autocrat and slaves of farmers, but the only free people in russia can be beggars and philosophers , spiransky to insert one more detail here, serf russia is , first of all, central russia, because speaking of alexander i, we there was already poland, was, finland, that is, the core of serfdom is central russia, in the west and in the asian, so to speak, additions to russia, and even some national, so to speak , siberian places there, so when we just need this note, when we say serf russia, we need i can still imagine this geography, after all, alexander i went on an experiment, he abolished serfdom in the baltic provinces of iceland or ifland, abolished it. and many then hoped that he had canceled it, this was a rehearsal, and then there will be abolition in russia, yes, but no, yes, but no, which prompted the abolition of serfdom, finally, because nicholas was the first to really understand, he said that serfdom is evil, you are absolutely right, but abolishing it would still be a great evil, he is afraid of the revolution, but attempts to restrain the revolution ultimately led russia to a s