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Friday, March 3, 2023

3 March 1861: The Emancipation of the Serfs

 




In the 1860s, millions of slaves were emancipated, but really weren't. This was in the Russian Empire and the slaves were mostly fellow ethnic Russians. 


Boris Kustodiev: The Emancipation of the Serfs (1907)


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