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    The emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, also known as the Edict of Emancipation of Russia, (Russian: Крестьянская реформа 1861 года, romanized: Krestyanskaya...
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    Catholic emancipation Dunmore's Proclamation Ecclesiastical emancipation Emancipation of minors Emancipation Proclamation Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia...
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    carried out in the 1860s. By far the most important was the Emancipation reform of 1861 which freed the 23 million serfs from an inferior legal and social...
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    Serfdom in Russia (category Reform in Russia)
    romanized: krepostnoye pravo) was abolished only by Alexander II's emancipation reform of 1861; nevertheless, in times past, the state allowed peasants to sue...
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    Izhevsk (redirect from History of Izhevsk)
    were made of stone. The settlement had 1066 wells. On February 19, 1861, Emperor of Russia Alexander II carried out the Emancipation Reform. On October 9...
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    police. After the Emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia and subsequent reforms, their purpose became mostly affairs of the nobility. This institution...
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  • retaining serfdom in Russia in the run up to the Emancipation Reform of 1861. After the Emancipation of serfs in Russia, Alexander II began to have serious...
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  • similarities to the open-field system of Britain. Serfs who had been liberated by the emancipation reform of 1861 lacked the financial ability to leave...
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    Kholop (category Society of Kievan Rus')
    slaves.(p 576) They were sold as any other property of their master until the emancipation reform of 1861.[citation needed] The term kholop was excluded from...
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  • Texas is admitted to the Confederate States of America. March 3 (February 19 O.S.) – Emancipation reform of 1861: Alexander II abolishes serfdom in the Russian...
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    Yevgeny Obolensky (category Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress)
    engaged in social activities. He took part in the preparation of the Emancipation reform of 1861. Having requested for permission to live in Moscow, his first...
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    Contraband (American Civil War) Emancipation Memorial – a sculpture in Washington, D.C., completed in 1876 Emancipation reform of 1861 – Russia Lieber Code Reconstruction...
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    Slavery in Lithuania (category Economic history of Lithuania)
    of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, continued to exist throughout Rzeczpospolita period and later under the rule of Russian empire until Emancipation reform...
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    Russia's age of serfdom 1649–1861 (2008) Wright, William E. Serf, Seigneur, and Sovereign: Agrarian Reform in Eighteenth-century Bohemia (U of Minnesota...
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    Zemstvo (category Forms of local government)
    institution of local government set up during the emancipation reform of 1861 carried out in Imperial Russia by Emperor Alexander II of Russia. Nikolay...
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  • population of 74 million. They belonged to the state, to monasteries and to 104,000 rich gentry landowners. ` The emancipation reform of 1861 that freed...
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  • Edict of Emancipation, the granting of Prussian citizenship to all Jews in 1812 during the Prussian reforms Emancipation reform of 1861, liquidation of serfdom...
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    Alexander's most significant reform as emperor was the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander the Liberator (Russian:...
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  • hostage. Formally, the Russian Empire abolished serfdom with the Emancipation reform of 1861. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which...
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    II's Emancipation reform of 1861. The foundation stone of the votive church was laid on Miusskaya Square (an industrial area in the northwest of Moscow)...
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  • remained in force in most of Russia until the Emancipation reform of 1861, enacted on February 19, 1861, though in the Russian-controlled Baltic provinces...
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    Sergei Ivanovich Zarudny (category Senators of the Russian Empire)
    Russian Empire, mostly during the reign of Alexander II. He was a supporter of the emancipation reform of 1861, which freed serfs; and played a key role...
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  • Indian and Chinese economies. In February 1861, Emperor Alexander II signed the Emancipation reform of 1861 and the Manifesto. Both documents were distributed...
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    backdrop of rapid transformations as a result of the liberal reforms initiated by Emperor Alexander II of Russia, principal among these the Emancipation reform...
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    Hunting in Russia (category Culture of Russia)
    captured alive in order to better train borzoi pups. Before the Emancipation reform of 1861, wolf hunting was done solely by authorised firearm holders,...
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  • Narodnaya Volya (category Politics of the Russian Empire)
    Marxism in favour of an ideal of anarchist self-government. The emancipation of the serfs in 1861 did not suddenly end the state of grim rural poverty...
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    Kolokol. After the Emancipation reform of 1861, Kolokol took the side of revolutionary democracy. The newspaper began publishing texts of proclamations, articles...
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  • Slavophilia (category Culture of Russia)
    liberals and ardently supported the emancipation of serfs, which was finally realized in the emancipation reform of 1861. Press censorship, serfdom and capital...
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    Slave Trade Act (category Lists of legislation by short title)
    1871 Law of Free Birth in Brazil 1888 Lei Áurea (Golden Law) in Brazil 1793 Upper Canada Act Against Slavery Russian Emancipation reform of 1861 Anglo-Egyptian...
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  • the emancipation reform of 1861. The nobility was clearly separated from the peasants which severely limited social mobility. The beginnings of serfdom...
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