EPISTOLARY ETIQUETTE IN RUSSIA IN THE 1730S (CORRESPONDENCE OF SYNODAL CHIEF SECRETARY MIKHAIL DUDIN)

The article examines the norms of epistolary etiquette in Russia during the reign of Anna Ioannovna. The study is based on the analysis of the correspondence of the synodal chief secretary Mikhail Osipovich Dudin, confiscated from him during his arrest in 1736 and preserved in the archives of the Secret Chancellery. It includes Dudin's correspondence with representatives of the highest clergy (bishops and abbots of the largest monasteries), secular persons (both equal in status to Dudin and dependent on him, including with subordinates), with relatives (father, brother, wife, children), as well as with his clerks. Most of the letters relate to the period 1732-1736.