Terminology 

Rational Egoism: A doctrine claiming that if something is rational and boosts something in your self interest it should be strived fort. 

Utilitarian: A doctrine explaining that pleasure is more valuable than pain and that suffering should be avoided at all costs.

Existentialist: A doctrine including Dostoevsky which highlights the individual as the key agent.  

Slavophile: A person who loves the Slavs and the Slavic way of doing things in the east and despises the western culture influence. 

Socialism: The idea that means of production should be shared across all of the persons in a society. 

Souls: Serfs tied to a land owner. 

Serfdom: Was the practice in Russia with peasants tied to land and forced to do labour, with similarities to slavery but not the same. 

Tsarist Autocracy: The form of absolute monarchy run by a Tsar. 

Verst: Old Russian form of Measurement which was closer to Km than Miles are. 

Dacha: Russian summer house that Russians live in the summer in. 

Birching/Rods: Corporal punishment used on peasants, serfs, prisoners and children in the 19th century. Often referred to as birching, it is a punishment which consists of many leafless twigs or other many materials that might be used to whip a persons. 

Pillory: is a torture and public humiliation technique used for prisoners and delinquents, see below. 

Tatar: The word for ethnic Turkic people around Asia, Europe and Eurasia. 

Holy Fool: A person who acts without social standards or displays clear signs of not being able to reason, but dedicates their full life to Religious practices, (mainly Christian ones).