Stages and Conditions of Formation of the Patrimony Fund of the Trinity-Sergius Monastery in the Rozhdestvensky and Serebuzhsky Fields of the Pereslavsky County

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history and conditions of formation of the feudal complex of the Trinity-Sergius monastery in the Pereslavl district, namely in the South-Western edge of it — Rozhdestvensky and Serebuzhsky fields. Minor land deals in the Rozhdestvensky district started in the 1520s, these are villages: Sementsova, Iyzvitsy, Monastyryshche, Grosilovo. Later, some of them turned into wastelands. Larger contributions were made in the second half of the 16th century: Trinity monastery received from the famous Buturlins part of the village of Bogorodsky (later the second part was granted by Tsar Fyodor I), from the oprichniks Lovchikovs — Mahra village, with the badlands, from Baim Voeykov — the village of Dmitrovskaya. The village of Cherntsi was finally annexed to the monastery's possessions in 1631. The contributions of the 1570s and 80s were of the immediate type, due to the oprichnina terror and the king's wrath. Сontributions sought to give their land to the Holy monastery (and not to the tsar), take monastic vows and burial there. By the end of the XVI century, most of the Rozhdestvenskaya district belonged to the Trinity authorities. In 1650, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich exchanged the Palace of the earth in Sereboje — v. Konstantinovskoe with 14 villages, half the village of Mytishchi and  v.Tolokontsevо. Thus, by the middle of the XVII century, the Trinity-Sergius monastery became the largest f feudalist not only in the Pereslavl district, but also in the entire Central region of the Moscow state.