desyatins

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 referees did not contradict Count Tolstoy, and so the case of the Panino peasants damaging the landowner's meadows was settled by Tolstoy in this way, that the peasants had to pay the landowner Mikhailovskiy for the three desyatins five rubles each.

Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

And that in my youth I was a peasant, that all the land I possessed then was two desyatins and a quarter; while toward my old age

The Man Who Was Afraid Maksim Gorky 1902

I'll grease the surveyor's palm -- give him a hundred rubles, or a hundred and fifty, and he'll reckon that there are some five desyatins of glade to be deducted.

Master and Man Leo Tolstoy 1869

I’ll grease the surveyor’s palm — give him a hundred rubles, or a hundred and fifty, and he’ll reckon that there are some five desyatins of glade to be deducted.

Master and Man 2003

And that in my youth I was a peasant, that all the land I possessed then was two desyatins and a quarter; while toward my old age I have hoarded up eleven thousand desyatins, all forests, and perhaps two millions in cash.”

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

I have hoarded up eleven thousand desyatins, all forests, and perhaps two millions in cash. "

The Man Who Was Afraid Maksim Gorky 1902