INSTRUCTIONS TO PHILIP PERESVETOV WHEN INSERTING IN THE POSITION OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE CITY OF OLESHNI 1662
The article is devoted to the introduction into scientific circulation of a document that regulated the duties of the governor of a border city, which is stored in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts. The diploma is dated 1662, that is, the time when hostilities on the border between the Muscovite Kingdom and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ended, which lasted from 1658 to 1661. The document was issued to the newly appointed voivode, who was supposed to receive the city from his predecessor. Despite the fact that such documents were typical, they contain important information about the life of the border fortress, the arrangement of fortifications, the availability of supplies, military and administrative subordination. The list of duties of the voivode can be conditionally divided into internal - related to life inside the fortress and external - the organization of the border service, quarantine measures and the collection of information about neighboring states.