Sentence examples for many serfs from inspiring English sources

Establishing it took the forcible relocation of Russian noblemen and merchants, and cost the lives of many serfs and foreign slaves who were worked to death building it.

In large parts of northern Russia where the land was poor, many serfs made a living from various crafts in cottage industry or even in factories and from their wages had to pay dues to their masters.

Mikhail Gorbachev deserves credit for allowing so many serfs to escape so peacefully; but the Soviet Union crumbled because it could not produce the goods.And even if the current round of globalisation technically began before the wall fell, it was spurred on by it.

As E. H. Carr points out, in his valuable 1937 biography of Bakunin, whom many consider the father of modern anarchism, Michael's political awareness seems to have been forged, in part, in opposition to Varvara's domestic despotism, to her propensity for putting her husband before her children's needs and for terrorizing the many serfs who served her.

Since ancient accounts of him are mainly abusive, the details of his laws remain obscure, but it is certain that he confiscated a great deal of property and enfranchised many helots (Spartan serfs).

Obscured by the to-ing and fro-ing over the new machines is a more basic point, namely that many drivers feel like serfs, and maligned serfs at that.

During the crusade, knights, peasants and serfs from many nations of Western Europe travelled over land and by sea, first to Constantinople and then on towards Jerusalem.

Indeed, as landowners they knew more about the problems and sufferings of the serfs than did many Westernizers.

Many peasants chose to become serfs (nobi) in order to seek protection by aristocrats and to avoid the state levies.

Less than a third of Pakistan is literate — many Pakistanis still live as serfs for feudal landlords.

Many free peasants were made into serfs.