The Emancipation Edict

• What did peasants receive?

  Freedom and an allotment of land
• What did landowners receive?

  Compensation from the government
• What did freed serfs have to pay?

  Redemption payments for 49 years and couldn't leave the mir until these were completed
• What did volosts do?


  Established to supervise mir
• What did landowners keep?

  Pastures, woodland, meadows and personal landholdings
• What was the time peasants remained serfs for known as?

  Temporary obligation
• How long was temporary obligation supposed to last?

  2 years
• How long did around 15% of serfs remain serfs for?


  Until 1881
• What did the mir receive?

  Open fields to grow crops
• When were privately owned serfs emancipated?


  1861
• When were state owned serfs emancipated?


  1866