In Uruguay few descendants of Russian émigrés want to leave
Despite Vladimir Putin’s encouragement for them to move back
NEAR THE banks of the River Uruguay, Tatyana Bochkariov, a mother of six, wears a colourful talichka, a type of dress typical in 19th-century Russia. Her eight-year-old son Pavel climbs an orange tree in front of the family home and calls out to his mother in Russian, his first language. Only a few trappings of modernity—their fleece jackets, gas-powered heating and Pavel’s toys—distinguish the family from the Russian peasants who came to Uruguay a hundred years ago.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “You say pirozhki, I say empanada”
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