In some areas, such as Württemberg, Baden, Romania or the Habsburg Monarchy, the state helped the peasants with their redemption payments, even meeting them in full in Habsburg-ruled Hungary and Bukovina. Usually, however, the former serfs had to bear the entire burden themselves. In Romania the instalments had to be paid over a period of fifteen years, in Saxony twenty-five, in Russia forty-nine, so that redemption payments to the tsarist authorities resulting from the Emancipation Edict of 1861 were not scheduled to end until the year 1910.
