Replacement ticket- because of its yellow color, which also had an unofficial name among the people yellow ticket- was an alternative document to the passport, which in the Russian Empire gave the right to legally engage in prostitution.
Story
Viewing book so-called. "replacement ticket" consisted of 8 pages (4 spreads), on the last of which medical notes were placed ( "Doctor's note"), and the first was a photograph of a prostitute; on the second spread were placed "Rules for Supervision"(13 points), and pages 5, 6 and 7 were "Rules for public women"(16 points) .
If you want to practice the oldest profession, good luck, but be kind enough to register with the police, hand over your passport, and instead get the famous “yellow ticket” - official evidence that this woman is no longer among the “decent” ones, and that the police are not only can, but even obliged to organize regular medical examinations. It was very easy to become a victim of this order - for this it was enough to get caught at least once with a client during a police raid or simply, at the denunciation of the landlord. With a yellow ticket in hand, a woman had the right to earn a living only with her body. It was difficult to get your passport back, and there was no need - who needed the former "walking". [ ]
However, in Russia, all supervised prostitutes were divided into overt and secret [ ] . And only the first received the notorious "yellow ticket". The second category of pre-revolutionary "night butterflies" was subject to secret supervision, and their activities "remained a secret even for relatives."
Idiom
"Yellow ticket" is an insulting statement about a woman.
Leo Tolstoy ( “So, what are we to do? ») the heroine mentions the document.
On the pages of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, in historical references, we can see references to the yellow ticket. What it is? To whom was it issued? was it possible to get rid of it? What does "go on a yellow ticket" mean? Read the description and history of this unusual document that could be obtained instead of a passport.
What it is?
There was a period in tsarist Russia when prostitution was controlled by the state and was legalized. Brothels paid taxes, and the girls were given an appropriate document instead of a passport. It was called the "yellow ticket" because of the color.
The holders of such a ticket were not entitled to engage in another profession. And it was very difficult to return an ordinary passport, even if the girl decided to quit the craft. A special document forced me to regularly go for a medical examination and be registered at the police station.
The book indicated information about health, rules and pasted a photograph of a prostitute.
But of course, not everyone wanted to have such a document. Illegal brothels and illegal street girls also flourished, but with a certain amount of risk. Those caught doing this were forced to change their passports to a yellow ticket.
The expression "to go on a yellow ticket" in those days meant to go hand in hand, to become a girl of easy virtue.
Historical reference
Prostitution is known to be an ancient profession. And in Russia it also existed, but not in the most developed form. The “overseas infection” flourished during the time of Peter the Great thanks to the “window to Europe”.
At the same time, the official struggle of the state against this phenomenon began. In 1716, a decree was issued prohibiting fornication for money in military units. This was done in order to reduce venereal diseases. Punishments were introduced for the military, resorting to the services of available women. And the ladies caught red-handed were sent to prison.
All these measures did not give the expected result. In addition, the entire royal court was not distinguished by high morality and did not set a proper example.
Until the end of the 19th century, the unsuccessful struggle against this evil continued, and then it was decided to put prostitution under state control. Now the girls were watched by doctors and policemen, and body trafficking became a profession.
A set of official rules appeared in brothels. Gambling was forbidden, but piano playing was allowed. Three quarters of the money went to the owner of the house, one quarter went to the worker.
The age of prostitutes was also regulated. It was forbidden to start before the age of 16. At the beginning of the 20th century, the age limit shifted to 21 years. But in reality, the rules were not always respected, and very young people could be found in brothels.
At the turn of the century, there were about 2,500 official brothels and more than 15,000 working women. In addition, the same number of street girls worked on a yellow ticket.
After the revolution, an active struggle began against the "petty-bourgeois evil." In a working socialist society there was no place for girls of easy virtue. And prostitution went deep underground again.
Who lived on a yellow ticket?
Prostitutes were mostly girls from the poorest strata of society. Often these were peasant or provincial women who came to the city to earn money. Some did not want to engage in exhausting physical labor, but many were deceived, raped or fell below the poverty line.
Among the girls, there were often maids seduced by the master, and factory workers seduced by the master. Finding themselves on the street with a tainted reputation, they did not know where to go. Here, “caring” housewives were waiting for them, who first fed the outcasts, gave shelter, and then gradually explained what kind of work they offered. Often the girls had no choice but to agree.
