To mark the 160th anniversary of the abolition of serfdom in Russia, a virtual exhibition of one document from the collection of the Archives of the St. Petersburg Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences opens, and presents the album “Deputies of the provincial noble committees on the peasant issue of the second invitation to Petersburg in 1860”. (The highest announcement of the Manifesto took place in St. Petersburg on March 17, 1861).
The unique exhibit presented at the exhibition illustrates one of the most important stages in the preparation of the peasant reform – the activities of the provincial noble committees on peasant affairs: this is from the collection of the Minins family, the album “Deputies of the provincial noble committees on the peasant business of the second invitation to St. Petersburg in 1860”. The album contains photographs of representatives of the provinces and regions of the Russian Empire who were members of the provincial committees for peasant affairs and who went to St. Petersburg in 1860 to work on draft documents on the abolition of serfdom.
