From "Sketches of Russian Women's History" (1871):
In Cossack stanitsas (villages) one can see naked men dancing in the street, surrounded by a crowd of women, girls and children. One Cossack woman drank herself to the skin: wishing to collect money for vodka, she burnt her membrum and went naked through the village to collect donations for the burnt place; everyone was delighted by this joke and the Cossack woman was not left without vodka.
