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In Russian and other Slavic languages robota denotes any kind of work, but in Czech it specifically refers to unpaid unfree work, corvée or serf labour, or drudgery. The Czech word was imported to part of Germany where corvée was known as Robath , and into Hungarian as robot .
The manifesto of three-day corvee. The Manifesto of three-day corvee or An Imperial Edict Forbidding Sunday Labor by Serfs (Russian: Манифест о трёхдневной барщине от 5 апреля 1797 года) was issued by the Russian emperor Paul I on April 16, 1797 as a first ever legal attempt at extending the rights of Russian serfs.
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 ...
At the same time the quit-rent (obrok) and corvee obligations decreased by 2-3 times. [12] The landowners, mostly belonging to the service class, thus experienced a fall in their income and many estates were left with no peasants at all. [12] The Russian army which consisted mostly of mounted service class people lost half of its number as a ...
Socage is a free forced labor of a serf peasant in the landowner's household, a typically Russian form of labor in the second half of the 18th century. According to the law of 1797 on a three-day corvee, the peasant family had to work on their horse for the landowner three days a week. Moreover, one day a week the wife, daughter or mother of a ...
Forbidden Years (Archaic Russian: заповѣдныя лѣта) were part of a tightening of the service obligations of serfs in Russia leading to full-scale serfdom in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
It was a common practice for individual Russian soldiers and militaries to take civilians captive, whom they sold as slaves, and many of the citizens of Narva, both Swedes and Estonians, were to be sold at the slave markets in Russia, Persia, and the Ottoman Empire, [2] [3] and among the others taken captive this way during the war the future ...
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.