From an ethnographic study carried out in the Russian rural territories, I analyze in this article the support networks and resources that individuals possess in order to face the uncertainties of everyday life and to be able to stand facing the world in a social context characterized by job insecurity and withdrawal of the State. Two variables will be at the heart of my argumentation: the family and the land. With these fundamental notions to understand the profound transformation of the contemporary Russian world, I will examine various figures of precariousness.