Emancipation reform of 1861 business. The Manifesto prescribed that peasants would be able to buy the land from the landlords. Household serfs were the least affected: they gained only their freedom and no land. In Georgia the emancipation took place later, in 1864, and on much better terms for the nobles than in Russia. The serfs were emancipated in 1861, following a speech given by Tsar Alexander II on 30 March 1856. State owned serfs, i.e. the serfs living on Imperial lands, were emancipated later in 1866. Prior to 1861 Russia had two main categories of peasants: with only those owned privately considered to
Secession in Russia interview with the magazine "Expert" in April 2005, the head of the presidential administration, Dmitry Medvedev said: In 2011, during a meeting of the government Commission for the development of the North Caucasian Federal District in Gudermes, Vladimir Putin said what would happen if the Caucasus suddenly left Russia: Secession in Russia The possible Dissolution of Russia is a hypothetical disintegration of the Russian Federation as a single state, as well as opinions and analysis of the consequences of this event. The topic is the subject of hundreds of articles on the Internet. Russia, like any other country, is experiencing