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Kupechestvo
Kupechestvo was the merchant estate of the Russian Empire, the legally defined class of urban traders. Merchants were organised into guilds according to their declared capital and held particular rights and obligations. They formed one layer of the empire's estate hierarchy, between the nobility and clergy above and the peasantry below.
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