Occasionally, among the prostitutes there were intellectuals or impoverished noblewomen. The cost of owning a beautiful, educated girl was higher because they didn't meet often.
Some of them received the yellow ticket on their own. And others, perhaps, did not plan to stay in the profession for a long time, but were caught with a client during a raid or became a victim of a denunciation by the landlady.
Street fishing was considered the very bottom. Newcomers or those who could no longer work in a brothel went there. Women who have lost their beauty, are sick or have defects.
Yellow ticket in "Crime and Punishment"
From historical evidence and classical literature, one can learn about the tragic fate of girls who, out of need, fell into the profession. The yellow ticket in "Crime and Punishment" had Sonya Marmeladova, the heroine is extremely positive, but got into difficult circumstances. The girl received the document on a denunciation.
In the book, Raskolnikov was able to love her despite this. But that rarely happened in real life.
Of course, not all girls had a yellow ticket associated with hardship and suffering. Some in those days were glad that they did not have to ruin themselves with hard work in the factory. Someone thought that they were lucky - they have shelter, food, beautiful clothes, a small income. And some of the women even managed to enjoy their profession.
In the works of Russian writers of the late XIX - early XX centuries, the phrase "yellow ticket" is sometimes mentioned. What's this? Today's reader can easily guess from the context, and at the time of writing stories, novels and novels by Dostoevsky, Bunin and Tolstoy, all adults (children, as a rule, were protected from obscene information about the vicious aspects of life) knew that this was an indispensable attribute of a woman, selling her own body.
Replacement Document
Any woman of reproductive age could get a yellow ticket in the Russian Empire, forced to do so by life circumstances or for other reasons. To do this, it was necessary to express such a desire, write a corresponding petition and hand over your passport to the police station at the place of residence. From that moment on, the passport was no longer needed, it was replaced by a booklet consisting of eight pages with a lemon-colored cover. In addition to voluntary "financing", there was also a compulsory procedure that operated in the event of being convicted of engaging in an ancient profession, even if only once. This could have happened during a raid, following a denunciation by the landlady, a jealous wife, or another person who indicated the data of a woman engaged in obscene business without registration.
The yellow ticket on its four spreads contained the following information:
- Cover - the inscriptions "Replacement document" and "Viewing ticket".
- First spread - passport size photo, name, surname, place and date of birth.
- Then approved rules for the supervision of public women were printed, consisting of thirteen points.
- Pages five through seven listed sixteen paragraphs of the "Rules of Conduct" that must be followed.
- The last one, the eighth, served to mark the medical control, which certifies the health of the prostitute and the absence of venereal diseases. The regularity of inspections was supervised by the police. This was done for reasons of state, to prevent epidemics.
A one-way ticket
In Russia, selling one's own body has always been considered a shameful occupation, and, exchanging a passport for a "yellow ticket", a woman understood that, although a reverse move is theoretically possible, although it is associated with lengthy bureaucratic red tape, it is almost impossible to implement in practice. Despite the rather high level of law-abidingness, there were some ladies of easy virtue who tried to engage in this trade illegally, leaving themselves a chance to quit it and become “honest” again. Cooperation with law enforcement agencies could save some of them from police prosecution. The Criminal Investigation Department and other gendarmerie units used the services of seksots (secret employees), including prostitutes, who were very valuable sources of information. Clients often, after drinking too much, blurted out to their girlfriends for one night various relevant information from the life of the criminal world or banned organizations, including terrorist ones.
Working under secret supervision allowed some of the prostitutes to hide their shameful occupation even from their relatives. Such passport holders did not need a “yellow ticket”, and they had to take care of their health on their own.
In recent decades, everyone has been actively discussing the issue of prostitution. How to deal with her and her patrons from law enforcement? How to protect society from asocial elements? How to relate to prostitutes, some of whom have become hostages of circumstances? Everyone considers it his duty to speak out on this topic, even if he saw prostitutes only in cartoons. The polarization of public opinion is still spurred on by the approaching gay pride parade in Moscow, but gay pride parades are a separate issue.
Someone argues that it is necessary not to fight this phenomenon, but to legalize it. That is, those who want to use the services of prostitutes still will not decrease, but in this way it will be possible to somehow control this business, receive taxes from it, not to mention medical books and an employment contract for workers ancient profession ! And by improving the quality - to raise prices and, accordingly, deductions to the budget.
