The noble land market development and its impact on the land property redistribution in the central Сhernozem region from the 1860’s to the 1890’s

Abstract

With the serfdom era gone, estate ownership restrictions had been eliminated by and by. Some possibilities for the inter-caste land market development had come about. Meanwhile, during the second half of the 19th century the nobles had been remaining major participants of the land trading. The article is dedicated to the evolution of trading relations among the nobles in the land market of the Central Chernozem Region from the 1860’s to the 1890’s. Due to the land trading statistics analysis, land market tendencies from 1863 to 1892 were identified in 45 regions of the European Russia. Modifications of purchase and sale of the noble lands in the Central Chernozem Region were compared with the all-Russian ones; similar and different features were detected. As the land market development had a great impact on the inter-caste private property redistribution, modifications of the land ownership formation in the Central Chernozem Region in 1877 and 1905 are mentioned in the article. The main estates of land owners were identified, quantity and sizes of their land properties were determined. The land tenure formation of the Kursk Region possessing the biggest number of smallholders was individually considered.