Mesiachniki

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Mesiachniki

 

peasant serfs in Russia in the 18th and the first half of the 19th century who had been transferred by their landlord to the mesiachina.

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