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	[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Land Measure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The land measure "Dassjitanen" is probably a desyatina, which is 2400 square sazhen.
		Sazhen is an old Russian measure of length equal to 2.13 meters.
		Therefore a desyatina is equal to 2.7 acres.
	www.sggee.org /pipermail/ger-poland-volhynia/2003-May/001766.html (91 words)

	Information about Rothammel Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The present inhabitants use as farmsteads 25 desyatina; for roads, 30; and 300 desyatina for tilling.
		For farming, they use 600 desyatina but livestock (can be seen) gazing in the same fields.
		The village of Dovrinka also has 60 desyatina of hayland that might be used.
	showcase.netins.net /web/kmjones/rothaml3.htm (886 words)

	Please title this page webdoc12.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The original allocated farmland (2100 desyatina) and other allocated wasteland from adjoining colonies which contained forest, dry creek bed, and some hay land came to a total of 3150 desyatina**.
		Of this total, only 1200 desyatina was cultivated.
		100 desyatina was taken up by farmsteads, and 5 roads.
	members.aol.com /RAToepfer/webdoc12.htm (495 words)

	Schwab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Due to a shortage of hay fields and forest, the colony has been given a waste plot across the Volga River, four versta from the colony near the waste plot of Holstein,...
		(but 15 desyatina of that were washed away by the Volga)...
		According to the colonists, the colony has about 20 desyatina occupied by farmsteads, 19 by roads, and about 600...
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~patrak01/schwab.htm (496 words)

	A brief history of the Volga German colony of Nieder-Monjou (Niedermonjou) Russia
		At a previous Kontora land survey, the colony was allocated 3073 desyatinas of arable farm land, 62 desyatinas of hay lands, and 340 desyatinas of forest in the waste plot located six versts from the colony, beyond Telyauza Brook.
		The colonists farmed on 300 desyatinas of state-owned steppe land which adjoins their property.
		There were nearly 450 desyatinas of hay lands in both locations, which the colonists used to feed their existing cattle.
	volga.niedermonjou.org:8000 /history.html (1146 words)

	Nostalgia. All Kiyv. Photogallery. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first stoned church of Kievskaya Rus has been built by craftsmen of ancient Rus and Byzantine in 989-996 during the period of Volodymyr Svyatoslavovich’s reign who had provided one tenth(desyatina – that is why such name of the hill origined) of prince’s income for its building.
		An old linden grows not far from the place where Desyatina church used to be situated.
		It is presumed it was planted by metropolitan Petro Mogila in 1635 in the place of Desyatina church of 10th century that had been destroyed by hordes of khan Batyy.
	www.nostalgia2.kiev.ua /e-excurs_e.html (937 words)

	Ecological Association Tengry - Kaga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1758 the Berg-Collegium issued a permission to construct metallurgical plants on the Kaga River and on the Uzyan River.
		In 1758 the given area up to 90 desyatins (1 desyatina= 2.7 acre) was rented from Bashkir tribes for a period of 30 years with annual rent of 20 rubles.
		The terms of the above renting also stipulated that later on this territory should not be given to anyone but to Duke Shuvalov and his descendants or to the plant with the same rent for the same period of time.
	www.tengri.ru /fra/kaga.htm (453 words)

	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Saints - Saints by Day - January - 1st
		But the people broke down the gates, and catching sight of Igor "in the lofts" (closed gallery on the second floor in old Kievan garretts), they smashed open the loft, dragging down the holy martyr and murdering him on the lower steps of the stairway.
		The vicious mob was so intense, that they subjected the dead body of the sufferer to further beatings and abuse, and they dragged him with ropes to his feet to the Desyatina (Tithe) church, and then having thrown him on a cart, they went off with it and "hung him up in the marketplace".
		Thus did the holy martyr give up his spirit to the Lord, "and he did take off the perishable robe of mankind, and was clothed in the imperishable and much-suffering robe of Christ".
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/september/19th.cfm (3845 words)

	Terek Cossack Host - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1892 in was included into Caucasus Line Cossack Host and separated again in 1860, with capital of Vladikavkaz.
		In 1916 the population was 255,000 within the area of 1.9 million desyatinas.
		The formation of the Terek Cossacks was partly influenced by after Russia expanded into Transcaucasia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terek_Cossack_Host (453 words)

	InfoUkes: Ukrainian History -- Legend Of The Founding Of Kyiv 482 A.D.
		The foundation stone outline of the Desyatina (Tithes) Church may still be seen today in front ot the Historical Museum near St. Andrew's Cathedral.
		The Dnipro River, which flows through the heart of Ukraine, is often found in the old Greek form Borysthenes on old maps or as Dnieper on modern maps.
		The main area of the upper city of King Vladimir with the Desyatina Church, bottom right, built before the year 1000 A.D. By H. Lohvin.
	www.infoukes.com /history/origin_of_kyiv (1160 words)

	From the History of Josefstal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Such a situation could not but reflect on the stability of the colonial economy.
		In 1834, each person of the male sex in the colonies on the Bergseite required from 7 to 8 desyatina of land.
		Constant appeals to St. Petersburg resulted in the assertion of 12 March 1840 by the First Department of State Property about the situation "On allocation to the colonists of the Saratov Gubernia according to the number of souls in the 8th revision." The land allotment was set at 15 desyatina.
	www.josefstal.org /josef.html (1728 words)

