Up from Serfdom My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824

Name: Up from Serfdom My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824
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ISBN: 9780300097160

ISBN-10: 0300097166

ISBN-13: 9780300097160

Edition: 2002

Authors: Aleksandr Nikitenko, Helen Saltz Jacobson, Peter Kolchin

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Aleksandr Nikitenko, descended from once-free Cossacks, was born into serfdom in provincial Russia in 1804. In this book, he recollects the details of his childhood and youth in servitude, as well as the freedom he gained in 1824.

Book details

List price: $31.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/11/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.81" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Helen Saltz Jacobson is a freelance writer and translator known for her translation of Nikitenko's 1826-1874 diaries.



Foreword



Translator's Note


Acknowledgments


Maps



My Roots



My Parents



Father's First Attempt to Introduce Truth Where It Wasn't Wanted



My Early Childhood



Exile



Home from Exile



Father Returns from St. Petersburg



1811: New Place, New Faces



Our Life in Pisaryevka, 1812-1815



School



Fate Strikes Again



Waiting in Voronezh



Ostrogozhsk: I Go Out into the World



My Friends and Activities in Ostrogozhsk



My Friends in the Military; General Yuzefovich; The Death of My Father



Farewell, Ostrogozhsk



Home Again in Ostrogozhsk



The Dawn of a New Day



St. Petersburg: My Struggle for Freedom


Translator's Epilogue


Notes


Glossary


Index