The article explores the problem of the influence of epidemics on the state of trade between Russia and the East and of navigation in the Caspian Sea basin in the second quarter of the eighteenth century, as well as the views of Astrakhan Gubernia authorities and practical steps that were taken in Astrakhan to ease the quarantine regime for merchants and shipowners in order to develop Russia’s foreign trade.
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Илья Васильевич Торопицын (2021) studied this question.
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