E. Ermolaeva O.

THE NORTHERN BORDER OF A MULTI-ETHNIC EMPIRE AND THE IMPERIAL COLONIZATION: KARELIA IN THE XVII – THE BEGINNING OF THE XIX CENTURY

Authors

E. Ermolaeva O.

Keywords:

Imperial borderland, Karelia, Northern peasantry, state interference, colonization, local bureaucrats, peasant land use, Old Believers.

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of several themes from Karelian his-tory, which have been explored in the course of the collective research project titled «Traditional Society as a Factor of Stability in a Multiethnic Borderland: The Case of Karelia, XVIIth –beginning of the XXth centu-ries». It focuses on the patterns of interaction between the rural society (mainly, the peasantry) of the Northern borderland region of the Russian empire and the Tsarist agents and bureaucrats, and how the state interfer-ence influenced life in the region.

THE NORTHERN BORDER OF A MULTI-ETHNIC EMPIRE AND THE IMPERIAL COLONIZATION: KARELIA IN THE XVII – THE BEGINNING OF THE XIX CENTURY