- A
dessiatin or
desyatina (Russian: десятина) is an archaic,
rudimentary measure of area used in
tsarist Russia for land measurement. A
dessiatin is equal...
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equal to
about 120 ares or 12,000
square metres Carucate Cawnie Decimal Dessiatin Ground Hide
Juchart Jugerum Katha Lessa or
Lecha Marabba Morgen Oxgang...
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discontent among the peasantry.: 46–47 : 96 Thus, of the 1.5
million dessiatin (40% of the
agricultural land) held by the
large landowners in 1917, more...
- of
Muscovy and Mordovia. In 1767 the
Tsarist government granted 10,000
dessiatin to a
Russian count Taranov who
established a
village of
serfs Petrovka...
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Businessman Lvov and
engineer Borutskiy rented some area lot of 870
dessiatin (1
dessiatin = 2.7 acres) from
local village of Veselo-Ivanivka. That quarry...
- and 5
manufacturing shops,
owned 70 huts, 12.5
acres of
arable land, 9
dessiatin of meadows, 3 gardens, 30 cattle, 25 horses. 25 Jews were
engaged in tanning...
- one very poor house, a watermill, a garden, two peasants'
houses and 40
dessiatins of land. This is
where Nikolai had his
first experiences with oral folklore...
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Bolshoy and Maly
Irgiz rivers. To the
zealots of the old faith, 70,000
dessiatins (76,300 hectares) of the best land on the left bank of the
Volga were...
- that it must be restrained: God
placed on Elijah's head a
stone of 40
dessiatin (Orlov.), and
bound one arm and one leg (Carpathian.); Elijah's sister...
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Nobility of
Tiflis Governorate from 1885 to 1891. He
owned some 25,000
dessiatin of
lands and took a big
interest in winemaking. He emplo****
French and...