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With the development of capitalism and the abolishment of the serfdom in Russia in the second half of the 19th century the estate paradigm no longer corresponded to the actual socio-economical stratification of the population, but the terminology was in use until the Russian Revolution of 1917. At the same time the legal and governmental system ...
Peasant estates [4] The Kudryavtsevs estate in Kaluga Oblast. Typical for the beginning of the 19th century, estate of a landowner with a smaller amount of land. A classic manor estate usually included a main manor house, several wings, stables, оrangeries, buildings for servants, etc. The park adjacent to the estate most often had landscaoe ...
Princess Maria Baryatinskaya, the person the estate is named after Idyllic view of the estate in the early 19th century. Following the death of the wife of Prince Ivan Baryatinsky, the Governing Senate issued a decree declaring the Maryino Estate a reserve in October 1859, and the estate was inherited by Ivan's two oldest sons: Alexander and Vladimir.
State peasants lived on public land and paid taxes to the treasury. According to the first audit of the tax paying population of Russia (1719), there were in European Russia and Siberia 1,049,000 males (i.e. 19% of the total agricultural population), according to the 10th audit revision (1858) – 9,345 million (45.2% agricultural population).
The coming of the Industrial Revolution to Russia brought about a rapid growth in the urban population, and wealthy urban residents increasingly desired to escape the heavily polluted cities, at least temporarily. [3] By the end of the 19th century, the dacha became a favorite summer retreat for the upper and middle classes of Russian society. [9]
19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; Pages in category "19th-century landowners from the Russian Empire" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ...
Catherine's push to the south, including the establishment of Odesa as a Russian port on the Black Sea, provided the basis for Russia's nineteenth-century grain trade. During the early nineteenth century, Russia's population, resources, international diplomacy, and military forces made it one of the most powerful states in the world.
By the start of the 19th century, Russian territory extended from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea in the south, and from the Baltic Sea in the west to Alaska, Hawaii, and California in the east. By the end of the 19th century, Russia had expanded its control over the Caucasus, most of Central Asia and parts of Northeast Asia ...