Historical and cultural problems of northern countries and regions ¹ 2 (38), 2017
Historical and cultural problems
of northern countries and regions
Scientific articles
Pustozersky Nenets in 1688/89
Matsuk M.A.1
Abstract. Restoring the list of adult men of small indigenous peoples of the North and Siberia of the XVII century, including the Pustozersky Nenets, is a complicated matter, since they were not recorded in the records of the population of that time – scribes and census books. A fairly complete enumeration of these people (Pustozersky Nenets) with the indication of the family to which they belonged is only found in the “Krestoprivodnaya Kniga Pustozerskogo Uezd from October 8 to November 1682”, kept in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, and published by us in 1993 [1]. In this article, a unique document is published that records the collection of so-called "yasak foxes" from the Nenets in 1688/89, indicating the specific payer of this tax. This document allows us to clarify the list of adult Nenets men who lived at that time near the town of Pustozersk and in the Pustozerskaya tundra.
Keywords: Russia, Pustozersky Uyezd, Nenets, XVII century, document, Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts.
1Matsuk Mikhail Aleksandrovich. Dr. Sci. (History), Chief Researcher of Institute of Language, Literature and History of Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal “Historical and cultural problems of northern countries and regions”. Kommunisticheskaia str., 26, 167000, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation.
E-mail: michailmatsuk@rambler.ru
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