Russians declined the changes or progress that threatened their privileges and their society is widely controlled by landlords and landowningnobles. Their social structure is also very rigid.
The main chunk of Russians were laborers who are confined to the land and are masters who controlled their fate. The middle class people were too small as a group in order to have an impact or influence any effective changes in their society. The French revolution and the Enlightenment were bringing about liberal and nationalist changes but it didn’t affect the Russian dictatorship.
The colony being described is Georgia. It was founded in 1732 and it served as a military protective zone between the English colonies and the Spanish settlement in Florida.
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