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* See ukaz of October 7th, 1792. As an example of making presents of serfs, the following may be cited. Count Panin presented some of his subordinates for an Imperial recompense, and on receiving a refusal, made them a present of 4000 serfs from his own estates. Belaef, p. 320. * See the ukazes of August 22d, 1767, and March 30th, 1781.
In the third place, distinct from these two classes, and in some respects higher in the social scale, were the peasants properly so called.* * My chief authority for the early history of the peasantry has been Belaef, "Krestyanye na Rusi," Moscow, 1860; a most able and conscientious work.
Finally the right to sell peasants without land was formally recognised by various Imperial ukazes.* * For instance, the ukazes of October 13th, 1675, and June 25th, 1682. See Belaef, pp. 203-209. The old Communal organisation still existed on the estates of the proprietors, and had never been legally deprived of its authority, but it was now powerless to protect the members.
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