Merchants from the Eastern Baltic Region in Moscow in the XVIII th Century
Abstract
The article considers the commercial and loaning
activity of the merchants who came to Moscow from Estonia,
Livonia, Courland and Memel in the XVIIIth century. On
the basis of mass sources (records fixing joining the Moscow
merchant class, promissory notes with the exceeded time
limit, poll census archive documents) the author disclosed the
list of Baltic merchants names, and detected the nature and
trends of their banking operations. Consequently the author
comes to the conclusion about the nature of their commercial
contacts at the internal and foreign markets. The article illustrates
the dual nature of the status of East Baltic merchants
who were of foreign origin but Russian citizenship.
activity of the merchants who came to Moscow from Estonia,
Livonia, Courland and Memel in the XVIIIth century. On
the basis of mass sources (records fixing joining the Moscow
merchant class, promissory notes with the exceeded time
limit, poll census archive documents) the author disclosed the
list of Baltic merchants names, and detected the nature and
trends of their banking operations. Consequently the author
comes to the conclusion about the nature of their commercial
contacts at the internal and foreign markets. The article illustrates
the dual nature of the status of East Baltic merchants
who were of foreign origin but Russian citizenship.
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