State peasants (Russian: Государственные крестьяне, gosudarstvennye krestiane) were a special social estate (class) of peasantry in 18th–19th century Russia, the number of which in some periods reached half of the agricultural population. In contrast to private serfs, state peasants were considered personally free, although their freedom of movement was restricted.
contrast to private serfs, state peasants were considered personally free, although their freedom of movement was restricted. The state peasants were created...
exchange relaxation-free (SERF) magnetometer is a type of magnetometer developed at Princeton University in the early 2000s. SERF magnetometers measure magnetic...
The status of the helots in the ancient Greek city-state of Sparta resembled that of the medieval serfs. By the 3rd century AD, the Roman Empire faced a...
up a new system whereby the state would be able to purchase farmland from the landowners and sell it to the freed serfs. The Tsar told Moscow nobles:...
The term serf (Russian: крепостной крестьянин, romanized: krepostnoy krest'yanin, lit. 'bonded peasant'), in the sense of an unfree peasant of tsarist...
Siberian artel members, or self-employed workers drawn largely from the stateserf and townsman class who engaged in the Siberian, maritime, and later fur...
in 1864, and on much better terms for the nobles than in Russia. State-owned serfs (those living on and working Imperial lands) were emancipated in 1866...
Saint Serf or Serbán (Servanus) (c. 500 – c. 583) is a saint of Scotland. Serf was venerated in western Fife. He is called the apostle of Orkney, with...
education and welfare, which ex-serfs were unable to acquire. Exceptional status Free agriculturalist Stateserf The former serfs became peasants, joining the...
(one from every 20-100 homes); and Tsar Alexis placed thousands of "stateserfs" along the border in standing service as ‘settled’ dragoons and infantry...
the tax paid by Romani stateserfs in Bessarabia to the Russian Empire after the region was incorporated in 1812. Roma stateserfs were organised in 3 categories:...
serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and of private landowners intensified the exploitation of serf labour. This was one of the chief reasons...
yet taken by Russia. She was captured with her brother, Ivan, and sold as serfs to Prince Nikifor Kondrat'evich Viazemskii, former tutor of Alexei Petrovich...
resources of the entire Congo Free State, Leopold issued three decrees in 1891 and 1892 that reduced the native population to serfs. Collectively, these forced...
and member of the State Council of the Russian Empire. It has been stated that Guryev porridge was invented by Zakhar Kuzmin, a serf chef of the retired...
condition and illiteracy of the serfs who made up the armed forces, the inability of the serf economy to sustain a state of war against industrial powers...
Fitz, and directed "Many Happy Returns" and "A Change of Mind" as Joseph Serf. He also wrote "Once Upon A Time" and "Fall Out" using his own name. "MGM...
family. His father, Ivan Feodorovich Feodorov, was the son of a former Stateserf from Yaroslavl Governorate and had become the owner of the Malii Yaroslaviets...
Emperor Alexander II issued The Emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Emancipation of state-owned serfs occurred in 1866. The Russian term krepostnoi krestyanin...
A villein is a class of serf tied to the land under the feudal system. As part of the contract with the lord of the manor, they were expected to spend...
the serf–lord relationship there by abolishing the use of fines and corporal punishment imposed upon serfs, and abolishing lords' control over serfs' marriage...
nationalised, with some one million peasants on monastery land becoming stateserfs practically overnight. A new ecclesiastic educational system was begun...
before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they...
(1787–1792), when several families descended from Zaporozhian Cossacks and stateserfs from the area of Poltava settled on the banks of the Tokmak River. The...
Two years later, he married Evdokia Ivanovna Guskina, the daughter of a stateserf. At the Academy, he continued his studies with Jensen. In 1862, he received...
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