Historical Geography Journal ISSN 2782-6511 (Print) | ISSN 3034-5286 (Online)

Alina O. Gulyaeva
Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents (Russia, Moscow)
ORCID: 0009-0007-9687-5088
E-mail: ardillero1720@gmail.com

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UDC 94(470.331)«16/18»:913
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2025-4-4-22-41

ABSTRACT. The Russian historiography saw several attempts of mapping the Kimry palatial volost’ – one of the most important within the Kashin uyezd — as referred to the first half of the 17th century (maps created by Yu.V. Gauthier, 1906, and S.V. Bogdanov, 2021). In spite of guiding by the same sources (the cadasters’ book of the Kashin uyezd of 1627–1629 and the cadasters’ and allotment book of the Kimry volost’ of 1635), the difference in approaches to them amongst historians has led to notably different reconstructions of the volost’ area. Current condition of the source base allows analyzing and supplementing these reconstructions with the data from the land-survey book of the Kashin uyezd of 1628–1630, the land property rights confirmation books of 1658–1660, the cadastral book of the Kimry volost’ of 1674–1678 and the census book of the Kashin uyezd of 1677, as well as some cadastral drawings from the 1690s. The toponyms mentioned in those kinds of sources were localized on a contemporary map with the aid of the Geo-Information System (GIS) on the basis of the cartographic sources of the 18th–19th centuries (the land-maps of the Kashin uyezd of 1733, the General Land Survey plans of the 1770s–1810s, the maps by A. I. Mende from the 1840s). A new map resulted from the combined data shows that the volost’ territory in the 17th century (1) was not a monolithic and homogenous land mass, but included some enclaves and exclaves, as well as the distinct sections of the volost’ belonging to the different stans (sub-districts); (2) periodically increased and decreased in size through the time; (3) had the conventionally conceived “core” and “periphery”, where the “core” represents a stable economic structure while the “periphery” is a group of settlements and wastelands less strongly bound with the “core” during the 17th century; (4) supposedly, kept some remnants of the economic organization from the 16th century.

KEYWORDS: palatial household, landownership, Kashin uyezd, Kimry, administrative-territorial division, Early Modern Age, Upper Volga Region

For citation: Gulyaeva A. O. [The Territory of the Palace Kimry Volost’ of the Kashin Uyezd in the 17th Century (According to Data from Census and Boundary Books and the Latest Cartographic Sources]. Istoriko-geograficheskiy zhurnal [Historical Geography Journal], 2025, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 22–41. DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2025-4-4-22-41 (In Russian).

Received 4 August 2025
Accepted 3 November 2025

© 2025 The Author

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