Serf employees of the perm estates of the Stroganovs and “will”: social and psychological aspect

The article discusses the attitude of the category of serf servants of the Stroganovs’ estates in Perm to liberation from serfdom. The socio-psychological manifestations of this relationship are analyzed on the basis of documentation of a business and private nature: correspondence with the owners of the departments of the Stroganov indivisible estate, reports, memorandums of serfs from representatives of the administrative apparatus, petitions, memoirs, etc. The conclusion is made about the ambiguous attitude of Stroganov’s servants to their social and legal status, based largely on its duality.