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

Abstract: 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 14^th – Early 18^th 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 17^th – First Quarter of the 18^th 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.