Would you believe me if I told you these people are lucky and probably some of the wealthier? Even by 1910 the Russian empire had shifted from serfdom, to effectively share cropping. And former pestants not working on farms means they managed to earn enough to purchase back freedom
Mm. By 1910, payments for remission of serfdom had ended, and mining is generally not what people move on to when they have a reasonable choice. For that matter, they may only be mining as a supplement to their farmwork, as many pre-modern populations did.
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