Creation of Economic Dependence

in the campaign “Economic Exploitation and Creation of Dependency of the Nokhchi (1617–1622)”

The metropole's administration did not pay for forced labor and withheld food provisions for five years: a memorandum from the Posolsky Prikaz (Ambassadorial Office) to the Prikaz of the Kazan Palace records a complaint that the subordinate Okochans of Tersky Town «were not given the sovereign's grain allowance for the past years — for the 125th, and the 126th, and the 127th, and the 128th, and the 129th year»[1].

ID: C1115.T0046
Start: January 1617
End: December 1622
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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