Service people of Russia XVI - XVII centuries

The book of a famous historian is dedicated to serving people who occupied a key place in the social structure of the Moscow State of the XVI-XVII centuries. They were governors and served in the army, participated in the management of orders, cities and counties, receiving local and monetary salaries, land and ranks. Members of the Boyar Duma and the sovereign Dvor - the ruling elite, boyars and the okolny, stolniks, cooking and Moscow nobles. Boyar yard and city children formed the basis of the local cavalry. They went to the service in the quilted plugs armed with onions or squeaks. Their destiny was the annual regimental service, two or three courtyards of peasants, the struggle for rights with strong people. The county nobility for a long time did not have a “voice” in science. V.N. Kotlyakov, on the basis of the study of ten and scribe books, restores the history of the “service city”, which existed in 80 counties of Russia