- Statutes of Feb. 19, 1861 by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
the body of legislative acts that formally abolished serfdom in Russia. The statutes were signed by Emperor Alexander II on Feb. 19, 1861, in St. Petersburg. This legislation included the General Statute Concerning Peasants Leaving Serf Dependence, four Local Statutes, and a number of other statutes, rules, and supplementary rules ( see PEASANT REFORM OF 1861).REFERENCE Krest’ianskaia ...
- Title-Deeds of 1861 by Great Soviet Encyclopedia
... ustavnye gramoty. 1861), documents establishing the size of allotments to temporarily bonded peasants, in accordance with the Statutes of Feb. 19, 1861. The title-deeds also fixed the obligations for the use of the allotments and recorded information on the apportioning of land, the transfer of estates, and so on.At the time of the Peasant Reform of 1861 ...
- Russell, William Hepburn by Juliana Peters
... 1812–72) Pony Express founder; born in Burlington, Vt. He moved to Missouri, and, with Alexander Majors, formed the Pony Express (April 1860), which carried the mail from Missouri to California in ten days; the telegraph soon put an end to the service (in October 1861). He was involved in an embezzlement scandal (1861) and he lost a fortune when he ...
- Fort Pickens by Melissa Banks
Fortification on the western end of Santa Rosa Island at the entrance to Pensacola Bay, NW Fla. When Florida joined the Confederacy in Jan., 1861, Fort Barrancas on the mainland was evacuated and its garrison sent to Fort Pickens. Refusing to surrender, the fort was reinforced and repulsed a Confederate attack in Oct., 1861; it remained in Union hands throughout the war. Fort Pickens is part of a ...
- RFC 1861 by Dictionary of Computing
... networking, standard) The RFC defining Simple Network Paging Protocol. See also RFC 1568. rfc:1861.