vashi

Updated: May 17, 2025

The peasants could not, of course, put these conceptions into a strict legal form, but they often expressed them in their own homely laconic way by saying to their master, "Mui vashi no zemlya nasha" that is to say. "We are yours, but the land is ours." And it must be admitted that this view, though legally untenable, had a certain historical justification.* * See preceding chapter.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia