Moscow quarantines. Borba with "pestilents" in the 16th-XVII centuries

Book on Moscow quarantines of the XVI-XVII centuries. Written by a professor at the Department of History, the chief researcher of the Center for Historical Studies of the Higher School of Economics - St. Petersburg A. A. Selin. The work analyzes how the fight against the spread of infection (primarily the plague) took place in the Novgorod and Pskov lands in the era of the Moscow kingdom, in the 16th-XVII centuries.
The book briefly examines the history of the confrontation of epidemics in the north-west, emphasized three campaigns of the fight against Mor. In 1592-1593 In the Novgorod and Pskov lands, troops directed against the Swedes in Livonia stood in combat readiness. In 1629-1630 The Novgorod governor tried not to miss the plague from Europe through the new Russian-Swedish border. In 1662, quarantines were exhibited throughout the space from Pskov to Moscow, so as not to allow the plague, eight years earlier already scared of the royal court, to the specialist of the sovereign.
Methods of combating epidemics in the XVI-XVII centuries. They were military policemen organized due to the widespread involvement of local resources, and the purpose of these measures was to save the troops and the protection of the sovereign