	King Kyi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was here, where the broad street Khreshchatik still marks the place, that the people descended from the hills into the Dnipro River to be Christened into the Christian Church by Greek priests from Constantinople the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
		King Vladimir built the Desyatina Church, and in 1036 his son, King Yaroslav, built Saint Sophia (Holy Wisdom) Cathedral as a sister of the famous Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
		Saint Sophia in Kyiv became the Mother Church of Ukraine, and for a thousand years the immortal gold mosaic wall of the Virgin Oranta has watched over Kyiv.
	www.kingkyi.com (588 words)

	Kratkaja Istorija Duxonvyx Missij v Kitae, (c. 1915-16) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In these mountains many ruins, temples and other monuments of antiquity are to be found.
		In 1910 a piece of land totaling 162 acres (60 Russian desyatina) with a temple was purchased by the mission 10 versts [1.06 kilometers] west of the west wall of Beijing and one and a half versts from the nearby village of Mentou.
		Its secluded location among the hills at the foot of the mountains makes it suitable for prayer and spiritual reflection, and hence, it an ideal place for a skete.
	cs-people.bu.edu /butta1/martyrs/orthodox.cn/history/kratkaja/4.html (398 words)

	Putin Knows His Medieval History (Capping Flat Taxes)
		We need to recognize that Russia is essentially a medieval country with a weak social structure, and a low taxation threshold beyond which the state begins to collapse.
		In the Middle Ages even the desyatina, or 10 percent income tax, was considered an unreasonably high tax rate.
		The 13 percent income tax is not a fiscal instrument.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/682481/posts (946 words)

	Kutter
		According to the inhabitants, 50 desyatina [1=2.7 acres] are under cultivation...
		Up to 600 desyatina are plowed each year....
		On the arable land harvests are good, but poor otherwise.
	homepages.rootsweb.com /~patrak01/kutter.htm (1865 words)

	Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhensky: The ABC of Communism - Chapter II : The Development of the Capitalistic ...
		In agriculture, just as in manufacturing industry, where work is done on a large scale we save upon tools and machinery, materials, labour power, fuel, lighting, etc.
		In large-scale farming, there will be per desyatina less waste space between the fields, fewer hedges, ditches, and fences; less seed will be lost in these waste areas.
		Furthermore, the owner of a large farm finds it worth while to engage expert agriculturists, and he can work his land by thoroughly scientific methods.
	www.marxists.org /archive/bukharin/works/1920/abc/02.htm (7545 words)

	Orenburg Cossack Host P.I. Avdeev Polozov Ural
		And in 1835, to encourage agriculture among the common cossacks, it was decided to take out a sum from the grain capital each year as a prize for farming.
		And because of the lack of land which was “the fundamental advantage and most important possession, and the one thing for which the host performed its service”, it had come to a poor state, with meanwhile each cossack being required to provide two horses for service, weapons in good repair, and good uniforms.
		To return to the stanitsy those lands which they used to own and for which there were still deeds; stanitsy without deeds or having lost them were to allot not less than 30 desyatinas [83 acres] to each soul [dusha] and section off 200 desyatinas [550 acres] for each member of the cossack aristocracy [chinovniki].
	home.comcast.net /~juneblum/OREN.html (15883 words)

	Tolstoy, Leo - Confession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As long as I did not know why, I could do nothing and could not live.
		Amid the thoughts of estate management which greatly occupied me at that time, the question would suddenly occur: "Well, you will have 6,000 desyatinas [6] of land in Samara Government and 300 horses, and what then?"...
		And I was quite disconcerted and did not know what to think.
	www.classicallibrary.org /tolstoy/confession/3.htm (1095 words)

	Twenty-Three Tales \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Close to the village there lived a lady, a small landowner, who had an estate of about three hundred acres
		The desyatina is properly 2.7 acres; but in this story round numbers are used.
		She had always lived on good terms with the peasants, until she engaged as her steward an old soldier, who took to burdening the people with fines.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/tolstoy/23_tales.vii.iii.html (5894 words)

	Belarus
		Maps of Russia and the FSU (Former Soviet Union) Republics - be prepared to stay online for quite some time, if you want to see one of the largest collections of different types of maps.
		Measurement of Land - a Desyatina is 1.09 hectares or 2.07 acres
		Military Records - The RBVIA serves as the centralized archive for military records of the Russian Empire, consolidating the holdings from various pre-revolutionary Russian military archives and other repositories throughout the former Soviet Union.
	jewishwebindex.com /belarus.htm (5850 words)

	Edward J. Dodson / Henry George's Influence on the Life and Work of Leo Tolstoy
		The homestead I retained for myself, chiefly in order to let Marya Alexandrovna Schmidt settle there, who was an old friend...."
		The peasants undertook to pay into a communal fund a rent of six roubles per desyatina, to manure the ground, to guard the wood, and to pay the taxes.
		The peasants bound themselves to use for communal needs the money received for rent, in accord with the decision of the meetings of the Communes of the two villages.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /dodson_george_and_tolstoy.html (4241 words)

	Tsar-Martyr Nicholas Ii And His Family
		Once, in December, 1916, the Emperor and Empress went for the day with two of the Grand-Duchesses to Novgorod, where they visited some hospitalsand monasteries and attended the Liturgy in the cathedral of Saint Sophia.
		Before leaving, the Empress visited the Yuriev and Desyatina monasteries.
		In the latter there lived the eldress Maria Mikhailovna, who was according to different accounts 107 or 116 years old and who for many years had been lying on an iron bed in iron chains.
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/nicholas-ii-tsar-martyr-and-his-family.html (13352 words)

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