Police Registration and Restriction of Settlement (1631–1640)
The occupation administration of the Tsardom of Muscovy introduced rigid statistical control and restricted the right of the Nokhchi societies (Okochans, Michkiz, and Shibut) to free movement within the controlled territory. In 1631, Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich issued a decree to the Prikaz of the Kazan Palace on a census of the newcomer population of the town of Terki, directly prohibiting the free residence of unsanctioned migrants. The document prescribed identifying persons «whom it will not be possible to trust», and such people were «to be ordered sent out of the town of Terki, and ordered to go back to wherever each had come from, so that no harm would come to the town from them»[1]. To implement this mechanism, the metropole regularly conducted a total demographic accounting. In the state register of serving people for the region of the Prikaz of the Kazan Palace for 1637, the central authorities recorded in detail the number of inhabitants, including 350 serving «Okotsk people» and 680 newcomer «Okochans, and Tatars, and Michkiz, and Shibut»[2]. In 1640, on the orders of the Terek voivode, the Terek syn boyarsky P. Lukin and the clerk F. Belkov compiled a detailed name-by-name register of the population of the slobodas, rigidly documenting every household of the subordinated Nokhchi (Okochans) to ensure constant surveillance[1][2].
Actors
| ID | Name | Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy | 1 |
Instruments Applied
| ID | Name | Procedures |
|---|---|---|
| S0024 | Police Apparatus | 1 |
Procedures Carried Out
The metropole's occupation administration legally prohibited the free residence of the Indigenous population in Tersky Town, organizing the forced expulsion of unapproved persons and total demographic control: in 1631, Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich issued a decree to the Prikaz of the Kazan Palace ordering a census of the newly arrived Nokhchi (Michkizians and Okochans) and ruling that those of them «who cannot be trusted» must be «ordered to be expelled out of Tersky Town, and ordered to go back whence each had come»[1]; to ensure surveillance, in the state register of serving people for the region of the Prikaz of the Kazan Palace for 1637, the central authorities recorded in detail the number of subordinate residents of Tersky Town, including 350 «Okotsky people» and 680 newly arrived «Okochans, and Tatars, and Michkizians, and Shibutians»[2]; and in 1640, on the orders of the Terek voivode, the Terek syn boyarsky P. Lukin and the clerk F. Belkov compiled a name-by-name register of the population of the Terek slobodas, rigidly recording every household of the subordinate Nokhchi (Okochans)[1][2].