The concepts of "farm" and "cut" today are practically not found in modern Russian speech, but they can be found in classical literature. People used these obsolete terms back in the days of Gogol, calling them small settlements and private peasant holdings.
Farm
The farm was a very small settlement or a separate peasant estate with a separate economy. Typically, the farm consisted of about ten houses, which were a separate group, which administratively belonged to larger settlements. The farms gradually expanded, turning into a village or village, however their name often remained in the name of the settlement.
Estonians called their farms manors, while Poles and residents of some countries of eastern and central Europe used the name "farm".
Each farm could count from one to one hundred yards, but there was no church in it - this was what distinguished it from a village where there could be only ten yards, but the church was present. The Don and Kuban Cossacks called the hamlet a settlement on the territory of the village, which did not have a separate administrative department. Often the population of the village farms exceeded the size of the central settlement that arose earlier than the farm. Large farms often became autonomous villages with a separate communal territory and attributed to the Cossack population.
