Title: Up from serfdom
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Biography, Critics, Social conditions, Serfs, Nikitenko, A. 1804 or 5-1877, Critics -- Russia -- Biography, Serfs -- Russia -- Biography, Russia -- Social conditions -- 1801-1917, Soviet union, biography, Soviet union, social conditions
Places: Russia
People: A. Nikitenko (1804 or 5-1877)
Time periods: 1801-1917
LC classification: PG2947.N5 A3 2001