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The Concept of Non-Freedom at the Boundaries of the Moscow State of XVII Century

Student: Lyubich Elena

Supervisor: Adrian A. Selin

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The present research is devoted to the formation and perception of the concepts of “slavery” and “non-freedom” in the border zone of the Moscow state of the 17th century and its influence on the culture, foreign and domestic policies of Moscow and Sweden. The historiography of this issue was developed by V. Panejakh, A. Zimin, A. Iakovlev. They examined the institution of slavery and serfdom and its legal bases within a large number of legal documents. V. Panejakh critically approached to the sources which were already studied, and discovered a lot of unused and unexplored data. However, the authors had not paid attention on social and cultural aspects. Foreign historians considered the concept of servility from different perspectives: they studied the problems of honor concepts in the Moscow state within specificity of culture and Russian society (Nancy S. Kollmann) and made a classification of dependent people and studied some legal features of Moscow servility (R. Hellie). This paper draws on several types of sources which includes new documents from the fund №109 “Porubezhnye Acty” [Border Acts] from the archive of St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPbII RAN). The studying of these sources in connection with the problem statement allows examining the social practices of people and determining how the state and society reacted to situations affecting the legal and class spheres. The first part of this paper is focused on the historical context and features of the concepts that were formed during the 17th century. The second chapter devoted to historiography problems of the international situation of the Moscow state with respect to Russian-Swedish relations. The final part of the research is focus on servility as a special social institution that influenced the state and socio-cultural life of the Moscow society.

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