 Kapustiki have not always been accepted in Russia's changing society.When Christianity became the prominent religion in a region, priests often prohibited dances, like the kapustiki, and replaced them by "sviatye" or “saintly” events, created to ensure appropriate censorship from sin for the people.Russian for “cabbage eater”, "kapustnik" is another name for the Steller's sea cow, a large sea animal with origins in the North Pacific Ocean; it is presumed extinct since 1768.