Genealogy. Scribe books
If you study the history of a kind, and youmanaged to find a lot of archival documents and "reach" until the 16th century (sometimes it happens!), it makes sense to look through the archives of scribal books. And suddenly in them you will find information about your ancestors?In the period of the Tatar-Mongol yoke in 1245, 1257,1259 and 1273, at the request of the Tatar khans, in order to determine the size of the tribute, the population of some Russian principalities was recorded. Considered for the imposition of tribute to the house, or "smoke." Chronicles of the earliest period emphasize that although the Tatars "descended all the Russian land", however "not a priest, priests and who served the holy churches"; That category of the population that was exempt from the collection of tribute. In 1275 Prince Vasily Yaroslavsky himself took a tribute to the horde, the Tatar "numericians" stopped coming to Russia for the population censuses, and the Russian princes themselves took into account the population.
Scribe books
From the end of the 15th century, first in the Novgorod land, andthen a new kind of accounting is being distributed throughout the state of Moscow-the so-called "sosh" letter. - is a systematized set of information indicating the presence on the land described by the yards and the people living in them according to their conditions.
This type of accounting left a lot of documents,the oldest of which are the Novgorod scribe books (the end of the 15th century). Only the owners of the households could find descriptions of the descriptions. The unit of taxation was a land plot that was used efficiently in the holding, and population accounting was of a land type.
