Up from serfdom
Subtitle: my childhood and youth in Russia 1804-1824
By: translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson ; foreword by Peter Kolchin.
Contributors: Jacobson, Helen Saltz.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Nikitenko, A. 1804 or 5-1877; Critics -- Russia -- Biography; Serfs -- Russia -- Biography; Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220) and index.
Based on Nikitenko's diaries.