in the campaign “Administrative Dismantling and Enserfment of the Left Bank (1781–1786)”
The legal enserfment of Ukrainian peasants by Catherine II's decree of May 3, 1783, depriving them of the right of free movement: "For the certain and reliable collection of treasury revenues in the viceroyalties of Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Novhorod-Siverskyi and for the prevention of any flights… each of the villagers is to remain in the place and station where he is registered by the current last revision"[1].