A LIFE UNDER RUSSIAN SERFDOM The Memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800–68

by Boris B. Gorshkov

2005 119 pages eng

"This memoir provides readers with a glimpse of the life of a Russian serf, Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii. He was born in 1800 in Velikoe, in a serf village in Yaroslavl' province of central Russia. At the age of thirty, he escaped from serfdom by fleeing to the south. He wrote his memoirs shortly be…