ABSTRACT
Early in the year, laguzhinskii reports that the peasantry are facing starvation. Catherine decrees the establishment of the Kollegiia ekonomii (College of Economy), to administer Church lands and peasants. A. Matveev reports extreme impoverishment among the peasantry (Aug.). Serfs prohibited from joining the army without their masters' consent. Kolligiia ekon6mii, although administered by clerics, is made subordinate to the Senate. laguzhinskii reports that most Polish estates harbour runaway Russian serfs.