A strange monument to a prostitute "Shop of vice" on the outskirts of Prague
Now in Russia, it is difficult for many to imagine such a legalization for moral and ethical reasons, and I understand this. As in the case of alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling and other means of satisfying the needs of varying degrees of depravity, this will always be a stumbling block of at least two points of view.
But has Russia always shunned the moral licentiousness of the distant red-light district? Let's rewind 2 paragraphs back, where I called prostitution the oldest profession. Usually this phraseological unit is used rather as a joke, but it turns out that prostitutes existed in the Russian Empire. Moreover, their activities were absolutely legal and each of the workers had a document allowing them to do this!
Yellow ticket allowing legal prostitution
The "yellow ticket" was issued to prostitutes instead of a passport. It would not be very pleasant now to catch the smirks of the policemen considering such a crust in our time :) The document consisted of 8 pages, contained medical notes, rules for supervision, rules for public women, and on the first spread there was a photo of a citizen of a prostitute. The ticket was issued when decent girls were caught red-handed fried. This led to the surrender of the passport, and with such a document, the woman was doomed to trade in her body and regular police checks. This yellow ticket also appeared in Crime and Punishment, Sonechka Marmeladova had such a ticket, as we know from the plot of the book, Raskolnikov was not very embarrassed by the existence of this piece of paper.
Maybe the time has come to introduce such a compulsory document? If you want to earn with your body - please, but be kind enough to have a yellow ticket with doctoral notes. Or still push the profession to the end, to the last pimp? But then who will provide thousands of girls with a decent education, work, who will let a fallen teacher approach their child? What are your thoughts on this topic?
Story
Viewing book so-called. "replacement ticket" consisted of 8 pages (4 spreads), on the last of which medical notes were placed ( "Doctor's note"), and the first was a photograph of a prostitute; on the second spread were placed "Rules for Supervision"(13 points), and pages 5, 6 and 7 were "Rules for public women"(16 points) .
If you want to practice the oldest profession, good luck, but be kind enough to register with the police, hand over your passport, and instead get the famous “yellow ticket” - official evidence that this woman is no longer among the “decent” ones, and that the police are not only can, but even obliged to organize regular medical examinations. It was very easy to become a victim of this order - for this it was enough to get caught at least once with a client during a police raid or simply at the denunciation of the landlord. With a yellow ticket in hand, a woman had the right to earn a living only with her body. It was difficult to get your passport back, and there was no need - who needed the former "walking".
However, in Russia, all supervised prostitutes were divided into overt and secret ones. And only the first received the notorious "yellow ticket". The second category of pre-revolutionary "moths" was subject to secret supervision, and their activities "remained a secret even for relatives."
Idiom
An insulting statement about a woman.
Categories:
- Phraseologisms
- Personal identification
- Documentation
- Prostitution in Russia
- Human rights in Russia
- Segregation
- Sexism
- Sex segregation
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See what the "Yellow Ticket" is in other dictionaries:
yellow ticket- common name document issued in the pre-rev. Russian metropolitan police to prostitutes and legalized their right to practice their craft ... Russian humanitarian encyclopedic dictionary
- (colloquial), the name of the sanitary book of an official document issued to prostitutes in pre-revolutionary Russia in exchange for a passport. (Source: Dictionary of Sexual Terms) … Sexological Encyclopedia
Razg. Obsolete Passport issued to prostitutes. BMS 1998, 47; F 1, 22 ...
yellow ticket- Dorevol. A special, yellow document that gives the right to legally engage in prostitution. She grinned and said: “But who will take me with a yellow ticket?” (L. N. Tolstoy. So what should we do?). My daughter lives on a yellow ticket with ... added ... ... Phraseological dictionary of the Russian literary language
yellow ticket- In Russia until 1917: a passport on a yellow form, issued to prostitutes ... Dictionary of many expressions
White ticket. Razg. Exemption from military service. BTS, 70; F 1, 22; SBG 1, 45. Ticket to communism. Razg. Iron. Food stamp. BBI, 28; Baldaev 1, 36. Ticket to the next world. Jarg. school Shuttle. Diary. (Entry 2003). Wolf ticket. Razg. IN… … Big dictionary of Russian sayings
