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Imagine you live in Russia in 1700s. Write a journal entry explaining changes made in government and rule, as well as serfdom.

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Answer:The term "serf", in the sense of an unfree peasant of tsarist Russia, is the usual English-language translation of krepostnoi krestyanin (крепостной крестьянин) which meant an unfree person who, unlike a slave, historically could be sold only with the land to which he or she was "attached". (The Emperor Peter I ended slavery in Russia in 1723.) Contemporary legal documents, such as Russkaya Pravda (12th century onwards), distinguished several degrees of feudal dependency of peasants. But serfs became essentially slaves, as recognized by Empress Catherine II (r. 1762–1796) officially, and their human rights were much less than that of slaves in French colonies, including Louisiana, as described in anti-slavery novels. Russia became the only

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