desyatin

‘That means there will be at least two hundred and twenty-five rubles’ worth left on each desyatin.

Master and Man 2003

He had been a veterinary surgeon in a Cossack regiment, and consequently his services were much in request with the people at Orsk. He informed me that land could be bought on these flats for a rouble and a half a _desyatin_ (2,700 acres); that a cow cost £3 2s. 6d.; a fat sheep, two years old, 12s. 6d.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

The referees to whom he proposed to assess the damages due for the meadow declared that about three desyatins [a desyatin is about three acres] of the meadow had been damaged, and the fine they considered right would be ten rubles per desyatin.

Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

The undergrowth will take care of itself, and there'll still be some thirty sazheens of fire-wood left on each desyatin, 'said he to himself.

Master and Man Leo Tolstoy 1869

'That means there will be at least two hundred and twenty-five rubles' worth left on each desyatin.

Master and Man Leo Tolstoy 1869

The undergrowth will take care of itself, and there’ll still be some thirty sazheens of fire-wood left on each desyatin,’ said he to himself.

Master and Man 2003