Kupchaya for the Vologda court in 1624 from the collection of Slovansk knihovna

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doi 10.28995/2073-0101-2024-2-508-521

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Bashnin, N. V., Gryaznov, A. L. and Guslistova, A. N. (2024), “Kupchaya for the Vologda court in 1624 from the collection of Slovansk knihovna”, Herald of an Archivist, no. 2, pp. 508-521. doi 10.28995/2073-0101-2024-2-508-521

Bashnin, Nikita V., St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Gryaznov, Anatolii L., Guslistova, Anna N., Non-profit Partnership "Research Center "Drevnosti", Vologda, Russia

Kupchaya for the Vologda court in 1624 from the collection of Slovansk knihovna

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of a unique document from the collection of the Slavonic Library in Prague (Slovansk knihovna). According to the assumption of E. F. Maksimovich these acts belonged to V. O. Kliuchevskii in his time. Most of the acts in this collection are related to noble land ownership and come from family archives, some are related to monasteries and bishop's chairs, as well as to state institutions (the Pomestniy Prikaz, the Alatyr congress hut). Sources that do not belong to these groups are particularly interesting. Among them is the bill of sale of Tretiak Kondratyev, the son of Pustokhin, for the yard of Patrikeev’s druzhina, the son of Dylev, in the Kirillovsky Sorok of Vologda dated November 9, 1624 - the earliest document related to Vologda from the collection of Russian acts in this archival repository. This charter reveals the peculiarities of real estate transactions of the Vologda posadki people. This document is one of the rare examples of a private deed, when none of the counterparties is a representative of the Church. The biographies of the parties to the transaction, their origin, and social status can be found out thanks to the prosopographical base compiled on the basis of a wide range of sources (primarily city cadastres, customs books and deeds), which contains information about more than five thousand townspeople who lived in Vologda in the second half of the 16th - second half of the 17th centuries. The bill of sale supplements the prosopographical base with information about ordinary Vologda people. In addition, it describes in detail the composition of the yard, which includes a hut, gate, cellar, barn, bathhouse and other outbuildings, vegetable garden and well. It should be noted that the document contains unique indications on old boundaries and rules of maintenance of hedges between yards. The bill of sale was executed by the court scrivener Osip Semyonov, with the involvement of other court scriveners Efim Lumpov and Denis Panov as servants. Later, the assignment of notarial functions to court scriveners was reflected in the norms of the 1649 Code of Regulations. The document contains an indication of their appearance before the local authorities - voivode Vasily Fyodorovich Buturlin and clerk Vasily Larionov. A corresponding note was made on the charter, and information about the transaction was recorded in the "books", which indicates state registration of transactions with city real estate. Such a set of information in the majority of similar documents is extremely rare.

Keywords

Slavic Library in Prague (Slovansk knihovna), Vologda, prosopographical base, people from the village, city real estate, bill of sale, historical source, source study

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About the authors

Nikita V. Bashnin, Doctor of Historical Sciences, St. Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, senior researcher, Ilya Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, associate professor, St. Petersburg, Russia, +7-921-447-01-87, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Anatolii L. Gryaznov, Non-Profit Partnership "Research Center "Drevnosti", Research Associate, Vologda, Russia, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Anna N. Guslistova, Non-profit Partnership "Research Center "Drevnosti", Research Associate, Vologda, Russia, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Grant information

The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 20-78-10060-P, https://rscf.ru/project/20-78-10060/

The article was received in the editorial office on 12.11.2023, recommended for publication on 20.03.2024.