Oblomov is named for the famously lazy Russian landowner in the 19th-century novel who could see no real point in rising from bed.

It is likely he kept this sketch out and never finished it because it did not present a picture of the typical, "Russian" landowner.

Finally, I used to express, to whoever would listen, my regret that it was no longer possible to act like a certain Russian landowner whose character I admired.

The formerly independent landowning Chuvash peasants became serfs to rich Russian landowners.

Helped by a friend, a passive and lazy Russian landowner gradually struggles out of his languor to take some action at last in his life.

Bessarabian Germans bought or leased land from large Russian landowners and created new villages.

Grigory Stroganov was the largest Russian landowner after the tsar.

Gustave Doré's mid-nineteenth-century caricature depicts Russian landowners gambling not for money but for bundles of serfs.

Russian landowners eventually gained almost unlimited ownership over Russian serfs.