All 6 Uses of
serf
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- [*] The emancipation of the serfs in 1861 is meant†
Chpt 2.5serfs = Middle Ages Europe: people bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- I am well dressed and reckoned not a poor man; the emancipation of the serfs hasn't affected me; my property consists chiefly of forests and water meadows.†
Chpt 4.1
- Aniska was a dressmaker in the country, one of our former serf girls who had been trained in Moscow, a pretty wench.†
Chpt 4.1serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- I had a serf, Filka; just after his burial I called out forgetting 'Filka, my pipe!'†
Chpt 4.1 *
- You heard, no doubt, Avdotya Romanovna, when you were with them the story of the servant Philip who died of ill treatment he received six years ago, before the abolition of serfdom.†
Chpt 4.2serfdom = Middle Ages Europe: the state of a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- And he used to be a house serf.†
Chpt 4.4serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord