Everyone knows that serfdom existed in Russia. But what it really was - today few people know. This topic was surrounded by a kind of conspiracy of silence, which continues to this day. Apparently, the truth about the two-century period of national slavery is often too inconvenient for various reasons. Therefore, the fact that at the time of the beginning of the peasant reform, twenty-three million peasants represented the complete private property of their masters is completely missed. And this "baptized property" was sold with the separation of families, exiled to Siberia, played cards and, finally, died from inhuman punishments not only until the very date of "liberation"...