Manifesto of three-day corvee
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The Manifesto of three-day corvee or An Imperial Edict Forbidding Sunday Labor by Serfs (Russian: Манифест о трёхдневной барщине от 5 апреля 1797 года) was issued by the Russian emperor
landowners' requests and peasants
' own needs, theoretically restricting landowners' command over labour use to just three days in a week.
External links
- Paul's manifesto forbidding Sunday labor by serfs, April 5, 1797 – text translated into English.