Traditionally, all depositors together with the peasants are considered to be confessional serfs, although they had a contractual relationship with monasteries. Since the XVIII century “contractors” – laborers from the Russian Northern Arctic coastline replaced two thirds Siberians in local counties, which complicated and reestablished forms of cooperation leading to spiritual-social grounds conflicts. Wealthy “large deposits and medium deposits”, coming out of the jurisdiction of the secular authorities, tried to take over the management of the monastery economy, pursuing quite earthly goals. The legal basis for this was given by the traditional interpretation of the contribution as a share in confessional corporate property, which allowed depositors, “beltzy” and monks to maintain their own and confessional corporate property as well as their private interests. Enterprising strong owners– state “burden holders” hoped to realize more freely and fully their material and social opportunities until the change of status. The real horizontal, and few vertical social mobility – one of the ways of realization of the feudal aspirations owning elite group of the burdern holders. These, in the confessional appearance, “grimy (black)” by K. Marx, feudal lords were one of the many centuries long manifestations of not property decomposition but it was the process of class decomposition of workers- city and village owners in a traditional Russian society. The secularization of monastic lands in 1764 put an end to these contradictory social aspirations. The introduction of a free enterprise in 1775 marked another legal vector of social and economic activity of the former black feudal lords of “Asian Russia”.

Bykonya Gennady Fedorovich, Doctor of Sciences (History), Professor, Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V. P. Astafiev, 89, Ada Lebedeva st., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russian Federation, tel.: (391)217-17-17, e-mail: kspu@kspu.ru

Bykonya G.F., On the Social Nature of Depositors of Monasteries in Eastern Siberia in the XVII Century – the 1760s. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series History, 2018, vol. 26, pp. 6-16. https://doi.org/10.26516/2222-9124.2018.26.6 (in Russian)

