Meaning of dessiatina | Babel Free

Definitions

A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.

Equivalents

Examples

“The tract of land given by the emperor contains five hundred and forty-five acres, (twenty dessjatines,) being two thousand two hundred and five feet long, and one thousand five hundred and eighty-two wide at its greatest breadth.”

“I go shooting there every year, and it is worth five hundred roubles a desyatina cash down, and he is paying you two hundred on long term.”

“Clouds, some in very clear profile, black and jagged, sail in armadas towards the Asian arctic, above the sweeping dessiatinas of grasses […]”

“The average peasant allotment, at 2.6 dessyatiny in 1900, was comparable in size to the typical smallholding in France or Germany.”

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