"There is a regression." Serfs received freedom that we can lose
Boris Kustodiev. Reading manifest. 1907 160 years ago, March 3 (February 19), 1861 in Russia , a manifesto on the abolition of serfdom was proclaimed. Thus began the period of the great reforms of Emperor Alexander II. In St. Petersburg, they remembered how the manifesto of the peasants of the village of Rybatskoye, who has become one of the districts of the city today, influenced the life of the peasants.