Modernization twist in Russia in the XIX- XX centuries and my Volga ancestors in this context

Отечественная война, крестьянская семья, православная религия. This study deals with the problems of social modernization of Russia in the context of one Volga family history. Russian historical modernization until February 1917 was closely connected with monarchical form of gov-ernment. There have been major achievements and major failures along the way. The reform of Alexander II, abolishing landlords’ serfdom, gave pow-erful acceleration of socio-economic development of Russia for 55 years. Post-reform time was controversial in its social consequences. So in tradi-tional Russian agricultural regions, for example in Saratov province, agri-cultural overpopulation increased dramatically, significantly reducing peasant land plots. This process reflected both statistics and history of indi-vidual peasant families. The Tsar’s Manifesto on October 17, 1905 gave the people bourgeois freedoms and legislative Duma. A little later, Stolypin’s agrarian reform was launched. But in inviolability there was the class of landowners...