All 8 Uses of
serf
in
The Idiot
- In the good old days, this man, whom we will call P—, owned four thousand souls as serfs (souls as serfs!†
Chpt 2.8serfs = Middle Ages Europe: people bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- In the good old days, this man, whom we will call P—, owned four thousand souls as serfs (souls as serfs!†
Chpt 2.8
- pocketed at least a third of the money paid by Russian peasants to their lords in the days of serfdom.†
Chpt 2.8serfdom = Middle Ages Europe: the state of a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- She was a serf, but had received a European education.†
Chpt 2.8 *serf = Middle Ages Europe: a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- A movement of impatience was noticed in his audience as he resumed: "I merely wish to state, for the information of all concerned, that the reason for Mr. Pavlicheff's interest in your mother, Mr. Burdovsky, was simply that she was the sister of a serf-girl with whom he was deeply in love in his youth, and whom most certainly he would have married but for her sudden death.†
Chpt 2.9
- All our eminent socialists are merely old liberals of the class of landed proprietors, men who were liberals in the days of serfdom.†
Chpt 3.1serfdom = Middle Ages Europe: the state of a person who is bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- 'If I were to recognize the Russian orthodox religion and emancipate the serfs, do you think Russia would come over to me?'†
Chpt 4.4serfs = Middle Ages Europe: people bound to the land and owned with the land by the feudal lord
- "And I have heard of YOU," continued the prince, addressing Ivan Petrovitch, "that when some of your villagers were burned out you gave them wood to build up their houses again, though they were no longer your serfs and had behaved badly towards you."†
Chpt 4.7