1. Aleksandrov V.A. Russkoe naselenie Sibiri v XVII-XVIII vv. (Enisejskij kraj) [Russian population of Siberia in the XVII-XVIII centuries (Yenisei region)]. Moscow, Nauka Publ., 1964, 301 p. (in Russian) 
2. Bahrushin S.V. Essays on the History of the Krasnoyarsk district in the XVII century. Nauchnye trudy [Scientific Works]. Moscow, 1959, vol. 4, 257 p. (in Russian)
3. Belikov D.N. Starinnye monastyri Tomskogo kraja [Ancient monasteries of Tomsk region]. Tomsk, 1898. 212 p. (in Russian)
4. Bykonja G.F. From the History of the Monasteries of the Yenisei region in the XVII – the first half XVIII century. Pravoslavnoe slovo Sibiri [Orthodox Word of Siberia], 2009, June, no. 6 (89). (in Russian)
5. Bykonja G.F. Pozemel'nye otnoshenija russkogo naselenija Vostochnoj Sibiri v XVII-XVIII vv. [The Relations of the Russian Population of Eastern Siberia in the XVII–XVIII centuries. Krasnoyarsk, 1979, 100 p. (in Russian)
6. Bykonja G.F. The Cossacks and Other Official Population of Eastern Siberia in the XVIII – early XIX century. (Demographics-Class Aspect). Bykonja G. F. Izbrannye trudy [Selected works]. Krasnoyarsk, 2015, vol. 3, 416 p. (in Russian)
7. Dal' V.I. Tolkovyj slovar' zhivogo velikorusskogo jazyka [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian language]. Moscow, 2006, vol. 1. 754 p. (in Russian)
8. Dulov A.V., Sannikov A.P. Pravoslavnaja cerkov' v Vostochnoj Sibiri v XVII – nach. XX vekov [The Orthodox Church in Eastern Siberia in the XVII – early XX centuries]. Irkutsk, 2006, 616 p. (in Russian)
9. Duhovnyj reglament [Spiritual regulations]. Moscow, 1802, 239 p. (in Russian)
10. Irkutskie eparhial'nye vedomosti [Irkutsk diocesan statements]. 1863, no. 51, 2 December (in Russian)
11. Irkutskie eparhial'nye vedomosti za 1870 g. Pribavlenija k N 35 [Irkutsk diocesan Gazette for 1870, adding to the number 35]. (in Russian)
12. Kopylov A.N. Russkie na Enisee v XVII v. Zemledelie, promyshlennost' i torgovye svjazi Enisejskogo uezda [The Russians on the Yenisei in the XVII century. Agriculture, industry and trade relations Yenisei County]. Novosibirsk, Sibir. Otdel (Branch). AN SSSR, 1965, 298 p. (in Russian)
13. Mashanova L.V. Economy of the Trinity Selenga monastery in the first half of the XVIII century. Voprosy istorii Sibiri dosovetskogo perioda [Questions of history of the pre-Soviet period Siberia]. Bakhurshin Readings. 1969. Novosibirsk, Science Publ., 1973, pp. 105-155. (in Russian)
14. Mashanova L.V. Hozjajstvennoe osvoenie Zabajkal'ja v konce XVII – nachale XVIII v. [Economic development of Transbaikalia in the late XVII – early XVIII century]. Moscow, 1974. 31 p. (in Russian)
15. Meletij (Jakimov M. K.). Drevnie cerkovnye gramoty Vostochno-Sibirskogo kraja. (1653-1726) [The ancient Church letters of the East-Siberian region (1653-1726)]. Kazan, 1875. 199 p. (in Russian)
16. Monastyri v Vostochnoj Sibiri [Monasteries in Eastern Siberia]. Available at: http://mion.isu.ru/pub/church/index.htm. (in Russian)
17. Naumova O.E. The Economic Activity of Monasteries of the Russian Orthodox Church in Eastern Siberia in the XVII – first half of the XIX century]. Izvestija Laboratorii drevnih tehnologij [Proceedings of the Laboratory of Ancient Technologies]. Irkutsk, 2016. P.35-41 (in Russian)
18. Opisanie dokumentov i del, hranjashhihsja v arhive Svjatejshego Pravitel'stvujushhego Sinoda [The Description of Documents and Files Stored in the Archives of the Holy Synod of Government]. Saint-Peterburg, 1878, vol. 2, part 2. 448 p. (in Russian)
19. Pokrovskij I.M. Russkie eparhii v XVI-XIX vv. [Russian dioceses in XVI-XIX centuries]. Kazan, 1913, vol. 2, 861 p. (in Russian)
20. Porotova O.V. Yenisei monasteries]. Duhovno-istoricheskie chtenija. Materialy nauchno-prakticheskoj konferencii [Spiritual and Historical Readings. Materials of the Scientific and Practical Conference]. Krasnoyarsk, 2004, vol. 9. P. 355-361(in Russian)
21. Safronov F.G. Russkie krest'jane v Jakutii (v XVII – nachalo XIX v.) [Russian peasants in Yakutia (in the XVII – early XIX c.)]. Yakutsk, 1961. 495 p. (in Russian)
22. Solov'ev S.M. Sochinenija [Works]. Moscow, 1993, vol. 9, 572 p. (in Russian)
23. Strelov E.D. Akty arhivov Jakutskoj oblasti (1650-1800 gg.) [Acts of Archives of the Yakut Region (1650-1800)]. Yakutsk, 1916. 308 p. (in Russian)
24. Chefranov Milij. Protoierej Blazhennyj Sofronij, 3-j episkop Irkutskij [Archpriest Saint Sophronius, the Third Bishop of Irkutsk]. Moscow, 1907. 344 p. (in Russian)
25. Shaherov V.P. Social'no-jekonomicheskoe razvitie verhnego Prilen'ja v XVII – pervoj polovine XIX v. [The Socio-Economic Development of the upper Lena River Territory in the XVII – the first half XIX c.]. Irkutsk, 2000. 85 p. (in Russian)
26. Sherstoboev V.N. Ilimskaja pashnja. T. 2. Iimskij kraj vo II-IV chetvertjah XVIII v. [The Ilim arable land. Vol. II. Ilimsk region in the II-IV quarters of the eighteenth century]. Irkutsk, Book Publ., 1957, 674 p. (in Russian)
27. Shmulevich M.M. Troicko-Selenginskij monastyr' [Trinity-Selenginsky monastery]. Ulan-Ude, 1982, 63 p. (in Russian)
28. Shorohov L.P. Korporativno-votchinnoe zemlevladenie i monastyrskie krest'jane v Sibiri v XVII-XVIII vekah (razvitie feodal'nyh otnoshenij i ih osobennosti) [The Corporate-Patrimonial Land Ownership and Monastic Peasants in Siberia in the XVII-XVIII centuries (The Development of Feudal Relations and Their Features)]. Krasnoyarsk, KSU Publ., 1983. 164 p. (in Russian)
29. Shunkov V.I. Ocherki po istorii zemledelija Sibiri (XVII v.) [The Essays on the History of Agriculture in Siberia (the XVII century)]. Moscow, 1956. 432 p. (in Russian)