Monastery peasants, monastic estates - a category of Russian peasant farmers, exempted from all taxes and duties for any special merit.
There are several cases when the peasants were granted land in estates with the same advantages that only the clergy and aristocracy enjoyed. The descendants of the farmed peasants retained their rights and privileges for centuries, receiving letters of confirmation from each successive sovereign who ascended the Russian throne.
By January 1, 1896 , there were 1,178 people of all the estates and peasants.
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Descendants of Priest Ermolai Gerasimov
The monastic estates of the Chelmuzh volost of the Povenetsky district are the descendants of the priest Yermolai Gerasimov, who, during the imprisonment of Queen Nun Martha in the Yegoryevsky churchyard, “firmly and unshakably”, as the letter of appreciation expressed, served as a prisoner. As a reward for this, he received in 1614 from Mikhail Fedorovich a letter of merit for possession of a palace volost in Chelmuzhsky-Petrovsky churchyard, with exemption from payment of tribute of money, bread and pit, from the requirement of the staff and coachman, from participation in all forms and generally from all duties. Even the sovereigns and the Novgorod envoys could not enter the granted volost. In 1621 she was turned off from the salary of palace villages; then there were five living villages and nine wastelands with land, and 13 peasant households, 18 peasants, and 2 Bobyl households. In 1696 , the great-grandson of Yermolai was allowed to own only half of the 9 wastelands, with an obligation to pay a rent of 5 rubles each. 50 kopecks in year. These rights of estates were preserved in the XIX century. At the end of the XVIII century. there were 19 of them, in 1851 , along with peasants - 128.
Povenets County
In the Povenetsky district, the Glezdunovs, Tarutins and Sidorovs, whose ancestors rendered various services to the mother of Mikhail Fedorovich during her imprisonment, also had the status of whitewashed estates.
Merkulievs
In the Yalgub volost of Petrozavodsk Uyezd, the Merkulievs, descendants of Grigory Merkuliev, who, for healing wounds from Tsar Boris Fedorovich, received a burn (in about 15 acres) with the village of Ananyinskaya in 1601 . The award was confirmed by a letter of 1686 .
Descendants of Ryaboev
In Petrozavodsk uyezd, the descendants of the hammer worker Ivan Ryaboev, who discovered the Olonets marcial waters and received from Peter I in 1720, was exempted from all taxes and works at copper plants.
Descendants of Fedor Ivanov
The monastic estates of Vytegorsky uyezd enjoyed the least rights. Their ancestor Fedor Ivanov passed unsubscribes past the Polish-Lithuanian troops under Tsar Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky and was granted the last half-village of Strelnikovsky repair in Ukhtozersky volost, with all the lands. Letters of confirmation were received by his descendants in 1636 , 1648 , 1676 and 1683 . By decree of the Senate of 1726 , they were ordered to levy cushion taxes on a par with the odnodvorytsy . According to the salary books of the former Belozersky provincial chancellery, they are shown among the unsigned black-nosed. In 1769 they paid up to 3 rubles. sincerely, but in 1796 they were exempted from all payments, except for the capitation tax and payment for the maintenance of mail. With the establishment of the Ministry of State Property assigned to the number of free farmers.
Literature
- Veshnyakov V. White melee and monastic estates and peasants // Journal of the Ministry of State Property. - 1859. - T. 4, 5 .