| | PROBLEMS OF MODERN ECONOMICS, N 4 (36), 2010 | | ECONOMICS AND RELIGION | | Raskov D. E. Assistant professor, Chair of Economic Theory, Department of Economics, St.Petersburg State University; Candidate of Science (Economics)
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| The article investigates distribution, geography of habitation, character of everyday life and occupations of old believers in the Novgorod province in 1850s. Archival materials of Yu.K. Arsenjev’s expedition, undertaken by the order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, serve the main source of research. These materials show broad distribution of villages and prayer houses of the old believers, their tight connections with Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as their high industriousness and considerable prosperity | Key words: regional history, peasantry, old believers, richness, Arsenjev, Novgorod province | |
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