MONASTERIES OF THE TVER HALF OF THE BEZHETSKAYA PYATINA AT THE END OF THE 15TH - 16TH CENTURIES: LOCALIZATION, LAND OWNERSHIP
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monastery, land ownership, church, village, Bezhetskaya pyatina, Novgorod, Moscow StateAbstract
The article is devoted to the monasteries and monastery land ownership in the Tver half of the Bezhetskaya pyatina at the end of the 15th – 16th centuries. The main sources are the scribe books, acts, descriptions of the 19th – early 20th centuries. In total, information was revealed about ten monasteries, nine of which arose in the 16th centuries. The earliest, presumably, is the John Theological Monastery in the Udomlya volost. The size of the monasteries of the Tver half of the Bezhetskaya pyatina was very small, the land ownership was usually located in the immediate vicinity of the monasteries themselves. The larger ones were the lands of the Novgorod monasteries – the monastery of the Resurrection on Myachino, Kirillov, Yuryev, as well as the monastery of the St. Trinity Mlevsky.In general, the monastery land ownership in the Tver half of the Bezhetskaya pyatina after the accession of the Novgorod to the Moscow state was very small and inferior to the size of the lands of the Khutynsky and Arkazhsky monasteries in this territory during the period of Novgorod independence. Small scales of monastery land ownership and a small number of monasteries in the area under the research are explained by its periphery in relation to Novgorod. At the same time, the monasteries that arose in the 16th century were on land roads and waterways. The decline of the monastery economy has been observed since the last quarter of the 16th century. The formation of systems of ascribed monasteries in the 17th century was probably an attempt to overcome the crisis by the consolidation of the monastery resourcesPublished
2023-05-16
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