People bound to the land. Serfdom fully developed in Russia during the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Before that, ...

For a solid part of Russian history – starting from the mid-17th century, and until the abolition of serfdom in 1861 – peasants were tied to their land. They could also be bought and sold ...

Emancipation of the Russian Serfs. Share full article. March 26, 1861. ... of the arable land, ... very difficult to ascertain at once the exact number of cultivators in Russia, ...

The social revolution in Russia, which transforms TWENTY MILLION serfs into freemen is announced as really having taken effect on Sunday, the 17th of March -- hencefort and forever a memorable day ...

Let news of a single wrong to a serf get through the hedges about the Russian majesty, and woe to the guilty master! Many of these wrongs came to Nicholas’s notice; and he came to hate the ...

Women sold cheaper than men, and in the Novgorod region (central Russia) one could buy a female serf for five rubles and a goose for 1.25 rubles.

In late 1825, a group of reform-minded Russian military officers believed the time was ripe to end the rule of the czars.

In the nineteenth century, Russia was a European power but in many ways it was trapped in the past. Twenty-two million Russians were serfs, still owned by aristocratic landlords as they had been ...