2767 x 3682 px | 23,4 x 31,2 cm | 9,2 x 12,3 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
18 janvier 2012
Informations supplémentaires:
The origins of serfdom in Russia are traced to Kievan Rus in the 11th century. Legal documents of the epoch, such as Russkaya Pravda, distinguished several degrees of feudal dependency of peasants, the term for an unfree peasant in the Russian Empire, krepostnoi krestyanin (крепостной крестьянин), is translated as serf. Serfdom became the dominant form of relation between peasants and nobility in the 17th century, and it was abolished by a decree issued by tsar Alexander II. Serfdom only existed in central and southern areas of the Russian Empire. It was never established in the North, in Urals, and in Siberia By the mid-19th century, the peasants composed a majority of the population, and according to the census of 1857 the number of private serfs was 23.1 million out of 62.5 million Russians, 37.7% of the population. The exact numbers, according to official data, were: entire population 60, 909, 309; peasantry of all classes 49, 486, 665; state peasants 23, 138, 191; peasants on the lands of proprietors 23, 022, 390; peasants of the appanages and other departments 3, 326, 084.] State peasants were considered personally free, but their freedom of movement was restricted Russian serfdom depended entirely on the traditional and extensive technology of the peasantry. Yields remained low and stationary throughout most of the 19th century. Any increase in income drawn from agriculture was largely through increasing land area and extensive grain raising by means of exploitation of the peasant labor, that is, by burdening the peasant household still further. Serfs owned by European Russian landlords
