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HE ПОМНЯЩИЙ РОДСТВА
AdjPmodif)
1. obs (a person) without a family (said of a person who does not have a family or who refuses to provide information about his family)
without any roots
not knowing one's rootswithout (kith or) kin.
2. Also: ИВАН, HE ПОМНЯЩИЙ РОДСТВА (a person) who has broken with the environment in which he was raised and has become indifferent to or even scornful of it
denying one's roots (origins).
Originally a legal term in old Russia applied to vagrants who had no passports.