Masulen

Masulen referred to in the Bessarabian estates at the time of belonging to Russia in the 19th century, people who originally came from the nobility, but were not in the service of princely Gospodars or had lost their noble rights for other reasons. They formed a higher class of arable farmers who were in the class order below the boyarunas and above the ruptas . Heinrich Berghaus compared them with Russian farmhands .

Individual evidence

• Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus : Annals of geography, ethnology and national studies. Volume 12, Grass, Barth & Company, 1841, p. 324 → online