Migration of One-Courtyard People from Villages to Cities of the Central Chernozem Region in XVIII Century

Abstract

Based on the mass of unpublished and narrative sources, the author determines the general movement in the urban conglomerations of the Central Chernozem Region (hereinafter – CC) of the military service people and their descendants in the XVIII century. In the course of the study, the author found that the nature of urbanization processes among the urban one-courtyard people changed due to the transformation of cities from centers of settlement and pockets of protection into commercial and industrial centers. In the first period, the researcher everywhere revealed the growth of the military service people in the cities of the Central Chernozem region, and in the second – the decline of urban smallholders against the background of a general urbanization increase. The main feature of the urbanization processes was that after the pacification of the region, enterprising people were required in the cities, and before it – brave and warlike. In general, the growth of commodity-money relations ensured the influx of population into the city, but at the same time, it turned the estates hierarchy of the XVII century inside out.