Russian State Humanitarian University (5)

(__Social and economic history since the 16th century)

1. Keywords: monetary circulation, monetary business, north-west, Russia, history.
R&D: Monetary circulation and monetary business at the North-West of Russian state during the first half of XVIIth century. Purpose: study of monetary circulation and monetary business in the region, its role and effect on Russian state circulation during the first half of XVIIth century. Novgorod mint complex in 1613-1617 is studied in full size..

2. Keywords: serf peasantry, Russia.
R&D: Russian serf peasantry in 1750 - the beginning of 1770ies. First comprehensive study of demographic, social, anthropological, economic, and property condition of the peasants. The ideas are given of the peasants' role in free-hire market formation and also separate agricultural production branches and fields and trade development..

3. Keywords: mentality, Russian gentry, Russian culture.
R&D: Russian gentry's mentality within the cultural context of the middle of XVIII c. The value-semantic range of the gentry's mentality is determined for the first time, the patterns of its cultural and historical transformation are followed; the role nobiliary mentality in the formation of national mentality and mentality of Russian culture as a whole is determined..

4. Keywords: written sources, historical sources, public consciousness, peasantry, Kostroma province.
R&D: Sources and methods for the investigation of peasantry public consciousness (by the example of Kostroma province). Purpose: revelation of the specificity of peasantry public consciousness representation in different specific groups of historical sources. Philosophical, sociological, historiographic, source study aspects of the problem are traced. The reconstruction of the existing models of representations about peasantry public consciousness is carried out..

5. Keywords: Russia, zemstvo establishments, cultural-economic activity, history.
R&D: Zemstva in Russia (1905 - February, 1917): the experience of organizational and cultural-economic activity. The main notice is given to revelation of forms, methods and principles of zemstvo activity organization; the results of zemstvo practice by the February of 1917 are presented; zemstvo contribution in the Russian State development is shown..