Russian Enlighteners and serfdom
The article presents the Russian enlighteners criticism of serfdom, their protection of disadvantaged serfs, analyses their proposals on the improvement of peasants living conditions. The author substantiates the position that the main importance of the work of the enlighteners consisted in the fact that they had effected the society, strengthening it’s antiserfdom mood, destroying the integrity of the serfdom psychology of Russian society and preparing thereby posing the peasant issue.