The labor rent system had undivided sway in our agriculture from the time of Russkaya Pravda right down to the contemporary system of otrabotki, under which the peasant tills the landlord's fields with his own implements; an inevitable accompaniment of this system was the wretchedness and ignorance of the tiller of the soil who is degraded, if not by the serf, then at all events by the 'semi free' character of his labor; without a certain lack of civil rights on the part of the tiller of the soil (for example, belonging to the lower estate, corporal punishment, assignment for public work, being tied to his allotment, etc.), the otrabotochni system would have been impossible.