Land rents set by the feudal lords against the serfs people gratuitous forced labor farmer dependent on the master, and with his own tools, - that's what a boon.In Western Europe, there was a 8-9 centuries, three hundred years gradually pushed dues to 14-15 centuries almost completely disappeared.In Russia there was a boon during the reign of the Capital in Kiev.
Background: what a boon
boon most widely spread in the 16th and 17th centuries.The abolition of serfdom in 1861 is not fully liberated peasants, the temporarily worked like sharecroppers.Legally boon abolished in 1882, but in fact existed before 1917 in the form of detentions.However, the end of serfdom can not, probably, be considered irrevocable.It is believed that without serfdom Russia has never lived and that it provided a boon to the Russian prosperity of the country.
Compare corvee and dues
a relief serfdom appeared dues: established once and for all payments, but as the system of weights and measures throughout missing, Bar courage as they could, for example, quit-rent cock was to be so well-fed and strongthat would be able to jump on the perch without a run, the cheese must be strong enough to not broke from hitting the wall ... More often than not even courage bar, entertained at balls Moscow and St. Petersburg, and clerks, which was arbitrary and that a large neuёmenpart of the proceeds simply appropriated.
So what boon?Work as a fortress, and the temporarily peasants to the landlord.What farmers received for this extremely hard and exhausting work?For the lease of the land of the landlords, most likely - is inconvenient, but the marsh tussocks.The landlords had to give farmers land for temporary use, but the land remained the property of the landowner, and never, in any future does not belong to the peasants.On the contrary, to "repurchase transaction" peasant had to perform duties.The terms for the repayment were not established, so it was such a dependent relationship gradually lost their "temporary" and become long-term.Shapes and sizes of local duties established the "Regulations", which indicated two kinds of duties - rents and corvee.
forms and types
serfdom in Russia in every possible way changed its forms and types.Size duties to calculate the size of the allotment farmer.The payment for the use of the land, men and women, and even children served conscription own economic tool: it was necessary to plow, sow, harvest, hay, berries, mushrooms, all fully provide all necessary landowner.
Recall that the serfs had no rights over their own lives, they bought and sold, punish and pardon, and forced to work like ordinary cattle.Farmhouse at any moment could move to a new location, and already cultivated land, covered for many years after the peasant families were selected under the master's arable land.
Conclusions
Yet peasants loved their land.Already in the first half of the 16th century, at the origins of serfdom, it was clear that tear the peasants from their plots could only coercion or disaster.Or a peasant revolt, such as "senseless and merciless" when overflowed patience of the Russian people.That's what a boon.
