Deduk A. V., Shekov A. V. The 1520s Deeds on the History of Land Relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the collection 1603 of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA)

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Deduk A. V., Shekov A. V. The 1520s Deeds on the History of Land Relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the collection 1603 of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA)

Andrey V. Deduk
Candidate of Historical Sciences, State Military-Historical and Natural Museum-Reserve “Kulikovo Field” (Russia, Tula)
ORCID: 0000-0002-9458-3934
E-mail: deduk@list.ru

Alexander V. Shekov
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, State Military-Historical and Natural Museum-Reserve “Kulikovo Field” (Russia, Tula)
ORCID: 0000-0002-7010-9672
E-mail: shekovav@mail.ru

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UDC 94(4-015)”1520″
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2026-5-1-52-67

ABSTRACT. The publication is devoted to the five 1520s deeds that drew up in connection with feudal land ownership in the Lithuanian-Russian state and which are now stored in the collection 1603 “Educational Commission” of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. These sources are important for the study of historical geography and land relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Publications of the originals of three documents and the 16th – 17th centuries copies of two more documents are presented. Previously, only a copy of one of these deeds was introduced into scientific circulation — the 1523 charter of confirmation from King Sigismund I to boyar M. D. Sharapov for possessions in the cities of Kletsk and Gorodok Davidov, Kletsk povet and Gorodets volost. The following manuscripts are preserved in the original: the 1521 confirmation charter from Sigismund I to Pan Fedko Gavrilovich for land purchased from the Grodno boyar Yuri Kotovich and his brother; the 1521 Sigismund I’s charter to the Grodno elder Yu. M. Radziwill with the requirement to conduct a trial of the land conflict between Fedko Gavrilovich and Prince A. M. Kashirsky; the 1523 Sigismund I’s charter to the Vilna voivode A. M. Gashtold with the requirement to delimit the possessions of Andrei Khvalkovich and Mikhail Sopega. The following manuscript is preserved in the copy: the 1528 confirmation charter to A. M. Gashtold’s wife Sofya Vasilievna (nee Princess Vereiskaya), for the estate she purchased.

KEYWORDS: historical geography, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, feudal land tenure, Educational Commission, land relations

For citation: Deduk A. V., Shekov A. V. [The 1520s Deeds on the History of Land Relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the collection 1603 of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA)]. Istoriko-geograficheskiy zhurnal [Historical Geography Journal], 2026, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 52–67. DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2026-5-1-52-67 (In Russian).

Received 16 December 2025
Accepted 12 March 2026

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