The system of state feudalism of the Moscow Kingdom and commodity-money relations in the Komi region of the XVII century. Part I. Everyday activities of volost (local) self-government bodies

In the XVI – first half of the XIX centuries, in the European North of Russia (Pomorie), a system of state feudalism operated, the main component of which was the existence of a very large group of the peasant population dependent on the state and obliged to pay state taxes and fees and perform state duties to implement the tasks of state programs. One of the aspects of this system was the functioning of developed local self-government as the lower level of the national pyramid of power. It was the actions of local government bodies to carry out the tasks set before them by the central government that contributed to the development of commodity-money relations in the regions where state peasants lived in general and in the Komi region in particular. This subject has been practically unexplored. For the first time in historiography, the paper comprehensively considers this issue using materials related to the Yarensk Uyezd of the XVII century. The first part considers the movement of monetary amounts within the volost during the daily activities of the volost (local) self-government bodies.