udmurt village: historic and contemporary interpretation

Based on folklore-ethnographic data, scientific development of the first Udmurt ethnographer G. E. Vereshchagin, and own field materials on contemporary Udmurt village the author attempts to analyze the view on social inequality, the reasons of this disparity and the perception of it in public consciousness of Udmurt rural society in the late XIX and the turn of XX-XXI centuries.