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The Lady of the Estate: Darya Saltykova and the Private Power of Serfdom

The Lady of the Estate: Darya Saltykova and the Private Power of Serfdom

Sanchez, Alana

Paperback

Historical FiguresTrue Crime

ISBN13: 9798246359334
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 31 2026
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Darya Saltykova was a Russian noblewoman who exercised near-absolute authority over the people bound to her estates. For years, violence unfolded within that private world, sustained by serfdom, silence, and a system that treated suffering as an internal matter.

In The Lady of the Estate, Alana Sanchez examines Saltykova's case not as an isolated act of cruelty, but as a study of private power. Drawing on petitions, legal process, and the political context of Catherine II's Russia, this book traces how abuse persisted, why intervention was delayed, and how punishment ultimately served state authority as much as justice.

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