MONASTIC INCOME IN RUSSIA IN THE XVIII <sup>TH</sup> CENTURY
The author considers the changes in the economic position of monasteries in the Russian Empire during the XVIII <sup>th</sup> century, researches the problems of state-church relations over the questions of land tenure of the clergy, studies the sources of income in monasteries, their distribution, the financial foundations of the Orthodox Church, and pays particular attention to the influence of secularism on these processes.