LEADER 04754nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910807361303321 005 20230914181240.0 010 $a1-281-72206-5 010 $a9786611722067 010 $a0-300-13031-7 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300130317 035 $a(CKB)1000000000472153 035 $a(EBL)3419878 035 $a(OCoLC)923588090 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000265634 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11235797 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265634 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10312365 035 $a(PQKB)10212057 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3419878 035 $a(DE-B1597)484882 035 $a(OCoLC)952732290 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300130317 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3419878 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10167928 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000472153 100 $a20000818h20012001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aUp from serfdom $emy childhood and youth in Russia 1804-1824 /$fA. Nikitenko; translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson ; foreword by Peter Kolchin 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d2001. 210 4$aŠ2001 215 $a1 online resource (xxiv, 228 pages) $cillustrations, maps 300 $aBased on Nikitenko's diaries. 311 0 $a0-300-08414-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tTranslator's Note --$tAcknowledgments --$tMaps --$tChapter 1. My Roots --$tChapter 2. My Parents --$tChapter 3. Father's First Attempt to Introduce Truth Where It Wasn't Wanted --$tChapter 4. My Early Childhood --$tChapter 5. Exile --$tChapter 6. Home from Exile --$tChapter 7. Father Returns from St. Petersburg --$tChapter 8. 1811: New Place, New Faces --$tChapter 9. Our Life in Pisaryevka, 1812-1815 --$tChapter 10. School --$tChapter 11. Fate Strikes Again --$tChapter 12. Waiting in Voronezh --$tChapter 13. Ostrogozhsk: I Go Out into the World --$tChapter 14. My Friends and Activities in Ostrogozhsk --$tChapter 15. My Friends in the Military; General Yuzefovich; The Death of My Father --$tChapter 16. Farewell, Ostrogozhsk --$tChapter 17. Home Again in Ostrogozhsk --$tChapter 18. The Dawn of a New Day --$tChapter 19. St. Petersburg: My Struggle for Freedom --$tTranslator's Epilogue --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tIndex 330 $a"It was the arbitrary nature of the serfholder's power that weighed on serfs like Nikitenko, for as they discovered, even the most benevolent patron could turn overnight into an overbearing tyrant. In that respect, serfdom and slavery were the same."-Peter Kolchin, from the foreword 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 and moving book, here translated into English for the first time, Nikitenko recollects the details of his childhood and youth in servitude as well as the six-year struggle that at last delivered him into freedom in 1824. Among the very few autobiographies ever written by an ex-serf, Up from Serfdom provides a unique portrait of serfdom in nineteenth-century Russia and a profoundly clear sense of what such bondage meant to the people, the culture, and the nation. Rising to eminence as a professor at St. Petersburg University, former serf Nikitenko set about writing his autobiography in 1851, relying on his own diaries (begun at the age of fourteen and maintained throughout his life), his father's correspondence and documents, and the stories that his parents and grandparents told as he was growing up. He recalls his town, his schooling, his masters and mistresses, and the utter capriciousness of a serf's existence, illustrated most vividly by his father's lurching path from comfort to destitution to prison to rehabilitation. Nikitenko's description of the tragedy, despair, unpredictability, and astounding luck of his youth is a compelling human story that brings to life as never before the experiences of the serf in Russia in the early 1800's. 606 $aCritics$zRussia$vBiography 606 $aSerfs$zRussia$vBiography 607 $aRussia$xSocial conditions$y1801-1917 615 0$aCritics 615 0$aSerfs 676 $a891.709 676 $aB 700 $aNikitenko$b A$g(Aleksandr),$f1804 or 5-1877.$01636396 701 $aJacobson$b Helen Saltz$01636397 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807361303321 996 $aUp from serfdom$93977644 997 $aUNINA