Vologda Archbishop’s House of St. Sophia on the Eve of the Church Reform of Peter the Great

• Published in: Historia provinciae – the journal of regional history
• Main Author: Nikita Bashnin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Cherepovets State University 2020
• Subjects: russian north; vologda diocese; peter the great; source studies; secularization; History of Civilization; CB3-482; History (General) and history of Europe; D; Russian North
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.23859/2587-8344-2020-4-1-3; https://doaj.org/article/965d8f44f47944f7adf7a1d41b25f655

The article is devoted to the study of the census books of the patrimonies of the Vologda Archbishop’s House of St. Sophia in 1701–02. These documents appeared as a result of a large-scale inventory of the lands and property owned by the church within the framework of Church reforms of Peter the Great. The property of the House of St. Sophia was located in five uyezds and included 268 settlements where more than 6.5 thousand males lived. Eight monasteries and pustyns were added to the House around the 1700s. The census books not only contain information about social and economic history, but also provide the material for the study of icons and book collections of parish churches.