Note 17 — Chapter II · COMMUNITY OF LAND.
Reading edition
The term is derived from “quarter,” an old Muscovite measure in usage for estates granted in fee.
The numerical relation between these two forms is given in the following table:
HEREDITARY POSSESSION.
Districts. Communities of former State peasants. Households. Land.
Number. Per cent. Number. Per cent. Dessiatines. Per cent.
Ranenburg25481,6392121,23624
Dankoff21542,1804132,53950
Cf. Quarterly Possession, by Mr. K. Pankeyeff, in the Moscow review Russkaya Mysl, 1886, book 2, p. 50. The paper quoted was to have been published as a part of the Reports of the Ryazañ Statistical Bureau, but after the work was stopped (see above page 16) it appeared in one of our liberal magazines.