Russian Serf Theatre refers to theatrical productions performed by serfs for their owners. Russian serf theaters dates back from the early to mid eighteenth...

the Russian Empire. Historians consider her efforts to be a success. According to a census taken from 1754 to 1762, Catherine owned 500,000 serfs. A further...

Биковић, Russian: Милош Бикович; born January 13, 1988) is a Serbian and Russian actor and producer. His best known films are box office hits Serf, Serf 2,...

efforts of Russian explorers, developing into the Russian Empire, which remains the third-largest empire in history. However, with the Russian Revolution...

novel by Alexander Herzen about a production of the French play in a Russian serf theatre Thieving Magpie (film), 1958 Soviet drama film, based on Herzens's...

of the serfs who worked on the estates. Style, that varied by rank: The High Born (Russian: ваше высокородие), The High and Well Born (Russian: ваше высокоблагородие)...

Kovalyova-Zhemchugova (Russian: Прасковья Ивановна Ковалёва-Жемчугова; July 20, 1768 – February 23, 1803) was a Russian serf actress and soprano opera...

most notably the 1861 emancipation of all 23 million serfs. From 1721 until 1762, the Russian Empire was ruled by the House of Romanov; its matrilineal...

started to reconstruct his father's theatre: he engaged in special education of serf children, "certain to theatre" (Russian letters, foreign languages, music...

The Cherry Orchard (Russian: Вишнёвый сад, romanized: Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first...

Russian Civil War (1917–1923) and that to a lesser extent continued operating as militarized associations of rebels both outside and within Russian borders...

Souls". In the Russian Empire, before the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, landowners had the right to own serfs to farm their land. Serfs were for most...

Mironova (Russian: Мари́я Андре́евна Миро́нова; born 28 May 1973) is a Soviet and Russian actress. She was named People's Artist of Russia in 2020. Was...

Monique Andrée Serf (9 June 1930 – 24 November 1997), known as Barbara, was a French singer. She took her stage name from her grandmother, Varvara Brodsky...

Retrieved 11 September 2012. Serfes, Father Nektarios. "Martyrdom Of Sister Barbara, The New Martyr Of Russia". www.serfes.org. Retrieved 11 September...

Izhevsk (Russian: Иже́вск, IPA: [ɪˈʐɛfsk] ; Udmurt: Ижкар, romanized: Ižkar, or Иж, Iž) is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia. It is situated along the...

among heirs. Starting in 1731 landlords were made responsible for their serfs' taxes, which had the effect of tightening their economic bondage further...

Maly Theatre (Малый театр, literally Small Theatre as opposed to nearby Bolshoi, or Grand, opera theatre) is a theatre in Moscow. Russia, principally...

The Russian Ground Forces, also known as the Russian Army in English, are the land forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The primary responsibilities of...

Fortress Theatre was a historic theatre in Moscow in Russia, active from the 1760s to at least 1797. It was the Moscow stage of the famous serf theatre of Pyotr...

born in the village of Krasnoe, in the Kursk Governorate of the Russian Empire, to a serf family-owned by Count G. S. Volkenshtein. Shchepkin's freedom...

Kursk Saltychikha, was a wealthy Russian landowner and socialite, as well as torturer and serial killer of her own serfs, who operated in the Kursk, Yekaterinoslav...

"Hollywood". It began in the Russian Empire, widely developed in the Soviet Union and in the years following its dissolution. The Russian film industry would remain...

The Serf Actress (Russian: Крепостная актриса, romanized: Krepostnaya aktrisa) is a 1963 Soviet musical film directed by Roman Tikhomirov. The film tells...

of Russian theater Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugova, a serf woman belonging to the Sheremetev family, who became an actress in the Sheremetev Serf Theatre...

Yevgeny Ivanovich Kamzolkin (Russian: Евгений Иванович Камзолкин; 19 February 1885 – 18 March 1957) was a Russian and Soviet artist-decorator, photographer...

had a profound impact on Russian culture. During this time, the first Russian university was founded, a library, a theatre, a public museum, as well...

attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important...

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who became serf peasants, working the land owned by Vasily Engelhardt [uk], a nephew of the Russian statesman Grigory Potemkin. In...

"Confronting Serfdom in the Age of Revolution: Projects for Serf Reform in the Time of Alexander I". Russian Review. 64 (1): 1–21. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9434.2005...