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  • During the first twenty years the average annual amount of Noblesse land sold was 517,000 dessyatins, and it rose steadily until 1892-96, when it reached the amount of 785,000.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • If we may trust an official report of the progress of the works in 1897, an area of 2,855,000 dessyatins (more than seven and a half million acres) had been drained at an average cost of about three shillings an acre, and the price of land had risen from four to twenty-eight roubles per dessyatin.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • a few hundred morgen in Germany often richer than the Russian noble who has thousands of dessyatins?

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • The explanation of this, of course, is their prosperity, the fact that a family has sixteen dessyatins [Footnote:

    Letters of Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

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