In the 13th century the monasteries owned much of the land and had granges where sheep were grazed.

We share the spaceport, for example, and the monastery owns a great deal of farmland just outside Treetown's borders, so everything's tangled together.

The monastery owned great estates, which are said to have reached all the way to the Rhine.

By 1579, the monastery owned 50 versts of ploughlands stretching towards Kargopol.

In 1764, the monastery owned more than 3,300 male peasants.

The monastery owned and developed extensive agriculture areas, and the abbot exerted influence over a large area.

The monasteries owned the lake until secularization in 1803.

The monastery owned lands with a population of 11,000 when it became state property in 1802.

By 1744, the monastery had already owned 216 peasant homesteads and 1014 peasants.

Later on, all the important monasteries and boyars owned Gipsy slaves.