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The Daily Dispatch: April 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
Russian serfs. The emancipation of 25,000,000 serfs at a single dash by the present Emperor of Russia, is one of the boldest strokes of policy ever attempted. Its effect is to reduce at once to beggary nearly the whole of the Russian nobility, hitherto the ruling power in the State. It is understood that almost all of them are in debt, to several times the value of their whole estates, leaving out the serfs. These constituted the principal capital of the whole country. The emancipatioe never was such an experiment before upon the prosperity of a nation. In round numbers, the entire superficial area of European Russia is 2,200,000 square miles. Every square mile contains 640 acres. Consequently the entire superficies of European Russian is about 1,400,000,000 acres. The Czar has thus destroyed at a blow property equal in value to all the land in his European empire at four dollars an acre; a price which we are assured it will not average. The population of Russia in Europe