Serf Russia. History of People's Slavery

Everyone knows that in Russia there was serfdom. But what it actually was is known to few today.

This topic has been surrounded by a kind of “conspiracy of silence,” still continuing to this day. Apparently, the truth about the two-century period of people being held as the property of others is often too inconvenient for different reasons. That’s why a completely overlooked fact remains: at the moment the peasant reforms began, twenty-three million peasants were complete private property of their masters. And this “baptized property” was sold with the separation of families, shipped to Siberia, gambled away in cards, and finally perished from inhuman punishments—not only up to the date of “emancipation”…