Feudalism in Russia

Russian serfs were agrarian peasants legally bound to the land owned by nobility and who were deprived of rights and forced to provide free labor.

thumb|300px|Burning the books of Razriady (books)|Razriady in 1682.

A kholop (Ukrainian and Russian холо́п; , ) was a type of feudal serf in Kievan Rus' from the 9th to early 12th centuries. The legal status of kholops in the 16th-century Tsardom of Russia was essentially the same as slaves.

rank of Russian gentry