Is your question: what improved the lives of the Russian serfs?
it was the Emancipation Reform of 1861 in Russia, which effectively abolished serfdom in Russia (serfs could not own land so they had to work for someone).
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What effect did the Royal Navy’s strategy of impressment have on the War of 1812?
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B.) It decreased the size of the French Navy.</span>