Essays on the history of localism in Russia of the XVI-XVII centuries

The book is dedicated to a unique social institution that existed as a harmonious system in only one state of the world. Having formed in the era of the formation of a single Russian state, it has matured by the time of the emergence of an order administrative apparatus, zemstvo cathedrals, labial and zemstvo institutions, fading away with the beginning of the formation of a new bureaucratic statehood at the end of the 17th century.
The author found out the social nature of the localism and its significance of the regulator of social relations, reconstructing the "local archive" in the form of preserved and existing local cases, restoring the local legislation - a set of legal acts and court decisions -precedents, studying the relationship of the individual and supreme power In the field of the functioning of localism, its influence on the career of representatives of the social elite, communications with the state apparatus, provincial nobility and clerk. The results of the work made it possible to determine the causes of localism and the place among other institutions of Russia of the early New Age