"In the Provinces of kaluga, Kursk and Voronezh peasant meetings adopted the following resolution: "'All grown members of the peasant community have to be home in the spring.
"The Red Conspiracy"
Joseph J. Mereto
At length a sort of double button, of an oval form, called a kaluga, which, among the people of rank, is often four inches long, and three broad, is forced in so as to make the under lip stand forward thus much in a horizontal direction, and leave the lower teeth quite bare.
"A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2"
Otto von Kotzebue
Upon the continent, the kaluga is worn still larger; and the female who can cover her whole face with her under-lip passes for the most perfect beauty.
"A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2"
Otto von Kotzebue