About the book: 2011 / Everyone knows that serfdom existed in Russia. But today few people know what it actually was. This topic was surrounded by a kind of conspiracy of silence that continues to this day. Apparently, the truth about the two-century period of popular slavery often turns out to be too inconvenient for various reasons. Therefore, the fact is completely missed that at the time of the beginning of the peasant reform, twenty-three million peasants were the complete private property of their masters. And this “baptized property” was sold with the separation of families, exiled to Siberia, lost at cards and, finally, died from inhuman punishments not only until the very date of “liberation”»…