Practices of Judical Settlement of Conflicts Between Nobles and Serfs in the 1760s–1770s in Russia

Student: Moryakov Erofey

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2016

The purpose of this work is to reveal the practices of judicial settlement of conflicts between lords and their peasants, especially in the 60s and 70s of the 18th century - in the era of the "golden age" of the nobility, which is rightly regarded as the period of greatest prosperity of serfdom. While the first chapter examines the existing legal mechanisms of judicial settlement of conflicts, the second and third chapters, based on a large body of legal cases, examine the functioning of these mechanisms in practice. Finally, the author concludes that, despite the social and legal inequality of landowners and serfs, the trials demonstrate the presence of a certain level of legal freedom of the serfs, which distinguishes them from the slaves.

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