Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824 by Aleksandr Nikitenko, Helen Saltz Jacobson

Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824

Aleksandr Nikitenko, Helen Saltz Jacobson

256 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Aleksandr Nikitenko, descended from once-free Cossacks, was born into serfdom in provincial Russia in 1804. One of 300,000 serfs owned by Count Sheremetev, Nikitenko as a teenager became fiercely determined to gain his freedom. In this memorable a...

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