@article{2016,title={RUSSIAN VILLAGERS IN NEKRASOV’S EPIC POEM “WHO IS HAPPY IN RUSSIA”},abstractNode={The decline of Serfdom in Russia in the year 1861 became a beginning point for a very important historical period. In this time, the slave-master belief that had been around for approximately 300 years would come to end only to be replacedbytherise of the villager class who would farm their ownland. However, the change in system aiming to give economical and societal freedom to Russian villagers never completely reached its goal. The decline of serfdom led to both political and economic changes in Russia. Therefore, the new system became a the meand problem for what is believed to be an expression of life: literature. The main theme in the writer and poet N. Nekrasov’s works in this time period is the Russian public. The poet aims to express his own public’s problems in his works. In many of his poems, he expresses the non-changing difficulties and the poverty of the Russian villagers. Amongs these poems, the poem “Who is Happy in Russia” has great importance. Nekrasov works on this poem beginning in the middle of the year 1860 until the end of 1875, the year he passed away. The poet’s poem is referred to as the non-ending epic poem. It was named so due to the composition of the life of the Russian villagers from the past till the present and the wide expression of the figures present.},author={Reyhan ÇELİK},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}