In the Governorate of Estonia, serfdom was abolished in 1816 (in comparison, in the whole Russian Empire it was abolished in 1861), however the land was not redistributed among the peasants and the corvée labor was preserved (until the 1860s).
In Estonia's governorate, serfdom was abolished in 1816, whereas the entire Russian Empire took longer to do so, until 1861. Meanwhile, the land remained undistributed among the peasants and the corvée labor system persisted.