Servitka Roma

Servurja Roma

Languages
Servitka Romani [ru]
Related ethnic groups
Romani people in Serbia

Servurja Roma (Ukrainian Серви, Russian Сэрвы) is a subgroup of Romani. They formed as a group in Ukraine, where their ancestors had come from Serbia.^[1]

History

Servitka Roma were formed in Ukraine from Romanian and/or Serbian Roma who immigrated to the country in the early seventeenth century.^[2][3] In addition to Ukraine, they are disbursed in the European part of Russia. Ritualism is partially borrowed from the Slavic population.

Traditionally, they were engaged in trade and exchange of horses, blacksmithing, fortune-telling. For some time, young servants served in the Cossack troops.

Today, the Servitka are one of the most educated Roma ethnic groups with a wide range of professions. Noticeably, they distinguished themselves in the musical field. Servitka are often confused with chaladite roma; in the artistic environment, these two ethnic groups are similar. In the publications of Ilona Mahotina and Janusz Panchenko, six subgroups of Servitka are distinguished, which have some differences in language and culture: Tavrichans, Zadnipr'ans, Poltavans, Voronezh (Xandžar'a) and Volga Servitka and Kylmysh. These studies also note the so-called city Servitka, whose ancestors were sedentary, at least from the end of the 19th century.^[4] and is currently the most integrated Roma group.

Well-known Servitka Roma

• Eugene Hütz, musician
• Nickolai Slichenko, theatre and cinema actor, Romen Theatre director
• Sasha Kolpakov, guitarist

See also

• Romani people in Ukraine
• Ruska Roma
• Polska Roma

References

1. "Тетяна СТОРОЖКО Наталя ЗІНЕВИЧ" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-06-28. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
2. "Тетяна Сторожко, Наталія Зіневич. Цигани Охтирщини (за матеріалами усних джерел та родинних фотоархівів)" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 June 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
3. Зіневич Н. О. «Циганський етнос в Україні (історіографія та джерела)». HAH України. Ін-т укр. археографії та джерелознавства ім. М. С. Грушевського. К., 2005.
4. Панченко Я. Основные статистические показатели цыган Херсонской области 2016—2017 гг. (опыт этносоциологического исследования) / Научный редактор к.ф.н. Махотина И. — Днепр: Середняк Т.K. — 54 с.

• "Beliefs of Ukrainian Roma as historic-religion resource" by Olexandr Belikov ("Вірування Ромів України як історико-релігієзнавче джерело", Олександр Беліков).

External links

• Yanush Panchenko, Mykola Homanyuk. (2023). Servur'a and Krym'a (Crimean Roma) as indigenous peoples of Ukraine // Etnografia Polska, 67(1–2). p. 155-173.
• Roma and "Gypsies"
• The Roma: between a myth and the future
• Book of Memory Archived 2011-03-08 at the Wayback Machine in Russian