The contributions of princely families to the Moscow Chudov Monastery in the 16th–17th centuries: chronology and dynamics

Sergeev Anton Vadimovich

The article is devoted to the determination of the chronology and dynamics of the prince's contributions to the Chudov Monastery. It was found that the time range of contributions covers the 1538–1670 and the largest number fell on the period 1586-1650. The indicated dynamics differs from similar indicators of some other monasteries, in which the largest number of princely deposits was noted in the second third of the 16th century, and in the last decades of the 16th - first 17th centuries there was a noticeable decline. The peculiarity of the dynamics in this case can be explained by the poor preservation of the data on contributions for the first or second third of the 16th century, the loss of most of the data for this period.

Keywords:princes, deposits, synodik, manuscripts, social status, Sovereign's court