Issue 2 (91)
| NOBLES AS OWNERS OF COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE IN MOSCOW IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY | |||
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| Year | 2026 | Number | 2 (91) |
| Pages | 19-29 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 94(470-25)”18” | BBK | 63.3(2-2Ěîńęâŕ)5 |
| Authors | Ulianova Galina N. |
Topic | THE RUSSIAN NOBILITY: INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP STRATEGIES |
| Summary | The issue of ownership and the social characteristics of owners is the most important in the study of the history of entrepreneurship. In the 19th century, Moscow was the largest Russian center of inter-regional and intra-urban trade. To provide the city dwellers with goods of daily demand, a developed infrastructure for trade was formed there. A study of a cohort of commercial real estate owners revealed the phenomenon of activity of nobles as property owners. Analyzing 4,100 entries from the “Registers of Traders” (Vedomost' o torgovtsakh) for 1827 revealed that the nobles owned 643 commercial properties, making up 16 % of the overall number. They were scattered throughout the city, but in some of Moscow’s central administrative and police districts (Myasnitskaya, Tverskaya, Arbatskaya), this proportion reached 27–36%. Among the proprietors were not only people from the middle strata of nobility, but also prominent representatives of the aristocracy — the Golitsyns, Dolgorukovs, Kurakins, Sheremetevs, Tatishchevs, Shcherbatovs. The commercial properties owned by the nobility included premises for rent on the ground floors of city mansions that were let out, as well as individual large or small properties not only in the city center but also in the outskirts; and from the 1840s onwards, specially built shopping arcades (passages) selling luxury goods also began to appear. Renting out buildings with shops belonging to nobles provided them with additional income, which even the wealthiest members of the “upper class” did not turn down. | ||
| Keywords | Russian Empire, 19th century, Moscow, nobility, property ownership, rent, trade | ||
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