The article is dedicated to characteristics of familial bonds based on bloodline and marriage in the documents from the Novgorod occupation archive. The author reviews the events of the so called Time of Troubles during the early 17th century and singles out a unique case of cohabitation of a country girl called Dun’ka with a Swedish marshals in Veliky Novgorod. In fact nobody considered Dun’ka to be the Swedish marshal’s wife and never called her as such. The cohab- itation itself was not marked with some special terminology or similarized to a marriage.
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