Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — Kalmucks Are Free Men. [ARTICLE]

Kalmucks Are Free Men.

The Kalmucks of Astrakhan, a roving people numbering 150,000 souls, have at last been freed from serfdom. When the other Russian serfs were freed in 1861 it was considered dangerous to extend this priv ilege to these people, lest their wildness would lead to its abuse.