Mandatory Credit: Photo by Historia/REX (7665077h) Muzhik Or Mujik - A Russian Peasant Usually From Pre-1917 Imperial Russia the Term Confers A Certain Degree of Poverty As Most Muzhiks Were Serfs Before the 1861 Agricultural Reforms A Painting by Konstantin Yegorovich Makovsky (1839-1915) - an Influential Russian Painter 1910 Historical Collection 177