Obrok

Obrok plural obroks a rent.

Obrok. Obrok was land rent paid by a peasant to his lord either in kind or in money. 2 776 likes 260 talking about this 194 were here. Includes free vocabulary trainer verb tables and pronunciation function. Can we find and add a quotation of brande c to this entry part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of webster s dictionary which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain.

In russia a poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord s estate. Obrok definition is a yearly tax formerly paid by a russian peasant engaged in trade. The spouses taken together held between 240 and 350 serf male souls most of these serfs owed quitrent obrok rather than the more onerous direct labor services and thus the estate comprised a continuum of authority with the male patriarch at the top of a many layered hierarchy 47. Although there is disagreement about its status prior to the mongol conquest scholars agree that from the mid 1200s to the end of the 1400s rents in kind dominated the economy after the mongol invasion destroyed the urban market and caused a precipitous population decline.