use of "boy" in the sense of "domestic servant".

History

In Kievan Rus'

The Russkaya Pravda, a legal code of the late Kievan Rus', details the status and types of kholops of the time.

In the 11th-12th centuries, the term referred to different categories of dependent people and especially slaves. A kholops master had unlimited power over his life, e.g., he could kill him, sell him, or transfer

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