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Friday, February 19, 2010

Russia ends serfdom with Emancipation Manifesto

On February 19, 1861, Czar Alexander II promulgated the Emancipation Manifesto, which abolished the serfdom in Russia after over two hundred years of the practice.



Read the Emancipation Manifesto.


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