Table of Contents

List of Illustrations; Notes on the Translation; Preface; Introduction; Our Village, Its Inhabitants and Owners; My Grandfather; Myself, My Childhood, and My Family; And My Adult Life Began.; My Marriage, My Landlord, My Trade, and Other Things; Life outside the Village Observed; The Bitterness of Serfdom Realized; My Activities in Estate Life; My Future Fate Resolved; Epilogue

About the Author

Boris B. Gorshkov teaches world history at Kennesaw State University. He is author of many articles on the Russian pre-emancipation peasantry and child labor, including "Democratizing Habermas: Peasant Public Sphere in Pre-Reform Russia," Canadian American Slavic Studies Special Issue (Fall 2004); "Factory Children" in New Labor History, ed. Michael Melancon and Alice Pate (Bloomington, 2002); "Serfs on the Move," Kritika 1 (Fall 2000); and "Serfdom in Eastern Europe" in Encyclopedia of European Social History, ed. Peter N Stearns 6 volumes (New York, 2001)

Reviews

"A fascinating autobiography of a self-made serf-entrepreneur, originally published in 1877... The book - elegantly printed by the Central European University Press and illuminated with nineteenth-century miniatures of peasant life - will surely provide an attractive teaching material for the courses on pre-Reform Russian history, as well as a good read for all those interested in social history of Russia"
*Russian Review*