The Manifesto of three-day corvee or An Imperial Edict Forbidding Sunday Labor by Serfs (russian: link=no, Манифест о трёхдневной барщине от 5 апреля 1797 года) was issued by the Russian emperor
Paul I Paul I may refer to:
*Paul of Samosata (200–275), Bishop of Antioch
* Paul I of Constantinople (died c. 350), Archbishop of Constantinople
*Pope Paul I (700–767)
*Paul I Šubić of Bribir (c. 1245–1312), Ban of Croatia and Lord of Bosnia
*Pau ...
on April 16, 1797 as a first ever legal attempt at extending the rights of Russian
serfs. The document prohibited use of
corvee labour on Sundays by landowners, the State and the Court, prescribing that the rest of the week should be divided in half between the
landowners' requests and
peasant
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasant ...
s' 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.
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