compare the Russian peasants with French peasants
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Russian Peasants:-
1861 Alexander 2 got his Emancipation Manifesto that proposed 17 legislative works that will free the serfs in Russia.
Alexander speaks that personal serfdom would be ended and all peasants will be able to purchase land from their landlords.
State would advance the money to the landlords and will recover it from the peasants in 49 yearly sums known as redemption payments.
French Peasants:-
On a vacation in France one can see huge palaces, churches, castles and big farms.
The maximum of the ancient regime French population was indeed peasants and they lived in such a subject conditions that nothing much is left of their dwellings.
Often they lived with whole family in a single room.
Making of those cabins was so perishable that not much has been stored of them.