- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- Prologue
- 1 Land, People, and Global Context
- 2 De Facto Empire
- 3 Assembling Empire
- 4 Eighteenth-Century Expansion
- 5 Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century
- 6 Broadcasting Legitimacy
- 7 The State Wields its Power
- 8 Trade, Tax, and Production
- 9 Co-optation
- 10 Rural Taxpayers
- 11 Towns and Townsmen
- 12 Varieties of Orthodoxy
- 13 Imperial Imaginary and the Political Center
- 14 Army and Administration
- 15 Fiscal Policy and Trade
- 16 Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
- 17 <i>Soslovie</i>, Serfs, and Society on the Move
- 18 Towns, Townsmen, and Urban Reform
- 19 Confessionalization in a Multi-ethnic Empire
- 20 Maintaining Orthodoxy
- 21 Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Conclusion
- Index
Towns and Townsmen
Towns and Townsmen
- Chapter:
- (p.235) 11 Towns and Townsmen
- Source:
- The Russian Empire 1450-1801
- Author(s):
Nancy Shields Kollmann
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the organization and trade and artisanal activity in Muscovite towns through the seventeenth century. Muscovy’s cities fit the east European model of “small towns,” with few large metropolises (compared to contemporary western Europe and the Ottoman empire); they did not enjoy urban autonomies but were ruled by tsarist governors. The chapter examines the typical circular geographical structure of Muscovite towns and their juridical multiplexity, with taxpaying artisans and merchants living side by side with tax-free neighborhoods controlled by gentry, church hierarchs, musketeers and coachmen, and other pockets of unfair competition. It also explores the status of merchant through the models of Vasilii Shorin and Gavriil Nikitin.
Keywords: towns, urbanization, municipal government, merchants, Moscow, Ottoman empire, Siberia, Bukharans, slavery, 1649 Lawcode
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps
- Introduction
- Prologue
- 1 Land, People, and Global Context
- 2 De Facto Empire
- 3 Assembling Empire
- 4 Eighteenth-Century Expansion
- 5 Western Borderlands in the Eighteenth Century
- 6 Broadcasting Legitimacy
- 7 The State Wields its Power
- 8 Trade, Tax, and Production
- 9 Co-optation
- 10 Rural Taxpayers
- 11 Towns and Townsmen
- 12 Varieties of Orthodoxy
- 13 Imperial Imaginary and the Political Center
- 14 Army and Administration
- 15 Fiscal Policy and Trade
- 16 Surveillance and Control in Imperial Expansion
- 17 <i>Soslovie</i>, Serfs, and Society on the Move
- 18 Towns, Townsmen, and Urban Reform
- 19 Confessionalization in a Multi-ethnic Empire
- 20 Maintaining Orthodoxy
- 21 Nobility, Culture, and Intellectual Life
- Conclusion
- Index
