Domostroy

Core Domostroy values tended to reinforce obedience and submission to God, the tsar, and the church.

Its real author is unknown, but the most widespread version was edited by the archpriest Silvester, an influential advisor to Ivan IV of Russia.

[2] Modern researchers tend to trace the origins of the Domostroy to the 15th century Novgorod Republic, where it could have been used as a kind of moral codex for the wealthy.

The book is divided into 67 sections (in Silvester's version) dealing roughly with the following matters: In modern Russia, the term Domostroy has a pejorative meaning.

It is used in such classic texts as Herzen's My Past and Thoughts and Turgenev's Fathers and Sons to refer to a traditionalist way of life associated with patriarchal tyranny, as exemplified by the following quotations: "A wife which is good, laborious, and silent is a crown to her husband."