In sanctioning the projects relating to the emancipation of peasants and domestic serfs, also to the settlement of their condition for the future, I have deemed it indispensable to take measures ...

They’re clamoring out of smaller midwestern metropolises. Need proof? Look no further than Cincinnati, where the Serfs—whose name captures the truly medieval state of today’s underclass ...

Twenty-two million Russians were serfs, still owned by aristocratic landlords as they had been for centuries. Like slaves, serfs were property and could be ordered to do any kind of work.