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I read today that around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, Russian serfs "owed" around 25 years military service. How true is this? Was the Russian army truly drawn from the serfs and peasantry? If so, were there ever any revolts against their lords?

by /u/Comrade-Chernov in /r/AskHistorians

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