The Village of Velyki Prokhody of the Kharkiv Region by the Materials of “Revizki Skazky” of 1721

The article is dedicated to the publication of primary materials of the population census of Velyki Prokhody – a village that, since its foundation in 1660, belonged to the Belgorod county (“uyezd”), in 1780 became a part of the newly formed Kharkiv county, in 1923 – of Derhachi district of the Kharkiv region, and in 2020 was assimilated to the Kharkiv district and region. The earliest archival document about this village is the census of households of 1678, which is stored in the fund of the Local Order of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RSAAA). After a series of reforms by Peter I to improve the population counting and taxation, in 1718 the household censuses were replaced by capitations, where the accounting unit was the “revizka soul”, and the census materials were called “revizki skazky”. The source presented in this article is the first revision of Velyki Prokhody of 1721, the primary materials of which are located in the fund "Landrat books and ‘revizki skazky’" of RSAAA. The form of the “revizki kazky” was still at the initial stage of its formation in 1721, therefore the census sheets consisted of the list of the male taxable population in each yard with an indication of their age and social status. The numerous mistakes in age indicate the responsible persons’ ineffective work at the beginning of the revision censuses. The first revision of the entire territory of Ukraine, which was a part of the Russian Empire, was carried out only in 1782. This was indeed the fourth revision, and before that, population censuses were conducted only in certain regions of Ukraine and only among certain population segments. Therefore, the representation of the materials of the “revizki skazky” of the Velyki Prokhody village of 1721 into scientific circulation may be useful in socio-demographic, prosopographic, genealogical, and local history studies of Sloboda Ukraine. The comparison of primary materials of the population census with normative recommendations for their compilation deepens knowledge about the internal structure of this source. The study of revision censuses with the materials of the administrative or ecclesiastical records of the population makes it possible to expand the informational potential and more expediently use it in historical and demographic research.