Who was Tsar of Russia when the serfs were emancipated?
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
Serfdom in Russia nineteenth century due to estate owner negligence. Tsar Alexander I and his advisors quietly discussed the options at length. Obstacles included the failure of abolition in Austria and the political reaction against the French Revolution. Cautiously, he extended the right to own land to most classes of subjects, including state-owned peasants, in 1801 and created a new social category of "free agriculturalist", for peasants voluntarily emancipated by their masters, in 1803. The great majority of serfs were not affected. The Russian state also continued to support serfdom due to military conscription. The conscripted serfs dramatically increased the size of the