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A 1907 painting by Boris Kustodiev depicting Russian serfs listening to the proclamation of the Emancipation Manifesto in 1861. The emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, also known as the Edict of Emancipation of Russia, (Russian: Крестьянская реформа 1861 года, romanized: Krestyanskaya reforma 1861 goda – "peasants' reform of 1861") was the first and most important ...
Emancipation of state-owned serfs occurred in 1866. [1] The Russian term krepostnoi krestyanin (крепостной крестьянин) is usually translated as "serf": an unfree person (to varying degrees according to existing laws) who unlike a slave cannot be owned individually as property, but can't freely live on or move to any other ...
A kholop (Russian: холо́п, IPA:, Ukrainian: холо́п) was a type of feudal serf (dependent population) in Kievan Rus' in the 9th and early 12th centuries. [1] Their legal status in Russia was essentially the same as slaves. [2] (p 576) They were sold as any other property of their master until the emancipation reform of 1861.
The emancipation of the serfs in Russia: Peace arbitrators and the development of civil society (Routledge, 2008). Emmons, Terence, ed. Emancipation of the Russian serfs (1970), 119pp. Short excerpts from primary and secondary sources. Emmons, Terence. The Russian Landed Gentry and the Peasant Emancipation of 1861 (1968) review; Field, Daniel.
The term muzhik, or moujik (Russian: мужи́к, IPA:) means "Russian peasant" when it is used in English. [5] [clarification needed] This word was borrowed from Russian into Western languages through translations of 19th-century Russian literature, describing Russian rural life of those times, and where the word muzhik was used to mean the most common rural dweller – a peasant – but ...
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The Emancipation Reform of 1861 abolished serfdom on private estates throughout the Russian Empire. By this edict more than 23 million people received their liberty. [ 21 ] Serfs gained the full rights of free citizens, including rights to marry without having to gain consent, to own property, and to own a business.
Sergey Stepanovich Lanskoy (Russian: Серге́й Степа́нович Ланско́й; 3 January 1788 [O.S. 23 December 1787] - 7 February [O.S. 26 January] 1862) was the Russian Minister of the Interior from 1855 to 1861, being inaugurated during a reform-minded era and dismissed after the Emancipation Reform of 1861.