Russian street children or vagrant children, especially those left homeless or orphaned during revolutionary upheaval.
From Russian 'besprizorny,' meaning 'without guardianship' or 'uncared for.' The word emerged in early Soviet Russia to describe children abandoned during the Revolution and civil war of the 1920s.
The 'besprizorni' are a historical scar: tens of thousands of Soviet orphans roaming cities in the 1920s, and the word itself became almost a character type in Russian literature and film, representing the chaos of revolution.
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