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January 25, 2026Российская история / Rossiiskaia istoriia0 citations

The list of the treasury of the Moscow state looted in 1610–1612

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AMAlexander V. Maiorov

Key Points

  • To investigate the register of the tsar’s treasury lost between 1610 and 1612 during the Moscow ruin.
  • Analyzed historical documents related to the tsar's treasury
  • Examined circumstances of the treasury's plunder
  • Reviewed discussions on reimbursement at embassy congresses near Smolensk
  • Clarified the history of significant losses to the tsar's treasury
  • Identified key parties involved in the plundering
  • Showed the complexities of diplomatic discussions regarding the treasury's reimbursement

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the Register of the tsar’s treasury, lost during the Moscow ruin in 1610–1612. The document was discovered as part of the materials of the Great Embassy of the boyar Prince I. M. Vorotynsky near Smolensk in 1615-1616. The work reveals the circumstances of the investigation and the accounts of the treasury, plundered by a foreign garrison in Moscow. The analysis of the chronology and structure of the main losses of the tsar’s treasury makes it possible to clarify the history of the Muscovite crown of King Sigismund III, the tsar’s hat received as a pledge by the regiment of Hetman Jan Sapieha, other jewels and objects given to the army by the great Hetman of Lithuania Karl Khodkevich and the Moscow elder Alexander Gosevsky. The article examines the discussion of the issue of reimbursement of the treasury that disappeared from the tsar’s treasuries and Kremlin cathedrals at the embassy congresses near Smolensk in 1615-1616 between the Moscow ambassadors and the commissars of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Alexander V. Maiorov (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6975b20efeba4585c2d6d90ehttps://doi.org/10.7868/s3034579025010031
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