| Districts. | Land in peasants’ possession. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Total. | Pure black soil. | ||
| Dessiatines. | Dessiatines. | Per cent. | |
| Ranenburg | 164361 | 113681 | 69 |
| Dankoff | 130082 | 89376 | 69 |
1 dessiatine = 2.7 acres.
A word as to the way in which quotations are made from the Statistical Reports. Pages are cited whenever the data are found in the Tables or Appendices in such a shape as to be immediately available for the purposes of the discussion. Where, however, the raw material would have to be re-arranged, the pages of this essay would be needlessly encumbered with references to hundreds of paragraphs. No citations are given in such instances, but a general reference is made to the Reports in question.
[17] The term is derived from “quarter,” an old Muscovite measure in usage for estates granted in fee.
The numerical relation between these two forms is given in the following table:
HEREDITARY POSSESSION.
| Districts. | Communities of former State peasants. | Households. | Land. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Per cent. | Number. | Per cent. | Dessiatines. | Per cent. | |
| Ranenburg | 25 | 48 | 1,639 | 21 | 21,236 | 24 |
| Dankoff | 21 | 54 | 2,180 | 41 | 32,539 | 50 |
Cf. Quarterly Possession, by Mr. K. Pankeyeff, in the Moscow review Russkaya Mysl, 1886, book 2, p. 50. The paper quoted was to have been published as a part of the Reports of the Ryazañ Statistical Bureau, but after the work was stopped (see above page 16) it appeared in one of our liberal magazines.
[18] Op. cit., book III., page 28.
[19] Op. cit., book III., page 33.