godunof

Updated: July 21, 2025

George's Day that is to say, at the end of the agricultural year. This right of migration was abolished by Tsar Boris Godunof who, by the way, was half a Tartar and more than half a usurper and herein lies the essence of serfage in the Russian sense.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia

Although the peasants in ancient Russia were free to wander about as they chose, there appeared at a very early period long before the reign of Boris Godunof a decided tendency in the Princes, in the proprietors, and in the Communes, to prevent migration.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia