Russian Peasants
Cartographer : - Moore, Henry
- Date: - 1798
- Size: - 10in x 7 1/2in (255mm x 190mm)
- Ref#: - 92762
- Condition: - (A+) Fine Condition
Description:
This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print engraved by Stephen Davenport was published in the 1798 edition of Henry Moores A new and comprehensive system of universal geography
General Definitions:
Paper thickness and quality: - Heavy and stable
Paper color : - off white
Age of map color: - Original
Colors used: - Yellow, green, blue, pink
General color appearance: - Authentic
Paper size: - 10in x 7 1/2in (255mm x 190mm)
Plate size: - 8in x 5 1/2in (205mm x 140mm)
Margins: - Min 1in (25mm)
Imperfections:
Margins: - None
Plate area: - None
Verso: - None
The term serf, in the sense of an unfree peasant of the Russian Empire, is the usual translation of krepostnoi krestyanin (крепостной крестьянин). 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.
Serfdom became the dominant form of relation between peasants and nobility in the 17th century. Serfdom most commonly existed in the central and southern areas of the Russian Empire. Serfdom in the Urals and Siberia was widely unseen until, during the reign of Catherine the Great, businesses began to send serfs into those areas in an attempt to harvest their large amount of untapped natural resources
Tsar Alexander I wanted to reform the system but was stymied. New laws allowed all classes (except the serfs) to own land, a privilege that was previously confined to the nobility. Russian serfdom was finally abolished in the emancipation reform of 1861 by Tsar Alexander II. Scholars have proposed multiple overlapping reasons to account for the abolition, including fear of a large-scale revolt by the serfs, the government\'s financial needs, evolving cultural sensibilities and the military\'s need for soldiers
Responsible for publishing the Travel Book A new and comprehensive system of universal geography : being a general and complete description of the several empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with the oceans, seas, and islands in every part of the world ; containing ... to which are added a copious geographical index, geographically arranged tables of the coins ... with notes, historical, critical and explanatory / by Henry Moore, D. D. 1798 onwards.
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