dessiatina

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1. A Russian measure of land, roughly 1.1 hectares.

   The average peasant allotment, at 2.6 dessyatiny in 1900, was comparable in size to the typical smallholding in France or Germany.

   1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 119

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   The tract of land given by the emperor contains five hundred and forty-five acres, (twenty dessjatines,) being two thousand two hundred and five feet long, and one thousand five hundred and eighty-two wide at its greatest breadth.

   1849 July, “The Observatory at Pulkowa”, in The North American Review, volume 69, number 144

   I go shooting there every year, and it is worth five hundred roubles a desyatina cash down, and he is paying you two hundred on long term.

   1918, Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude, Anna Karenina, Oxford, published 1998, page 166

   Clouds, some in very clear profile, black and jagged, sail in armadas towards the Asian arctic, above the sweeping dessiatinas of grasses […]

   1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow