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Pavel V. Chechenkov

Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University; National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

NIZHNY NOVGOROD servicemen foreigners OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16th – FIRST THIRD OF THE 17th CENTURY: FORMATION, NUMBER, CATEGORIES, POSITION IN THE LOCAL SERVICE ENVIRONMENT

The article examines the category of service population of the Russian State of the 16th–17th centuries, known as service foreigners. A large regional center of their concentration was Nizhny Novgorod. It is established that the history of the Nizhny Novgorod service foreigners began under the reign of Ivan the Terrible. The movement of foreigners and their recruitment into service occurred in waves. Few of the first parties were able to gain a foothold in Nizhny Novgorod. By the middle of the second decade of the 17th century, there were two hundred Nizhny Novgorod foreigners, and by the end of the third decade – two hundred and a half. At the same time, their number continued to increase. With the numerical equality of the two main categories, “Germans” and “Lithuania”, the social status of the “Germans” was higher. Only 10–12 % of foreigners were given estates, the rest received food and cash salaries. In terms of numbers and land management parameters, foreigners differed little from Russian service people in their homeland.

Keywords: Muscovy, foreigners, the gentry, foreigners, gentry corporations, estates, Nizhny Novgorod

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