Conducting the census of 1701–1703 in monasteries: from revision to management

The article considers the question of how specifically the work on the state census of church property was organized in 1701-1703. The importance of this study is explained by the fact that the scribes sent by the Monastery Order (primarily the clerks) often remained in charge of the described monasteries after the census was completed. The author shows how the scribes obtained an exhaustive picture of the state of the entire monastic property, as well as accumulated data on the financial and economic documentation maintained in the monasteries, its accuracy and reliability, the people responsible for this or that property, estimated current income from various tangible assets, i.e. got acquainted with the entire system of organization of the monastic economy. This allowed them to manage church property at the next stage of the reform and effectively control the movement of financial flows