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  2. Social estates in the Russian Empire - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Estate (Russia) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Maryino Estate, Kursk Oblast - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo Estate - Wikipedia

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    Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo Estate is an estate in the north-west of Мoscow. Other names include Pokrovskoye-Glebovo and Glebovo-Streshnevo . It has a manor house in the classicism style, a church [ ru ] from the 17th century, and other various Russian Revival architecture buildings.

  6. Dacha - Wikipedia

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    The first dachas in Russia began to appear during the 17th century, initially referring to small estates in the country that were given to loyal vassals by the tsar. [3] In archaic Russian, the word dacha means something given, from the verb "дать" [dat'] – "to give". [1]

  7. Abramtsevo Colony - Wikipedia

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    Abramtsevo (Russian: Абра́мцево) is a former country estate and now museum-reserve located north of Moscow, in the proximity of Khotkovo, that became a centre for the Slavophile movement and an artists' colony in the 19th century. The estate is located in the village of Abramtsevo, in Sergiyevo-Posadsky District of Moscow Oblast. The ...

  8. Russian nobility - Wikipedia

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    Up until the February Revolution of 1917, the Russian noble estates staffed most of the Russian government and possessed a self-governing body, the Assembly of the Nobility. The Russian word for nobility, dvoryanstvo derives from Slavonic dvor (двор), meaning the court of a prince or duke , and later, of the tsar or emperor.

  9. Kuskovo - Wikipedia

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    Kuskovo (Russian: Куско́во) was the summer country house and estate of the Sheremetev family. Built in the mid-18th century, it was originally situated several miles to the east of Moscow but now is part of the East District of the city.