Russian Foreign Ministry marked the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery with a tweet saying “Our country was one of the few that never engaged in the slave trade,” and featuring a propaganda cartoon from the era of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
century, Russian newspapers were still printing advertisements like, “A serf girl with a little child is on sale for 50 silver rubles and 10 rubles worth of assignations ,” the Russian news agency Lenta.ru wrote in 2016, in a piece headlined: “3A paining by a 19th century Russian artist Vasily Perov, "The Return of Serfs from a Burial."
Russian landlords were notorious for cruel treatment of their serfs. The death of a serf after a beating or any sort of punishment or abuse by the master was not considered a crime under Russian law. Young women died twice as often as men., a landlady who owned farms and mansions in the Moscow, Volgograd and Kostroma regions, was sentenced to life in a monastery for “torturing and murdering” her serfs.
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