About 90 percent of Russians in the late 1800s were peasant farmers whose difficult way of life had remained largely unchanged for centuries. The living conditions for peasants' are very harsh. A typical peasant home consists of a crowded one-room hut, called an izba. They were small huts with wooden walls and roofs of straw and maure. In the hut was a family with grandparents, uncles, aunts, parents, and children. The soil was poor, hard, and often swampy which made faming difficult for peasants. The tools for farming were passed from hundreds of years. Peasants had to pay taxes at national, county, township, and village levels based on how much land they farmed and the size of their family. Peasant's land was taxed about 6 times as much as that of wealthy landowners. The burden was mostly because of taxes and they improved little over the centuries as well. peasant's religion usually was Russian Orthodox Christianity. The religion helped give them hope. Peasant's also had time for recreational games as well. Such as ball games and tag. Many peasants smoked tobacco, and almost everyone drank vodka. I think the Czarist Russia would support the idea of a Revolution because the life for the peasants is unfair and hard.
