The Serf Class in Russia

Most of the scholarship around darius alticova's life and her murders is written in russian and remains untranslated. But how was a woman able to go decades brutalizing dozens, possibly hundreds of people? Serfs in russia existed somewhere between slavery and freedom. In effect, their labor, but not their personhood, itself belonged the master or mistress. And this is just a ver cursory over view of a very complicated socio political issue.