When was serfdom abolished in Estonia?

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In Estonia, the process of abolishing serfdom took place between 1816 and 1819. While this legislation granted peasants personal freedom, it did not initially allow them to own land. Subsequent agrarian reforms were necessary to further improve the status of the peasantry, including the 1863 law that established the right of free movement and the 1868 law that abolished the corvée.12