They were called the "kulaks"
a large Spanish colonial estate owned by a wealthy family but worked by many peasants called an hacienda
Alexander II
During feudal times, lords were the landowners who ruled over the peasants living in their jurisdiction, called a manor. There was a sharp divide between classes, as peasants and serfs struggled to survive, while the rich literally got fat in luxury.
Kulak
Peasants does farm-work for the wealthy land owners.
the peasants cultivated the lands in russia but nobles,crown and chruch owned large property.peasants needed the nobles land to cultivate but peasants refused to pay the rents and even murdered landlords.
The peasants/common people were in the Third Estate. The wealthy merchant class was also in the Third Estate. The Second Estate were the nobility. The First Estate was the church/clergy.
The kulaks were a class of farmers who started out as peasants, but became successful and wealthy, developing their own little system of capitalism. Stalin was not about to allow any sort of capitalism to take root in Russia, so he had them all killed.
Most medieval peasants were poor. In fact, most were serfs, who could not own land and were not allowed to move away from the manors on which they lived. A few peasants were independent farmers who held their own land, and some of these were referred to by contemporary writers as wealthy. They were, of course only wealthy relative to other peasants, and had very little wealth compared to the lords.
Rural parts of Russia are not wealthy. Generally speaking, any part of Russia that is not Moscow or St. Petersburg, and is not involved in oil or another raw material production, is pretty poor.
Pretty much, with New Economical Politics.