Secret wedding "home-made cigarette": it occurred, weddings generally were accomplished without agreement and blessings of parents, it is exclusive on by the mystery of love and to the agreement of young people. There were several prepositions to this wedding: love between the unequal due to the class or the state; greediness of sly fiance to the dowry of bride; long celibacy of girl; the desire to cover pregnancy. It occurred and so that the parents themselves connived to fugitives to avoid wedding expenditures. In any case, the girl ran away from the parental house not on the coercion and even, it occurred, was previously sent its dowry through the loyal person to the fiance.
After secret wedding young went to the parents of Russian bride, bowed into the feet and requested forgivenesses. The father of trying to get around of young by lash, then pardoned them and blessed by holy means and bread. Even if young fugitive did not take its dowry, then its parents returned to it. There are the cases, when fathers returned to young and the fraction/portion of their inheritance