Alevtina Gongišt. A Vepsian woman against the flow of her own blood
Vepsian Alevtina’s passport surname is Soldatova. She disliked this name even as a child. So she chose a pseudonym, the author’s name—Gongisht. What does it mean? The word “Gong” shares […]
The Veps – “original Finns”
The Veps were forgotten by science for a long time, until the beginning of the XIX century, when they were “discovered” by the Finnish ethnographer Anders Jugan Sjögren. After visiting […]
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Vepsians [Chud Zavolotska]
Veps – The ancient Karelian people are part of the Caucasoid race with a Ural admixture. Vepsians are small in stature, with an average head size, their face is slightly […]