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«Historical quill». Attribution of the main symbol of the abolition of serfdom
Rossiiskaia istoriia, 2021openaire +1 more source
2015
On March 30, 1856, Emperor Alexander II, newly ascended to the Russian throne, addressed the Marshalls of the Nobility of Moscow Province with a set of remarks that sent shock waves through the Russian elite. “Rumors have been circulating,” the tsar noted, “that I wish to give the peasants their freedom. This is unjust, and you can say this to everyone
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On March 30, 1856, Emperor Alexander II, newly ascended to the Russian throne, addressed the Marshalls of the Nobility of Moscow Province with a set of remarks that sent shock waves through the Russian elite. “Rumors have been circulating,” the tsar noted, “that I wish to give the peasants their freedom. This is unjust, and you can say this to everyone
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Autocracy and the Abolition of Serfdom in Russia, 1856-1861
Soviet Studies in History, 1987The abolition of serfdom in 1861 was a landmark that separated feudal Russia from capitalist Russia. V. I. Lenin called the fall of serfdom "a crucial historical turning point."1 In his work "The Peasant Reform and the Proletarian-Peasant Revolution" he wrote: "February 19, 1861, signifies the beginning of the new, bourgeois Russia, which had emerged ...
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