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Titre Главные вехи развития русского дворянства в XVI-начале XVII в.
Auteur Ruslan G. Skrynnikov
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers du monde russe
Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique
Numéro volume 34, no 1-2, janvier-juin 1993 Noblesse, État et société en Russie XVIe - début du XIXe siècle
Rubrique / Thématique
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Page 89-106
Résumé anglais Ruslan G. Skrynnikov, The main stages in the evolution of the Russian nobility in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The article traces the nobiliary origins of the Time of Troubles which was not a "war of classes" as sometimes surmised, but the result of a split within the nobility: that of the south siding often with the rebel camp. When it annexed Novgorod in the fifteenth century and expropriated a great part of the local nobility, Muscovy endowetl itself with landed property which it needed in order to provide for its new service men and the deti boiarskie, whose number was growing because of the increasing demography of noble families. At the same time, the state assumed a considerable privilege anil introduced the system of pomest'e. But the demographic growth of nobles, the veakness of peasant work force - especially in the newly colonized lands in the south -, the military and domestic setbacks of Ivan the Terrible and the ruin that followed, led to a crisis of the system, always in need of new lands and blocked in its expansion. The Muscovite state could not bear the military load involved by its military policy. Further to civil war, the nobles gradually appropriated the lands that they held theoretically as pomest'ia, and the state lost little by little its lauded reserves.
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