Nobles’ Land Bank

Russian financial institution

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The Nobles' Land Bank was a Russian financial institution established in 1885. It provided loans to landowners at favorable interest rates. This bank, along with the Peasants' Land Bank (set up in 1882), played a role in the transfer of land from landowners to peasants. While the Nobles' Land Bank may have slowed this transition, it did not prevent it. The interest rates charged by both banks were equalized in 1894.1

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The Nobles’ Land Bank, set up in 1885, made loans to landowners at more favourable rates of interest; it may have retarded, but did not prevent, the passage of land from landowners to peasants. In 1894 the rate of interest charged by the two banks was…
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The Nobles’ Land Bank, set up in 1885, made loans to landowners at more favourable rates of interest; it may have retarded, but did not prevent, the passage of land from landowners to peasants. In 1894 the rate of interest charged by the two banks was…
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