People’s life in Tsarist Russia

In the first half of the 19th century, Russia was still a backward feudal serfdom country. Serfs lived in extremely poverty, with no personal freedom and no purchasing power.

From the second half of the century, the hereditary territorial system of the great nobles, especially the fiefdom system of the serving nobles, began to develop rapidly. These

service nobles obtained a large amount of uninhabited land, so they used all means to recruit agricultural labor. In this way, a large number of poor unemployed refugees settled down through loans from landlords. The problem is that few farmers can repay their landlords' loans, and the longer they work on the landlord's land, the more debt they owe. As a result, the peasants either desperately fled from the landlord, or left the landlord in a legal way, found another landlord who was willing to pay his debts, and went to the latter's farm.

Anyway, I think that’s about it. Basically, this question is easier to answer from the aspect of serfdom.