Public-law and private-law acts in diplomatics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
The notions of public-law and private-law act which are in commonuse in the European and Russian historiography are discussed in this article by the example of the archives of the Polish Queen and the Grand Duchess of Lithuania Bona Sforza. The instruments known as stavlenniye listy, a kind of charters issued by the Queen to the Russian orthodox clergy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania are considered within the framework of historical source classification based on the category of type.