Authors
- Emelyanova Alexandra A. Candidate of Historical Sciences Russian Federation Moscow
Annotation
The flight of landowner peasants in Russia has an extensive historiography, but the act of escape itself, as a phenomenon of everyday history, has hardly attracted the attention of researchers. In the 18th and first half of the 19th centuries, there was a practice of publishing advertisements about serf escapes in newspapers. The article attempts to develop a typology of the circumstances of serf escapes based on the materials of advertisements posted in the “Moskovskie Vedomosti” (“Izvestia” section) for three years from 1804 to 1806. Despite the fact that the newspaper reflected a small percentage of all peasant escapes that actually took place in the country, the ads reveal the geographical location and circumstances of the serfs’ escape from their owners.
How to link insert
Emelyanova, A. A. (2026). TYPOLOGY OF SERF ESCAPES IN EARLY 19th-CENTURY RUSSIA BASED ON ADVERTISEMENTS IN “MOSKOVSKIE VEDOMOSTI” Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", № 1 (61), 6. https://doi.org/10.24412/2076-9105-2026-161-6-19
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