Count Alexei Arakcheev and the affair of Tver landlord Khrapovitsky's peasants: towards an inquiry into the use of the Free Agriculturalists Law under Emperor Alexander I

The article, based on both archival and published documents, looks into count Alexei Arakcheev's contribution to some of the cases pertaining to the free agriculturalists law. The author describes an affair that fell outside the legislative framework of the time, the one involving Tver landlord Khrapovitsky's peasants, and traces the role of Arakcheev in the final verdict granting peasant freedom.