Peasant contracts and church «building» in the Russian North in the 17th - first half of the 18th century

The review is devoted to one of the sections of the book “ ‘Building for the Sake of the Monastery’. Archbishop, Monastery and Church Building in Rus’ in the Late 14th - Early 18th Century: Research, Texts and Maps” (Moscow; St. Petersburg, 2024), which focuses on the economic relations of peasants with the church parish. The section “Churches” (Section IV) contains an article by S. A. Nikonov “Contract, and Contract’ Charters of the Bogoyavlensky Ukhtostrovsky Parish in the 17th - First Quarter of the 18th Century” and an extensive publication of acts of this parish, prepared for publication by S. A. Nikonov with the participation of N. V. Bashnin and N. N. Levchenko. The author of the review emphasizes the problem of classifying these acts by the types of the language formulas.